UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 01 · MAY 8, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · NASA-UAP-D003Gemini 7 Transcript, 1965
This short document is the written record of one of the most quoted moments in astronaut UFO lore: Frank Borman telling Houston, early in the Gemini 7 flight, that he had “a bogey at ten o’clock high.” It is not a raw flight log but a public affairs release — the transcript opens with NASA’s commentator explaining that the master tape had been dubbed and would now be played, and that it included references to particles, an unidentified object and the booster.
Three things in view
Reading the exchange closely shows the crew juggling several objects at once. Borman reports the bogey, then says the booster is also in sight, then describes hundreds of small particles passing to the left some three or four miles off, moving roughly at right angles to the spacecraft’s path. Houston asks whether the particles are in addition to the booster and the bogey.
Jim Lovell’s often-quoted line about a “brilliant body in the sun” is, in the transcript, his description of the booster on his side of the spacecraft — slowly tumbling ahead at his two o’clock position — not of the bogey. The commentator closes by referring to the third, unidentified object as a bogey, though the typed text is garbled at that point, and dates the exchange to four hours and 24 minutes into the flight.
What the file leaves open
The transcript never says what the bogey was. A page of handwritten notes, headed “UFO Sighting by Borman,” records the encounter but adds no identification. The audio excerpt carries the same exchange, and the crew returned to their observations in the technical debriefing.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released May 8, 2026, quoted in full
Gemini 7 was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. This document is a transcript of communications between the flight crew, Astronauts James “Jim” Lovell and Frank Borman, and the Manned Flight Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas. The transcript begins with Borman’s report of a “bogey,” contemporary nomenclature for an unknown aircraft, as well as a debris field. Borman described the debris field as consisting of “very, very many […] hundreds of little particles.” He estimated the particles’ distance from the spacecraft to be four miles. Lovell described observing a “brilliant body in the sun against a black background with trillions of particles on it.” This document also includes handwritten notes documenting the encounter, annotated with the phrase “UFO Sighting by Borman” in the top right corner.