FILE: ARES1.TXT
AUTHOR: Martin E. Arant
DATE: 03-15-89
SUBJECT: Mars Face, Project Cydonia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMITTED BY: Martin E. Arant

In 1976, while the nation was celebrating its 200th birthday,
Viking I, a US space probe entered orbit around the Planet Mars.
Like a giant scythe, its television cameras slowly cut an ever
widening photographic swatch around the planet. Forty million
miles away, in Pasadena, California, the images from another
world built up line by line on the monitors of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratories. It was on orbit thirty five, when the spacecraft
was over an area known as Cydonia, that possibly the single most
important photograph in the history of the human race was taken.
A perfectly formed human face, starring straight up into the
eye of the Viking camera, starring up from the ancient sands
of Mars!

The reaction of the planetary scientists and geologists at NASA
was quite predictable and understandable. The data already
collected on Mars from the previous Mariner mission showed the
planet to be a harsh and withered world, totally unable to
support any complex life forms. Even though there was ample
evidence that large amounts of liquid water had once flowed over
its surface, even the most optimistic scientist couldn't
imagine this "warm epoch" ever having lasted long enough for
anything but the simplest life forms to have evolved.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the appearance of the face
was reduced to the simplest explanation; "A trick of lighting and
shadows." This turned out to be more than just an idle comment,
for it became the battle cry of NASA for over 10 years. Every time
an inquiry was made regarding the face, NASA responded with this
one-liner.

Had it not been for a couple of open-minded researchers, this
photograph would probably have ended up filed away with thousands
of other nondescript photographs taken by the Viking orbiter.
Slowly, very slowly at first, the evidence begin to build,
culminating last August in the proof that this enigma is NOT "a
trick of lighting and shadow." Even NASA, that most infallible
of government agencies, has been forced to retreat from their
previous statement. Their open ridicule of the scientists involved
in researching this phenomena has turned into embarrassed silence.

Discoveries made during the past few years seem to indicate that
the face, along with four other "artificial looking" formations in
the immediate area form a geometric and mathematical complex. Does
this prove that ruins of an ancient civilization has been found on
the surface of Mars? The answer is absolutely NOT! Aside from what
you may have read in the tabloids, none of the scientists and
researchers involved in this project have ever stated that this
complex IS artificial. What is becoming very obvious is this.
Something is very wrong in Cydonia Mensae. Either our understanding
of Martian geology and mathematical relationships is seriously flawed
or...

The purpose of this section is twofold. First, to collect and
disseminate information pertaining to the discoveries made in Cydonia
and second, to build the grass root political support to make certain
that NASA is FORCED (by law, if necessary) to reexamine
this site during the Mars Orbiter mission in 1992.

NOTE: This section is NOT about paranormal phenomena. It is NOT about
UFOs, alien abductions, or ancient astronauts. Not that it is our
intention to dismiss these phenomena but they simply don't belong
in this section. There is always the tendency to "speculate" on
the phenomena at Cydonia but we feel that is putting the cart before
the horse. The first and only goal right now has to be the verification
of the data by the scientific community and the commitment by
NASA to re-photograph this site!

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