Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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How close ____?

Six to ten feet apart.

(Question, partially inaudible) ... you said you saw it 3 times. Did you?
This was approximately the same ...?

Well, this was right at each sunrise. Now this was another thing we talked about. Bill Douglass, I think, felt that there might be some possibility if the earth does have its own band around the equator, just as some of the planets do, that perhaps were at the edge of a little band like that that was appearing each time we came up past the equator on the dark side at that and it just happened to coincide with the sunrise each time. We entered at sunrise each time. We don't have the data--I haven't checked back here to get the data on that yet as to whether this was always right at the equatorial region that we ran into.

(Question, inaudible) ...?

Right at the first light of sunrise there was a--no other time. I specifically looked for them at sunset. As the last light of the sun went away I thought we might see them there. I didn't. This was always at sunrise. Now, this difference may be that I was more night adapted ____ at sunrise. Maybe they were there all the way around.

(Question, inaudible) ...?

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What's the longest time you require watching any individual particle?

Oh, I can't answer that as to the length of time I specifically watched one particular particle but they were not blinking on and off or anything like that.