NASA-UAP-D4 is listed as "Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1969." NASA-UAP-D7 is listed as "Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973." Both are PDFs. The Department of War includes them in the unresolved-cases archive without further public framing in the catalogue listing.
Apollo 11 was the first crewed lunar landing, July 16-24, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins flew the mission; Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface. The technical crew debriefing is the formal mission post-flight document covering systems performance, observations, and crew reporting.
Skylab was the United States' first space station, with three crewed missions across 1973-1974. The 1973 debriefing in PURSUE corresponds to one of those long-duration crews; the catalogue entry doesn't specify which.
Crew debriefings in this era functioned as comprehensive mission post-mortems. They captured everything the crew thought worth reporting, including visual observations that didn't fit obvious categories. That the Department of War selected these two specific debriefings out of the broader spaceflight archive, and surfaced them in a UAP context, signals what specific passages within them inspectors flagged. The full text is what the surfaced documents themselves provide.
Case data (from war.gov/UFO)
- Files: NASA-UAP-D4 (Apollo 11), NASA-UAP-D7 (Skylab)
- Incident dates: 1969 (Apollo 11), 1973 (Skylab)
- Locations: Listed as N/A in PURSUE
- Format: PDF
- Source agency: NASA
- PURSUE release: May 8, 2026