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Sighting in Low Earth Orbit, 1965

Item released by the US government (PURSUE, NASA): a document, "Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing". Incident: June 3-7, 1965, Low Earth Orbit. According to the government, no definitive determination could be made.

What happened

Gemini IV was the second crewed mission of the Gemini series. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed the four-day flight between June 3 and June 7, 1965. The mission included the first American spacewalk. This collection of documents contains a transcription of the astronauts recounting their observations of bright particles outside the spacecraft, dated circa June 25, 1967, on pages 78-81, and page 101.

Summary written by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, and released by the US government (public domain).

Date
1965
Location
Low Earth Orbit · country only
Type of sighting
From the ground

Sources

Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.