Siriusly ~ Cydonia (The Controversy)

When Man goes to Mars in the next century, perhaps the most studied place, and first major tourist mecca, will be the Great Cydonia Plateau, (located at 40.8° N, on the shores of an ancient Martian ocean, now completely dry). Perhaps if we manage to terraform the planet, the site may yet again see the crimson tides, or even blueish skies. Terraforming is a real science and feasible endeavor, that will most likely be the main accomplishment of our civilization as we break out of our shell, and enter the cosmos ~ the survival of our species, and many others as well, ultimately depends on it !

But the red planet may have once already been terraformed, or perhaps naturally acclimated to sustain Human life, as we can see from the ruins of this city on the Cydonian Plain. Other sites are currently being looked into as well, but so far the area around the face has provided enough archaeological anomolies to keep researchers busy for years. But the only way to know for sure, of course, is to send a manned mission to Mars, and investigate up close, on the ground. Who knows all we can learn from such an ancient, perhaps Human archaeological site ~ the origins of our species within this solar system, or perhaps that we are not alone ?

With all the media attention about the now world famous Face on Mars, (and subsequent "lunatic fringe" demanding full disclosure) NASA has recently (grudgingly) come forward and acknowledged an interest in the site, saying that the many upcoming Mars missions (to map the planet's surface) will pay special attention to the Cydonia plateau. The mostly still forthcoming Mars Global Surveyor images of Cydonia are expected to be much clearer, and what's been released so far certainly has exquisite resolution and detail, (if not the ideal lighting or image processing that we all hoped for). The Face fans accuse NASA and JPL of deliberately skewing the images to make them appear as natural, or desolate, as possible. But what if the features of the monument were somehow, even deliberately, destroyed between the Viking era and MGS ~ and who could have possibly done such a thing, or would, and why ?

Many paranormal reseachers suspect that earlier Mars missions (that supposedly struck an asteroid, or suffered some other mishap, and were never heard from again), were in fact destroyed by aliens who perhaps even have bases on the moon and Mars. There is "circumstantial" evidence to support this, including the image of a strange 25 mile diameter disc shaped object, that was the last thing the Russian probe ever photographed before it lost contact with mission control bases on Earth.

Some investigators are equally convinced that the probes are still in perfect operation, but their findings are being kept from the common public scrutiny ~ and that US Military Black Projects are somehow behind the damage of the Face, or even its destruction. This is bizarre, but not so hard to believe. One thing all of the missing missions have in common is that the spacecrafts coincidentally carried with them the latest in scientific gear, designed to detect planetary data of all sorts. Some suspect the Russian probe was lost to sabotage, (their space agency received anonymous warnings not to launch).

Many Black Projects are known to exist involving technologies and information that would surely be controversial if made public. National security would certainly be the issue, if in fact NASA had gone forward with its space program back in the 1970s (instead of falling victim to congressional turmoil and public apathy) and built space stations in Earth orbit, or on the surface of the moon or Mars. Could the "Powers That Be" have technology that "shouldn't be" ~ at least not yet ?

During the Hoagland U. N. presentation in 1992 . . . robust mathematical and geometric linkage was presented, specifically connecting for the first time the siting of "Cydonia" on Mars . . . with the Egyptian location of the Pyramids and Sphinx on Earth; the arctangent (.865) of the "D&M Pyramid" geodetic Martian latitude (40.87 N.) is the same (within one part in a 1000) as the cosine of the Sphinx's current latitude on Earth. And, if the increasingly uncertain age of the Sphinx is factored in via literal "continental drift," this astonishingly close latitude match is even closer . . .