Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Why don' t I discuss t hat thing that I saw those
two times at night .
Yes, I saw it too , so you weren ' t seeing things.
This phenomenon occurred in the dark and I think it
\./a.S near Austra.l.ia., each t.iine, but I 1m not really
sure. We 've got it recorded on the voice tape,so
we can go back to the voice tape and see where
it was.
They were just paral l el running lines
of lights radiating from the earth up toward
us but at a distance away, and i t sort of
looked like a curtain.
All of these lights
rays seemed to be sor t of parallel t o each
other. They looked a lot like the Aurora
Borealis, except that they were down below us and
they were coming up toward us.
The first one
we saw was considerably brighter than t he
second one and i t was sort of wiggly. It
probably had five or six curves in it, at least,
and I thought it went like this a couple of times,
and was bent up around like this.
How about in the air glow layer?
Was it in the air glow layer? No.
I don't
think it was in the air glow layer. It looked
like it was down underneath -- it looked like it
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