Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962

Provisional — pending primary verification

Stated date

5/24/62

Location

Low Earth Orbit

Agency

NASA

Official status

reflective particles (identified)

Substantiated

Evidence strength

How solid the official record is — source authority, corroboration, evidence quality, provenance, and disposition.

Identified

Anomaly level

How far officials are from explaining it. Unexplained means officials haven’t explained it — never that it is extraterrestrial.

[war.gov] 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.

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