Labels:text | screenshot OCR: N E W S A Soviet 'Close Encounter' By Don Ecker - BCK OPERAT COCP 25.03.1989 T . FCP 03 KAHan 03 HPE BPEMR .14. 52. 17 926 3KC003. 0008 MARCH 25, 1989-Purportedly the above-top-secret infrared photo taken from the Soviet Phobos II probe, showing an object approaching the Martian moonlet. Estimates say the UFO) was approximately 1516 miles long. The above print of an infrared Director Don Ecker appeared on the photograph of the Martian moonlet Phobos accompanied by an alleged show with author Keith Thompson. craft Phobos ! suffered a malfunc- tion, which the Russians blamed on a UFO is being seen for the first time The story of this photo began in July of 1988, when the Soviet Union combination of both human and in a U.S. publication. launched two unmanned probes to computer failure. The ph ...