255_t_763_r1b_transcripts
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This document is an excerpt from NASA's official transcript of the Gemini VII mission, dated December 5, 1965, occurring in low Earth orbit. It records audio from mission tape I-00763(R1b), a Public Affairs Office release covering a segment approximately 4 hours and 24 minutes into the flight. The transcript captures an exchange between astronaut Frank Borman and Houston ground control in which Borman reports a "bogey at ten o'clock high," later clarified as separate from both the mission's Titan II booster and a field of small particles observed at three to four miles distance. James Lovell also participates, describing the booster as a tumbling, sunlit object surrounded by numerous particles.
The document is notable because it represents NASA's own contemporaneous record of an in-flight UAP report using the term "bogey," with ground control explicitly distinguishing the object from known debris and the booster. Pages two through four consist of handwritten notes summarizing the same transcript, labeled "UFO Sighting by Borman (GT-7)," suggesting the record was reviewed and annotated after the fact. Some audio was garbled during transmission, limiting detail on the unidentified object itself. The document does not resolve what the bogey was, and no further identification appears in the available text.
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This is an excerpt from the complete transcript of the Gemini VII mission, highlighting the segment in which Astronaut Frank Borman reports seeing an unidentified object. It includes identification of the NASA recording number, and hand written notes documenting which portions of the mission audio appear on the accompanying recording.
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TAPE No. I-00763(R1b)
"P.A.O. RELEASE COMMENIARY OF THE GI-7/6 FLIGHT."
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SINCE THEN WE HAVE DUBBED THE TAPE OFF. THE MASTER TAPE HERE IN THE CONTRO
CENTER AND WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO PLAY IT FOR YOU - IT CONTAINS REFERENCES
TO SIGHTING NOT ONLY SOME PARTICLES BUT AS WELI AS AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
PLUS THE BOOSTER HERS THAT TAPE WE'LL PLAY IT FOR YOU NOW----
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GEMINI-7 HERE HOUSTON-- HOW DO YOU READ?
LOUD AND CLEAR SEVEN - GO AHEAD.
(BORMAN) A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH.
THIS IS HOUSTON, SAY AGAIN SEVEN?
(BORMAN) I SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH.
ROGER. GEMINI-7 ISTHAT THE BOOSTER OR IS THAT A NATURAL SIGHTING?
A WHAT?
SAY AGAIN SEVEN.
(BORMAN) WE HAVE DEBRIS UP HERE - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIGHTING.
YOU HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION - ESTIMATE DISTANCE OR SIZE?
(BORMAN) WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT.
UNDERSTAND YOU ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT. ROGER.
(BORMAN) WE HAVE VERY, VERY MANY A - IT LOOKS LIKE HUNDREDS OF LITTLE
PARTICLES GOING BY TO THE LEFT OUT ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES.
HOUSTON
UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE MANY SMALL PARTICLES GOING BY ON THE LEFT AT WHAT
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DISTANCE?
(BORMAN) โข...CARBLED ... FOUR MILES. OH, ABOUT - GARBIED - IT LOOKS LIKE A
PATH OF THE VEHICLE AT 90 DEGREES.
HOUSTON
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ROGER. UNDERSTAND THEY'RE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES AWAY
(BORMAN) THEY'VE PASSED NOW. THEY'RE GOING INTO POLAR ORBIT.
ROGER. UNDERSTAND THEY WERE THREE TO FOUR MILES AWAY.
THATS WHAT IT APPEARED LIKE. THATS ROGER.
GEMINI- - HOUSTON - WERE THESE PARTICLES IN ADDITION TO THE BOOSTER AND
THE BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH?
(LOVELL,) ROGER. I HAVE THE BOOSTER ON MY SIDE. ITS A BRILLIANT BODY IN THE
SUN AGAINST A BLACK BACKGROUND WITH TRILLIONS OF PARTICLES ON IT.
ROGER WHAT DIRECTION IS IT FROM YOU?
(LOVELL) ITS ABOUT AT MY TWO O'CLOCK POSITION.
HOUSTON
DOES THAT MEAN ITS AHEAD OF YOU?
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HOUSTON
(LOVETT,) ITS AHFAD OF US AT TWO O'CLOCK, SLOWLY TUMBLING
ROGER.
PAO. LONG AS IS BATT OUR TRANSE REMERENCE IN THAT CONBRSANTON DO THE
THIRD AND UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT OF COURSE WAS OR THE THIRD OBJECT WAS A JUSH
BOGEY. THERE WERE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE BOGEY. AT 4 Hrs 24 MIN into
THE FLIGHT THIS IS GEMINI CONTROL.
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7-00763 (BLE)
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