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Invited PRAVDA Op-Ed Old Gate Farm
Rt 4 Box 168
Wytheville, VA 24382
(703) 228-5524
WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON?
By Richard C. Hoagland
Copyright (C) 1989
We are living in extraordinary times . . .
Concepts like "freedom," "democracy," and "self-
determination" are sweeping from the East like rising wind --
from the heartland of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
across the steppes of Hungary and Poland, through the streets of
Prague, then Westward . . . to the very structure that has come
to stand for a divided Europe -- if not a divided Humankind --
for almost thirty years: the Berlin Wall.
A hundred nasty little wars -- yesterday, euphemistically
termed "regional conflicts" by one side, and "wars of liberation"
by the other -- are, strangely, winding down. Many of the
bloodiest, from the ten-year Iran-Iraq War to the fifteen-year
War of Angolan Liberation, have now actually ended -- almost
overnight. Superpower defense budgets, monies that for over forty
years have stockpiled megatons of obscene weapons systems --
weapons that could, in thirty minutes, end the future of Humanity
itself -- are suddenly, almost inexplicably, beginning sharply to
decline; one expert recommendation to the American Department of
Defense suggests cutting half a trillion dollars in the next ten
years.
Critics, who for decades have railed against the waste of
critical resources represented by these massive weapons budgets,
are almost dizzy with the prospect of suddenly freed billions --
billions they can now realistically envision being spent on other
problems underfunded for too long, if not on those not even
currently addressed -- such as rescuing the planet.
And behind it all, a rising call -- from millions in the
East and West, be it for "A common European Home," or for
recognition that "We are all One Human Family . . . on one Earth"
-- echoing around the world on global television.
What's happening? What the hell is really going on . . . ?
* * *
President Ronald Reagan, shortly after his first Soviet
Summit, described to a Baltimore high school class his first
private meeting with then-Secretary Gorbachev in a small cottage
by historic Lake Geneva. According to the President, "I couldn't
help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might
be in these meetings that we held, if suddenly there was a threat
to this world from some other species . . . from another planet .
. . outside in the universe."
The President concluded, "Such an event would force us to
forget all the little local differences that we have between our
countries, and allow us to find out that we really are all human
beings here on this Earth together."
That was in November, 1985.
* * *
Thirteen years ago, four unmanned spacecraft -- Viking
Orbiters 1 and 2, and their respective Landers -- made an odyssey
to Mars.
In the summer of 1976 -- the Bicentennial of the American
Experiment -- while the Orbiters took up their preprogrammed
orbits, and snapped an estimated 60,000 television pictures, the
two Landers descended to the cold, red Martian deserts to scoop
up soil samples, sniff the air . . . and look for signs of Life.
Contrary to what you might have heard from NASA, the U.S.
space agency which launched the Viking mission -- that Viking
found no evidence of Life on Mars, either past or present -- new,
state-of- the-art analysis of some of those 60,000 images,
conducted by several teams of independent scientists operating
outside of NASA both in the Soviet Union and in the United
States, now strongly indicates that Viking may have, in fact,
photographed an awesome set of ancient ruins on the planet. The
Viking images, when analyzed by new computer and systems analysis
techniques (unavailable when NASA first secured the images),
reveal what many are now coming to regard as a bonafide, vast,
"architectural complex" -- located in a Northern desert of the
planet. A "complex," the evidence suggests, that may have been
built and inhabited by prior intelligent visitors to Mars --
perhaps hundreds of thousands of years before the appearance of
intelligence on this planet.
Extraordinary? Yes. Inconceivable, within the framework of
even present science? No.
* * *
The "artifacts," discovered by myself and others in a region
called "Cydonia," consist of one gargantuan central feature -- a
mile-long, 1500 foot-high, eerily accurate, bilateral resemblance
to a humanoid "face" -- around which are grouped a series of
similar- scaled "pyramids" and other remarkably "architectural-
looking" structures. The features are linked by an exquisite,
redundant system of fundamental mathematics and geometrical
relationships, which seem to be encoded even in the geodetic
latitude of the "Cydonia complex" on the planet.
The thirteen-year history of this unique investigation, and
the names of a legion of dedicated scientists and institutions --
from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. -- who have pursued the truth
regarding these intriguing photographs, are related in my book,
The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (North
Atlantic, Berkeley, CA, 1987). More recent developments --
including our first, tentative decoding of a potential "message,"
found in the "Cydonia mathematics" -- are available on a new
audio-tape "docudrama" inspired by the book, also called The
Monuments of Mars: Evidence of a Lost City? (Enhanced Audio
Systems, Emeryville, CA, 1989). The tape concludes with a
Russian-language re-creation of one of my firm hopes: a U.S -
Soviet landing at Cydonia -- for cooperative exploration and
resolution of this exquisite mystery on behalf of all Mankind.
