- Note - The following is an excerpt from
an article "Flying the Gusmobile" about the Gemini missions.
Published on the site of "Air and Space" magazine July 14. http://www.airspacemag.com:80/ASM/Mag/Index/1998/AS/ftgm.html
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- At almost twice the length of Gemini
5, Commander Frank Borman's Gemini 7 mission may have been even more trying,
but it grabbed the attention of at least one Hollywood producer.
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- "Right after we got into orbit we
were supposed to 'station keep' or fly formation with the booster,"
Borman says. "We were flying formation and taking photographs and
infrared measurements and I started calling it a 'bogey,' which is an old
fighter pilot term. Well, a lot of the UFO freaks on the ground picked
this up and said we had seen a UFO because we had referred to our booster
as a bogey.
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- "Just this past year I got a call
from a producer at 'Unsolved Mysteries' and they said, 'We read your account
about your seeing a UFO on Gemini 7 and would you come on the program?'
I told them: 'I'd love to come on your program because I'd love to straighten
that out.'
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- "I explained what it was I saw,
and I said, 'I don't think there were UFOs,' and the producer said, 'Well,
I'm not sure we want you on the program.' "
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