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in October 1988 the Soviet Union sends

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two unmanned spacecraft Phobos one and

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two named for one of the Martian moons

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to study the red planet

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Phobos 1 is lost while on its way to

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Mars but Phobos 2 arrives to orbit Mars

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and immediately sends images back to

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Earth on March 1st 1989 pictures of this

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unusual grid are received the grid here

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in the upper right is shot both in the

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optical range and in the infrared range

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later they are merged into this

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composite overlay

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on March 26th Phobos 2 sends these

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images to Earth taken just south of the

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Equator

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an unexplained elliptical shape appears

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this Shadow actually appeared all of a

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sudden why am I calling it The Shadow

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because you can see things through it

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this elliptical Shadow then is it in

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Mars atmosphere or on the planet's

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surface one thing is for sure this

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something is not positioned horizontally

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well to me it looks like a rocket taking

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off from the surface of Mars and leaving

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the trail behind

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well if you'd want to fantasize it could

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be interpreted that way too now we think

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we ought to look at the real

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circumstances that have caused that

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trail even though they haven't yet been

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fully clarified that's more likely to be

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the shadow of some object since surface

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elements can be seen through it

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how long will it take to process all of

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the information to get more or less

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objective scientific results rather than

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fantastic ones

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come back in a week one week later no

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Tales are given then unexpectedly this

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report last year the Soviets launched

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two spacecraft to the planet both named

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after the Martian Moon Phobos their

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mission was to photograph Mars and land

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probes on its Moon one was accidentally

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Switched Off by a mission operator

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the second reached Mars and transmitted

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pictures that are still puzzling Soviet

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scientists as it swung over the equator

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it took pictures from a height of six

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thousand kilometers

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this is an infrared photograph it shows

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differences in temperature the dark

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patches are colder

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this section covers 600 kilometers it

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shows objects down to the size of two

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kilometers it's the most detailed

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infrared picture of the planet's surface

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I have some very very thin lines on the

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surface of Mars in the infrared which

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means heat and it's not visible it's

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heat you can see it's replaced we want

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to do these have a resolution these have

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a width I would guess have three or four

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kilometers wide you know that's a

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question what it is I certainly don't

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know and the Russians aren't telling us

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scientists are also puzzled by this

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by both Optical and heat-seeking cameras

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they convinced it's a shadow because

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they can see objects on the surface

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beneath but a shadow of what

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finally there's the mystery of the

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vanishing spacecraft the Russians have

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yet to release the last picture

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transmitted by Phobos before it lost

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contact with ground control but the

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Russians have said that it shows an

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object coming towards the spacecraft an

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object which in their words should not

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have been there

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the spacecraft was circling bars coming

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into the same orbit as the moons of Mars

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and the last picture about they got

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halfway through it and they saw

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something there which shouldn't be there

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Professor capitza makes the job to

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dismantling people

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British scientists will be able to judge

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for themselves when the Soviets bring

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their pictures to a conference at Exeter

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next month because of course there must

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be a sensible explanation mustn't there

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the Russians do not bring any pictures

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to the Exeter conference how does the

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Russian space agency explain the

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spacecraft's destruction or

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disappearance it does take a minimum of

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precision criteria to obtain on the

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image these spots which some would like

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to call flying saucers that appeared

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within the visual field of the infrared

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range

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it must be pointed out that the Flying

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Saucer version is not ours

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actually at First we were saying that

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there was no Flying Saucer

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that surely all that we saw could be

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explained in understandable natural and

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physical terms

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one possibility could easily be that a

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small meteorite a small bit of rock was

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in the same orbit the four of us had hit

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it in an exclusive interview conducted

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in October 1990 in Moscow Professor Lev

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muken of the Soviet space Research

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Institute discredits the meteorite

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Theory there were attempts to

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hypothesize that there had been a

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collision between the space probe which

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was then orbiting Mars in alignment with

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the orbit of Mars movelet and strands of

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dust surrounding the moon Phobos itself

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but some fairly accurate computations

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made by several organizations and by our

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Institute as well have shown that this

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assumption is totally baseless if not

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meteorite or debris then what could

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possibly explain the mishap along silent

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spiders

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then in December 1991 Marina Popovich

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former Cosmonaut trainee and retired Air

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Force Colonel holds a surprise press

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conference at the Russian Consulate in

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she unearths the mysterious last

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photograph taken by Phobos

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there is a strange shape in the

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foreground

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Colonel Popovich refers to this as an

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unidentified flying object

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a UFO the object is juxtaposed against

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what appears to be the planet's tiny

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moonlit Phobos for which the craft is

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named but how is the mysterious Shadow

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explained

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the Russians say it is a shadow of some

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object on or just above the Martian

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upon further examination in April 1992

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when all of the related photographs are

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compared side by side

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scientists reached the conclusion that

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the shadow is actually moving if Mars

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was indeed the site of a space-based in

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Antiquity could the failure of these

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Soviet space missions be attributed to

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some sort of alien intervention

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could the ancient space have been

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reactivated

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I'm Dr James Harder and I first saw this

