Two and a Half Hours of Apollo 16 Crew Audio Just Entered the PURSUE Archive

PURSUE Release 03 adds something the previous two batches never had at scale: long-form audio. Two Apollo 16 scientific debriefings have been released as official UAP-related records — NASA-UAP-D024 at 96 min 32 sec and NASA-UAP-D025 at 55 min 41 sec. Combined, they push roughly 2.5 hours of Apollo crew audio into the public catalog.

Why audio matters

Apollo crew debriefings have existed in textual form for decades — and PURSUE Release 01 already published the Apollo 11 technical crew debriefing, the Apollo 17 crew debriefing for science, and Apollo 12 and 17 transcripts as PDFs. What Release 03 adds is the audio itself. Hearing the crew speak, where pauses and intonation appear in the conversation, is different evidentiary material from reading the transcribed sentences.

Sitting alongside the Cooper interview

Released in the same batch is NASA-UAP-D023, a 2 min 03 sec excerpt from a 1962 Gordon Cooper interview — the first astronaut audio testimony ever published in PURSUE. Together, the two files mark the first time NASA voices are part of the program as audio rather than transcribed statements.

Eight new debrief PDFs

Release 03 also publishes NASA-UAP-D015 through D022 — eight separate Mercury and Gemini debriefing documents from 1962 to 1966. Notable: the Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing Parts I and II (1965), the Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing (1965), and the Gemini 9 Debriefing (1966).

For Release 03's full file list, see the SkyLens overview. Audio files are hosted on war.gov/ufo.