NARA RG255: Gemini 7 UFO Sighting by Borman - Tape T-00763 Transcript (1965)
Date
December 1965
Document Type
Mission Transcript
Authentication
VerifiedRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
NASA Public Affairs Office / Manned Spacecraft Center
Summary
The NASA Public Affairs Office released transcript of Tape No. T-00763(R1b) from the Gemini 7/6 rendezvous mission, internally annotated "UFO SIGHTING BY BORMAN (GT-7)." The tape captures Commander Frank Borman reporting "A BOGEY AT TEN O'CLOCK HIGH" at approximately 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight, which Houston confirms as "a third and unidentified object" distinct from both the Titan II booster and the hundreds of small particles also observed. Borman explicitly states "WE HAVE DEBRIS UP HERE - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIGHTING" when asked if it is the booster, establishing the bogey as a separate observed phenomenon. Jim Lovell separately describes the booster at 2 o'clock position as "a brilliant body in the sun against a black background with trillions of particles on it." The document exists in both a typed transcript version and a handwritten transcription. Released via PURSUE Release 1 as part of the NARA RG255 (NASA) archival batch, February 25, 2026.
Significance
The primary source document for the Gemini 7 "bogey" incident of December 1965 - the earliest documented real-time crew report of an unidentified object distinct from known spacecraft components in the official U.S. government UAP record released under PURSUE. The NASA PAO internal annotation "UFO SIGHTING BY BORMAN (GT-7)" confirms that NASA officially categorized this exchange as a UFO sighting at the time, not as a misidentification. The transcript is the most direct documentary evidence that Borman explicitly distinguished the bogey from the booster ("WE HAVE DEBRIS UP HERE - THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIGHTING" in response to Houston's question about whether it was the booster), and that Houston mission control formally acknowledged "the third and unidentified object." The PURSUE inclusion establishes this as an official UAP record 60 years after the event.