{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-02-062-nasa-uap-d013-mercury-atlas-7-may-24-1962","title":"NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-062-nasa-uap-d013-mercury-atlas-7-may-24-1962","description":"Pilot Scott Carpenter describes reflective white particles near Aurora 7 that appear to move at random and look exactly like snowflakes.","date":"1962-05-24T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Audio"],"updated":"2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":4,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"NASA-UAP-D013 is a NASA audio record released in PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026. The contributing agency is NASA, the incident date is May 24, 1962, and the reported location is low Earth orbit.[^1][^2]\n\n<Video url=\"https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111721758/DOD_111721758.mp4\" controls />\n\n## The Aurora 7 Observation\n\nThe recording is from Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury. The release note records that Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at \"random\" and \"look exactly like snowflakes.\"\n\n## Reflective Particles\n\nCarpenter describes these phenomena as reflective, and notes that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft itself.\n\n## Context\n\nThe PURSUE release hosts the audio on DVIDS and makes the clip available as a direct MP4 rendition.[^3][^4]\n\n## What The Record Supports\n\nNASA-UAP-D013 preserves Carpenter's contemporaneous first-person description of reflective, snowflake-like white particles observed near the Aurora 7 spacecraft. The record documents what the pilot saw and said; it does not establish the presence of an external unidentified object, and the phenomena described remain unresolved as to origin.\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n\n[^2]: [Department of War PURSUE data file (uap-data.csv)](https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv)\n\n[^3]: [NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962 DVIDS page](https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007879/nasa-uap-d013-mercury-atlas-7-may-24-1962)\n\n[^4]: [NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962 MP4](https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111721758/DOD_111721758.mp4)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-062-nasa-uap-d013-mercury-atlas-7-may-24-1962","title":"NASA-UAP-D013, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-062-nasa-uap-d013-mercury-atlas-7-may-24-1962","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}