* * *
Because of continuing publicity surrounding the on-going
investigation in the United States, a wave of public and
political sentiment has recently developed to hasten verification
of this unprecedented scientific prospect. Efforts have been
mounted in recent months to force NASA to reverse its 13-year
position on "the artifacts" -- consistently demeaned by the space
agency as "tricks of light and shadow"; specifically, the
initiative has focused on getting NASA, during the upcoming 1993
Mars Observer mission (the next unmanned NASA spacecraft going
back), to take new, high- resolution images of the "enigmatic
landforms" in Cydonia -- with 50 times Viking's resolution. These
would convincingly support or refute our "intelligence
hypothesis," put forth as a result of our in-depth, six-year
analyses of these key Viking frames.
But, according to NASA correspondence dated as late as
March, 1989, ". . .there are no plans to make specific studies of
the so-called 'Mars Face' during the Mars Observer Mission. The
'Mars Face' is generally believed [by NASA scientists] to be a
natural erosion formation, and is therefore not regarded as a
high scientific priority in comparison with other Mars Observer
mission goals. . ."
In direct contradiction of this statement, then, and in
direct support of the extraordinary possibility that there may
indeed be NASA evidence of "ancient artifacts on Mars" -- which
NASA inexplicably ignored for thirteen years -- is the following
statement by Chairman Robert A. Roe (D-New Jersey), head of the
pivotal House Committee (of the U.S. Congress) on Science, Space
and Technology.
Said Chairman Roe, in direct response to a constituent's
inquiry, dated September 26:
"It is my understanding that NASA does intend to try to
capture, with the narrow-angle camera, the Cydonia region,
including the unique features you have referred to as the
"Monuments of Mars." NASA will attempt to locate and focus on
this region both because it has interesting geological features
and [because] it has attracted wide popular interest."
In a radio interview conducted earlier, the Chairman of this
key Congressional Committee -- which oversees all federal funding
for science in America -- went even further:
"I have seen the pictures . . . and they [the "Monuments"]
don't appear natural. It would be stupid not to look!"
If this observation, made by one of the most powerful and
knowledgeable representatives in the field of science in the U.S.
government, is upheld by Mars Observer, these discoveries will
undoubtedly, radically, change the future course of history on
Earth . . .
If they haven't accomplished that already . . . and what we
are now seeing nightly on our television screens, is merely a
foreshadowing of what's to come. . .
* * *
Mr. Reagan repeated his scenario -- that, if we were
suddenly confronted by some "unmistakable evidence of
extraterrestrial intelligence," we would rapidly come together as
one "human family" -- on at least four separate occasions during
the course of his final term as President: the first, during his
first Summit in Geneva, in late 1985; the second, when he
returned and publicly related these private "ET musings," between
himself and Mr. Gorbachev, to that Maryland high-school class;
the third, during a live, globally-televised address to the
United Nations, in August, 1987; and the fourth, before a
prestigious world-affairs conference in Chicago, in early 1988,
where he specifically used the term "one human family."
Remarkably, no political observer seems to have put these
repeated, enigmatic statements -- by none other than a President
of the United States -- together with the staggering, world-wide
"unification" of the "human family" now heralded by the
shattering political events that have engulfed us . . . or to
have connected them to what is, now almost certainly, waiting for
the "human family" on the surface of the planet Mars . . .
* * *
When our initial "Independent Mars Investigation Team"
completed the first phase of its analyses of the "enigmatic
landforms" on the Viking photographs, and had published in 1984 a
preliminary paper at a Boulder scientific conference at the
University of Colorado, we also began a serious effort to alert
our government to the data and their enormous implications: a
potential set of extraterrestrial artifacts -- and right "next
door," on Mars.
We presented copies of our computer-enhanced Viking
photographs and preliminary papers to colleagues of President
Reagan's Science Advisor, Dr. George Keyworth; to staff members
of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy; and
to a close friend, and member of the President's newly-appointed
Space Commission, Dr. David Webb.
Simultaneously, in view of the enormous geopolitical
implications, and the need for the earliest verification of our
hypothesis, we relayed copies of our research, through "second
track" diplomatic channels, to the Institute for Space Research,
in Moscow; the Institute had just announced an ambitious unmanned
return mission to the Red Planet in 1988, termed "Phobos,"
designed to carry out new imagery of Mars in addition to close-up
composition studies of the inner Martian moon, the namesake of
the mission. If the Cydonia objects were truly artificial, and
their "creators" truly visitors to Mars, there was a significant
probability in our opinion of discovering additional "artifacts"
waiting on the Martian moons . . .
Later, at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington,
D.C., I met personally with Dr. Roald Sagdeev, then head of the
Institute for Space Research, and handed him a copy of our
papers, even as I invited him to participate in helping us
discover what we'd found.
That was in January, 1985.
