Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Moravian UFO Thought to be Falling Satellite
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This document reports on a January 1991 sighting of a glowing, comet-like object over South Moravia. Astronomers concluded the object was likely a burning satellite or space debris.
This intelligence report, dated January 22, 1991, details a sighting of a mysterious aerial phenomenon in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia (CSFR). According to a CTK report, eyewitnesses in Uhersky Brod observed an unidentified flying object on the night of Friday, January 18, 1991, between 2317 and 2320 local time. The object was described as being relatively high in the sky and moving quickly from north to south. Witnesses reported that the object resembled a comet with a tail, from which burning pieces were occasionally falling, and that it glowed with the intensity of a full moon. The event was also observed by astronomers, who concluded that the phenomenon was likely the destruction of a satellite or a piece of satellite debris burning up upon re-entry into the upper atmosphere.
It looked like a comet's tail from which burning pieces were occasionally falling.
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Official Assessment
Astronomers assume that this phenomenon involved the destruction of a satellite or, as the case may be, part of one which burned up when it reached the upper atmosphere.
The phenomenon observed in South Moravia was likely a satellite or satellite debris burning up in the atmosphere.
Witnesses
Key Persons
- AstronomersObservers who provided an explanation for the phenomenon