PURSUE archive · catalogue card
NASA-UAP-D013
Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
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- Agency
- NASA
- Incident date
- May 24, 1962As the catalogue writes it: “5/24/62”
- Place
- Off the globe: Low Earth orbitAs the catalogue writes it: “Low Earth Orbit”
- Published in PURSUE
- May 22, 2026
- Records
- 1 record · Audio
01 Official description
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.
02 Catalogue records · 1
NASA-UAP-D013 · Audio · NASA · May 22, 2026
Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
5/24/62 · Low Earth Orbit
DVIDS · broken link in the catalogue (checked Oct 5, 2026)
03 Related cases
Other catalogue cards from the same area or the same decade.
04 Sources
- [1]
Record · U.S. Department of War
Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)
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Checked on Oct 4, 2026 · Open the original ↗
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