UFO Related Articles in Australian (NSW) Newspapers (1989 To 2005)
UFO Related Articles in Australian (NSW) Newspapers (1989 To 2005)
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At midnight tonight Mars will be directly opposite the sun with earth located in
the middle. Earth will be 67.6 million km from Mars the closest in 13 years
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F1:1 frenzy
Mars makes close approach
AT midnight tonight, the
silly season officially begins
Mars begins its rush toward
earth about 10km a secOnd
and the UFO sightings will start
to mount. Luckily it only lasts
about a week.
The reality of the cosmic event.
which begins this week, is that
Mars comes the closest to Earth
it has been in more than 12 years
about 67.6 million km to
be precise.
The result is that the planet
will appear as a bright red disc
just above the horizon in the
eastern sky after 7pm_
But the only side effect of such
an encounter is the growing
number of UFO sightings
which, according to the experts..
have already begun_
Cathy. Clarke from UFO Research NSW claimed that the
cvills had been steadily growing
in the past couple of months.
-It has been very active over
the past three months
more
than normal," said Ms Clarke.
who takes calls from distressed
people A110 claim to have either
seen UFOs or had alien abduction experiences.
"l am sure that events like this
do have an impact. People are
not well versed about what goes
on cosmologically."
Envircprimen1
reporter
SIMON
BENSON
Stargazers would have already
noticed our closest planetary
neighbour growing in size for the
past few weeks.
Tonight is when Mars will be
exactly opposite the sun with the
Earth in between.
On June 22, Mars' elliptic orbit
wEll reach its closest point to
earth since 19813 when it mme to
57.5 million km
An even more spectacular view
of Mars will occur in August 2003.
Then, the planet will be closer to
the Earth than it has been for
about 6000 years adista.nce of
just 56 million krn.
Then. according to US re`
searchers, "they will really begin
to come out of the woodwork".
Previous close approaches by
Mars have been marked by a big
increa.se in -UFO sightings.
Robin SaLgell, vice-president
of the Society for Popular, Afr
tronomy. said: P
you're driving
in a car and see Mars above the
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