Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962

NASA / Low Earth Orbit

Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962

File

NASA-UAP-D012

Agency

NASA

Date

3 October 1962

Place

Low Earth Orbit

Format

AUD

During the Mercury Atlas 8 mission, Sigma 7 pilot Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr. describes observing “little white objects that tend to come from the capsule itself and drift off.” Schirra later also refers to those objects as “particles” and “lathe shavings.” Schirra also describes seeing a burst of light in the window, whose source he cannot identify. He speculates that his observation corresponds with the moment the sun passes below the horizon during sunset.

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