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SUBJECT: THE MESSAGE OF CYDONIA                              FILE: UFO1733 




                            The "Message of Cydonia":
           First Communication from an Extraterrestrial Civilization?

                             By Richard C. Hoagland*
                               and Erol O. Torun @

                               [Copyright (C) 1989
                              All Rights Reserved]

                                    Abstract

     In 1976 an unmanned NASA Viking spacecraft successfully photographed the
surface of the planet Mars.  In the subsequent 13 years, a mystery has loomed .
. . a mile-long, 1500-ft high humanoid "face" discovered in a northern Martian
desert called "Cydonia."  Initially dismissed by NASA as "a trick of light and
shadow," new analysis presented here reveals a far more complex situation, and a
far more significant conclusion:

     The "face" and its surrounding "enigmatic landforms" appear to be a
carefully layed out, highly-sophisticated, redundantly encoded "mathematical and
geometric CETI message" on the Martian landscape -- in the tradition of century-
old proposals by Gauss, Lockyer, et al..

     This paper presents the evidence whereby the authors have reached this
"radical conclusion."  We -- one of us a former NASA consultant, the other a
geomorphologist -- detail the extensive geodedic and mathematical analysis of
"the Face" we have conducted over the past several years: specifically, its
geometric relationship to other, equally enigmatic objects in the immediate
vicinity.  This evidence includes multiple appearances of two specific
mathematical constants: "e" and "pi," derived by angular measurement of the
placement of key morphological objects around the "face" and the discovery of
redundant angles and derived constants from that placement.  We have also
discovered the two constants -- "e" and "pi" -- "coded" in the geodedic siting
latitude of the "complex" on the planet.

     It is this multiple, diversified, but converging geodedic, geometric and
mathematical evidence that, in the authors' opinion, now robustly supports the
"radical conclusion" presented above.

     The geometry and mathematical constants we have discovered at Cydonia
appear to be a highly-specific communication of "embedded tetrahedral geometry."
It's apparent purpose: the geometric
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Prediction of a specific geodedic latitude -- 19.5 degrees N. and S. --
resulting from the location of the vertices of a "circumscribed tetrahedran"
rotated inside a planetary or stellar sphere.   This conclusion is reinforced by
the geomorphological observation of a major "tetrahedral pyramid" at Cydonia --
connected geometrically (by a 19.5-degree angle offset to the local geodedic
meridian) to equally obvious morphological representations of "spheres" at
Cydonia itself.

     The purpose of all this appears to be to direct attention towards
"something occurring at these two specific planetary latitudes."  When examined
by the authors, using published geodedic planetary maps from NASA and U.S
Geological Survey sources, these latitudes are observed to be associated with a
hitherto unknown planetary and stellar energy phenomenon -- blatantly emerging
at these specific latitudes -- on astronomical objects all across the solar
system, including the Sun.  Further, the appearance of these "energy
outpourings" seems to be modulated by the polarity of the planetary (or stellar)
magnetic dipole moment -- raising, in the author's minds, the possibility
that the "message" is attempting to direct us to a verifiable astrophysical
manifestation of a basic, "unified field," connecting planetary angular
momentum, gravity, and electromagnetism with surface energy release.

     The possibility that "the message" is directing us to, not merely energy
transfer but energy generation, is also considered in this paper.  Several
convergent observations of the outer planets, most recently from Voyager 2, are
presented to buttress our contention that we may be looking at a new
astrophysically-significant form of energy.  Evidence is also presented that
some manifestations of this energy may be altering the local "gravitational
space-time metric" -- consistant with current theoretical interpretations of
tetrahedral mathematics by specialists, as "representative of higher-dimensional
n-spaces."

     The implications of these "real world" geophysical manifestations of
"unified field tetrahedral mathematics" -- specific, localized energy release on
planetary surfaces, apparently unrecognized until the "Cydonia tetrahedral
mathematics" were decoded by the authors -- are profound: ranging from a
possible breakthrough in the centuries-long search for a Unified Field Theory
connecting the four elemental forces of Nature; to possible technological
applications of this knowledge -- including a new energy source, and possibly,
ultimate control of gravity itself.

     We conclude by urging immediate verification of the "Cydonia Message," via
the 1992 unmanned Mars Observer spacecraft, as well as detailed follow-up to our
preliminary work presented here.

       
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