NASA Tether UFO February 1996

We see a long line couple of star-like things and a lot of things swimming in the foreground. Can you describe what you're seeing? Well, the long line is the cutter and there's a little bit of the bring that kind of flying with us and it's a little bit added by the sun that puts low angle for this long straight light and is getting washed out quickly but a lot is trying to do a quick good job here, doesn't the camera. Copy that? In that description by the crew, this is the tether in the satellite with 12. approximately 12 miles of tether still attached to it. Columbia in the satellite to now just passing over the west coast of northern Africa. The two spacecraft to now 90 nautical miles apart. Controllers for the satellite to did have communications with it during the close pass between Columbia and the satellite. The satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to now have a satellite to