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Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

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266<strong>PSI</strong> <strong>Spies</strong>mysteries—such as the human-looking “face on Mars” andthe three symmetrical pyramids seen in NASA photographs.The 5,672-pound Mars Observer spent 11 months travelingto our neighboring planet and was scheduled to gointo orbit around Mars on August 24. The $980 million satellitewas to begin a two- to six-year mission to map theplanet in greater detail than ever before. It was to be thevanguard of several spacecraft from the United States,Russia, and Japan.But contact was broken and the craft hasn’t been heardfrom since. What happened?NASA officials initially theorized that the probe’s timingclock malfunctioned, making the onboard computer unableto process commands being radioed from the Jet PropulsionLab. But as the days passed and communication was neverresumed with the craft, hopes dimmed of ever knowing preciselywhat happened to the Mars Observer.But the Psi <strong>Spies</strong> knew.Less than a week after the Mars probe was lost, the Psi<strong>Spies</strong> reported that the fate of the Mars Observer was identicalto that of the Soviet Phobos II.In March 1989, the unmanned Soviet probe Phobos II waslost just as it too was about to move into orbit around Mars.Communication was lost as the Phobos II passed into the vicinityof Phobos, its namesake and one of the two Martianmoons. The Soviets issued a communiqué‚ suggesting thatthe craft had spun out of control due to an erroneous groundcommand.

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