NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961
Official description
During the recovery of the fourth launch and second crewed spaceflight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) Liberty Bell 7, the recovery team discusses a dye pack in the water that did not activate.
✦ AI summary
This very brief audio excerpt comes from the recovery operation for Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), the second crewed Mercury flight, recorded July 21, 1961. The single line captured is a recovery-team radio transmission discussing an object or marker on a line in the water, located roughly a quarter to a half mile from the recovery vessel, with a follow-up remark about what it is expected to do next. Per official NASA documentation, this exchange concerns a dye marker pack in the water that failed to activate as expected. The audio quality is poor and the Whisper transcription is heavily degraded, with at least one word unintelligible or mistranscribed; no reference to unidentified aerial phenomena appears in this excerpt, which is purely routine post-splashdown recovery chatter.
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
▸Transcript
[00:00] There's the [unintelligible] on the line in the water, it's about a quarter to a mile out. Something is going to have to go left out — we think it's going to go left out.
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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