Soviet probe "Phobos-2" was shot down by a UFO

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two interplanetary stations
(Phobos 1 and Phobos 2) to study Mars and its satellites. The
mission turned into a bizarre UFO encounter when the Phobos
2 probe photographed an unidentified object on the surface of
Mars before losing contact with Earth forever. Soviet scientists
launched Phobos-1 on July 7, 1988. Unfortunately, he disappeared
en route two months later, reportedly due to a radio link error.
Although Phobos was launched five days later, it entered Mars
orbit safely in January 1989. Then his mission was to connect with
the stone moon of Mars Phobos and explore it with high-tech
equipment.
Everything went according to plan until March 28, 1989, when the
transmissions from the probe stopped arriving at the Soviet mission
control center. Later in the news it was reported that Phobos 2 was
unable to communicate with Earth as planned. After the completion
of the operation around the Martian moon Phobos the day before.
Marina Popovich, a former Soviet test pilot, said that a UFO was
photographed near Phobos. One of the two moons orbiting Mars,
at a press conference at the Soviet consulate in San Francisco in
1991, Boris Bolitsky, a scientific correspondent for Moscow Radio,
said that shortly before the loss of radio communication with
Phobos-2, many unusual images were sent to Earth
(https://bit.ly/3EcXKg5). Which are said to have shown remarkable
features. The message said that these objects were either on the
surface of Mars or in the lower atmosphere. They were 20 to 25
kilometers long and did not resemble any known geological formation.
They were said to be spindle-shaped and puzzling. The Russian TV
segment showed a strange image consisting of a thin shadow crossing
Mars. It was noted that the shadow cast on the surface of Mars was
different from the shadow of Phobos (https://bit.ly/3EkTzid).
Registered eighteen years earlier, Mariner 9.
The anomaly seen in the last photo submitted by Phobos 2 was a thin
ellipse with very sharp, non-rounded sides. According to some
experts, the shadow could be from something between the spacecraft
and Mars, as seen on the surface of the planet below. The long,
ellipsoidal object was 25 kilometers (roughly 15 miles) long,
according to the Russians. In addition, the Soviets did not anticipate
that the dark "thin ellipse" (https://bit.ly/3HjqB4n) could be the
shadow of the moon.