Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Thats a good one. That sure is.

Were they all traveling in the same direction and the same velocity?

Yes. They all just appeared to be sitting out here floating and they particular didn't have any interaction with each other. They were-- some went running this way and some that way. They all appeared just to be through static in their field. I was moving with them. The only ones that appeared to move were the ones that seemed to have a little flow characteristic around the capsule, and this was surprising too because there would be one that would come following up around the edge of the capsule and it would drift off like this less and it would just more or less take its place back here. If this had been just a flash, just a momentarily thing, I don't know, it would have been--I don't know what I would have thought on one like that.

I sat there and observed this thing just as carefully as I could. I observed that I had been just a flash, just a momentarily thing, I don't know, it would have been--I don't know what I would have thought on one like that. observed

And you've seen fireflies out in the meadow or when they just stand out like very, very bright stars. They were as least as bright as the brightest fireflies you've ever seen in a situation like that and the light was very steady and they were about the same color as fireflies. This was a luminous yellow-green or green-yellow color. I'd say it was almost an identical to a firefly and they were just as far at that particular time. I would look out the window this way and there just seemed to be no end to them out here, no end back this way, no end on this side, up or down in particular.

(Question, inaudible)......

Yes.