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picture last week when Marina showed it

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to a conference

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and at a press conference the Soviet

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Embassy she just she released this for

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the first time essentially to the Press

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it's the third picture taken by the

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Martian probe and Phobos II this was the

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last picture taken there was an object

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that appears to be in the vicinity of

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Phobos but it could be of course smaller

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and much closer

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after having made it through all of the

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high G forces of launch having made it

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through a Year's worth of time and space

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that it should suddenly disappear

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or at least disappear from radio contact

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after it took this rather interesting

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photograph

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what it is for you

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well all we can say is that it's an

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unknown object

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that it's very likely to be real

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exhaust all of the other possibilities

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but it's some kind of a mistake Harvard

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it's some kind of a transmission error

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or but it's a hoax none of those things

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do you know that there are other

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pictures of Mars where you can see a

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very long Shadow a shadow of probably 20

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kilometers long I've heard of The Shadow

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but of course from what you say this

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object could have left that kind of a

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shadow uh

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this the length of this object if it's

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at the same distance as Phobos

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but it doesn't have an explanation of

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any natural sort

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it's very important I think it's

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if it's not a hoax and I don't think it

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it is a hoax because it came from the

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highest people in the Soviet space

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agency who gave it to Marina

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it doesn't look like it's anything it

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could be a transmission error or an

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error in the photographic technique

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and if it's not a hoax and it's not a

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mistake it's definitely unknown

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this is the Mars

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the planet Mars

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you can see your Phobos the satellite of

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that picture was done by station four

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bus one

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thinking that some bad commands were

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he had to approach the Mars

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and very thin leather beam to raise up a

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close to the Mars and here we can see a

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okay and this and this picture is one of

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the last pictures we can see

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here strange object

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the one of the pictures shown a big

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and right after three days this picture

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were received the signals connection

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one of the ideas it was maybe also there

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was a bad command or some kind of

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maybe it was in connection with

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aesthetic electricity

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length of this object this cigar-shaped

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we had a program that was received from

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Japan where on the support of the Moon

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Japanese scientists feel the very huge

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flying object also 20 kilometers in

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diameter

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in October 1988 the Soviet Union sent

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two spacecraft to investigate Mars name

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four bus one and two after one of Mars

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although launched by the Soviets

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the mission actually represented an

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international effort

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of an unprecedented scale

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with more than 13 European countries

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participating officially

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and British and American scientists

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participating personally

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though with their government's knowledge

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Phobos one was somehow lost on its way

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in September 1988.

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but 4 Boss 2 did make it to Mars and

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operate it perfectly sending back to

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Earth images from the surface of Mars

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on March 1 1989 these pictures of a

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highly strange grid were received the

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grid here in the upper right was shot

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both in the optical and in infrared

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later they were merged into this

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and here is what this amazing grid looks

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like once the optical image is enlarged

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then for the next 24 days no other

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pictures were released

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on March 26 Volvos 2 sent back images

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taken just south of the Martian equator

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aligned with this long linear strip

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the Soviets announced sudden problems in

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March 30 the Soviet evening TV news

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tonight we start out with a scoop a

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sensational item news of a report by

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Western observers that an accident

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catastrophe has happened to the Soviet

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space probe Phobos which is part of an

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international program in which some 40

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countries participate

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this here represents a unique phenomenon

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before now no one had ever taken such

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detailed infrared pictures of Mars what

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part of the planet this one here

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approximately more or less in this area

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here Madrid and then there is a very

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clearly outlined strip starting here and

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Landing here a strip about 20 to 25

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kilometers wide which is visible in both

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the optical and infrared range these are

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shots taken on one and the same day

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this Shadow actually appeared all of a

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sudden

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why am I calling it The Shadow because

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you can see things through it

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so this is an object not suspended about

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the surface but actually located on the

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surface itself

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yes of course

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this elliptical Shadow then is it in

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Mars atmosphere or on the planet's

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surface

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or is it difficult to tell

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one thing is for sure this something is

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not positioned horizontally

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well to me it looks like a rocket taking

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off from the surface of Mars and leaving

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a trail behind

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what do you think about that

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well if you'd want to fantasize it could

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be interpreted that way too now we think

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we ought to look at the real

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circumstances that have caused that

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trail even though they haven't yet been

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fully clarified that's more likely to be

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the shadow of some object since surface

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how long will it take to process all of

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the information to get more or less

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objective scientific results rather than

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fantastic ones

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come back in a week

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but one week later no details

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three weeks later at a press conference

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a scientist of the Soviet space Research

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Institute offers this curious

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it does take a minimum of precision

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criteria to obtain on the image these

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spots

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which some would like to call flying

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saucers

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that appeared within the visual field of

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the infrared range

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it must be pointed out that the Flying

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Saucer version is not ours

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we'd have wanted it to all be that way

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actually at First we were saying that

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there was no Flying Saucer that surely

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all that we saw could be explained in

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understandable natural and physical

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five months later in September 1989

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British Channel 4 runs a new spec Focus

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Mission to Mars

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last year the Soviets launched two

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spacecraft to the planet both named

