Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965
NASA-UAP-D003A · NASA · Dec 5, 1965 · audio · 6:11 · Release 1
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This audio recording contains air to ground communications and the NASA Public Affairs audio feed with commentary, recorded during the flight of the Gemini 7 mission. In this excerpted segment of audio, Astronaut Frank Borman reports to NASA mission control in Houston his sighting of an unidentified object, which he referred to as a "bogey." This sighting occurred on December 5, 1965. The dialogue includes Borman's initial report, as well as additional comments by Astronaut Jim Lovell, Borman's fellow crew member.
Transcript
public affairsGemini Control here again. Earlier in the flight, you'll recall at the start of the second revolution, we had a reference to uh several objects that the crew spotted. This was in the area of Antigua. Due to a mechanical breakdown, we did not have uh that portion of the tape available for you. This was a line breakdown between building 30 and our news center in building 6. Since then, we have uh dubbed a tape off the master tape here in the control center, and uh we are now prepared to play it for you. It contains references to sighting not only some particles, but as well as an unidentified object, uh plus the booster. Here's that tape, we'll play it for you now.
00:57static
mission controlGemini 7, Houston.
crewLoud and clear, Houston. Go ahead.
crewWe have a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
silence 01:07-01:13
mission controlThis is Houston. Say again, 7?
crewWe have a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
mission controlRoger.
silence 01:21-01:32
mission controlGemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?
crewActual.
mission controlSay again, 7?
crewWe have several, looks like the debris (?) actual sighting.
mission controlUh, do you have any more information, uh estimate distance or size?
crewWe also have the booster in sight.
mission controlUnderstand you also have the booster in sight, Roger.
crewYeah, we have uh very, very many uh looks like uh hundreds of little uh particles going by on the left out about uh 3 to 4 miles.
mission controlUnderstand you have many small particles going by on the left, at what distance?
crew3 to 4 miles.
crewAll right, looks like uh path of the uh vehicle that's disintegrated.
mission controlRoger, understand they're about 3 to 4 miles away.
crewThey're also (?) they're going in a polar orbit.
mission controlRoger, and understand they were about 3 to 4 miles away.
crewPolar orbit, polar.
mission controlRoger.
silence 02:46-02:56
mission controlGemini 7, Houston. Were these particles in addition to the booster and the the uh bogey at 10 o'clock high?
crewYes.
mission controlRoger.
crewUh, Houston, this is 7.
mission controlGo ahead.
crewI have the uh booster on my side as a brilliant body in the sun, and yet the back uh background is a billions of particles around it.
mission controlRoger, what direction is it from you?
crewIt's about my 2 o'clock position.
mission controlDoes that mean it's ahead of you?
crewIt's ahead of us, 2 o'clock, slowly tumbling.
mission controlRoger.
silence 03:41-04:10
crewOut Fox 91.
silence 04:12-04:56
crewOut Fox 91.
silence 04:58-05:05
mission controlOut Fox 1, 91, say again.
05:08static
silence 05:19-05:26
public affairsGemini Control here again. The reference in that conversation to the third unidentified object, of course, uh was or the third object was uh bogey. There were several references to the bogey. This is the unidentified object in addition to particles which appear to be headed in a polar orbit, you heard Frank Borman say, plus uh Jim Lovell discussing the the booster. It was uh Borman who reported sighting the bogey. Uh this is Gemini Control, Houston, at 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight.
The audio quality is good, with some static during the spacecraft transmission.
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