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information that she ‘smuggled’ out of the now ex-Soviet Union. Part of the information was what has been called “the first ever nd leaked account of an alien moth- : ership in the solar system”. sim ts) The last transmission from Phobos 2 was a photograph of a gigantic cylindrical spaceship— a huge, approx. 20 km long, 1.5 km diameter cigar-shaped 'moth- ership’, that was photographed on 25th March 1989 hanging or parked next to the Martian moon Phobos by the Soviet unmanned sonde Phobos 2. After that last frame was radio-transmitted back to Earth, the probe mysteri- Fuel ta ously disappeared; according to the Russians it was destroyed— possibly knocked out with an Diagram showing the Russian probe Phobos 2 Cylindrical equipment compartment Complement of scientific instruments Toroidal equipment compartment; - = * energy pulse | k Liquid propellant rocket engine The cigar-shaped craft in the 2 penultimate frame taken by Phobos 2 is apparently the object cast- RARE PHOFES GRAM LINDERGROUND CITY! ing the oblong shadow on the surface of Mars in the earlier photo. Another Phobos picture, released on Canadian TV, presents an Australian science writer Brian Crowley says that because of the _ infrared scan radiometer image of the Martian surface that showed convex catseye shadow—which, because the overhead solar incli- clearly defined rectangular areas. These were interconnected with nation prevented shadow-casting by Martian surface features, a latticework of perfectly straight channels, much resembling a implies a shadow thrown on the surface by something in orbit— _ city block. There were no corresponding surface features taken by beyond the orbit of Phobos 2 itself. The shadow—spindle- or regular cameras. This suggests the heat signature of what may be cigar-shaped—is inconsistent with any possible shadow cast by _a set of underground caverns and channels that are just too geo- the moon Phobos, which is an irregular potato shape. One needs _ metrically regular to be formed naturally. According to Dr John little imagination to postulate a giant, hovering cigar-shaped moth- _ Becklake of the London Science Museum, "The city-like pattern is er craft similar to those documented down the years by UFO 60 kilometers wide and could easily be mistaken for an aerial view investigators. of Los Angeles.” Canld thara he an undararannd 2 es ge og oe ing the oblong shadow on the surface of Mars in the earlier photo. Another Phobos picture, released on Canadian TV, presents an Australian science writer Brian Crowley says that because of the _ infrared scan radiometer image of the Martian surface that showed convex catseye shadow—which, because the overhead solar incli- clearly defined rectangular areas. These were interconnected with nation prevented shadow-casting by Martian surface features, a latticework of perfectly straight channels, much resembling a implies a shadow thrown on the surface by something in orbit— _ city block. There were no corresponding surface features taken by beyond the orbit of Phobos 2 itself. The shadow—spindle- or regular cameras. This suggests the heat signature of what may be cigar-shaped—is inconsistent with any possible shadow cast by _a set of underground caverns and channels that are just too geo- the moon Phobos, which is an irregular potato shape. One needs _ metrically regular to be formed naturally. According to Dr John little imagination to postulate a giant, hovering cigar-shaped moth- _ Becklake of the London Science Museum, "The city-like pattern is er craft similar to those documented down the years by UFO 60 kilometers wide and could easily be mistaken for an aerial view investigators. of Los Angeles.” = —_— =— Could there be an underground base on the small Martian moonlet? Is Phobos an engineered asteroid, super-heated and then, like a glass- blower blows glass, the moon is inflated? Just who, or what, is occu- pying Mars and its planets? The final picture taken by Phobos 2 before it was ‘shot out of orbit’ has never been publicly released. One report indicated that it was presented at a closed meeting with US and British officials. In the 19 October 1989 issue of Nature, Soviet scientists published a series of technical reports on the experiments Phobos 2 did manage to conduct: of the thirty-seven pages, a mere three paragraphs deal with the spacecraft's loss. The report confirms | that the spacecraft was spinning, | either because of a computer mal- function or because Phobos 2 was "impacted" by an unknown object . And so we see that it is not only NASA that is apparently involved in suppressing photographs and knowl- a S =4 edge of other planets, but the Russian A dramatic view of Phobos with Mars in the background. space program as well. 38¢NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1994 INFRARED PHOTOS OF AN UNDERGROUND CITY?