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IMAGE · NASA

NASA-UAP-D030, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 1, 1996

Orbit · 1996

Official record

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.

Location / spatial context supplied by source: Low-Earth Orbit
Spatial scope: Off-Earth