NASA-UAP-D030, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 1, 1996
Official description
During STS-80, between November 19 and December 7, 1996, astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit. In the first photograph, the object is visible near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth.
✦ AI visual analysis
Photograph taken through a Space Shuttle window looking down at Earth. Bright white cloud cover fills the left half, with the dark silhouette of the window frame and orbiter structure on the right. A small thin elongated white object is visible against the clouds. Red telemetry markings run along the left edge; the film is grainy and slightly hazed by window reflections.
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
