Organization: The Portal System (TM)
From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Message-ID: <97288@cup.portal.com>
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal

Subject: Mars Probe, What Happened?

  I have a friend of mine trying to find out what happened to the
probe that we sent to Mars but no news has come back yet. Here is
what some other people are saying;...............................

            Life -on Mars theorists think NASA
         ruined satellite to hide proof of aliens.

Mercury News Wire Services.

  WASHINGTON  -- A group that says there may have been life on Mars
suggested Tuesday that NASA may have intentionally disabled the
Mars Observer so it could take no pictures of artificial structures
on that planet.

  Richard Hoagland, founder of The Mars Mission, which claims a city
once was built on Mars, said at a news conference that there was a
possibility a "rogue group" within NASA intentionally shut off the
agency's Mars Observer spacecraft so it could not make an orbital
survey of the city.

  Hoagland said he has been trying for almost 10 years to get NASA
to investigate what he believes is a picture of a face carved on the
surface of Mars and that scientists from the agency have dismissed his
research and that of colleagues in his organization.

  The  "face" depending on how supermarket tabloids look at it, re-
sembles Elvis, Sen. Edward Kennedy or Kermit the Frog.

  Hoagland suggested that NASA may want to suppress any information
about extraterrestrial life and that this leads the agency to ridcule
and "trivialize" his organization's research.

  The same claim was made by two dozen demonstrators who picketed the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena on Tuesday.

  "It's abosoultely the craziest thing I've ever heard," said Mars
Observer project manager Glenn Cunningham.  "There is absoulutely
no conspiracy.  Everthing about this mission is open to the public."

JW So what do you think?

John Winston.