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This PDF is a NASA debriefing transcript dated June 16, 1966, for Gemini IX-A astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Gemini IX-A was the seventh crewed Gemini flight, launched on June 3, 1966, with mission objectives that included a spacewalk and multiple scientific and medical experiments.

Pages 2 to 5 contain the astronauts' accounts of observations during the June 3 to 6 mission in low Earth orbit. The observations are described in the source as "flashing lights" and "sparkles."

Declassified by the Department of War under the PURSUE UAP records release (tranche of 6/12/26).
Agency: NASA
Incident: June 3-6, 1966, Low Earth Orbit
Document ID: NASA-UAP-D022