The Skylab 3 UFO Incident, 20 September 1973
Video from the UFO documentary, “Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1v5fGWUM0
From the NICAP website (web link below):
“The 1973 UFO Chronology – A World-Wide Wave:
Skylab III Crew Encounters Strange Object In Orbit
Sept. 20, 1973; ORBIT
On the 59th day of flight Skylab III, the three-man crew saw and photographed a strange red object (see photos). Not more than 30-50 nautical miles from them, Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma reported the object was brighter than any of the planets. Unexplained.”
http://www.nicap.org/waves/1973fullrep.htm
The NASA Skylab 3 mission:
Launch date: 28 July 1973 – Landing date: 25 September 1973.
Wikipedia article: Skylab:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_lab
The Skylab III UFO
(google.com photo)