Did Salyut-6 Cosmonauts Witness a UAP Shaped by Their Era?

On June 18, 1981, Gosplan, the Ministry of Planning of the former USSR, convened an extraordinary meeting. In attendance were several ufologists, cosmonauts, and Soviet authorities, including military personnel. The meeting was moderated by none other than General Georgi Timofeevich Beregovoy, the head of the Soviet space program. By his side was Vladimir Kovalyonok, the cosmonaut who, alongside Viktor Savinikh, had spent 77 days in space aboard the Salyut-6 station earlier that same year, in 1981. During the meeting, the cosmonauts reportedly revealed that Salyut-6 had experienced contact with a spacecraft of unknown origin over a period of four days,…