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Updated – Spirit Alive, But in “Critical” Condition. Mars Express Sees Water Ice and Ancient River Channel

 

NASA artist's concept of Spirit rover working in the Gusev crater on Mars. Image: NASA/JPL.
NASA artist's concept of Spirit rover working in the Gusev crater on Mars. Image: NASA/JPL.

Updated - January 24, 2004  Pasadena, California -

Spirit Communication Revived Briefly,
But Rover's In "Critical" Condition

On January 23, the flight team for NASA's Spirit rover finally received data from the silent robot in a communication session that began at 5:26 a.m. PST and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second. Spirit's response was provoked by a JPL command to Spirit at 5:02 PST via the NASA Deep Space Network antenna complex near Madrid, Spain, telling Spirit to begin transmitting about its problems.

 

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Oregon Man’s Experiences with High Strangeness

Milwaukee, Oregon south of Portland was location of November 2003 sighting by Michael McNeil.
Milwaukee, Oregon south of Portland was location of November 2003 sighting by Michael McNeil.

 January 24, 2004  Milwaukee, Oregon - 2004 has begun with some spectacular sightings of unidentified sky objects over the Napoleon, Michigan, region not far from where an unusually large ice circle was found in December. See: Earthfiles 011604. The more I investigated the ice circle, the more I learned from local residents about mysterious lights and unidentified flying objects haunting the area for years. In my recent Earthfiles.com, Dreamland and Coast to Coast AM radio news reports, I have presented some of those eyewitnesses.

 

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Are Military Jets Chasing UFOs in Bloomington, Indiana?

Bloomington, Indiana, has Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center to the southwest and the U. S. Army's Camp Attebury to the northeast.
Bloomington, Indiana, has Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center to the southwest and the U. S. Army's Camp Attebury to the northeast.

 

January 24, 2004  Bloomington, Indiana - John Tosti is 34-years-old, has lived in Bloomington, Indiana for the past twenty-seven years and at his current Bloomington address for the past decade. Over the years, he has seen several strange objects in the sky, but nothing as "weird" as what he and his family saw around 8 p.m. on January 23, 2004, right from their backyard.

 

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Spirit Rover’s First Martian Soil Analysis Has Surprises

This image shows the patch of soil scientists examined at Gusev Crater just after Spirit rolled off the Columbia Memorial lander. Image credit: NASA/JPL.
This image shows the patch of soil scientists examined at Gusev Crater just after Spirit rolled off the Columbia Memorial lander. Image credit: NASA/JPL.

January 21, 2004 Pasadena, California - Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena yesterday were puzzled about the first soil examined by the Spirit rover in its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer as it begins its exploration of the Martian Gusev crater.

 

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Part 8 – UFO Crash/Retrievals, Status Report VII by Len Stringfield

"The crashed UFO object 'looked like a whale.'"

To be more computer-upload-friendly, the reprints will be divided into parts. Here begins Part 8 of Status Report VII, from February 1994.

The following continues the July 1993 Ohio UFO Notebook article about an alleged Clovis, New Mexico UFO crash site in the late 1950s by William Jones, Director, Mid-Ohio Research Associates (M.O.R.A.) that was begun in Earthfiles, Part 7.

"M.O.R.A. Follow-Up Data from Ohio UFO Notebook July 1993 article by William Jones

According to Jake, he and his two friends had gotten into the area without being noticed. There were between 40 and 50 people in the area, some taking notes and measurements. Fire trucks, pickup trucks, wreckers, and jeeps were parked near the road they came in on. Several 'four-by' covered trucks were parked near the object which was located down in a river bed area. The object was sitting on the surface of the ground. It appeared that the object had come down, skipping over the surface of the ground before sliding down into the river bed. A telephone pole, a fence row, and a number of bushes and small trees had been knocked down.

 

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Martian Soil “Clumpy” – Electrostatic Binding of Dust?

"Scientists liken the alien soil to clumpy cocoa powder."

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

January 19, 2004  Pasadena, California - The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit deployed its robotic arm early Friday morning, January 16, 2004, to use its microscopic imager, one of four geological instruments located on the arm. The instrument will help scientists analyze and understand Martian rocks and soils by taking very high resolution, close-up images. The first surprise was the clumpy nature of the red soil and some planetary geologists wonder if an electrostatic binding of the dust could be at work.

 

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Earthfiles and Radio Audience Feedback About Anomalous Sky Objects

January 19, 2004  Jamison, Pennsylvania - The following are a selection of many e-mails that have come from radio listeners and Earthfiles.com readers since I reported about highly strange aerial objects in Napoleon, fifteen miles east of Horton, on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and at Earthfiles.com on the night of January 16-17, 2004.

 

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Huge Moving “Triangle of Stars” Over Alberta, Canada

Frame from computer animation of huge, moving "triangle of stars" observed in February 2003, over the Grande Prairie region of northern Alberta, Canada. Image based on eyewitness drawings © 2003 by Adgraphics.
Frame from computer animation of huge, moving "triangle of stars" observed in February 2003, over the Grande Prairie region of northern Alberta, Canada. Image based on eyewitness drawings © 2003 by Adgraphics.

January 18, 2004  Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada - A little after 7 p.m. MT in February 2003, on a very clear night outside Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, two grade school friends were sledding in a back yard until they saw a big triangular piece of the starry sky move. Neither wants their names to be used in this report, but I was able to interview now-11-year-old, "Sally," who is still in grade school with an interest in art and music. Her neighbor is a year older.

 

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High Strangeness in the Napoleon, Michigan Sky

Napoleon, Michigan, is fifteen miles east of Horton where the bright light was seen on December 18, 2003, prior to the discovery of an ice circle at Mud Lake on December 28, 2003. Several Napoleon residents have seen highly strange aerial craft in January 2004.
Napoleon, Michigan, is fifteen miles east of Horton where the bright light was seen on December 18, 2003, prior to the discovery of an ice circle at Mud Lake on December 28, 2003. Several Napoleon residents have seen highly strange aerial craft in January 2004.

January 16, 2004  Napoleon, Michigan – Since the middle of December, residents of Horton and Napoleon, Michigan, west of Ann Arbor, have seen some very strange lights and objects in the sky. Another mystery was a large, nearly perfectly round ice circle discovered on December 28th at Mud Lake near Horton. The ice circle was probably created by Nature. But the sky objects are highly strange, returning to the same places, and changing shape in front of at least half a dozen people. One of the shapes included hawk-like wings.Click for report.