NASA UAP D030 STS 80 Unidentified Object Image1 1996
According to the source page hosted by the U.S. Department of War, this image (NASA-UAP-D030) is the first of a series of three photographs taken during Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission, between November 19 and December 7, 1996. The astronauts captured an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit; in this first photograph the object is described as visible near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth. The file is attributed to NASA and paired with documents NASA-UAP-D031 and NASA-UAP-D032. No extractable text is present in the image itself; this metadata is drawn from the publisher-provided page context.
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A NASA photograph, released via the U.S. Department of War UAP data collection, showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit captured from Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission in 1996. The object appears near the center of the frame, to the right of the Earth's limb.
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Astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit during STS-80.
60%In this first photograph the object is visible near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth.
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Nov 18, 1996
STS-80 mission
Space Shuttle Columbia mission (November 19 – December 7, 1996) during which astronauts captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit.
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