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A NASA file documenting Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7) pilot Scott Carpenter's May 24, 1962 orbital observations of white particles moving at random that he compared to snowflakes.
NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
A NASA file documenting Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7) pilot Scott Carpenter's May 24, 1962 orbital observations of white particles moving at random that he compared to snowflakes.
This NASA file covers Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), the fourth crewed Project Mercury spaceflight and its second orbital flight, flown by pilot Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 on May 24, 1962. The description records Carpenter observing white particles in view that appeared to move at 'random' and 'look exactly like snowflakes.' He characterized the particles as reflective, with some appearing to move faster than the spacecraft itself. The file is an image or external asset with no extracted source text, so the descriptive account is the only available basis and the verbatim wording is not yet corroborated against source pages.