may 31, 1981 - May 1981
Salyut-6 space station, elliptical sighting (Grok rendering)
Dolan: "in orbit over Southern Africa, Vladimir Kovalyonok had just finished exercising
when he looked through a porthole. Astonished, he saw a rotating, elliptical object,
flying along with the space station. Lacking all reference points in space, he could not
determine either its distance or its size. He called his partner Viktor Savinykh to observe,
who was about to photograph it when the object exploded in 'golden light'"
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