NASA-UAP-D003, Gemini 7 Transcript, 1965
Gemini 7 was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. This document is a transcript of communications between the flight crew, Astronauts James “Jim” Lovell and Frank Borman, and the Manned Flight Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas. The transcript begins with Borman’s report of a “bogey,” contemporary nomenclature for an unknown aircraft, as well as a debris field. Borman described the debris field as consisting of “very, very many […] hundreds of little particles.” He estimated the particles’ distance from the spacecraft to be four miles. Lovell described observing a “brilliant body in the sun against a black background with trillions of particles on it.” This document also includes handwritten notes documenting the encounter, annotated with the phrase “UFO Sighting by Borman” in the top right corner.
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Text of the document
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TAPE No. T-00763(Rlb) "P.A.O. RELEASE COMMENTARY OF THE GT-7/6 FLIGHT." P.A.O. 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 CDNTAINS REFERENCES TO SIGHTING NOT ONLY SOME PARTICLES BUT AS WELt AS AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT PLUS THE BOOSTER HERS THAT TAPE WE'LL PLA.Y IT FOB YOU NOW---- s/c GEMINI-7 HERE HOUSTON-- HOW DO YOU READ? HOUSTON: LOUD AND CLEAR SEVEN - GO AHEAD. s/c (BORMAN) A BOGEY AT TEN 01 CLOCK HIGH. HOUSTON THIS IS HOUSTON, SAY AGAIN SEVEN? s/c (BORMAN) I SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH. HOUSTON ROGER. GEMINI-7 ISTHAT THE BOOSTER OR IS THAT A NATURAL SIGHTING? HOUSTON SAY AGAIN SEVEN. s/c (BORMAN) WE HAVE DEBRIS UP HERE - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIGHTING. HOUSTON YOU HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION - ESTlMATE DISTANCE OR SIZE? s/c (:BORMAN) WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT. HOUSTON UNDERSTAND YOU ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT.. ROGER. s/c (BORMAN) WE HAVE VERY, VERY MANY A - IT LOOKS LllCE HUNDREDS OF LITI'LE 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 (BORMAN) •••.GARBLED ... FOUR MILES. OH, ABOUT - GARBLED - IT LOOKS LIKE A PATH OF THE VEHICLE AT 90 DEGREES. HOUSTON ROGER. UNDERSTAND THEY'RE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES AWAY s/c (BORMAN) THEY'VE PASSED NOW. THEY'RE GOING INTO POIAR ORBIT. HOUSTON ROlER. UNDERSTAND THEY WERE TimEE TO FOUR MILES AWAY. s/c THATS WHAT IT APPEARED LIKE. THATS ROGER. HOUSTON GEMINI-7 - HOUSTON - WERE THESE PARTICLES IN ADDITION 'ID 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. HOUSTON ROGER WHAT DIRECTION IS IT FROM YOU? (LOVELL) ITS ABOUT AT MY TWO O'CLOCK POSITION. HOUSTON DOES THAT MEAN ITS AHEAD OF YOU? s/c (LOVELL) ITS AHEAD OF US AT TWO O'CLOCK, SLOWLY TUMBLING HOUSTON ROGER. P.A.O. THIS IS GEMINI OONTROL AGAIN THE REFERENCE IN THAT CONVERSATION TO THE THIRD AND UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT OF COURSE WAS OR THE THIRD OBJECT WAS A JBiB1r BOGEY. THERE WERE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE BOGEY. AT 4 Hrs 24 MIN into THE FLIGHT THIS IS GEMINI CONTROL.
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of NASA's 40 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the NASA agency block it ranks #20 of 40 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #173 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (173 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 59/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through NASA, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
This 12/5/65 account comes from an astronaut on the official federal record - NASA's highest-credibility witness tier in the rubric, spanning debriefings and mission transcripts from Mercury through Apollo. It's one of six score components, not a standalone verdict; the astronaut-witness files that also score highest on sensor quality and disposition are the eight tied at the archive's top score of 72.
On corroboration, this file from NASA - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file was released as open by NASA after a formal review process concluded - not simply logged and left pending. That's a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved, no review': a review actually happened, and remaining open is NASA's own published conclusion from it, not an absence of one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 59/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
Related files in NASA
Other PURSUE files in the same category, ranked by Anomalousness Index.
NASA-UAP-D003A, Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965
NASA-UAP-D023, Interview Excerpt with Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1962
NASA-UAP-D030, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 1, 1996
NASA-UAP-D031, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 2, 1996
NASA-UAP-D032, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 3, 1996
NASA-UAP-D007, Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973
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