What happened
Several hours before re-entry the cosmonauts saw a cylinder-shaped object, which they assumed was another man-made satellite. UFO lists moved the sighting to "just as they entered the earth's atmosphere."
"cylinder-shaped"The witness's own shape words
Witnesses
Col. Pavel Belyayev and Lt. Col. Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2
Explanation
Explanation proposed
Another satellite (the crew's own assumption)
Sources
- Center for Inquirycdn.centerforinquiry.org
Oberg, *Skeptical Inquirer*, 1978