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- On May 26th, our own Don Ecker was seen on Hard Copy, a
- television news program, discussing the recent visit to the
- United States by Marina Popovitch, a Russian Colonel who has
- knowledge of the ill-fated Phobos II space probe sent to Mars to
- send back information on the red planet and one of its moons,
- Phobos. According to Popovitch, the probe was destroyed by a long
- cigar-shaped object as it approached the orbiting satellite.
- Although this information is speculative and not confirmed, a
- recent article appearing in a science publication did confirm
- that a strange shadow was seen prior to Phobos II spinning out of
- control and breaking contact with earth. Obviously there is a
- lot yet to be learned about what really happened up there.
- ParaNet has received information that Richard C. Hoagland,
- the noted author of The Monuments of Mars - a book detailing a
- possible surface anomaly on the planet, that NASA has covertly
- launched the Mars observer spacecraft to speed to Mars to find
- out what is going on up there. Below is a reprint of that
- article. Our members are encouraged to provide any information
- that would substantiate or disavow these claims.
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- U.S. MARS MISSION?
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- [Extracted from SpaceNews, 5-13-91, a publication normally
- concerned with amateur radio topics.]
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- WWCR's radio broadcast "For The People" on 03-May-91 carried a
- report by Richard C. Hoagland, who believes the United States
- might have a spacecraft on its way to the planet Mars in order to
- investigate the "Cydonia Message" first discovered in photos
- taken by Viking 1 in 1976. Hoagland believes the Mars observer
- spacecraft was deployed by the Space Shuttle "Atlantis" on
- mission STS-38. According to official records, STS-38 carried an
- AFP-658 satellite into orbit. An AFP-658 satellite measures 65
- feet long and 15 feet in diameter. Hoagland believes this
- payload was actually a booster rocket for the Mars observer
- spacecraft which was later mated with the Mars observer
- spacecraft on a following STS mission.
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- Observers reported seeing Atlantis and its satellite deployment
- during mission STS-38. Some observers reported seeing both
- objects illuminated by a reddish glow, which has yet to be
- explained. On later orbits, the deployed satellite appeared to
- have vanished.
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- Hoagland feels that if such a spacecraft were on its way to Mars,
- it should be transmitting on X-band using pseudo-random noise
- encoding. Hoagland is trying to get in touch with scientists who
- have deep space X-band receive capabilities to see if signals can
- be detected coming from Mars. The reception of intelligent radio
- signals from Mars could indicate that either the US or the Soviet
- Union have Mars observers sending valuable data back to
- scientists on Earth.
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- Cydonia is a Martian desert located in the northern hemisphere of
- Mars. It contains a mile-long, 1500 foot humanoid "face" and a
- system of five-sided pyramids. Through images taken by Viking 1,
- the "face" was found to contain such detail as an eye socket,
- eyeball and pupil, nose and mouth. The facial proportions are
- those of early man.
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- An investigation into Cydonia could help to confirm these
- findings and shed light into their meaning.
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