Sighting in Low Earth Orbit, 1966
Item released by the US government (PURSUE, NASA): a document, "Gemini 9 Debriefing". Incident: June 3-6, 1966, Low Earth Orbit. According to the government, no definitive determination could be made.
What happened
Gemini IX (renamed Gemini IX-A) was the seventh crewed flight of the Gemini series, launched on June 3, 1966. The mission’s primary objectives included a spacewalk and multiple scientific and medical experiments. This document, dated June 16, 1966, is a transcript of a NASA debriefing of astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Pages 2-5 of this document contain the astronauts’ accounts of their observations of “flashing lights” and “sparkles” during the mission.
Summary written by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, and released by the US government (public domain).
- Date
- 1966
- 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-D022
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.