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STS-75 tether video 'swarm' attributed to debris and ice

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The Tethered Satellite System deploying from the Space Shuttle payload bay
The STS-75 tethered satellite deploying in February 1996 NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After the TSS-1R tethered satellite broke loose from shuttle Columbia on STS-75, shuttle camera footage showed the tether amid many small drifting lights. UFO promoters later called it a swarm of craft; NASA and skeptics said the lights were debris and ice lit by sunlight.

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  1. OfficialSTS-75 Flight Day 5NASA Technical Reports Server / 1996-02-26
  2. OtherSTS-75: The Tether IncidentTe Awamutu Space Centre

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