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Low Earth Orbit

All 11 declassified cases list this as the incident's official location. Documented incidents span 1962 to 1996.

A single agency is involved: NASA. The case files here include documents, images, and audio recordings. None of the cases carry visible redactions.

Cases

File IDDateAgencyTypePages readOfficialExcerpt
NASA-UAP-D0301996NASAImageOfficialPhotograph taken through a Space Shuttle window looking down at Earth. Bright white cloud cover fills the left half, with the dark silhouette of the window frame and orbiter structure on the right. A small thin elongated white object is vis…
NASA-UAP-D0311996NASAImageOfficialView from a Space Shuttle window over a bright white cloud-covered Earth, with the orbiter window frame and interior hardware dark against the right side. A small white speck sits below the center of the frame above the cloud deck. Red tele…
NASA-UAP-D0321996NASAImageOfficialOrbital photograph showing the curved limb of Earth capped with white cloud against the black of space. The Space Shuttle window frame and cabin hardware occupy the lower right, catching greenish reflections. Small red telemetry marks are v…
NASA-UAP-D022June 3-6, 1966NASADocument59/78OfficialThis document is an administrative case file (not a crew debriefing transcript) documenting the science/experiments side of the Gemini 9-A mission (June 1966, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan), assembled by NASA's Manned Flight…
NASA-UAP-D018June 3-7, 1965NASADocument180/224OfficialThis document bundles several NASA Gemini 4 (GT-4) planning and post-flight materials: a May-June 1965 Mission Operation Report (No. M-913-65-04) describing mission objectives, the added EVA/rendezvous flight plan, the new G4C spacesuit, cr…
NASA-UAP-D00312/5/65NASADocument2/4OfficialGemini 7 was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. This document is a transcript of communications between the flight crew, Astronauts James “Jim” Lovell and Frank Borman, and the Manned Flight Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) in…
NASA-UAP-D003A12/5/65NASAAudioOfficialThis recording is a NASA Public Affairs replay of air-to-ground audio from the Gemini 7 mission, played back for the press after a mechanical/line failure delayed the original tape. Roughly 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight, near Antigua,…
NASA-UAP-D0105/15/63NASAAudioOfficialThis short air-to-ground audio excerpt captures Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr., roughly one hour and 21 minutes into the final and longest Project Mercury flight, describing what he calls "John's fireflies" — a referen…
NASA-UAP-D0115/15/63NASAAudioOfficialThis Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) air-to-ground audio excerpt begins with Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. narrating orbital sunrise — the brilliant blue band of light beneath the atmospheric haze layer as seen from orbit — and reporting small, lumi…
NASA-UAP-D01210/3/62NASAAudioOfficialThis is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7), recorded October 3, 1962. The single speaker is pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., transmitting observations during orbital flight as the spacecraft approaches sunset. Sch…
NASA-UAP-D0135/24/62NASAAudioOfficialThis is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7), recorded May 24, 1962, capturing radio communication between pilot Scott Carpenter and ground control (CapCom) during the mission's second orbital pass. Carpenter reports n…

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