← Browse entities
Location
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 ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Official | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NASA-UAP-D030 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Photograph 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-D031 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | View 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-D032 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Orbital 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-D022 | June 3-6, 1966 | NASA | Document | 78/78 | Official | This is a NASA Headquarters file of the Manned Flight Experiments Office (Dr. Jocelyn R. Gill; Director Willis B. Foster) on the scientific experiments of Gemini IX (June 1966, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan). Its core is the… |
| NASA-UAP-D018 | June 3-7, 1965 | NASA | Document | 182/224 | Official | This 224-page NASA file on the Gemini 4 (GT-4) mission bundles several kinds of material. The first part is the Mission Operation Report M-913-65-04 (24 May 1965) with a June 1965 memorandum on added flight activities: an extravehicular act… |
| NASA-UAP-D003 | 12/5/65 | NASA | Document | 4/4 | Official | NASA Gemini VII/VI flight transcript excerpt (Tape T-00763, 1965), introduced by a Public Affairs Officer (P.A.O.) as containing 'references to sighting not only some particles but as well as an unidentified object plus the booster'. Comman… |
| NASA-UAP-D003A | 12/5/65 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This 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-D010 | 5/15/63 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This 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-D011 | 5/15/63 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This 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-D012 | 10/3/62 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This 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-D013 | 5/24/62 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This 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… |
Related entities
Entities that appear together with this one in the same declassified cases.
NASA7 shared casesFrank Borman3 shared casesGordon Cooper3 shared casesJim Lovell3 shared casesJohn Glenn3 shared casesJohn Glenn's fireflies3 shared casesGemini 72 shared casesScott Carpenter2 shared casesWalter Schirra2 shared casesAustralia1 shared caseEdward White1 shared caseEugene Cernan1 shared case