You may republish short quotes from this articlewith a reference back to the original UFO Insight article here as the source. Although Salyut 7 had no power, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh did find some operable batteries onboard. This last frontier has a lot of strange stuff in it, but perhaps not much that is as strange as this. Although the seven angels witnessed by the Soviet cosmonauts had very distinct features, they essentially appeared out of nowhere. Considering that this time they had again all seen the same thing, it appeared that there was perhaps something more going on beyond simple hallucinations. The mission directive was to ensure that Savitskaya would complete a successful spacewalk before the Americans. DOS-6, short for Durable Orbital Station[1]) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. There were also four visiting missions, crews which came to bring supplies and make shorter duration visits with the resident crews. Soviet engineers realized they had only two options: abandon Salyut 7 or mount a rescue mission. NASA indeed planned to send the Challenger or the Discovery to take photos of the drifting station, and retrieval was considered, but all these plans were dropped because they didn't want to provoke the Soviets, particularly not in the interregnum shortly after Konstantin Chernyenko's death, not knowing how firmly has the new Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev is sitting in his chair. At this time the station was uninhabited, after the departure of Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov and Oleg Atkov, and before the next crew arrived. The station began to drift, doing unpredictable movement on orbit, and all systems shut down. One that exists in the universe and that can manifest itself in many different ways. Although the incident did make the international news, there was no real seriousness in the reports the incident soon forgotten. The intention was of conducting various scientific experiments in space. During a long, slow approach to the station, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh noticed that Salyut's solar arrays were no longer aligned with each other or the Sun, further confirming the severity of the damage. Typically, the resident crew would first dock at the forward port, leaving the aft port available for Progress craft and visiting Soyuz support crews. Salyut 7 bears the name of the Soviet-era, pre-Mir space station that boasted many firsts, including the second woman in space and the first woman to perform an EVA (both records held by Svetlana Savitskaya). Russian Cosmonauts Saw 30-Meter Tall-Aliens Smiling At Them In Space During 1980 Flight Of Salyut-7. Interestingly, intensive rounds of physical and psychological tests performed on the space station crew supposedly showed nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever. David Icke speaks of the force behind the reptilian bloodlines, as being such an energy force. mode: 'thumbnails-rr', You can see a very short clip of this feat below. Water was also a problem, the crew had 8 days supply in the Soyuz. Subscribe Today! The details included in the articleare based on the reports, accounts and documentation available as provided bywitnesses and publications - sources/references are published above. it appeared that there was perhaps something more going on beyond simple hallucinations. Salyut 7 went silent. So, although a crewed rescue mission to Salyut 7 was a dangerous proposition, if successful, the Soviet's would save both time and money as well as face. The first crew on Mir travelled in the Soyuz to Salyut, to collect and transfer valuable equipment: the only time a station-to-station crew transfer has taken place to date. Although Salyut couldnt be scooped up and carried back to earth, it was far too valuable to just abandon. Each of the cosmonauts was subject to intense and prolonged examinations upon their return to Earth. We have only within the last century really begun to comprehend some of its secrets to any appreciable degree, and there are certainly wonders beyond our imagination for us yet to behold. target_type: 'mix' Filming lasted several months with great physical exertion. The first strange sighting occurred on 12th July 1984. Fortunately, cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov had previously performed a manual docking with the (then-functioning) Salyut 7, which was partly why he was chosen to head the rescue mission; cosmonaut Viktor Savinykh would accompany him. Salyut-7 launched aboard a Proton rocket on 19th April 1982, and on May 13th the first crew launched to rendezvous, beginning a mission that would last a record-breaking 211 days. The ceiling on the Salyut 7 was white; the left wall was apple green and the right one beige,[4][5] a signature design by interior design architect, Galina Balashova, who carried on the concept through Soyuz to Mir and Buran, in an effort to replace 'survive' with 'comfort', working with seasoned cosmonauts to make living conditions better and 'closer to home'. In the power vacuum left by Chernenko's death, the Soviet response to the Salyut-7 capture became unpredictable and the Americans considered it prudent to call off the mission. Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. This is almost a by-product to the constant opportunism of some alternative media sites. It remains just one more anomaly on perhaps a whole road of anomalies just waiting for us as we delve ever deeper into the reaches of our universe. Identical Twins Abducted By Aliens? On one occasion even going as far as to encourage people to euthanize their pets to avoid their suffering. In this case the entity mentioned is certainly described as an alien of some type, but its sheer size makes it interesting in relation to the space angel phenomenon, and makes one wonder just what it really was this man saw, if anything. This is a forum for free thinking, not hate speech. In a special training, the Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft ten times rose to a height of several thousand meters and abruptly went down the parabola, while weightlessness appeared for 26 seconds. However, the evidence disappeared after the events were declassified. The film contains several extracts of Russian songs: On July 27, 2017, a 30-minute fragment of the film was presented to residents of the city of Baikonur, employees of Roscosmos and enterprises of the rocket and Space industry of Russia. . The #Salyut 7 Incident - Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? Salyut 7 (Russian: -7; English: Salute 