Tom Jones, the astronaut who actually flew STS-80, already explained the ‘UFO photos’ the Pentagon just re-released today

The Pentagon’s 4th UAP file release today includes three “unresolved” photos from STS-80 (Columbia, Nov–Dec 1996) showing an unidentified object near Earth. Tom Jones, a mission specialist who was actually on STS-80, has already written publicly about the footage from that flight and he attributes what’s on camera to ice crystals and debris kicked loose by the shuttle’s thrusters, something he says he watched happen personally during his 53 days in orbit across four missions. He also pointed...