A Martian Chronicle

In 1976 the Viking I & II orbiters and landers reached Mars. Thousands of photographs were taken of the red planet and transmitted to Earth. During one of the press conferences where the photographs were presented to the public, a NASA employee jokingly said that one of the mesas photographed resembled a human face. This was just a trick of light and shadow, he said, as a photo of the same area taken at a later hour did not show anything unusual. And that was that, for the time being.

Two men, Vince DiPietro and Greg Molenaar did not forget about this incident. They found the original frame with the face and cleaned it up with various computer imaging techniques including one they developed specifically for these images (called Starburst Pixel Interleaving Technique -- SPIT for short!), and made another discovery. This was a huge five sided pyramid several miles to the SouthWest of the face. This pyramid is now known as the D & M pyramid. In 1983, Richard Hoagland, a former science adviser to Walter Cronkite, read a paper written by DiPietro and Molenaar on the Face and D & M pyramid. The saga had begun!

Richard Hoagland and The Mars Mission found a number of structures that did not match the terrain in the area and it is highly improbable that these structures would have been formed through wind/water erosion over the millennia. After discovering that the very position of the structures actually formed a "message" -- the angles between the buildings, Face, D & M pyramid and other structures recurringly pointing out mathematical constants and ratios such as pi and e -- the extreme significance of Cydonia cannot be ignored.

When SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) was first proposed, the first contact was expected to be made by receiving a radio signal which encoded a message using universal mathematical constants which can be easily understood by any intelligence notwithstanding the different languages. Here we now have a group of highly anomalous structures on a neighbouring planet that is not only encoding a number of universal constants in the way it was built, but when translated, these constants/ ratios/angles, are actually giving us what now seems to be a NEW PHYSICS! This cannot be anything but proof that the message of Cydonia is ofintelligent, extra-terrestrial origin and not "a trick of light and shadow" as NASA is so fond of saying.

There is a group of large pyramids to the West of the Face, which may be the remains of an ancient city. Someone standing in between them and looking eastwards would have seen the sun rising over the Face during the summer solstice, showing that the buildings were built with specific celestial alignments in mind, once again confirming their artificiality. This alignment last occurred 300,000 years ago leading Hoagland to believe that the Cydonian artefacts were built at this time.

To the east of the Face there is a 3 km long cliff. Further east is a large crater with a three-sided pyramid (or tetrahedron) on the edge. Both structures are thought to be artificial. If they had been there before the meteor impacted to form the crater, they would have been damaged. Seeing as they appear to be intact the objects were clearly built after the crater was formed.

A few miles to the south of the cliff, a hill or mound known as the "Tholus" forms part of the Cydonia complex. What is so unusual about the Tholus is that it has a spiral ramp circling it like a path to the top. If a vertical line is drawn along the cliff to the top of the Tholus, and another line drawn from the top of the Tholus to the pyramid on the crater's edge, the angle thus formed is 19.5 degrees, an angle found repeatedly throughout the complex.

There are many pyramids on the Earth, and some are found in Egypt. The Egyptian word "Al Qahira" means "to conquer". It also means "Cairo", the capital city of Egypt. The root of this Egyptian word, "Al Qahir" means "MARS", a strange coincidental fact that has existed in this language for thousands of years. Although this translation may not have direct bearing on this investigation, it is certainly a fact which cannot be ignored in the future when men finally set foot on Mars and examine the pyramids there.