NASA-UAP-D003A: Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt — Borman "Bogey" Report (1965)
Date
December 5, 1965
Document Type
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
NASA / Manned Spaceflight Center
Summary
A 6-minute 11-second audio recording released as NASA-UAP-D003A via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. The clip contains the air-to-ground communications and NASA Public Affairs audio feed from the Gemini 7 mission during the December 5, 1965 UAP sighting. Astronaut Frank Borman reports to Mission Control in Houston that he is observing a "bogey" — contemporary terminology for an unidentified aircraft. Astronaut Jim Lovell, Borman's crew member, also comments on the observation. The Gemini 7 "bogey" sighting is one of the most explicitly documented UAP reports from the early U.S. space program, occurring during what was then the longest crewed spaceflight in history.
Significance
NASA-UAP-D003A is the audio record of the first explicitly acknowledged UAP sighting from a crewed U.S. orbital mission. The Borman "bogey" report represents real-time crew communication of an anomalous observation during an active mission — and its inclusion alongside the companion transcript (NASA-UAP-D003) in PURSUE Release 1 represents NASA's formal institutional acknowledgment that the observation is part of the official UAP record. The audio provides the tone and context of the exchange that the written transcript alone cannot convey.