STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit
Media report of early AM 9/19/2006 space "debris," yet original NASA audio feed described an "object."
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-19
- Where
- STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Geo
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- 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
September 2006 was a busy month for STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in STS Atlantis (in Earth orbit), In orbit.
- This case is one of 4 In orbit reports filed in 2006.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.