Discovery of Specific Geometric Redundancies
at Cydonia Mensae:

New Support for the Relationship Model
Indicating a "Martian" Intelligence


By Richard C. Hoagland, Founder
The MARS MISSION


Abstract

NASA's unmanned Viking mission in 1976 returned images of a
set of highly controversial, anthropomorphic and geometric
objects located in the Cydonia Mensae region of the planet Mars.
These objects for 13 years have been derisively dismissed as
irrelevant to SETI -- the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence -- mainly, it is argued, because NASA's on-going
SETI Program has systematically ignored the potential for ET-
generated physical evidence within the confines of the solar
system; interstellar radio searches of the electromagnetic
spectrum are currently the exclusive SETI focus. Recent work,
however, now reveals a set of strikingly ^Rspecific and repeating
mathematical constants^R, derived from redundant geometric
spacing and alignments between five geomorphologically diverse
objects -- including a direct mathematical connection with the
siting latitude of the objects on the planet. It is argued that
this new evidence presents robust support for the "intelligence
hypothesis" as an increasingly likely explantion of these
enigmatic landforms. The only potential natural process capable
of producing such specific mathematical relationships --
crystallization -- is reviewed and dismissed for a variety of
reasons, ranging from scale factors, to the extreme morphological
diversity of the mathematically connected objects, to the absence
of known surface constituants capable of forming such
crystallization patterns. Even an unknown "local crystallization
phenomenon," it is pointed out, could have no plausible
connection with the specific latitude of the objects on the
planet -- the strongest single observation in favor of an
"intelligence hypothesis." Comparison is inescapable: between
the potential geometric "signal" strongly suggested by these new
observations at Cydonia, and proposals made by several well-known
investigators of the last century for similar patterns to be
impressed upon terrestrial signals to hypothetical
extraterrestrial observers -- proposals that included the
construction of giant geometric figures here on Earth.

Acceptance of these observations is not equivalent to acceptance
of the potential existence of "Martians"; recent discussions of
the feasibility of sub-light interstellar exploration make clear
that, while previous visits to the solar system by advanced
technical societies is difficult, it is not precluded by the
parameters of current physics. In conclusion, therefore, it is
argued that these new observations mandate a general
reexamination of the existing SETI paradigm regarding ET
artifacts, even as they urgently suggest the need for an
acceleration of the effort to secure new Cydonia imagery from
Mars Observer.

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