Released record NASA-UAP-D022 · PDF

Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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NASA / Low Earth Orbit

Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

File
NASA-UAP-D022
Agency
NASA
Date
3–6 June 1966
Place
Low Earth Orbit
Format
PDF

Gemini IX (renamed Gemini IX-A) was the seventh crewed flight of the Gemini series, launched on June 3, 1966. The mission’s primary objectives included a spacewalk and multiple scientific and medical experiments. This document, dated June 16, 1966, is a transcript of a NASA debriefing of astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Pages 2-5 of this document contain the astronauts’ accounts of their observations of “flashing lights” and “sparkles” during the mission.

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Description from the US Department of War’s PURSUE release, public domain. Released in tranche 3, 12 June 2026.