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after the Martian Moon Phobos their

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mission was to photograph Mars and land

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probes on its Moon one was accidentally

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Switched Off by a mission operator

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but the second reached Mars and

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transmitted pictures that are still

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puzzling Soviet scientists as it swung

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over the equator it took pictures from a

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height of 6 000 kilometers

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this is an infrared photograph it shows

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differences in temperature the dark

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patches are colder

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this section covers 600 kilometers it

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shows objects down to the size of two

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kilometers it's the most detailed

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infrared picture of the planet's surface

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you have some very very thin lines on

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the surface of Mars in the infrared

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which means heat and it's not visible

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it's heat you can see it through Cloud

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if you want to do these have a

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resolution these have a width I would

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guess it's three or four kilometers wide

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you know that's a question of what it is

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I certainly don't know and the Russians

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aren't telling us scientists are also

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puzzled by this Shadow pictured on the

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surface of Mars by both Optical and

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heat-seeking cameras they convince it's

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a shadow because they can see objects on

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the surface beneath but a shadow of what

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finally there's the mystery of the

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vanishing spacecraft the Russians have

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yet to release the last picture

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transmitted by Phobos before it lost

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contact with ground control but the

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Russians have said that it shows an

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object coming towards the spacecraft an

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object which in their words should not

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have been there

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the spacecraft recycling bars coming

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into the same orbit as the moons of Mars

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and the last picture about Digger

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halfway through it and they saw

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something there which shouldn't be there

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Professor capitzo makes the joke for

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this Martian people

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British scientists will be able to judge

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for themselves when the Soviets bring

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their pictures to a conference at Exeter

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next month because of course there must

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be a sensible explanation mustn't they

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but the Russians brought no pictures to

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Exeter so what about the spacecraft

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disappearance

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one possibility could easily be that the

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small meteorite a small bit of rock it

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was in the same orbit if four of us have

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hit it but in an exclusive interview

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with us in October 1990 Moscow Professor

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Les mukin of the Soviet space Research

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there were attempts to hypothesize that

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there had been a collision between the

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space probe

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which was then orbiting Mars in

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alignment with the orbit or more smooth

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and strands of dust surrounding the moon

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but some fairly accurate computations

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made by several organizations

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and by our Institute as well have shown

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if not dust then what

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a long spell of Silence followed until

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in December 1991 former Cosmonaut

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trainee and retired Soviet Air Force

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Colonel Marina Popovich held a surprise

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press conference at the Russian concert

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in San Francisco

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where she showed off this Photograph

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reportedly taken by one of the full bus

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craft

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[Music]

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it shows in the foreground a strange

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shape which Marina Popovich called an

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unidentified flying object

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that we refer to as a UFO clearly set

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off against what appears to be Mars

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moonlit Phobos in the background

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so what about the mysterious shadow

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while the Russians said it turned up all

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of a sudden

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that it was something that shouldn't

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have been there

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a shadow of some object above the

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but that's not all

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in April 1992 As We examined these other

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images all taken within minutes from

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each other we discovered that the shadow

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so the mystery remains

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what caused the spacecraft to

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destabilize

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was it a malfunction or was there an

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outside course perhaps an impact

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the question that arises is indeed a

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simple one was the spacecraft for Boost

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2 hit by something that put it out of

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commission

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[Music]

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the circumstances in which four verse 2

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was lost suggests that someone might be

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back on Mars someone ready to knock out

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what to them is an alien spacecraft in

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1989 the sudden disappearance of Phobos

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2 had ominous overtones now Russian

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officials close to the Space Program

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feel free to offer their own theories

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about the satellite's demise

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Phobos 2 was supposed to enter the

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Martian sky and descend to an altitude a

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15 meters Phobos 2 was sending back

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pictures as usual when suddenly the last

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picture from Phobos arrived

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and that picture you could see Phobos

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the Martian Moon and an oblong-shaped

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object

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Mars and then Phobos 2 disappeared

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scientists from around the world have

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studied the last photograph transmitted

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by Phobos II The Oblong image shown here

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has been estimated to be at least 25

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kilometers in length nearly 13 miles

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long many believe that Phobos 2

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photographed an immense alien craft now

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nearly four years after The

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Disappearance of Phobos 2 this footage

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shot by a Japanese astronomer may help

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explain the mystery the footage shows a

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moving object casting a shadow on our

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own Moon's lunar surface it appears here

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on American television for the first

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time

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we have not rejected the possibility

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that a spacecraft took Phobos 2. there

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is footage of a craft of a great length

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that flew over the Leonard's surface at

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the speed of over 200 kilometers per

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second can you imagine that a huge space

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station moving that fast I believe this

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is an immense UFO Mothership which may

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have taken photos too it's frightening

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in fact the day before Phobos 2 was

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launched the senior designer of the

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project received a phone call

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a Steely male voice said don't plunge

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for Boss 2 or it will be destroyed by a

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large saucer we all got a cold Chill

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from this morning

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could there be an immense UFO traveling

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through our solar system ready to

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destroy any and all satellites that get

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too close for comfort it is indeed a