NASA-UAP-D012, Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962
Same recording as the official release. Open on DVIDS
During the Mercury Atlas 8 mission, Sigma 7 pilot Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr. describes observing “little white objects that tend to come from the capsule itself and drift off.” Schirra later also refers to those objects as “particles” and “lathe shavings.” Schirra also describes seeing a burst of light in the window, whose source he cannot identify. He speculates that his observation corresponds with the moment the sun passes below the horizon during sunset.
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 02
- File type
- Audio
- Document type
- Type not recorded
- Case written up
- No
- Status
- Audio listed, no transcript
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