NASA STS-115 Mission UFO Sighting

STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster, following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121. STS-115 launched from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on 9 September 2006 at 11:14:55 EDT (15:14:55 UTC). The STS-115 crew delivered and installed the P3/P4 truss structure on the International Space Station. Three spacewalks were carried out to put the new P3/P4 truss in service. Spacewalkers Joseph R. Tanner, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Daniel C. Burbank and Steven G. MacLean, CSA connected power cables and activated gear readying the P3/P4 and its unfurled solar arrays for power generation.

There were four different types of UFO phenomena observations during the STS-115 Space Shuttle flight. The first sighting was a long, dark rectangular object that appeared to be keeping pace with, or in the same orbital path as the Atlantis. The transparent UFO appears in the right hand corner, while astronauts film the falling fuel tank.