5 STRANGEST UFO Sightings by Astronauts

5 Strangest UFO Sightings by Astronauts

UFOs sighting credibility by regular people can be questionable . But what if the sightings come from those who have actually visited space….astronauts themselves. The interesting cases on this list are UFO reports given by those while outside of earths atmosphere. These are the 5 Strangest UFO Sightings By Astronauts.

5. Major Gordon Cooper

Part of the first manned space program in the United States - Project Mercury - Leroy Cooper Jr., first served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. By 1949, he was commissioned into the air force as a fighter pilot and was selected to be an astronaut in 1959.


4. Vladimir Kovalyonok’s Exploding UFO

While we may be most familiar with American astronauts, Russian cosmonauts also have their own UFO stories to share. And One of the strangest is shared by cosmonaut, Vladimir Kovalyonok.

3. James Lovell & Frank Borman

Project Gemini is NASA’s second human spaceflight program, right between Mercury and Apollo. The project began in 1961 and ended in 66. Headed by a two-man crew, there were approximately ten Gemini missions - flying at low Earth orbit, between 1965 to 1966.

2. Musa Manarov Films UFO

A former Colonel in the Soviet Air Force, Musa Manarov is considered to be a veteran of the Russian space program. He became a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978 and flew as a flight engineer at the Soyuz TM-4 until December 21, 1988. he is also known by another feat, as being the man with the longest continuous time spent in space, totaling to 176 days. He basically observed Earth from above and performed about 20 spacewalks during that time. Overall, his total space time amounts to 541 days.

1. Dr. Franklin Musgrave

While astronauts relaying their accounts of UFOs seen from space may seem far-fetched for some, at least one astronaut comes with an even more bizarre type of UFO sighting.