Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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No. These one that would come fairly close to the capsule I could see. That's where I estimated they were just a very tiny size up to maybe 3/8 of an inch or half an inch.

Would you characterize them as sort of irregular like cornflakes, like crystal, like snowflakes?

They didn't appear to have any oblong pattern to them or any particular circular pattern. No real symmetry at all.

Were they flat like snowflakes?

These little white things which I think were the same items were right up close to the window in the shade looked a lot like little snowflakes.

Would you say they were spherical or ____?

I think more like sort of a ____ sphere.

__ any distance at all and twinkle any distance at all and twinkle they were luminous and the sun was on them and there was no whisp of shape to-- just like looking at a firefly light. That's the nearest thing I can come--I keep coming back to because that's just what they looked like.

(Question, Insaudible).....?

No. No. There was no on and off again type thing at all. This was another thing that going back to the stars it was noticeable too as we had expected there wasn't any of the--I didn't notice any particular amount of twinkling of the stars, not like they do down here.

Did

MAX you see any of these particles move ____?

No. Its just like you have a big static field like you have gone out here with strings and placed them in this room and if you came back and through that door and back to way across the room that just what they looked like going by. It just wasn't--