Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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They were quite bright.
O. K.
You saw only bright ones.
About how many did you see?
About how often did you see any?
Could you have made a count of them and
said,
11Let's l.ook at met eors f'or awhil.e" ?
Yes, we could have.
Could you have sat down there and counted t hem all off as you say them and
give them relative attention?
You see, I hesitate to give you a number because I think that if we did,
you'd tend to come t o the wrong conclusion because we weren't looking out
of the windows at night all the time.
No.
Quite often we had things to do i nside and: we turned the lights up and
never even looked out . .
Oh, you weren 1t dark enough, is that it?
No, we already were looking out.
We were attempting to look out and we
couldn 1t see out because we had t he lights way up and, first, we were
working at the window, and secondly, if we wer e we couldn 't have seen.
So
if we give yo\l a number, make sure that you don 't say that, O. K. , we say
15 m tears in :four days and therefore they're going t o see ..
. and
that.' s not right.
No. o. K.
n1rt ber•auec .
If y·o1, want H. number, I saw probal>.Ly between 10 and 20, but again I
wasn 't looking out; all the time.
No, so you really weren't looking f or a meteor, right?
No, we sure weren 't .
And you have tor member, also they occur in a rather uninteresting place.