Apollo 17 astronauts reported a string of unexplained lights and objects around the Moon during their 7–14 December 1972 mission, according to newly released Pentagon UAP files, while a long-time friend of commander Eugene Cernan now claims the crew received a chilling mental warning from aliens to 'never return.'
For context, Apollo 17 was NASA's final crewed Moon landing and the last time humans walked on the lunar surface. The official story for half a century has been prosaic: budget cuts, shifting political priorities and the winding down of the Apollo programme. Yet the mission has long attracted conspiracy theories about why it really marked the end.
