Sightings1991

Soviet TV airs cosmonaut Musa Manarov's video of an object near Mir

When: 20 May 1991
Sources: 2 public sources

Musa Manarov, the cosmonaut who filmed the object near Mir UR3IRS at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Soviet TV's Vremya newscast on 21 May 1991 showed a glowing object filmed near the Mir station the previous evening. Cosmonaut Musa Manarov, who was filming a docking, said he saw it come off the spacecraft; the report said its nature was unclear.

Sources

Official'Strange Object' Filmed Floating Around 'Mir' Station (FBIS transcript, Moscow Central Television, 21 May 1991), CIA C05517697 (opens in a new tab)Central Intelligence Agency (copy hosted by The Black Vault) / 1991-05-21
OfficialCIA UFO Documents (includes 'Object Discovered Floating Around Mir Station' transcript) (opens in a new tab)Central Intelligence Agency (copy hosted by Internet Archive) / 1991-05-21

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