Cape Canaveral, Florida: Gemini 5 launches, crew later describes debris and “snow”
The Gemini 5 mission with astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 21, 1965; in their technical debriefing the two described observing debris, “snow” and glittering pieces.
Background
The Gemini 5 space mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, crewed by astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad. During their technical debriefing, Cooper and Conrad described observing debris and “snow” and “all sorts of glittering pieces of this, that, and the other thing.” The debriefing transcripts were released under PURSUE. The entry gives no date for the individual observations within the mission. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.