NASA Audio Tier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record Sphere

Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963

NASA-UAP-D011 · Release 02 (5/22)

Agency	NASA
Document type	Audio
Sighting type	Sphere
Location	Low Earth Orbit (Space/Orbit)
Incident date	5/15/63
Release	Release 02 (5/22)
Evidence tier	Tier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record

What the document says

During the final and longest flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 9 mission (MA-9) Faith 7 Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. describes the brilliant blue of sunrise beneath the haze layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. As he approaches sunrise, he describes small, luminous, brilliant white particles drifting away from the spacecraft. Cooper describes observing “fireflies” after deploying beacons, which are spherical mission-related equipment with xenon strobe lights.

Context

This is one of 33 NASA records in the declassified archive, and one of 12 cases describing a sphere, reported in the Space/Orbit region. It was published in Release 02 (5/22).

Evidence tiers describe the type of record (sensor capture vs. written report vs. administrative file) · not a claim about its conclusions. UFO Papers reports only what the documents state.

Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963

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