NASA-UAP-D7: Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing (1973)
Date
1973
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
NASA / Johnson Space Center
Summary
The Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing from 1973, released as NASA-UAP-D7 via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. The first U.S. space station hosted three crews between May 1973 and February 1974 — Skylab 2 (Conrad, Kerwin, Weitz), Skylab 3 (Bean, Lousma, Garriott), and Skylab 4 (Carr, Gibson, Pogue). The technical crew debriefing documents crew observations from the station, including any anomalous phenomena encountered during the extended orbital mission. NASA-UAP-D7 is the only space station crew debriefing in the PURSUE corpus and the only source establishing the Skylab-era observation record as part of the public UAP archive.
Significance
NASA-UAP-D7 is historically significant as the only space station UAP debriefing in PURSUE Release 1 and the first formal public release of any Skylab crew anomaly report. Skylab's extended orbital durations — up to 84 days — provided far longer sustained observation windows than any Apollo mission. The document establishes that NASA's post-mission debriefing process for space station crews included formal documentation of anomalous observations, extending the Apollo-era record into the space station era.