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During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.
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The document details observations made by astronaut Scott Carpenter during the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, where he reported seeing white particles that resembled snowflakes and exhibited erratic movement in low Earth orbit. This item is significant as it captures early astronaut encounters with unidentified phenomena during space missions, raising questions about what was observed in the context of UAPs.
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DVIDS ID: 1007879
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