Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Did you have the impression they would be there if you __?

__ they were about 6 to 7 feet apart. The window is only a certain size - __.

(Statement, inaudible)

Well, I had the impression I could have sat--I could have been sitting there and watch one particle for some distance as it went on back maybe for a minute or so.

When they were in the shadows of the spacecraft, did they appear to vary any in brightness?

No. They weren't luminous when they were in the shadows. I can't specifically say. I watched 8 particles from a luminous condition to in the shadows non-luminous and back to us a luminous condition.

(NK Question, inaudible)...?

Oh, yes. I think this is very probable. I could have seen it farther than that. They were bright. If you were night adapted and you can see a very bright firefly from a considerable distance and this was a--

When you saw this the second and third time around did you have the feeling that there were any more of less than there was the first time?

No. We talked about that too and I think it was the same type. I don't think the density of it was any different. Completely snowed. The first time I saw these I looked down into the--I checked some systems--had been looking outside the __ the cockpit and made a check a __ check as I was doing all the time and had had my head in the cockpit for some little period of time and glanced back up at the window. I had been doing this just