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‘PIPELINES' ON EUROPA AND UFOs OVER MIR & BAIKONUR by Rubén Sobrino Physical Engineering, stated that Europa, smallest of Jupiter's four main satellites, was “inhabited by an ancient and technologically advanced civilisation". Through the use of a high-powered com- puter and sophisticated photographic analy- sis technology, the scientist managed to obtain a close-up with a record-breaking resolution of nine kilometres from the moon's surface, enabling him to make out the contours of what he calls pipelines, tun- nels and spherical domes. According to Rodionov, the photo clearly shows that the lines, considered mere fissures by the sci- entific community, actually cross over each other like a knot of expressways. Prof. Rodionov says that the variety of "pipelines" and "tunnels", having a diame- ter similar to the "Chunnel" that crosses the English Channel, is surprising. "There are 100-kilometre segments, as well as other pipelines having immense junctures or ori- fices between them." Anyone may join the controversy, since the image in which Rodionov claims to see the aforementioned pipelines and tunnels is available to anyone having Internet access and a simple photo-retouching program capable of analysing it. This photo, which is available from the NASA/JPL net server that provides images for the Galileo mis- sion, portrays a number of lines (fissures, in fact) which cross each other, but never at different elevations as Rodionov claims. The fissures, having a width of 20 to 40 kilometres and a length of thousands of kilometres, are believed to be attributable to a period of global expansion on Europa caused by volcanic eruptions or geysers under its frosty surface, creating a series of fractures on the ice crust. member of SEIP-La Coruiia, recently contributed this article to the magazine Inexplicata. Sobrino has his own website, Expedientes Secretos, and is webmaster for Spain's highly pop- ular Mundo Misterioso. S panish ufologist Rubén Sobrino, a O; 23 December 1998, another news item pertaining to the UFO phenome- non appeared in a number of papers. As with the preceding one, it also came from Moscow, but in this event the source was cosmonaut Alexandr Baladin. Baladin stated that "flying saucers" have come into close proximity to the Mir space station as well as the Baikonur Cosmodrome, adding that sufficient evi- dence exists to warrant a scientific study of the phenomenon and that it is time that world governments officially acknowl- edged the UFO phenomenon's existence. "General Vladimir Ivanov, former com- mander of Russia's Military Space Forces, recalls that three objects flew at a consider- able altitude over the Baikonur Cosmodrome and were picked up on radar. There is no way they could have been air- planes," insisted the cosmonaut. Baladin also disclosed at Brazil's First International Ufology Forum that he (along with fellow cosmonaut Musa Manarov) had been the protagonist of a disturbing O; 16 January of this year, almost all the newspapers in our country echoed the same remarkable news item from Moscow, carried by the prestigious EFE news agency. The agency disclosed certain controver- sial statements made by Russian astro- physicist Boris Rodionov to Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, in which he claimed to have proof of the existence of "a highly developed extraterrestrial civilisa- tion on one of the satellites of the planet Jupiter". The astrophysicist also claimed that the enigmatic "flying saucer phenome- non, which has stimulated popular imagi- nation worldwide, could well be outriders for this civilisation". Wielding a vast amount of scientific data and photographs transmitted by NASA's Galileo probe, Rodionov, a tenured professor of microphysics and cosmophysics at the State Institute of APRIL — MAY 2000 NEXUS 69