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SUBJECT: DON ECKER ON MARINA POPOVICH FILE: UFO2168
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From Don Ecker...
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Having attended the World UFO Congress in Tucson, Ar. for UFO
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Magazine, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Dr. Marina
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Popovich who was one of the Congress speakers. Dr. Popovich is a
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Soviet citizen who was here speaking on her UFO research in the
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Soviet Union. Marina Popovich, Ph.D., is a graduate of the
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University of Leningrad, graduated from the Military Flight School,
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is a retired Colonel from the Soviet Air Force, and set over 100
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aviation records of which 90 still stand unbroken. Dr. Popovich's
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former husband is General Paval Popovich, the first man to
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rendezvous with another space craft in orbit during the Vostok 4
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flight in August, 1962.
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Interviewing Dr. Popovich in Tucson, I learned of a number of
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incidents that had allegedly occurred during the 1989 Soviet Phobos
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2 probe, and upon returning to LA I contacted a producer that I
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know for the NBC television program "Hard Copy". We ended up doing
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a segment with Marina that detailed the admittedly fantastic story
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of Phobos 2, ( during a JOINT US-USSR-EUROPEAN space mission ) and
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what appeared to be a huge and artificial object between Mars and
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her moonlet Phobos, that may have either intentionally or
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unintentionally destroyed the probe Phobos 2. I can state that
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because even the mission control specialists at Glavkosmos claim
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that Phobos 2 was probably hit by something ( meteors and debris
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dust was ruled out according to the report in the UK publication
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NATURE made by the Soviets ) which caused the probe to become a
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"spinner" that later completely disappeared. The Soviets then
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released a photo that Phobos 2 took of a very long "ellipse"
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reflected off of Mars, but the last several photos of the "object"
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were never released by the Soviets. Marina then told me that this
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was a high topic of discussion between President George Bush and
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Secretary General Mikhil Gorbachev at the Malta Conference. She
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received the information from a source of hers in the Soviet
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Politburo. Still the photo showing this object remained in "limbo"
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with the Soviets refusing to release it, and NASA of course, not
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mentioning any of these events.
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On June 7th Marina returned to the Los Angeles area to be a
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featured speaker for the World Harmony Expo in Long Beach. The Hard
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Copy producer, Mr. Dean Vallas, Guy Kirkwood, a former US Air Force
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fighter pilot who had a UFO experience on duty and myself, met with
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Marina over drinks and discussed her last trip, ongoing events in
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the USSR, and then much to the surprise of us all, produced one of
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the photos from Phobos 2, showing the "object". According to her,
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once back in the USSR, she contacted several friends in Glavkosmos,
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and they gave her the print of this "thing". It shows an object off
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of the moonlet Phobos, that is approx. 25 kilometers long, approx.
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1 1/2 kilometers in dia., and is a cylindrical cigar shaped
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"craft?". Not being a photo analyst, I can only give my own
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impressions. However, I asked for a copy of the said photo, and
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upon receiving it, I intend to hand it over to some contacts at JPL
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for analysis.
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My feelings on the above? There is no doubt that a large degree of
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"high strangeness" is present in the above events. That of course
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is my own opinion. However until such time as NASA or JPL release
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the information that they may have, this will continue to be an
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interesting but apocryphal series of stories. I will state that I
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do feel there is a basis of fact in the above series of incidents,
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and will continue to investigate via my contacts to see what
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additional events can be verified.
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Don Ecker
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