r/UFOB
/u/ANewEra2020
Space Shuttle Columbia UFO From Recently Released Pentagon Files
Witnesses
Unknown
Duration
Unknown
Source material
3
Timeline
3
Source context
Limited context
Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.
Source provenance
r/UFOB
Live sighting record 35d119e0-cb7f-4ca9-8508-98a08d5e49a3.
Using the selected case's real source, media, and context throughout the workspace.
Correlations
Field Intelligence
Low Earth Orbit
Terrestrial weather, solar-window, airport, and nearby-infrastructure correlations are suppressed for this record.
- Occurred
- Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 AM
- Location
- low-Earth orbit
Context notes
- •Low Earth Orbit is outside the terrestrial weather, sunlight-window, airport, and nearby-infrastructure models used for ground sightings.
- •Use mission timing, orbital/lunar context, source media, and official metadata for comparison instead.
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 AM
Location
low-Earth orbit
Witness account
Narrative
Today, a total of 3 different images of UFOs were released today from the STS-80 mission in 1996. All 3 were taken by crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia. According to War.Gov it states, "During STS-80, between November 19 and December 7, 1996, astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia captured a series of three images of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit. In the first photograph, the object is visible near the center of the frame, to the right of the limb of the Earth." Source here. su...
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near low-Earth orbit.
r/UFOB carried the report into the source network.
Grouped into the STS-80 incident dossier.
Ledger
Source material
media
Cover image
Visual reference carried with the original report.
source
Original report
Direct source material from r/UFOB.
telemetry
Environmental pass
Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.