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A NASA audio excerpt from the Mercury Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) mission on October 3, 1962, in which pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. describes small white objects drifting near his capsule and an unexplained burst of light in the window.
NASA-UAP-D012, Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962
A NASA audio excerpt from the Mercury Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) mission on October 3, 1962, in which pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. describes small white objects drifting near his capsule and an unexplained burst of light in the window.
This file documents an audio excerpt from NASA's Mercury Atlas 8 mission, flown by astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. aboard Sigma 7 in low Earth orbit on October 3, 1962. Schirra describes little white objects that appear to come from the capsule itself and drift off, later calling them "particles" and "lathe shavings." He also reports a burst of light in the window whose source he cannot identify, and speculates it coincided with the sun passing below the horizon at sunset. The record is an image or external audio asset; no transcript text was extracted for verbatim citation.