Kovalenok
says he does not believe other astronauts when
they say they have never seen anything unusual
in space. |
The
following article was published in
“Pravda” – 16th August, 2004:
Soviet
astronaut, USSR Hero Vladimir Kovalenok spent 217 days of his
life living in space. The astronaut does not exclude the existence
of extraterrestrial civilizations. "When I was working
at the Salyut orbital station, I saw something strange in a
porthole one day. The object was the size of a finger. I was
surprised to see it was an orbiting object," Kovalenko
said at the press conference in Moscow on Friday.
The
astronaut added he called his partner Viktor Savinykh to take
a look at the unidentified object in space. "It was hard
to determine the size and the speed of an object in space.
That is why I can not say exactly, which size it actually was.
Savinykh prepared to take a picture of it, but the UFO suddenly
exploded. Only clouds of smoke were left. The object split
into two interconnected pieces. It was reminiscent of a dumb-bell.
I reported about it to the Mission Control immediately," the
astronaut said.
Vladimir
Kovalenok said they had not managed to photograph the object,
Interfax reorts.
"The
Soviet press headlined the event widely. Soviet newspapers
and magazines published a lot of articles and messages about
it, but they were mostly critical articles. Journalists excluded
the existence of the extraterrestrial reason," Kovalenok
was quoted as saying. The astronaut said nobody knows, what
happened that day, when he saw the strange object in space. "It
was probably a UFO, but it was definitely not mysticism - two
people watched it at the same time," said he.
When
on Earth, Kovalenok learned specialists had registered considerable
radiation emission the day the astronaut saw the object. "I
do not believe it when astronauts say they have never seen
anything extraordinary in space,"
concluded Kovalenok.
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