Posted on 11/28/2008 3:15:02 PM PST by JoeProBono
Former Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok appeared at a press conference devoted to unusual and anomalous phenomena in space. He said that he had witnessed something inexplicable during his work on board the Salyut orbital station. The cosmonaut said that he once saw a strange object on Earths orbit. He asked his partner, Viktor Savinykh, to fetch a camera. While Savinykh was trying to find the camera, the object exploded in front of Kovalenoks eyes. The object split into two parts and had something like a bridge connecting those parts. The dumbbell-like object disappeared before the other cosmonaut was ready to photograph it. A strong radioactive emission was registered on Earth soon after the explosion of the mysterious object. Kovalenok said that many of his colleagues had witnessed something unusual on a number of occasions, but they decided not to bring those issues to the public attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsfromrussia.com ...
Cosmonauts Gennady Strekalov and Gennady Manakov saw a bright spherical object appearing in the cloudless sky above Newfoundland in 1990. The sphere disappeared without a trace ten seconds later.
In 1991, Musa Manarov was observing the module with the new crew nearing the Mir Space Station, filming the process on video camera. He suddenly saw an antenna-like object separating from the module. He informed the cosmonauts inside the module that something had undocked from them. Nevertheless, it never became possible to identify the object, although it was filmed on camera.
It goes without saying that cosmonauts informed their governing bodies of all those and many other strange incidents. All of the stories were most likely documented and subsequently classified.
Cosmonauts may often witness other inexplicable events happening in space, Vladimir Kovalenok said. A tape recorder switched on by itself and started playing the crews favorite film on the orbit once, Kovalenok said.
Psychologists often warn cosmonauts prior to their space missions that they may experience a phenomenon known as the altered state of consciousness. A Russian cosmonaut said in 1994 that he and his partner had numerous visions when they were working on board the Mir station for six months. It seemed to them that they were turning into weird creatures animals and even humanoids of extraterrestrial origin.
Or as Mrs. Ross said to Frank Costanza: “Something’s missing all right.”
I always wondered if the Russian space program allowed cosmonauts to take vodka on the flights. Now I know.
I don’t know. That would be one pricey bottle of vodka.
The equation is something like this:
A can of coke costs a bar of gold to put in orbit.
Filming on the set of a Russian version of Lost?
cool photo - what is it from?
Ruskie ping.
Sepia. Interesting. Where’s the sepia filter in photoshop?
easily converted.
ufo ping
...Consciousness, normal or altered, becomes perception, which becomes reality for the individual. Those officials in politburo, communist or, dare I say, US government, that wish to crush the individual, denounce this as lunacy. Go back to bed America, yer government will program yer lives for you. as long as we stay apathetic, docile, bovine masses, we may rise to become the proletariat...
However, if it was a babe taking her top off at the beach, no problem. The photo would have been taken in perfect focus and posted on the Internet. All of these blurry videos and photos are all you will get from these UFO Bo and Peep wannabee's
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