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Unidentified Object at Earth's Limb, STS-80
A NASA photograph from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the center of the frame.
DISCLOSURE / FILE
A NASA photograph from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the center of the frame.
NASA-UAP-D030, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 1, 1996
A NASA photograph from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the center of the frame.
During STS-80, flown between November 19 and December 7, 1996, astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia photographed an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit. This file is the first of a series of three images. In it, the object sits near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth. The release provides the image only; no extracted text or analytic caption accompanies it.