Countless times I have imagined, with a smile, a Martian sitting on his porch having a drink, as a beachball rolls-up, deflates, opens like a flower, and disgorges a wheeled contraption.
Gusev Crater (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as "false rumors" that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Saturday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft".
The story broke late Saturday night when a major stationed at nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Gusev Crater Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, and "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases."
And a few more paragraphs. Search for General Rgrmrmy for the several hundred pages with copies.
LOL