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MIR Station News Conference Report

📅 6 December 1990 📍 MIR station 🏛 Moscow Television Service 📄 News transcript
MIRUFOGennadiy Mikhaylovich Strekalovaerostatspace observation

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A 1990 news transcript reports that cosmonaut Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Strekalov observed an unidentified object in orbit, which he later identified as likely being an aerostat casing.

This document is a transcript of a news broadcast from the Moscow Television Service, dated December 6, 1990, regarding activities aboard the MIR space station. The report covers a news conference involving Soviet and Japanese participants, including cosmonauts and a Japanese journalist, Toyohiro Akiyama. During the conference, cosmonaut Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Strekalov recounted an experience where he observed an unidentified object while in orbit. Strekalov initially identified the object as an unidentified flying object (UFO), but upon further consideration, he concluded that it was likely a casing from an aerostat. The document also notes that U.S. astronauts were able to observe the spacecraft carrying the Soviet-Japanese crew as it approached the MIR station.

Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Strekalov described what crystals had been produced in space and what had been dispatched to earth. He then added that he had observed an object which he at first took to be an unidentified flying object, until he worked out that it must be something like a casing from an aerostat.

Official Assessment

Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Strekalov observed an object which he at first took to be an unidentified flying object, until he worked out that it must be something like a casing from an aerostat.

A cosmonaut reported an unidentified object during a mission, which was later identified as likely being an aerostat casing.

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