NASA-UAP-D3, GEMINI 7 TRANSCRIPT, 1965

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NASA-UAP-D3, GEMINI 7 TRANSCRIPT, 1965 is a declassified record from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, dated 1965, classification UNCLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

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  TAPE No . T-00763(Rlb)

  "P. A. O. RELEASE COMMl•:N'l'ARY OF 'l'HE G'I'-7/6 FLIGHT ."
P.A. O.  SINCE THEN WE HAVE DlID.BED THE TAPE OFF. 'r}[E MASTER TAPE I-IBRE IN THE CONTROl
  CENTER AND WE ARE NOW PREPAHED 'l'O PLAY IT FOR YOU - IT CD NTAINS REFEREiiCES

  TO SIGHTING NOT ONLY SOME  PARTICLES BU'I' AS WELL AS AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
  PLUS THE BOOSTER HERS THAT TAPE WE 'LL PLAY I T FOR YOU NOW---s/c  GEMINI-7 HERE HOUSTON-- HOW DO YOU READ?
HOUSTON :  LOUD AND CLEAR SEVEN - GO AHEAD.
s/c  (BORMAN ) A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH.
HOUSTON  THIS IS HOUSTON, SAY AGAIN SEVEN?
s/c  (BORMAN) I SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH.
HOUSTON  ROGER . GEMINI-7 I STHA'l' THE BOOSTER OR IS TIIAT A NATURAL SIG DIG?
s/c  A WHAT?
Hff STOl  SAY AGAIN SEVEN.
s/c  (BORMAN) WE HAVE DEBRIS UP HE:RE - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIG,ITDTG.
HOUSTOH  YOU HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION - ESTJJviA.TE DISTANCE OR SIZE?
s/ c  (BORMAN) WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT.
HOUSTON  UNDERSTAND YOU ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT. ROGER.
s/ c  ( BOR!.\1.1\,,N) WE HAVE VERY, VERY MANY A - IT LOOKS LIKE HillIDREDS OF LI'ITLE
  PARI'ICLES GOING BY TO THE LEFT OUT ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES.
HOUSTON  UNDERSTAND YOU PAVE MANY SMALL PARTICLES GOING BY OH THE LEFT AT -;,1..-f.AT
  DISTANCE?
s/c  ( BORMAN) .... GARBLED . . . FOUR MILES . OH, ABOlJ"'l' - GARBLED - IT LOOKS LIKS A
  PATH OF THE VEHICLE AT 90 DEGREES .
HOUSTON  ROGER. UTIDERSTAND THEY 'RE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES AWAY
~I  le
;:::,  ( BORMAN) THEY 'VE PASSED NOW . THEY'RE GOING nrro POLAR ORBIT.
rtOUSTON  RCGER. UNDERSTAJID THEY WERE THREE TO FOUR MILES AWAY.
s/c  THATS WHAT IT APPEARED LIKE. THATS ROGER.
HOUSTON  GEMINI-7 - HOUSTON - WERE THESE PARI'ICLES IN ADDITION 'IO THE BOOSTER Al
  THE BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH?
s/ c  (LOVELL) ROGER. I HAVE THE BOOSTER ON MY SIDE.ITS A BRILLIANT BODY I N THE
  SUN AGAINST A BLACK BACKGROUND WITH TRILLIONS OF PARI'ICLES ON IT.
HOUSTON  ROGER WHAT DIRECTION IS IT FROM YOU?
s/c  (LOVELL) ITS ABOUT AT MY TWO O'CLOCK POSITION.
HOUSTON  DOES THAT MEAN ITS AHEAD OF YOU?
s/c  (LOVELL) ITS AHEAD OF US AT TWO O'CLOCK, SLOWLY TUMBLING
HOUSTON  ROGER.
  LONG PAUSE ......... DUAL TRANSMISSION ....... .
P.A.O.  'rHIS IS GEMINI OONTROL AGAIN THE REFERENCE IN THAT CONVERSA'l'ION TO THE
  THIRD AND UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT OF COURSE WAS OR THE THIRD OBJECT WAS A mmJ"
  BOGEY. THERE WERE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE BOGEY. AT L~ Hrs 24 MIN into
  THE FLIGHT THIS IS GEMINI CONTROL.

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