Image of ‘Alien Craft’ on Mars, NASA Cuts Mission!

NASA is pulling the plug on a mission to Mars; and, what’s more, the space agency has inexplicably announced a new plan to reduce its exploration of all other planets.
According to CBS DC: “Two scientists who were briefed on the 2013 NASA budget that will be released next week said the space agency is eliminating two proposed joint missions with Europeans to explore Mars in 2016 and 2018. NASA had agreed to pay $1.4 billion for those missions. Some Mars missions will continue, but the fate of future flights is unclear.”
This bombshell has many seeing red, so-to-speak. Nasa’s former science chief Edward Weiler, who until September was Nasa’s associate administrator for science, is among those expressing outrage. He is quoted at The Daily Mail as saying: “To me, it’s totally irrational and unjustified. We are the only country on this planet that has the demonstrated ability to land on another planet, namely Mars. It is a national prestige issue.”
What happened with NASA? Why the sudden 180-degree pivot? The official reason being given for this is that the budget for the space program is suddenly operating under new restrictions; and the money currently being spent on the space telescope programs already puts NASA over-budget.
However, there could be other reasons. What’s notable, I think, is that this sudden Mars cut-off comes shortly after a few different reports of aliens on the Red Planet. Check out this brief timeline of events:
In 1989, according to some UFO conspiracy theories, the Russian space probe Phobos II had been deliberately “downed” by extraterrestrials. Several photographs were published, which were made shortly before Phobos 2 failure, which seem to support this theory. Accusations have been made as recently as January of this year that allege there are additional Russian documents that contain information about Mars being inhabited.
Two years ago, President Barack Obama announced plans to put a man on Mars. Just last May, experts involved in the planned mission to Mars confirmed that they were still “pretty positive” that a trip to Red Planet could happen in our lifetime. Advanced spacesuit technology and other equipment was being put through the paces in a dry run in 2011. It looked like a manned mission to Mars was going to happen soon!

February 9 of this year, there were reports of an “alien craft” spotted on Mars. NASA was quick to say that the object was one of ours. Irene Klotz of Discovery News explained: “It’s alien technology — ours! NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped this image of Bonneville Crater, near where Spirit, one of NASA’s two roving geology stations, landed in January 2004. The scene was captured by the MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera.”
Is it ours, or is that cover-story? (Cue the ‘X-Files’ theme here.)
Within 2 days of that picture, NASA pulled the plug on the Mars mission.
There’s another, third possibility. The government could be preparing to leave it to private companies; to just let SpaceX or Virgin Galactic go to Mars. After all, they’re more likely to do it faster and cheaper; and people like Sir Richard Branson will probably make it more fun and commercially successful.
I’m pretty inclined to believe the third possibility. But how about you? Think NASA worried about stirring up trouble on Mars, or only avoiding trouble with the checkbook?

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