There are currently hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people in the world who have seen ETV (UFO). But official science does not deal with it. The mysterious objects, however, had the opportunity to see cosmonauts we can trust.

ZLATÉ KLUBÍČKO

The story, told to us by a former Soviet cosmonaut of Belarusian nationality, Colonel General Vladimir Kovaljonok, took place on May 5, 1981, around 18:00 CET. At that time, the Salyut 6 space station, whose crew included Kovaljonok, flew over South Africa in the direction of the Indian Ocean. When the astronaut finished the prescribed gymnastic exercise and looked through the window, he saw an unknown object near the station.

In space, it is almost impossible to estimate the dimensions and distances with the naked eye. It may seem to the observer that he is looking at a smaller object that is very close, but it is a gigantic object that is far away, and vice versa. Be that as it may, there was something strange in the field of vision anyway.

The unusual object had an ellipsoidal shape, fled parallel to the station and the same direction; he did not come near, nor did he give up. Still, he was still rotating in the direction of movement - as if he was rolling on an invisible footpath "laid" in the universe.

The astronaut was suddenly blinded by a flash of bright yellow light that looked like a silent explosion, and the object turned into a golden glittering sphere. It was a beautiful sight. But it turned out to be just the beginning. After one to two seconds, a similar explosion occurred again in the field of view, because Kovaljonok saw another ball of the same gold. Then a cloud of smoke appeared, which soon took on a spherical shape.

The station flew east, approaching the terminator, the interface between day and night at dusk. When it reached the shadow of night on Earth, all three objects disappeared from view. None of the crew members saw them anymore.

 "CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT"

In 1990, cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov was on the Mir space station, witnessing a very mysterious event there. The atmosphere was clear, the clearly visible island of Newfoundland was "floating" beneath the station, and suddenly what looked like a sphere entered the astronaut's field of vision.

The glow resembled a Christmas ornament in glitter, an ornate glass ball. Strekalov called Commander Gennady Manakovov to the window. Unfortunately, the sphere could not be documented; as always in such cases, it turned out that the camera was not ready. They admired the beautiful spectacle for about 10 seconds.

The ball disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. There was nothing in its vicinity that would allow a comparison of dimensions. Strekalov reported on the building of the Flight Control Center and described it as an unusual phenomenon - he did not use the term UFO. According to him, he tried to objectively describe what he saw and wanted to avoid unsubstantiated assumptions.

MYSTERIOUS "COSI"

At the beginning of 1991, another spaceship arrived at the Mir orbital station. Musa Manarov was then sitting at a large window watching carefully as the ship slowly approached the space station. When he got close enough, he began filming the intercourse process. At that moment, he noticed that there was an object under the ship that he originally thought was an antenna.

He looked at it carefully and realized that the antenna was definitely not. "This must be some other element of construction", Manarov thought then. The next moment, however, this "element" began to move away from the ship. Musa immediately connected with the ship and shouted, "You boys have lost something." There was, of course, a commotion at the other end.

Given the experience already gained regarding the connection of ships to a station in space, it was clear that they could not lose anything at the contact stage. If a part were to separate from the ship, it would take place during its launch, at a stage when there is considerable overload. And here it was a slow and smooth approach of both space objects.

The next moment, the "something" began to fall under the ship. The moment the ship stopped covering the object, the crew focused all their attention on it.

The astronauts had the impression that the object was rotating. Estimating its dimensions and distance from the station proved to be problematic. Observers only assumed that the object was not near the station, so they set the camera to infinity.

If the subject is a small object nearby (such as a screw or the like), it may not be in focus at this setting. Subsequently, the assumption was confirmed. At the time the object was recorded, the distance between the ship and the station was a maximum of 100 meters and the mysterious object was behind the ship.

It is possible that it was a UFO, but what it really was, it is not possible to determine exactly. There is only one thing certain, the object was not space debris, nor part of Sputnik or a rocket, because in these cases it would be known. Special services of the RF and the USA monitor the position of all larger objects in space.

Crews of spacecraft and orbital stations know about the movement of similar objects. If a similar object approached Mir, the astronauts would be warned in advance. But then they were told that nothing like it was happening in the area where the station was located.

TRIANGLE

"There was only one incident in my life when I encountered something incomprehensible, a phenomenon that neither I nor anyone else could explain." These are the words of the Air Force Major General, a candidate of technical sciences, Pavel Popovič. "It happened in 1978 when we flew from Washington to Moscow."

We flew at an altitude of about 10 meters, I was in the cockpit and I saw through the windshield that at a distance of about 000 meters above us flies a white object in the shape of an isosceles triangle, which resembled a sail.

The airplane in which the cosmonaut was found flew at 900 km / h, but the object slightly overtaken it. According to Popovich's estimation, the sailboat speed was one and a half times higher than the aircraft.

The cosmonaut immediately reported on his observation to the crew and passengers. Everyone tried to determine what could be done, but the triangle could not be identified. It did not look like an airplane because it had the ideal shape of an isosceles triangle, and then there were no such aircraft.

JN: One of the possibilities of an isosceles triangular-shaped aircraft could be the aircraft demonstrator of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. Its development has taken place since 1973 and the first flightable demounter flew in 1977 under the code name "Have Blue". So it is possible that the US wanted the Soviets only to send a message in style "We have this and we are working on this."

SILVER BALL

In September 1990, while communicating with Earth, Gennady Manakov gave an interview to Russian journalist Leonid Lazarevich. In answer to a journalist's questions, the astronaut mentioned "the most interesting phenomena" observed by astronauts over Earth. Here is his description of one of the events:

"Yesterday, around 22:50 PM, we observed something called a UFO. It was a huge glittering ball. The sky was cloudless and clear. I can't determine at what height the sphere was above the Earth, but I estimate it at 20-30 kilometers. The sphere was larger than the largest spaceship we had ever built. We had the impression that the UFO hovered motionless over the Earth. It had very strong outlines and a regular shape. But what it really was, I can't say. We observed the object for about 7 seconds, then disappeared.