The UFO FilesAudio
NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
- Kind
- Audio
- Agency
- NASA
- Incident date
- 5/24/62
- Location
- Low Earth Orbit
- Released
- May 22, 2026
- Record
- NASA-UAP-D013
The video plays on DVIDS, the Defense Department's media service.
WHAT THE RECORD SAYS
The government's own description, as released.
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.
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