Satellite sighting during orbital flight
16:40 GET (Ground Elapsed Time)·Orbital flight, approximately 16 hours 40 minutes after launch·NASA·identified
The crew observed a satellite passing underneath their spacecraft on a slightly higher inclination path during orbital operations.
“At 16,40 we sighted a satellite .much lower and on a slightly higher inclination path than we were. It passed underneath us. It was so fe:r awa::, it looke d like a sighting from the earth. It was just a refiection.”
Verbatim from NASA-UAP-D021.pdf · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date
- 16:40 GET (Ground Elapsed Time)
- Date exactness
- Not exact
- Location
- Orbital flight, approximately 16 hours 40 minutes after launch
- Country
- International airspace
- Branch
- NASA
- Unit
- Gemini 7 Flight Crew
- Sensors
- eyewitness
Resolution
Identified as a satellite on a higher inclination orbit
Source document
Quote checked against the original file.
This sighting
Orbital flight, approximately 16 hours 40 minutes after launch / undated
- NASA-UAP-D021.pdf — Written report of this sighting