It happened in the summer of 1984. It was the 155th day of the flight of the crew of the Soviet space orbital station "Salyut-7". Suddenly the station was flooded with sparkling orange light. The light was so strong that for a time it blinded the astronauts, and they thought that there was a fire or an explosion on the ship. The commander of the spacecraft Oleg Atkov and cosmonauts Vladimir Soloviev and Leonid Kizim reported the incident to the mission control center. When the ability to see returned, the astronauts looked through the windows and reported that … "they see faces."
Seven angels hovered near the spaceship. They had human faces and bodies, and, moreover, they had wings. The angels accompanied Salyut-7 for 10 minutes, repeating the ship's maneuvers, and then disappeared. The cosmonauts could only admit that a temporary insanity had come over them. The group hallucination version was the only sensible explanation for what had happened.
Later, on the 167th day of the flight, three colleagues joined the cosmonauts: Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Once again, the space station was bathed in bright orange light, and the seven angels reappeared. "Each is the size of an airliner" - eyewitnesses commented. All six astronauts reported seeing “smiling angels”.
This episode could be attributed to the stress accumulated during a long space journey, if it was only about the first crew, this crew set a record - 237 days in space orbit. However, this explanation is not suitable for the second crew - the meeting with the angels took place shortly after their arrival at the station.