As the trending stories kept rolling, people on Earth were stunned by all sorts of blurry, pixelated photographs of Mars.
The unidentified flying object (Bixi) mistaken for a UFO, along with the enormous human-face statue on Mars that had already been hyped several times, both made the news headlines that day.
"Extraterrestrial civilizations really exist?"
"What exactly is the United Nations hiding?"
"We need to know the truth!"
Netizens from around the world flooded the comment sections, while the public telephone numbers of the major space agencies were overwhelmed with calls, leaving every line busy.
Even a leading space agency like NASA was surrounded by arriving reporters, with onlookers holding banners and signs everywhere.
With no other choice, they hastily held a brief press conference to debunk the photographs of an extraterrestrial civilization taken on Mars.
But the sensation this time was too great, and the onlookers clearly were not buying it.
After several more hours of stalemate, even more explosive information leaked from within NASA.
Wasn't that why people said even the strongest fortress could be breached from within?
A NASA employee responsible for information security at the base used rocket launch records from the past six months, together with supply delivery records and the times various astronauts had lost contact, to calculate the number of landings on the near side of the moon, and from there deduced the various countries' plans to explore Second Home.
More damaging still, after obtaining this firsthand information, the NASA employee had not spread it around, but had quietly held it in for several months. Taking advantage of this discovery of an extraterrestrial civilization on Mars, the employee released all the information at once through major media outlets.
The leaked intelligence sold for an extremely high price, while adding another explosive revelation to