In today’s post, I decided to discuss the incident from 1984, in which Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 space station observed “glowing angels” in space.
Salyut 7 (DOS-6 (Durable Orbital Station 6)) was the last manned space station sent into orbit as part of the Salyut program. Salyut 7 was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991.
The orbital station Salyut-7 was occupied by the spacecraft commander Oleg Atkov and cosmonauts Vladimir Solovyov and Leonid Kizim. On the 155th day of the flight, the station was suddenly flooded with a sparkling orange light, which was so strong that it momentarily blinded the astronauts, who thought that there had been a fire or an explosion on the spacecraft. The astronauts reported the incident to the mission control center. When the ability to see returned, the cosmonauts looked out the windows and reported that they “saw faces” outside.
Seven angels seemed to float next to the spacecraft. They had human faces and bodies, as well as wings. The angels accompanied Salyut-7 for about 10 minutes, repeating the ship’s maneuvers, and then disappeared. The only reasonable explanation for what happened was a group hallucination. The astronauts decided that they were suffering from temporary madness.
On the 167th day of the flight, the cosmonauts were joined by three of their colleagues: Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. And again, a bright orange light and seven angels appeared. According to eyewitnesses, each of them is the size of a passenger plane. All six astronauts reported to the Mission Control Center on Earth that they saw “smiling angels”.
It should be noted that the cosmonauts saw seven gigantic (about 40 m high) figures with large, spread wings floating in the cloud. The creatures looked almost human, glowing, with wings, but still humanoid in shape.
Considering that the first team set a record of 237 days in space orbit, this episode could be attributed to the stress accumulated during a long space journey. But how can the second crew’s encounter with angels be explained?
The USSR authorities, or rather the Politburo of the CPSU, classified the incident and the cosmonauts were sent for psychiatric examinations and forbidden to talk about the event. Glasnost, part of Perestroika, the reform process in the communist USSR led to the disclosure of, among other things, secret archives from space missions that could see the light of day.
To conclude our considerations, as always, we should ask an important question: were Soviet cosmonauts participants in hallucinatory groups twice, or did they see unidentified, non-human beings that penetrated the interior of the Salyut 7 station and were also visible outside?
As usual, the answer should be considered for yourself.
In 2017, a Russian film Salyut 7 was made, telling about the Soyuz T-13 rescue mission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7_(film)
Source:
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