Viking 1 took the first main images of Cydonia - 35A72 and 70A13.
Because of these, the Cydonia region has been given further
attention.
and many respected scientists have arrived at new and startling
realizations.
From the very beginning, certain NASA officials have attempted
to cover up and ridicule the photos.
They were only accidentally rediscovered years later, and have
been the subject of controversy ever since.
Due to successful disinformation campaigns, science and the
media still treat the Face on Mars as fantasy.
In the years since, most Mars missions have mysteriously failed
~ could this also be official disinformation ?
Might there have been a few Top Secret "Black Project"
manned expeditions to Mars going on all along ?
The Overlooked Images
The Face, in Viking image 35A72, Colorized In 1976, Viking 1
was the much anticipated next logical step after the Mercury
and Apollo missions. But only the "Lunatic Fringe"
held hopes that some form of life may be discovered on the planet
Mars. On this long awaited and historic, groundbreaking survey:
the primitive probe / spacecraft took many thousands of pictures
of the red planet's features and sent them back to Earth, where
scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab converted the raw digital
data into black and white pictures - our civilization's first
close up images of another planet.
On July 25th, Tobias Owen of JPL was going over the piles of
data from Viking 1, looking for possible landing sites for Viking
2, when he came across a glimpse of history. "Oh my god,
look at this! That looks like a face!" he said, as he examined
the image of a solitary structure reminiscent of the Sphinx,
staring serenely out into space (right), from the now historic
Frame 35A72 (below) - a moment that was to change the course
of Human history. Or was it?
In a press conference later that same day, Viking project spokesman
Gerry Soffen coined the famous phrase "trick of light and
shadow" - and claimed that just a few hours later, the
image no longer appeared to be a face - casually dismissing
perhaps one of the greatest discoveries of all time. This was,
in fact, a lie. There were no pictures taken of Cydonia a few
hours later. The probe was programmed to systematically image
the planet in sequential orbits, and would have been over an
area many miles away at the time in question. Besides, night
would have fallen on that side of the planet by then, making
any photography from space in that era impossible. Whatever
the case, any "later" photograph, proving the mound
in no way resembled a human face, was not to be forthcoming
- and if any other Cydonian images were ever shot, the matter
was not discussed openly. There were to be no further images
officially released to the public, until the Mars Global Surveyor
mission - on May 5, 1998.
It was efficient. It was a textbook cover-up. In the face of
indisputable evidence, discredit the source. It seemed perfectly
logical at the time to accept the Face as an illusion. But what
kind of world might we be living in today, had the pictures
of the Face - and the entire Cydonia region, and other similar
sites on Mars - been taken as seriously as they deserve? Would
we have sent manned missions as soon as humanly possible? Some
investigators speculate that this has in fact occurred - but,
being the most important discovery in history, they were not
about to tell the Russians about it, or anyone else, even to
this day.
35A72 - from Viking 1
Jet Propulsion Lab press release on the Face ~ Summer, 1976
This picture is one of many taken in the northern latitudes
of Mars by the Viking 1 orbiter in search of a landing site
for Viking 2. The picture shows eroded mesa-like landforms.
The huge rock formation in the center, which resembles a human
head, is formed by shadows giving the illusions of eyes, nose,
and a mouth. The feature is 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) across,
with the sun angle at approximately 20 degrees. The speckled
appearance of the image is due to bit errors, emphasized by
enlargement of the photo. The picture was taken on July 25 from
a range of 1,873 kilometers (1,162 miles). Viking 2 will arrive
in Mars orbit next Saturday [August 7] with a landing scheduled
for early September.
In the above caption, replace the purposefully misleading NASA
words
"shadows" with "fissures" or "indentations"
- or "illusion" with "appearance."
Many investigators believe that this press release was censored
at the last minute
and that the original statement reflected the scientists true
feelings of astonishment
and cautious celebration, regarding the surprising discovery
on the first photos of Mars.
• • • • • • •
Imagine how many more telling sentences might have been omitted
from this announcement
regarding these first images from another planet ~ that just
happen to reveal not one, but several
obviously man made monuments, and suddenly the whole Cydonian
issue is taken more seriously.
Spin Control
Despite being a prime candidate, the whole issue of Cydonia
as a possible landing site was dropped as soon as the pictures
became public. This is quite surprising: considering that it
was a better location telemetrically, and far more interesting
one scientifically, than Utopia - where Viking 2 ultimately
landed. According to Carl Sagan, a key player in Viking's think
tank, "there was a significant chance of small quantities
of liquid water there." There can be only one reason for
the sudden dismissal: they didn't want anyone to know about
the strange monuments found there. Pyramids on Mars was not
what NASA had in mind for international television broadcast
that year.
Mars, in Crescent This discovery, if made public, would completely
rearrange most of what we have been taught and consider to be
true. But any proof (like, for example, a photograph) of anything
beyond what is considered to be accepted human history, would
certainly be controversial in the extreme - and just as easily
ridiculed. To quote the movie Contact, ironically written by
Carl Sagan, "first rule of government spending: why have
only one, when you can have two at twice the price?" Is
it really so impossible that Cydonia was not left alone - but
instead, actively pursued, and classified at the highest levels?
And, dare we ask, what could possibly seem more ridiculous,
and be more easily dismissed by serious and officially accepted
"respectable" science? How many more missions could
there be, then and now, that the public at large knows nothing
about? And how many of these supposedly malfunctioned spacecraft,
are actually alive and well?
