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- The "Message of Cydonia":
- First Communication from an Extraterrestrial Civilization?
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- By Richard C. Hoagland*
- and Erol O. Torun @
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- [Copyright (C) 1989
- All Rights Reserved]
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- Abstract
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- 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:
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- 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..
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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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- * The Mars Mission: Box 981, Wytheville, VA 24382
- @ The Defense Mapping Agency: McLean, VA 22102
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