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.12
The Aurora 7 Observation
The 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."
Reflective Particles
Carpenter describes these phenomena as reflective, and notes that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft itself.
Context
The PURSUE release hosts the audio on DVIDS and makes the clip available as a direct MP4 rendition.34
What The Record Supports
NASA-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.