In truth, the only way that "we the people" would
have gotten anything anywhere near full disclosure from the
Mars missions would have been if all of NASA's wildest hopes
and dreams had come amazingly true - that Mars was, as previous
data had suggested, capable of supporting life as we understood
it in the 1960s and 70s. If Mars had moss or algae, or even
insects, big business would have been instantly involved and
there would certainly be people there by now. Cydonia is situated
on an ancient seashore - and likely to be relatively abundant
with life, or the evidence of past life. Perhaps this is another
reason why Cydonia was taken off the list, of at least public
missions. (Pay no attention to the planet behind the curtain.)
Imagine, another tiny island to be conquered - completely isolated
from outside interference and no pesky indigenous inhabitants
to lay claim to the wealth of resources to be found on an entire
planet - not to mention the strategic military and political
values. Perhaps science and civilization have been given a back
seat to these interests. Or perhaps, it's just the Earthbound
versions of these entities who are kept in the dark.
From: The Case for the Face - by Graham Hancock, et al - p.
69
The next development was a decision from NASA that Viking 2
would not, after all, land at Cydonia. Apparently the site was
now deemed "unsafe." According to Carl Sagan:
44 degrees north was completely inaccessible to radar site-certification;
we had to accept a significant risk of failure with Viking 2
if it was committed to high northern latitudes. . . . To improve
the Viking options, additional landing sites, geologically very
different from Chryse and Cydonia, were selected in the radar-certified
region near 4 degrees south latitude.
All this notwithstanding, it is an extraordinary fact that
Viking 2 was finally set down at a latitude even higher than
Cydonia. It landed - and was almost overturned by boulders -
on the distinctly unpromising rock-strewn plain called Utopia,
at 47.7 degrees north latitude, on 3 September 1976. Thus -
for no obvious reason says James Hurtak - "a multimillion
dollar effort may have overlooked 'paydirt' and may have become
a trivial event. . . . A poor selective factor had been used
to choose an area of minor geological and biological significance.
It was like choosing the Sahara Desert as a suitable landing
site on our own planet."
35A72 - from Viking 1
JPL Viking 1 Frame 35A72 - from the 1979 German book "Wir,
vom Mars" by Walter Hain
Much has been made in recent years of what is shown here. Notice
the group of Pyramid
like structures, known as The City - but by far the center of
all attention has been the
Human Face staring right back at us from the surface of our
nearest neighbor Mars!
The many dark gray dots in the image above is "bit errors"
or missing-data static,
as our interplanetary communication technology was then in its
bleak infancy
- and still is, although much improvement has comparatively
been made.
A Black Matter
Mars Surveyor 2001 What's the least amount of technology you
would expect NASA capable of today, at the dawning of the 21st
Century? Considering that it's been almost thirty years (as
far as we know) since we last went to the moon, more questions
tend to arise. When "2001: A Space Odyssey" was first
released in 1970, it seemed perfectly plausible to the people
of the time that by now there would be orbital space stations,
a scientific Lunar community, artificial intelligence, and manned
missions to the outer planets. Well, we've almost got the video
phone thing down.
It's not so much the American people that are being kept in
the dark, but our "not always so benign" neighbors.
When the space race was won, most scientists expected it was
just the beginning. There was no reason, many of them felt,
why we wouldn't have an almost Star Trek space presence by now.
It was an exciting time - children wanted to be astronauts when
they grew up, and almost everyone acted as if we were at the
beginning of a new age - which we were.
Although popular science fiction has a way of educating the
public, opening them up to concepts otherwise "alien"
to them, it can also backfire, or have the complimentary effect
of making a realistic future seem like so much stardust. Besides,
we had other more pressing issues to worry about. With the 70s
came the Energy Crisis, followed by Space Shuttles and Star
Wars. Many people believe that these multi billion dollar programs
were inflated to clandestinely funnel funding into top secret
programs. On the whole, people tend to believe what they're
told.
From: The Case for the Face - by Graham Hancock, et al - p.
19
Lobbyists campaigning for more open and accountable government
in the United States regard Goldin's presence at NASA as ominous.
The appointment was originally made by President George Bush,
himself a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
According to lobbyist and researcher Dan Ecker: "Ever since
Goldin has been in charge many of the civilians in NASA have
been replaced by former DOD [Department of Defense] people and
NASA has steadily been going covert..... They have been doing
many more Department of Defense missions... and remember, Dan
Goldin ... is the only person in charge of a federal agency
that I'm aware of that was not replaced under the Clinton administration.
That should speak volumes."
Mars Global Surveyor Ever since man began sending missions
to Mars, nearly all of them have mysteriously failed. It seems
that if they manage to make it into space at all, they break
down somehow, or all contact is lost, or they crash onto the
surface of the planet, never to be heard from again - sometimes
under such mysterious circumstances as to raise the eyebrows
of ufologists.
One perhaps intentional effect of all this staggering disappointment
is that the public at large, though perhaps at first intensely
curious about the red planet, has had frustration lead to apathy
and ultimately has no idea of the controversial reality. Many
suspect that this was far too convenient to be true, as it only
served to decrease attention and increase the distance between
the public and that arm of the space program - and if there
really are monuments on Mars, the powers that be have no intention
of sharing that information with the general public - at least
for now. Why would they?
Men In Black It is also especially highly likely that what
can be found out on the subject is only the smallest fraction
and most easily dismissable aspect of the entire story. Who
knows - perhaps, as ufologists suggest, there really is sentient
life on Mars, occasionally shooting down whatever probes of
ours they can. Or maybe, somewhat more reasonably, it's just
those pesky Secret Settlers: Human beings, born on Earth, working
for the darker side of government. Movies like Independence
Day and Men In Black were based on more than simple folklore
- so maybe it's both.
UFO - Mars Correlations
A study of the correlations between
UFO waves and the distance of Mars !
Viking Landing Site
Viking 1 landed at Chryse Planitia on July 20, 1976 - just
north of Valles Marineris
This was Humanity's first glimpse of the surface features of
Mars ..... or was it ?
