Sighting in Low Earth Orbit, May 24, 1962
Item released by the US government (PURSUE, NASA): an audio recording, "Mercury Atlas 7, May 24". Incident: 5/24/62, Low Earth Orbit. According to the government, no definitive determination could be made.
What happened
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.
Summary written by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, and released by the US government (public domain).
- Date
- May 24, 1962
- Location
- Low Earth Orbit · country only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
Sources
- See the original document
PURSUE (gouvernement des États-Unis)
n° NASA-UAP-D013
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.