Date:
April 1979
Location: Earth orbit, enroute to Soviet Solyut 6 Space
Station,
In
April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from
Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station.
But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut
Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft
and begin tailing it through space.
Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev
Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev
Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev's drawing of the UFO he witnessed.
Source:
Sightings TV
In
April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from
Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station.
But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut
Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft
and begin tailing it through space.
"It
followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on
the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it
disappeared completely. It was an engineering structure,
made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters
long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and
wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places
had projections like small wings. The object stayed very
close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed
it to be 23 to 28 meters away."
In
addition to photographing the UFO, Afanasyev continually
reported back to Mission Control about the craft's size,
its shape and position. When the cosmonaut returned to
earth, he was debriefed and told never to reveal what
he knew, and had his cameras and film confiscated.
Those
photos and his voice transmissions from space have never
been released.
It
is only now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, that
Afanasyev feels that he can safely tell his story.
"It
is still classified as a UFO because we have yet to identify
the object."
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case392.htm
