McDivitt's object over the Pacific
Astronaut James McDivitt photographed an unidentified cylinder from Gemini 4 on 4 June 1965. Others say it was a rocket stage.
On 4 June 1965 the Gemini 4 pilot, James McDivitt, saw an unfamiliar object while the spacecraft drifted over the Pacific Ocean. The Condon Report, a UFO study, places the sighting at 3:00 CST that day and records his description of a cylinder with arms or an antenna sticking out. Against the daytime sky it looked white or silvery. He gave no distance for it, though it spanned a visible area, unlike a point. He took two still pictures and some movie film while his partner, Ed White, slept.
McDivitt said the shape looked a little like the second stage of a Titan rocket, without meaning that is what it was. He maintains it was some unknown piece of man-made debris. James Oberg argues that the likeliest candidate is the second stage of the Titan II. Another source says the crew had tried a rendezvous with that stage earlier in the mission.
"During the Gemini 4 mission, pilot Jim McDivitt spotted an object that he described as a "white cylindrical shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it." He took two pictures of it. His partner, Ed White, was asleep at the time.[13] McDivitt maintains that it was some unknown but man-made piece of debris, while James Oberg argues that it was most likely the Titan II second stage of the craft.[14]"
- Condon Report, Section 3, Chapter 6: Astronaut Visual Observations, University of Colorado (Condon Report), hosted by NCAS
- Gemini IV, NASA