The Real Mission to Mars "Cydonia campaign rally" calls for disclosure of Mars photos Hoagland, others support existence of Red Planet's "structures" by Wiggz, AlienZoo prohibitor of dullness - 05/10/2000 The Real Mission to Mars, held Sunday, May 7, at Scottsdale Center for the Arts, was a tour de force performance for Mars researcher Richard Hoagland. For eight hours, Hoagland divided his time between asserting the existence of artificial structures on Mars and censuring NASA for not devoting more of its efforts to exploring the Red Planet’s surface. Hoagland in Scottsdale In the first half of the day-long program, titled "New Imaging Surprises from Cydonia," Hoagland pored over Mars Orbiter Camera images released by Malin Space Science Systems in early April. After an intermission, the program titled "The Secrets of a Major Martian Cover-Up!" explored NASA’s treatment of the "face" on Mars (located in the Cydonia region), and the overall muddled state of space-sciences research. Of the two, the evening program held a greater sense of a call to action for revealing information on the Mars face. Organized into a panel discussion, the program focused on Dr. Tom Van Flandern, the former chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the U.S Naval Observatory. In a telephone call piped into the auditorium’s sound system, Van Flandern devoted his introductory remarks to explaining his researched conclusion that a hominid structure exists on Mars. Van Flandern based his presentation on the so-called "exploded planet theory" of Mars. According to this view, Mars was once another planet’s moon; when that planet exploded 3.2 million years ago, it left a 25-mile-high pile of debris on one side of Mars’s surface. The weight of the Red Planet’s new debris pushed it into unstable orbit, and consequently its pole shifted 90 degrees. Before the pole shifted to its present location Van Flandern noted, the "face" on Mars was originally placed on the planet’s original equator, where it could be seen most easily. The shift 3.2 million years ago marked the end of a "builder civilization"; the gravitational pull of the shift exerted on the "face" distorted it into a disrupted slant. The oldest skeletal remains of the human species, Van Flandern noted, date back to this time period. "As far as we can tell, we have one civilization ending simultaneously with the beginning of another on this planet," he said. "This leads to many possibilities. But one of the more interesting ones – although it’s highly speculative – is that, in some way or other, we could be genetically related to them. We could be, somehow, survivors of some kind of genetic hybrid." Van Flandern cited the following features on Cydonia as proof of a hominid structure: irises and eyebrows; a nose that tapers to the forehead; two impressions on the nose that resemble nostrils; and a shadow that delineates separated lips. Further, he believes that the symmetry of the Mars formation enhances the chances that it is of unnatural origin. "The probability against chance as to its location, orientation, size, and shape . . . with these features being present is a billion billion billion to one," the Yale-schooled Ph.D. astronomer said of Cydonia. "That’s the reason for concluding that the face is surely not of natural origin, beyond a reasonable doubt." Political questions involving NASA Having corroborated the Mars face theory, Van Flandern went on to state that, by not taking more photos of Cydonia, Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) was working for scientists who are "interfering with the data." Addressing Hoagland, the astronomer said, "Proving that people like yourself were right about this all along injures their sense of self-integrity and their reputation." Talking Mars: Dilettoso and Hoagland >From this point, a panel discussion took shape. Joining Hoagland were Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Director Peter Gersten, former Apollo test astronaut Ken Johnston, Phoenix Lights advocate Frances Barwood, LunarAnomalies.com director Mike Bara, ufologist Jim Dilettoso, and filmmaker Paul Davids. (Gersten, Dilettoso, and Davids, of course, write for AlienZoo) New Coast to Coast A.M. host Mike Siegel briefly joined the panel onstage and pledged that he would, for as long as he has his show, "get the right-sized photos of that edifice." Although in general agreement about Malin not taking enough photos of Cydonia, the panel interrogated Van Flandern about the state of space research, and his findings. Reasoning why mainstream researchers have ignored Cydonia, alternative theories about the origin of stars, and similar postulates, Van Flandern lamented the "centralization" of scientific research. Three decades ago, astronomical research was supported by universities, governments, and private industry; today, it’s funded largely by NASA and the National Science Foundation. A program established in the 1980s to eliminate duplication in research, he said, has eliminated even the slightest innovations. "Once funds got tight," he said, "only the research proposals that basically proposed to support mainstream paradigms could get funded." The Mars Orbiter Camera mission will end next February. When Gersten heatedly asked the astronomer whether he assisted with a drive, even formally testify in court, to request Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and MSSS to re-image Cydonia by that time, Van Flandern said he would do so. The answer was greeted with impassioned applause from the audience. "A