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PURSUE Release 01: 255-t-763-r1b-excerpt

NASA

NASA Gemini VII audio excerpt records Frank Borman's bogey report during early mission communications.

Disclosure Rating — 5/10

The PURSUE Release 01 entry identifies this NASA record as a Gemini VII audio/video excerpt tied to a December 5, 1965 low Earth orbit incident.1 DVIDS describes the asset as air-to-ground communications and NASA Public Affairs audio from the Gemini VII mission, hosted as the MP4 preserved below.23

  Gemini 7 Bogey Excerpt

In the excerpt, command pilot Frank Borman reports a "bogey" at 10 o'clock high. Houston asks whether he means the booster or a separate natural sighting, and Borman distinguishes the report from nearby debris while Jim Lovell adds comments from elsewhere in the spacecraft.24

  Houston Checks The Sighting

The clip matters because it preserves the report inside its mission-audio context rather than as an isolated quote. It shows NASA controllers checking Borman's observation against known flight conditions, especially the booster and particles, without resolving the object in the audio itself.24

  References

  References

  1. war.gov

  2. dvidshub.net 2 3

  3. d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net

  4. nasa.gov 2

Published on May 8, 2026

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