{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-02-063-nasa-uap-d014-mercury-redstone-4-july-21-1961","title":"NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-063-nasa-uap-d014-mercury-redstone-4-july-21-1961","description":"During the Liberty Bell 7 recovery, the team discusses a dye pack in the water that did not activate.","date":"1961-07-21T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Audio"],"updated":"2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":3,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"NASA-UAP-D014 is a NASA audio record released in PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026. According to the PURSUE the release record, the contributing agency is NASA, the incident date is July 21, 1961, and the location is the North Atlantic Ocean, the recovery area for the mission.[^1][^2]\n\n<Video url=\"https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111721755/DOD_111721755.mp4\" controls />\n\n## The Liberty Bell 7 Recovery\n\nThe audio is from the recovery phase of Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4), the fourth launch and second crewed spaceflight of Project Mercury, flown in the Liberty Bell 7 capsule. The PURSUE release note records that during the recovery, the recovery team discusses a dye pack in the water that did not activate. DVIDS hosts the public audio entry and a direct MP4 rendition of the clip.[^3][^4]\n\n## What The Record Supports\n\nNASA-UAP-D014 is among the most prosaic records in this release. Per the release note, the audio captures a recovery-team discussion of a dye marker that failed to activate in the water. Conservatively, the record preserves that operational exchange; it does not describe an unidentified aerial or spatial phenomenon, and the release attaches no anomalous interpretation to it.\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-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961 DVIDS page](https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1007878/nasa-uap-d014-mercury-redstone-4-july-21-1961)\n\n[^4]: [NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961 MP4](https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2605/DOD_111721755/DOD_111721755.mp4)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-063-nasa-uap-d014-mercury-redstone-4-july-21-1961","title":"NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-02-063-nasa-uap-d014-mercury-redstone-4-july-21-1961","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}