OBJECT DISCOVERED FLOATING AROUND MIR STATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517793
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: May 21, 1991

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SERIAL: LD2105203291 y
COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJ: OBJECT DISCOVERED FLOATING AROUND NIP STATION
SOURCE: MOSCOW CENTRAL TELEVISION FIRST PROGRAM-NETWORK IN RUSSIAN
1800 GMT 21 MAY 91
TEXT:
//((FROM THE "VREMYA^ NEWSCAST))
((EXCERPTS)) THE FLIGHTS OF THE SOVIET-BRITISH CREW ONBOARD THE
MIR STATION IS CONTINUING. THERE ARE ALREADY PRIMARY RESULTS FROM
THE JOINT WORK. NOT ALL OF THEM CAN BE UNEQUIVOCALLY INTERPRETED,
HOWEVER. OUR CORRESPONDENT REPORTS:
((BEGIN RECORDING)) ((CORRESPONDENT P. ORLOV, IDENTIFIED BY
CAPTION, VOICE OFF.SCREEN)) ((PASSAGE OMITTED ON SHARMAN'S INITIAL
IMPRESSIONS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS)) YESTERDAY EVENING, DURING THE LATE
COMMUNICATION SESSION, A STRANGE OBJECT WAS FILMED. YOU CAN SEE IT,
THERE, AT THE VERY CENTER OF THE SCREEN. ((VIDEO SHOWS THE MIR
STATION IN SPACE AND A PHOSPHORESCENT OBJECT HOVERING AROUND IT))
IF IT IS A UFO. SO BE IT. BUT MUSA MANAROV, WHO WAS FILMING THE
CRAFT DURING DOCKING WITH THE STATION, HAS DOUBTS, SAYING THAT HE
SAW HOW THAT THING WAS COMING OFF THE CRAFT. OF COURSE, THERE IS
NOTHING CHEERFUL IN THE FACT THAT AN OBJECT OF QUITE A CONSIDERABLE
SIZE IS FLYING AROUND THE STATION, EVEN IF IT IS NOT A PART OF THE
SOYUZ CARGO CRAFT.
((UNIDENTIFIED VOICE OFF SCREEN)) MOVE CLOSER, PLEASE.
((ORLOV)) LET US RECALL THAT HELEN SHARMAN IS THE. FIRST WOMAN ON
BOARD THE MIR STATION, SOMETHING TO MAKE SEAMEN ENVIOUS. JOKING
ASIDE, IT IS STILL NOT CLEAR WHAT IT IS THAT IS ACCOMPANYING THE
STATION. ((END RECORDING))
WELL, WE WILL WAIT FOR FURTHER REPORTS.. THE FACT IS QUITE
INTERESTING INDEED AND, PERHAPS, FAIRLY ALARMING.
(ENDALL) 211800 21/2049Z MAY
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