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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]
-
- 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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- * The Mars Mission: Box 981, Wytheville, VA 24382
- @ The Defense Mapping Agency: McLean, VA 22102
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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."
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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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