The Pentagon released an image captured by astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission in 1996, showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit.
01 · THE DISPATCH
The Pentagon released an image captured by astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission (November 19–December 7, 1996), showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit. The object appears near the center of the frame, just to the right of Earth's limb, in the first of three photographs.
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03 · Source and signal
Source and signal
A single-sourced dispatch is never rated Confirmed or Strong. Its Signal strengthens only when a second, independent source corroborates it.
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