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NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

NASA · 5/24/62 · Low Earth Orbit · Audio

NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962 is indexed as a NASA record with incident date 5/24/62 and location Low Earth Orbit. During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at random and look exactly like snowflakes. He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.

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