NASA delays shuttle landing due to UFO
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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
NASA delayed shuttle Atlantis' homecoming by a day due to a video taken by a shuttle camera of an unidentified dark object that appeared to fly out of the craft's payload bay on Tuesday.
NASA rescheduled touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center for 6:22 a.m. EDT (1022 GMT) on Thursday.
Johnson Space Center spokesman Doug Peterson said the object was a mystery.
"At this point, we're not willing to hazard a guess," Peterson said.
Flight controllers told the crew to postpone locking down the shuttle's robot arm and stowing the television antenna in case additional inspections were needed.
Atlantis is returning from a week-long stay at the International Space Station to install the first new upgrade since before the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster
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Additional reporting by Fox News, Reuters.
