STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit
I'm sure you-al didn't miss the news this past week, but our Astronauts saw an unidentified object, metal, black, and as large as a 747
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-18
- Where
- STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- —
- Slug
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Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2006.
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit in the UFOMYST archive.
- In orbit logged 4 sightings in 2006.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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