Volume 2, Number 41
October 26, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
POLAROID PHOTOS OF UFO
SHOT IN SOUTH AFRICA
About a week ago, a photographer we'll call Derek
Kuiper arrived at an industrial park on the outskirts
of Eshowe, northern Natal, in South Africa, not far
from the Indian Ocean. After parking his car, Derek
took out his Polaroid camera and proceeded to
shoot color photos of the park for a client.
When the first photo emerged, Derek squinted at
it in puzzlement. The scene showed "a small light on
the horizon," one that had not been present when he
looked through the viewfinder.
"The second photo, which was taken very soon
afterward, shows a strange object in the sky," reported
Craig Thompson, who investigated the case. "The
object was never seen. It only showed up after the
photos were developed."
The photos can be viewed at the following URLs:
http://www.humanoidsoftware.com/ufo/ufo1-300.jpg and
http://www.humanoidsoftware.com/ufo/ufo1-600.jpg
Enlargements can be found at http://www
humanoidsoftware.com/ufo/ufo2-300.jpg and at
http:///www.humanoidsoftware.com/ufo/ufo2-600.jpg
Eshowe is 160 kilometers (100 miles) northeast
of Durban, South Africa. The town is also 352
kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Mount Ayliff,
where Mamlambo, the giant river monster, was
reported last May.
NASA ACKNOWLEDGES NO
CONTACT WITH PATHFINDER
On Friday, October 24, 1997, NASA told USA
Today that "The Mars Pathfinder's radio transmitter
is not communicating with Earth because its
internal temperatures have fallen to an estimated
58 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit scale), NASA
scientists believe. Communications were lost
October 7, and scientists can't tell if the rover
(Sojourner) is still roaming the planet. Controllers
say they haven't given up hope of keeping the
mission going." (See USA Today for October 24,
1997, page A-3)
The rover Sojourner is equipped with
radioisotope heaters fueled by 0.1 ounce of
plutonium-238. The nucleide generates one
watt of heat, which warms the heavily-insulated
interior of Sojourner's electronics box. The
insulation is a lightweight, porous silicate.
Presumably Sojourner is still following its
original early October upload commands and
is headed for Twin Peaks.
Pathfinder, however, may be a victim of the
Mars Jinx. Of the 22 Mars missions flown by the
USA and Russia since 1960, nine have ended in
outright failure. Indeed, no Mars exploration
mission has been an unqualified success since
the landing of Viking 2 on September 23, 1976.
In recent years, the two Russian Phobos
spacecraft vanished enroute to Mars in the late
1980s. The U.S. Mars Observer stopped
transmitting just before it entered orbit around
the planet on August 22, 1996. And Russia's
Mars 96 probe was destoryed when its rocket
blew up on the launch pad on November 11, 1996.
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