1961 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P4 var 2)
Project Gemini was the second US human spaceflight program, running from 1961 to 1966. It focused on developing techniques for space travel and rendezvous.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1961-1966 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Project Gemini was the second US human spaceflight program, running from 1961 to 1966. It focused on developing techniques for space travel and rendezvous.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.