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302 ¢ Between 2132 and 2370 according to one clue given to Daniel, ¢ Between 2090 and 2374 according to a second clue, ¢ Between 2060 and 2370 for the crucial “time, times & half time.” “Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world would end in the year 2060,” the BBC announced. Not exactly, perhaps— but as the table of zodiacal ages in an earlier chapter shows, he was not far off the mark in two of his “not earlier than” dates: 2060 and 2090. The original cherished document of the great Englishman is now kept in the Department of Manuscripts and Archives of the Jewish National and University Library—in Jerusa- lem! A coincidence? It was in my 1990 book Genesis Revisited that the “Phobos Incident”—a hushed-up event—was first publicly revealed. It concerned the loss, in 1989, of a Soviet spacecraft sent to ex- plore Mars and its possibly hollow moonlet called Phobos. In fact, not one but two Soviet spacecraft were lost. Named Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 to indicate their purpose—to probe Mars’ moonlet Phobos—they were launched in 1988, to reach Mars in 1989. Though a Soviet project, it was sup- ported by NASA and European agencies. Phobos J just van- ished—no details or explanation were ever publicly given. Phobos 2 did make it to Mars, and started to send back pho- tographs taken by two cameras—a regular one and an infra- red one. Amazingly or alarmingly, they included pictures of the shadow of a cigar-shaped object flying in the planet’s skies between the Soviet craft and the surface of Mars (Fig. 131 by the two cameras). The Soviet mission chiefs described the object that cast the shadow as “something which some may call a flying saucer.” Immediately, the spacecraft was di- rected to shift from Mars orbit to approach the moonlet and, from a distance of 50 yards, bombard it with laser beams. THE END OF DAYS