NASA UAP D032 STS 80 Unidentified Object Image3 1996
According to the releasing source, this is the third of three images captured by astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-80, flown between November 19 and December 7, 1996. The page context states that the images depict an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit; in this third photograph the object is described as visible near the center of the frame, superimposed against the Earth, having apparently continued along a trajectory passing between Columbia and the Earth. The file was published by the U.S. Department of War (war.gov) as item NASA-UAP-D032 within a UAP data manifest, with NASA listed as the originating agency. No extractable text is present in the image itself; this record is drawn from publisher-provided page context.
Description
A NASA photograph, released as part of a U.S. Department of War UAP data package, showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit captured from Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-80 in 1996. It is the third of a series of three images.
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Astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit during STS-80.
60%In the third photograph the object appears near the center of the frame, superimposed against the Earth, having continued along a trajectory passing between Columbia and the Earth.
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STS-80 mission
Space Shuttle Columbia mission during which astronauts captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit.
Jul 9, 2026
Release of UAP image D032
Publication of the image by the U.S. Department of War in a UAP data package.
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