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Thought some of you might want to see this-quite funny, too. And it
also has a 'moral' for us humans, too. From Prodigy's Space-and-
Flight list.
Jonathan
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> AIR FORCE DENIES STORIES OF UFO CRASH
>
> Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force
denounced
> as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the
desert,
> outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press
conference
> today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that "the object was,
in
> fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien
> spacecraft".
>
> The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at
nearby
> Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Valles Marineris
Daily
> Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object
which
> allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several
times
> before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden explosion of
alien
> gases". Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted
the
> Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report.
>
> General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of
a
> detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were
blatant
> fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the
> general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's
explanation
> of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-
worldly"
> nature of the crash debris. Conspiracy theorists have
condemned
> Rgrmrmy's statements as evidence of "an obvious government
> cover-up", pointing out that Mars has no swamps.