NASA-UAP-D7: Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973

GARRIOTT a reddish hue to it, even though it was well above the
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horizon. The light from the Sun was not passing close to
the Earth's limb at the time. We observed it for about
10 minutes prior to sunset. It was slowly rotating because
it had a variation in brightness with a 10-second period.
As I was saying, we observed it for about 10 minutes, until
we went into darkness, and it also followed us into darkness
about 5-seconds later. From the 5- to 10-second delay in
it's disappearance we surmised that it was not more than 30
to 50 nautical miles from our location. From it's original
position in the wardroom window, it did not move more than
10 or 20 degrees over the 10 minutes or so that we watched it.
It's orbit was very close to that of our own. We never saw
it on any - earlier or succeeding orbits and we'd be quite
interested in having its identification established. It's
all debriefed in terms of time on channel A, so the percise
timing and location can be picked up from there.
LOUSMA Okay, other visual sightings was the one out the wardroom
window. That sunrise or sunset which finally led us to the
RCS leak in the command module. It disappeared like
thousands and thousands of stars out there; all of them
different sizes and drifting along the X-axis. The one that
we already mentioned. The one right after insertion where
we saw the leak in the same manner of the RCS streaming towards
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