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NASA-UAP-D013 is an official audio record from war.gov/ufo Release 02 titled “Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962.” The primary source record is NASA-UAP-D013, an official NASA audio record titled “Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962.” During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft. The audio-specific description is: During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft. No linked report row was matched in the current source-context data. The available context for this item comes from the audio excerpt. No separate caution note was provided in the source-context data for this audio excerpt. FullDisclosr therefore presents the item as an official audio source record without adding interpretation beyond the official description.