Do Shadows Signify
Multiple Martian Probes?

(July 20, 1997)

Almost a week after photographic transmissions from Pathfinder showed a shadow crossing over Sojourner, unauthorized images finally became available for publication on the World Wide Web.

This shadow crossing over Sojourner can not be explained as a natural or meteorological Martian phenomenon. It has had NASA and NSA officials scrambling to discover who else might be on the Martian surface. One hypothesis is a secret Soviet involvement, another is extra- terrestrial.

On July 12, in an incident that NASA and Area 51 officials have named "The Independence Day Scenario" (after a scene in the popular movie in which a shadow crosses over the remains of the Apollo mission on the moon), a similar round shadow crossed over Sojourner.

Timed photographic images of the shadow crossing Sojourner lead to a total restriction on new images being released from Mars. NASA officials tried to distract the public with 3D and Virtual reality shows.

Claiming that Sojourner was trapped on the rock Yogi, NASA officials shutdown the release of photographs from Mars for the second time in the mission and scrambled for an explanation.

The most disturbing element of the transmissions is that the object casting the shadow literally seems to change direction as it crosses over Sojourner. NASA officials doubt that any natural or meteorological phenomenon could explain the Martian shadow.

"It was just too weird," said my unnamed source at NASA. "The way the shadow crossed over Sojourner indicated that Sojourner itself was under observation, almost as though another probe were photographing our mission."

Two explanations forwarded were that the Soviets had already established a secret Martian base for its own probe, and that an extraterrestrial civilization had established a base for studying earth and was now interested in Pathfinder.

The Soviet hypothesis proved weak from the beginning, and fell under increasing fire as their space station MIR developed more and more problems through the week. By July 14, new photographs indicated the involvement of non-human observers.