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(4881)  Wed 10 Jun 92  7:02p
By: Daniel Fischer
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Re: The 'ufo' Seen By The Phobos-2 Spacecraft: What 'it' *really* Was
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From: dfi@spcklg.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer)
Date: 10 Jun 92 18:19:41 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
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Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,sci.astro,sci.skeptic

Thanks to the kindness of Dr. G. Neukum of the German Aerospace Research
Establishment's Dept. for Optoelectronics, I can herewith once and for ever
state that THE PHOBOS 2 SPACECRAFT DID NOT PHOTOGRAPH A UFO NEAR MARS! Neukum
showed me the sequence of raw images obtained by PHOBOS-2, and it becomes
obvious immediately that these images are full of blemishes, reflexes, bad
pixels and so on - the Russian CCD camera that was in use here was not a very
good one. The one frame in question which shows some bright line next to the
Martian moon Phobos is full of other bright lines, all exactly parallel to the
frame's rim - which would make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that these
are well-known artifacts produced by electronic interference, 'hot pixels' etc.
Of course, on the next frame of the sequence these 'structures' are gone. So
there's no need whatsoever to speculate about natural explanations like trails
of another Martian moon, an antenna in the FOV etc. - it's so much simpler...

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(5337)  Mon 15 Jun 92 12:15p
By: Tom Van Flandern
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From: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
Date: 15 Jun 92 04:42:42 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Message-ID: <1992Jun15.044242.28792@well.sf.ca.us>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,sci.astro,sci.skeptic


dfi@spcklg.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) writes:

> Thanks to the kindness of Dr. G. Neukum of the German Aerospace Research
> Establishment's Dept. for Optoelectronics, I can herewith once and for ever
> state that THE PHOBOS 2 SPACECRAFT DID NOT PHOTOGRAPH A UFO NEAR MARS!
> Neukum showed me the sequence of raw images obtained by PHOBOS-2, and it
> becomes obvious immediately that these images are full of blemishes,
> reflexes, bad pixels and so on - the Russian CCD camera that was in use
> here was not a very good one.  The one frame in question which shows some
> bright line next to the Martian moon Phobos is full of other bright lines,
> all exactly parallel to the frame's rim - which would make it clear beyond
> a shadow of a doubt that these are well-known artifacts produced by
> electronic interference, 'hot pixels' etc.  Of course, on the next frame of
> the sequence these 'structures' are gone.  So there's no need whatsoever to
> speculate about natural explanations like trails of another Martian moon,
> an antenna in the FOV etc. - it's so much simpler...

     I have seen only the picture that Popovich released; but unless it has
been doctored, your description does not do justice to it.  The photo does
contain many blemishes and streaks, but all are thin and faint, and most are
non-parallel.  Phobos fills the middle of the frame.  The mystery object lies
entirely below the image of Phobos, and has a length about the same as the
mean diameter of Phobos, and a width of about one-tenth as much.  It is
rectangular in shape, but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called
'linear', since it is at least a dozen pixels thick.  The rectangular shape
narrows at one end, and does not extend all the way to the border, as a CCD
artifact would be expected to do.  Moreover the ends are curved.  It also
appears that the object's brightness (reflectivity) is comparable to that of
Phobos, but not fully saturated, as for an artifact.

     Am I describing the same picture you saw?  -|Tom|-

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