content: My bad. Looking into it more now. Some links as amends for my sin: Space Shuttle Flight 75 (STS-75) Post Flight Presentation (no mention of what we see in the video): http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle75.htm STS-75 wikipedia page (again no mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75 NASA's page of the day the tether broke (yet again no mention): http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-75/sts-75-day-05-highlights.html Finally, a forum of discussion about the objects around the tether: http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?115163-The-Tether-Incident-%28Space-Shuttle-Mission-STS-75%29 I've not yet read the last link, but the non-tether objects appear to be awfully blurry and not quite opaque which makes it difficult to judge if we're seeing a further away object passing behind or a very close object passing in front. And there is at least one salient point that Phil Plait made on the other matter: if this were evidence of UFOs, why would NASA release the video without also stating something like "Hey world, look what we found"? The notion that they didn't say anything to cover-up UFOs but decided to release the video to the public anyhow just doesn't jive with common sense. If we are to believe these are UFOs and we rule out intent to deceive on NASA's part, we're left with three explanations: 1) that NASA is incompetent at recognizing UFOs when they seem them, 2) NASA is unaware of the content of videos that they release to the public, or 3) that NASA has a well-informed position on the matter and has no reason to believe these are UFOs. Given the points above, I'm inclined to believe the 3rd scenario. I'm going to go read my last link now, and see if anyone offers any compelling counter-evidence (or further evidence towards the stance I'm currently inclined to believe). EDIT: I'm prepared to accept this as a valid explanation for what we see in this video: http://www.rense.com/general/stsd.htm