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The time that I saw it, I said there was something out in front of me that I, or outside the

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spacecraft that I couldn't identify, and I never have been able to identify and I don't

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think anybody ever will.

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We were in drifting flight and my partner, Ed White, was asleep.

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The spacecraft had all the flight control systems turned off and almost all of the electrical

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equipment turned off except the radio.

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Spacecraft was drifting around and I couldn't tell, I still don't know which direction was

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pointing.

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I was heading towards Earth but I couldn't see anything out in front of me except just

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the black sky.

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And as it was rotating around I noticed something out in front that was a white cylindrical

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shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it.

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It had about the same dimensional relationship as a beer can with a smooth pencil sticking

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out one corner of it.

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I couldn't tell how close it was and I couldn't tell what the size was.

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That perception in space is not very good unless you know what the size of the object

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is that you're looking at.

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I thought I might run into it so I turned on the flight control system.

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It takes a while for the electronics to warm up and in the meantime I grabbed two cameras

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which were floating in the spacecraft and I grabbed one and took a picture and I let

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go of it and I grabbed the other one and took a picture.

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There's a sun shown on the window I can no longer see out and the thing just disappeared.

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I never did find out what it was and nobody else ever did either.

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They checked the NORAD records to see what they had up on the radar and there wasn't

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anything within a very close range of us.

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After we landed in the Atlantic Ocean the films were flown back to Houston.

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I've seen the photos that were released.

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I've seen them published in magazines and newspapers.

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I went back and went through each frame of all of the pictures that we took after the

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flight and there wasn't anything in there like what I had seen.