NASA UAP D031 STS 80 Unidentified Object Image2 1996
According to the releasing source page, during STS-80 (November 19 to December 7, 1996) astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit. In this second photograph, the object appears near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth, and appears to have rotated or tumbled about its major axis — behavior the source describes as consistent with a free-floating object. The image was released by the U.S. Department of War on July 10, 2026 as item NASA-UAP-D031, paired with documents NASA-UAP-D030 and NASA-UAP-D032. No extractable text is contained in the image itself; this metadata derives from publisher-provided page context.
Description
A NASA photograph (Image VIRIN 260710-O-D0360-1135) released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data set, showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit captured from Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-80 in 1996. Per the source page, it is the second of three images of the object.
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During STS-80, astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit.
60%In the second photograph, the object appears near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth.
60%The object appears to have rotated or tumbled about its major axis, consistent with the behavior of a free-floating object.
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Dec 31, 1995
STS-80 mission
Space Shuttle Columbia mission running November 19 to December 7, 1996, during which astronauts captured three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit.
Jul 9, 2026
Release of NASA-UAP-D031 image
U.S. Department of War released the image as part of its UAP data set (release 4).
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