REF: UAP/1990s/152Explained
1991-09-15
STS-48 shuttle footage
Low Earth orbit · USA (NASA)·Spaceflight video anomaly·1990s
Explained
§ ASummary
Shuttle payload-bay camera captured object making sharp turn after flash; debated between ice-particle/thruster explanation (NASA, Oberg) and anomalous analyses (Kasher).
§ BWitnesses
NASA cameras (public downlink)
§ CEvidence & Documentation
NASA video (public); competing peer-level analyses
§ DOfficial Investigation
NASA review
§ EStatus Assessment
Explained per NASA (ice particles + RCS thruster); dissenting analyses persist
§ FVerifiable Sources
NASA footage archives; Kasher study; Oberg rebuttals
§ GCross-referenced cases6
1990-08-04🇬🇧 UK
Calvine photograph
Photographic (MoD-held)
1990-11-05🇪🇺 Europe
November 5 1990 European sightings
Mass sighting (explained)
1990-11-07🇨🇦 Canada
Place Bonaventure / Montreal hovering lights
Urban mass sighting (police-documented)
1990-08-24🇩🇪 Germany (former GDR)
Greifswald lights
Mass-videotaped light cluster
1991-07-11🇲🇽 Mexico
Mexico City eclipse videos
Mass video event
1993-03-30-31🇬🇧 UK
Cosford / Shawbury incident
Military-witnessed national wave