reasonable assessment is that JPL has such a vested investment in this that they would probably pump millions into defense. A winning strategy would have to have a comparable amount of money on our side," Van Flandern said. When Hoagland asked Van Flandern whether he thought agencies were working to prevent a re-imaging of Cydonia, the astronomer offered the hypothesis that JPL’s funding is dependent on its work with robotic – not manned – space missions. As an exclusive contractor to NASA, JPL would not send a crew to Mars to investigate Cydonia. JPL actively hires robotics experts who don’t believe in the possibility of Mars artifacts, and a self-reinforcing environment results, Van Flandern said. The Mars event's panel offers Van Flandern provocative questions Hoagland concluded the evening with a 30-minute presentation that linked "Establishment" knowledge of the face on Mars to View-Master slides of a popular 1950s children’s TV show "Tom Corbett Space Cadet." For a report on this part of the program, click here. A tribute to Bruce DePalma Hoagland’s afternoon presentation was a solo act. He opened the lecture with a tribute, of sorts, to Bruce DePalma, brother of Mission to Mars director Brian DePalma. By the late 1970s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology educator had developed what he called the "N machine" – a neutrino-powered engine that could produce energy by reaching into other dimensions. (See Jim Dilettoso’s AlienZoo article by clicking here.) The elder DePalma also was devoted researcher of free-energy physics, in which energy is pulled out of space using heat, magnetic fields, or gravity. In a paper titled "The Problem of Free Energy," DePalma put forth the idea that the origin of free energy is from somewhere outside of our world. The inventor was critical of mainstream institutions’ reluctance to harness the alternative energy for power-generating projects. He wrote, "In the sense that free energy is available now, the contemporary establishment is confronted with something it does not want to understand, because in its understanding all other realities are shattered." Hoagland lauded DePalma’s experiments, and acknowledged how they contradicted many aspects of contemporary physics. He told the story of how, after many years of exchanging ideas with DePalma, he believed it was time for DePalma’s work to be verified by "mainstream" scientists. So, eight or nine years ago, Hoagland arranged for DePalma’s N-machine to be inspected and tested by NASA Lewis Research Center (now the John Glenn Research Center), in Cleveland, Ohio. Yet, the test results – provided there were any – never materialized. "Surprise, surprise," Hoagland said. "It turns out that what Bruce was working on is a taboo subject in the mainstream." Hoagland boldly predicted that DePalma "will eventually transform the history of planet Earth," because he "practiced in engineering what others have only talked about in theory." To sum up this segment, Hoagland said Brian DePalma created Mission to Mars as a tribute to his physicist brother, who passed away from alcohol-related ailments in 1997. If one looks closely at the film, Hoagland said, one will see subtle references to Bruce DePalma’s hyperdimensional physics. Regarding Mission to Mars, Hoagland reiterated his view that the movie was met with bad reviews because filmmaker DePalma, as Hoagland put it, bit the hand that feeds. DePalma worked intimately with NASA to ensure that the film was scientifically correct; what’s more, Hoagland pointed out, NASA had final script approval. Regardless, a commercial for the film remarks, "For the last 25 years, the government has been concealing evidence of a lifelike formation on Mars." "Do you possibly think that someone at NASA might have been a tad ticked off?" Hoagland asked. Tetrahedrons aplenty Concluding the afternoon program, Hoagland reviewed Mars Orbiter Camera images released by Malin Space Science Systems in early April, and identified the various "structures" of Mars – the face, a peculiar dome, a castle, silo-like edifices, and pyramids. The researcher noted the way in which many structures are set apart at a 19.5 degree angle. Tetrahedrons, which have four equilateral sides (as pyramids do), are composed in angles of 19.5 degrees. Looking at the surface of Cydonia and its neighboring "city," Hoagland contended that the structures were constructed under a defined geometric relationship. "The volume of these structures on Mars compounds the volume of the largest structures built by man on Earth by up to 100,000 times," Hoagland said. "We’re talking about objects with linear dimensions on the order of one mile." He added: "Given enough time, enough robots, enough materials, and enough science and engineering – there’s no doubt in my mind that what we’re seeing is definitely possible – somebody figured out how to do this. You can’t get this kind of structure in nature." Another highlight of the program was a video of a Cydonia sculptural model made by artist Kynthia. As lighting turned on the model, which was photographed from a side view, the profile of the face was revealed. The movie can be viewed at The Enterprise Mission’s web site, at http://www.enterprisemission.com/kynthiamovies.html. The Real Mission to Mars was a presented by AlienZoo, Inc., and benefited Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and The Enterprise Mission. © 2000 AlienZoo, Inc. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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