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NASA Audio Tier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record

Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

NASA-UAP-D013 · Release 02 (5/22)
AgencyNASA
Document typeAudio
LocationLow Earth Orbit (Space/Orbit)
Incident date5/24/62
ReleaseRelease 02 (5/22)
Evidence tierTier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record

What the document says

During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.

Context

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

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