SPACEY THEORIES BEHIND MARS POLAR LANDER DISASTER

SPACEY THEORIES BEHIND MARS POLAR LANDER DISASTER

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- If you think the recent Mars Polar Lander disaster was spacey, you're not alone. According to "UFO Magazine" research director Don Ecker, the UFO community is currently debating several theories as to what really happened to the out-of-contact Polar Lander. Ecker himself predicted problems with the Polar Lander two months ago and admits some UFOlogists think the probe was sabotaged by extraterrestrials who have a secret base on Mars. Others think NASA invented the trouble to hide some type of top secret project which is taking place on Mars. Still another theory is the "NASA is Incompetent Theory" which suggests NASA and its engineers don't know what the heck they're doing. This theory has been gaining ground ever since the Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared earlier this year. Ecker points out that since 1961, the U.S., Russia and Japan have attempted 31 Mars missions and all but eight mysteriously experienced some kind of failure.