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SUBJECT: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON THE MARS INVESTIGATION FILE: UFO2246
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Recent Developments
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After 13 years, the Mars Investigation finally seems to be
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"coming in from the cold."
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Here are a few highlights of what has happened lately:
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Several months ago, after 13 years of research outside of
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NASA, we were finally asked to present our findings to a
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Colloquium of NASA engineers and scientists at the Goddard Space
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Flight Center, outside Washington. Mark Carlotto (The Analytic
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Sciences Corporation), Erol Torun (Defense Mapping) and I spent
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about two and a half hours (we were originally allotted only 45
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minutes!) detailing the results of our various analyses of the
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"enigmatic landforms" at Cydonia -- from Mark's most recent
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fractal analysis" of the Face (in comparison with the
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surrounding mesas); to Erol's discovery of key mathematical
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constants in the D&M Pyramid (see pyramid.rsh); to my own
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confirmation of the same constants in the entire "complex"
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The reaction to our briefing was most interesting: there was
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a very serious consideration of our data by the general audience
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of NASA personel; there was vociferous indignation from the
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minority of "planetary scientists" attending. Later, feedback
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from this minority -- who have been given an essential "monopoly"
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in exploring the solar system for the past thirty years, if not
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in subsequent interpretation of the results -- was "Those guys [
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the majority of the technical audience at Goddard] actually sat
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there and listened, then asked questions -- as if they believed
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that crap!"
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A 40-minute color video (VHS) of "the Goddard presentation"
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is available from the MARS MISSION.
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The second major development has been our recent one-to-one
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meeting with the Chairman of the House Committee on Science,
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Space and Technology, the Honorable Robert A. Roe (D-New Jersey).
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If we are going to get NASA to do what good science now
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mandates must be done -- take additional pictures of Cydonia,
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with Mars Observer in 1993 -- it is becoming clear that the ONLY
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way we are going to get those pictures is via legislation; NASA,
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for somewhat obscure reasons, has refused to put our data to a
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simple test: new photographs from Mars Observer. It is obvious
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therefore, that NASA must be mandated by law to rephotograph Cydonia --
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as it's spacecraft, Mars Observer, once a month passes overhead in polar
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orbit. The key point to keep in mind: this will cost NO ADDITIONAL MONEY.
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Even so, NASA still refuses, so legislation is now necessary.
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It shouldn't be that way -- but it is.
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For this reason, our hour-long meeting with Congressman Roe
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was a most important milestone on the road to ultimate
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verification of our data. At the end of the hour-long meeting --
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during which we detailed not only the significant developments in
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our research, but the apparently inexplicable political obstacles
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within NASA to simple confirmation -- the Congressman asked me
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for a Memo of Recommendations (see MARS3.TXT) -- detailing the
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next steps to verification of the Intelligence Hypothesis.
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A few days ago I received a letter from the Chairman, saying
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"I enjoyed your visitation and the opportunity to discuss the
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Mars Mission," and "I am looking into the recommendations you
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have made."
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Because of this continuing dialogue, I would urge all who
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want verification of our findings to drop a line to Congressman
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Roe (Suite 2321, Rayburn Building, Washington D. C. 20515)
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supporting the details in our Memo. Only the Congress can
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intervene in what is now essentially a political decision by
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NASA: to ignore some extraordinarily provocative research. If
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allowed to continue this policy, the space agency will be able to
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successfully subvert the entire scientific process -- which at
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this point DEMANDS that we go back and get those crucial
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pictures.
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If we are wrong, then let the Mars Observer images prove it!
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If we are right . . .
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The third development -- which makes the other two pale a
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bit by comparison -- is that we think we've finally done it:
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We think we may have "cracked the code" of Cydonia . . . and
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are actually now "reading" the mathematical and geometric
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message!
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Since the proof of this "radical statement" is extensive (
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though not hard at all to follow), I will not go into it here.
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I will say, however, that the interlocking logic -- and what the
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"Cydonia message" seems to successfully predict, in the way of a
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verifiable geophysical phenomenon -- is easily tested. We ourselves
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are proposing one key test, during the upcoming Voyager 2 Encounter of
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the planet Neptune: based on the "Cydonia Equations," we believe it
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possible to predict the polarity of the Neptune magnetic field. And we
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will do so -- it's opposite the Earth's, and basically parallel
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to Jupiter's. The spacecraft will not enter the actual Neptune
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"magnetosphere" until sometime after August 24 -- so this
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prediction is a gamble. But, if we are "reading" what the
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Cydonia equations are now trying to tell us, Voyager 2 should
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prove it.
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Because of the dramatic breakthorugh this represents in our
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research -- if not the entire 13-year effort to understand the
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"enigmas of Cydonia" -- we are in the planning stages for a major
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news conference, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., to
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announce how we've decoded these mathematics, and what we think
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they mean. When final details are determined, we will post them
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here -- so please be patient.
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It is our intention to publish, through this electronic
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medium, all serious attempts to verify (or falsify!) this work --
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provided those undertaking these attempts work from original
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sources. To this end, interested investigators should also
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contact Dr. Paul Butterworth, the National Space Science Data
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Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, to
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order copies of the original Viking Cydonia digital imaging
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tapes. The frames one should request are: 35A70, 71, 72, 73, and
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74; and (35 days later, in the Viking mission) frames 70A11, 12,
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and 13. (BTW: orthographically-rectified versions of the data
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tapes will be essential, to adequately test our mathematical and
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geometric findings.)
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Finally, the President's proposal to "go to Mars by way of
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the Moon."
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If one DOESN'T want to send men and women to Mars, in our
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opinion, this is the quickest way to "turn off the American
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people on the entire enterprise." Simply price it out of
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existence!
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The President's proposal has unnecessarily added at least
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ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars to the cost of going to Mars with men
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and women. Therefore, in the coming days, we will be uploading
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serious, cost-effective alternatives to the Bush proposal --
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including mission scenarios formulated by Science Applications
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Inc. (a JPL-NASA consulting firm), and by Dr. Brian O'Leary -- a
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former scientist-astronaut (originally chosen to be a member of
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the crew to go to Mars!) and a member of the current Mars
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Investigation.
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O'Leary's plan -- to use existing hardware, space shuttle
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components, space-station technologies, etc., and assemble a
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"lean, mean Mars mission in Earth orbit" -- will not only cost
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ONE TENTH the President's proposal, it could get us there TEN
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TIMES SOONER . . . by 1999, if Congress enacted the proper
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legislation. And the country would wind up making money in the
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process!
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Again, given the on-going dialogue established between the
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MARS MISSION and the members of the House Committee on Science,
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Space and Technology, we are confident that we can -- with your
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vital input and assistance -- place these options before the
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right committees in the Congress. That . . .
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And the extraordinary reason for going there at all: actual
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extraterretrial ruins . . . and now, "a message."
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Stay tuned.
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Richard C. Hoagland, Founder
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The Mars Mission:
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P.O. Box 981,
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Wytheville, VA 24382
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(703) 228-7822
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