7) (aka DOS-6) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. So one crew member stayed in the Soyuz to monitor the one working in the station. One later report stated that the entities appeared to acknowledge their presence inside the space station, even smiling at them. This article is about a space station. Salyut-7. Although this incident happened over thirty years ago, in cosmic terms, that is but a millisecond. In short, there is nothing to indicate or prove that what they saw was a hallucination. The only launch of Challenger concurrent Soyuz T-13 was STS-51-F launched on July 29, 1985; well after the Soyuz T-13 crew had completed their primary emergency repairs. [1] This operation forms the basis of the 2017 Russian film Salyut 7. He also claims that the government has regular dealings with these creatures and that it is all kept top secret. And by using an optical rangefinder, Dzhanibekov manually nestled the Soyuz near Salyut 7, linking the two craft at the forward docking port. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. The video below is a light-hearted look at some of the better-known predictions of the end of the world and life as we know it. Certainly ranking among these mysteries is a curious close encounter between some of the first people in space and, well, something else. Following the docking of the Soyuz T-12 with the Salyut 7 on 17th July, five days after the strange sighting, three more cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Igor Volk boarded the space station. 7 key Inventions that Made the Modern World. [6] Jean-Loup Chrtien who flew on both Franco-Soviet and then later Franco-American space missions, serves as the inspiration for the French astronaut sent on the American mission to recover Salyut 7 in the film. Again the reports spoke of these strange glowing angel-like creatures seemingly being aware of the crew even smiling at them. [12], Specifications of the baseline 1982 Salyut 7 module, from Mir Hardware Heritage (1995, NASA RP1357):[1], (Launched crews. One ancient tale, in particular, is that of the fallen angels, who were cast down to Earth. Following this, Alexandrov spotted a fuel leak when looking through the aft porthole. Was their appearance a prophecy of the end of the world, and of terrible times to come? The most rational and scientific answer is that these cosmonauts experienced what they had suspected in the beginning, which is some sort of mass hallucination or madness brought on by the demanding stresses, fatigue, and the harsh conditions of space. Although there is no hard conclusive science to back it up any more than your standard UFO or alien theory, the Salyut 7 incident was chalked up by most to a mass-hallucination. It was aloft for eight years and ten months (a record not broken until Mir), during which time it was visited by 10 crews constituting six main expeditions and four secondary flights (including French and Indian cosmonauts). It began to slowly tumble. The Soyuz was fitted with a laser rangefinder and the crew took night vision goggles in case they had to dock on the night side. 27.03 - MU Plus+ Podcast - The Old Switcheroo, 27.04 - MU Plus+ Podcast - High-Res Healing, 29.06 - MU Podcast - Italian Disco Abductions, The Mysterious Men in Black and Their Equally Weird Cars, Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Are Being Developed for Biocomputers, Strange Accounts of Dwarf Aliens and their Apocalyptic Messages from Mexico, Unknown DNA Found in a Part of a Chilean Desert Which Looks Like Mars, Shamans, Psychedelics, and One Man's mystical Journey in the Amazon to Find a Miracle Cure. Critical provision like water were all frozen and any number of essential life-support systems might have been damaged, ground control werent even sure if it was safe for the crew to be on board. That plot possibly originates in a similar theory set forth by The Battle for Salyut: A Space Detective, a Russian documentary that was created by a media branch of Roskosmos. The event witnessed not by a single person, but six individuals all claiming to have seen the same thing. Getting into more fringe ideas is that these were actual, literal angels, and that their appearance heralded some sort of prophetic information, or that it was even a portent of the Biblical end of the world. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Hallucination or not? You may not republish the article in its entirety. These humanoid creatures had distinctive wings, and faces that housed a peaceful expression! They even projected overall feelings of peace and tranquillity among the crew members. If ever a genuine warning of such an event came to light, most would ignore it. We do not aim to prove nordisprove any of the theories, cases, or reports. The colour scheme was improved and a refrigerator was installed. Some consider these angels to be The Watchers, who perhaps feature most prominently in the Book of Enoch. Portree, Mir Hardware Heritage, pp. Furthermore, it is a prophet or a warning of something bad about to happen. Kosmos 1686 was launched on 27 September 1985, docking with the station on 2 October. After hard docking to the station and confirming the station's electrical system was dead, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh sampled the station atmosphere prior to opening the hatch. Due to the sub-zero temperature, the two cosmonauts donned wool hats and heavy winter coats. The author does not own the rights to this content. Incidentally, she achieved this eight days after docking with the Salyut 7, on 25th July 1984. To support experiments in cultivating plants in space, several different plant life support systems were installed: Oasis 1A, Vazon, Svetoblok, Magnetogravistat, Biogravistat and Fiton(Phyton)-3. Attempts to revive the station from the ground failed. For months in 1985, the 16-metre (50-foot) long station drifted, silent and out of control. After some time, there were two explosions due to the contraction and expansion of the apparatus. Unlikely admittedly not to mention the amount of time that has passed since seemingly without such an apocalyptic incident. The repair and reactivation of the station by Soyuz T-13 is the subject of the 2017 Russian historical drama Salyut 7. In the era of space flights, people began to notice strange things that were happening in space. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing. Salyut 7 was the most advanced and most comfortable space station of the Salyut series. In 1979, the Soviet Union was a superpower in search of a space station. 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