Frank Borman (1928–2023) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut who commanded Gemini 7 in 1965 and Apollo 8, the first crewed flight to orbit the Moon, in 1968. His place in the UAP record comes from a short radio exchange early in the Gemini 7 flight, when he told Mission Control, "We have a bogey at ten o'clock high."

Born in Gary, Indiana, on March 14, 1928, Borman graduated from West Point in 1950, eighth in a class of 670, and was commissioned in the Air Force. He trained as a fighter pilot, taught thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point, earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech in 1957 and graduated from the Air Force's experimental test pilot school in 1961. NASA selected him in 1962 as one of its second group of astronauts.

Gemini 7, launched on December 4, 1965, with Jim Lovell as pilot, lasted nearly 14 days, an endurance record at the time, and served as the target for Gemini 6A's rendezvous on December 15. After the loss of the Apollo 1 crew in 1967, Borman was the only astronaut on the accident review board. In December 1968 he commanded Apollo 8 with Lovell and William Anders, and on Christmas Eve the crew read from the Book of Genesis while orbiting the Moon. He retired from NASA and the Air Force as a colonel in 1970, joined Eastern Air Lines and led it as chief executive from 1975 until 1986, and received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. He passed away in Billings, Montana, on November 7, 2023, at 95.

The "bogey" came at the start of the second orbit. When Houston asked whether it was the booster or an actual sighting, the crew replied that it was an actual sighting of several objects that looked like debris, then described "hundreds of little particles" off to the left, while Lovell said he had the booster on his side, "a brilliant body in the sun." Franklin Roach, writing on astronaut sightings for the University of Colorado study run by the Condon Committee, listed the episode among three that "have not been adequately explained." Space historian James Oberg later concluded that the bogey was most likely a "brighter-than-average piece of booster-associated debris," and Borman himself later said that what he saw was not a UFO.

On May 8, 2026, the Department of War's first PURSUE release published an audio excerpt and transcript of the exchange, and a June tranche added the crew's technical debriefing. Posts on Reddit and X described the recording as hidden for six decades, although Roach had quoted the exchange in the Colorado study's published report. Borman is remembered for Gemini 7's endurance flight, for Apollo 8's first voyage around the Moon and for leading Eastern Air Lines; the bogey is a brief, recorded moment in which a veteran test pilot reported an unidentified object in real time, one he later said was not a UFO.