It was a few months later, after we had briefed high-level
members of both governments on the staggering possibility that
Viking may indeed have photographed the first hard evidence of
extraterrestrial intelligence -- "artifacts" lying on a near-by
planet . . . that President Reagan, at the first U.S.-- U.S.S.R.
Summit of his presidency, posed for the first time his
extraordinary "extraterrestrial scenario" to Mr. Gorbachev. And,
according to the President, Mr. Gorbachev agreed.
Coincidence?
* * *
In January, 1987, one of our team associates, a former
scientist-astronaut, Dr. Brian O'Leary, met in Moscow with
members of the Institute for Space Research, including its
director, Dr. Sagdeev. During the discussions, O'Leary
specifically reissued our request that the Phobos planners
consider new Cydonia photography as part of their own mission.
And he left copies of our latest Cydonia computer-enhanced
photographs of the "enigmatic landforms."
In January, 1989, the one surviving Phobos spacecraft (of
the two that had initially been launched) successfully arrived in
Martian orbit. For two exciting months, Phobos 2 took hundreds of
new close-up photographs of Mars, observed magnetic fields and
radiation, and tracked the orbit of its eventual destination:
Phobos. Then, without any advance warning or impending
difficulty, according to official Soviet news sources, the
spacecraft suddenly "expired" -- just prior to initiation of the
third, most crucial phase of its intended mission: a close-up
rendezvous with Phobos, and "tree-top" examination of its
surface.
Western space observers listening to Radio Moscow that night
were both puzzled and amazed to hear the news reports, describing
the inexplicable "failure of the mission," interspersed with
stories of "orthodox Russian priests invited to the Moscow Phobos
2 Control Center . . . to be shown photographs of Mars . . . and
to discuss the Creation . . ."
Curious, to say the least.
In April, less than a month after the unfortunate demise of
the Soviet Mars mission, and the dashing of our hopes that we
might get additional information on Cydonia or Phobos from the
Russian spacecraft, a group of us met in Washington with the head
of the key U.S. Congressional Committee which could direct that
NASA take new images of the "anomalies" with Mars Observer,
Chairman Robert Roe. There in his Capitol Hill office, three of
us -- imaging team expert, Dr. Mark Carlotto, a member of the
Defense Mapping Agency (working unofficially with our research),
Mr. Erol Torun, and myself -- showed the Congressman the best
computer-enhanced Cydonia images we had, presented geometric maps
demonstrating the inexplicable mathematical relationships between
the "Cydonia anomalies" -- and discussed the extraordinary global
implications of our data.
Months passed . . .
Then, in mid-September, came Chairman Roe's announcement:
that, in direct contravention of their previous "position," NASA
does indeed intend to take new, high-resolution images of the
"Monuments of Mars," with Mars Observer . . . now guaranteed --
by no less than the Chairman of the House Committee on Science,
Space and Technology himself. Thus, in less than four years -- 48
months -- the world will finally Know . . .
* * *
That there are extraordinary, unprecedented changes sweeping
the whole world is undeniable at this point. But for what
reasons? And why now? And why with such acceleration?
Standard political analysts cite abysmal economic conditions
in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, the general need for
radical political and economic institutional reform, and the
basic human drive for freedom, democracy, and the right of self-
determination, long-repressed and overdue. Release this pent-up
energy, these analysts insist, and the world will rapidly
resemble what we're seeing on our television screens.
These "explanations," in the face of ten thousand years of
extinct civilizations -- gone, because their leaders couldn't
change to meet the people's changing needs -- seem strangely
lacking in perspective; naive, in fact, and almost myopically
surreal. So, what alternative for what we have been witnessing
could possibly be stronger?
What if Mr. Reagan, through the constant repetition of his
"extraterrestrial scenario," was obliquely telling us the truth?!
What if, unknown to all but a handful "at the top," the
world is on the brink of finally Finding Out That We Are Not
Alone -- that the Martian "artifacts," if not their builders, are
very, very Real . . . ?
* * *
Shortly after he returned to Washington from the successful
Moscow Summit (his third face-to-face meeting with Mr. Gorbachev
-- of what would eventually become an unprecedented four times,
in less than three years), Mr. Reagan was asked by a reporter for
The Washington Post how he was going to respond to Mr.
Gorbachev's curious public invitation, just before the Summit,
"to go to Mars together." The President responded,
"I've seen the photographs [of Mars]. And I'll be darned if
I can see why anyone would want to live there!"
* * *
What if Mr. Bush has inherited the awesome potentials . . .
and the grave responsibilities . . . the imminent reality of
confirming the "Monuments of Mars" will force upon the "human
family" in the next few years; and, along with Mr. Gorbachev,
knows with absolutely certainty tonight that this Reality is
coming . . . because Phobos 2 did find something on the moons! --
behind a carefully fabricated cover story?
Suppose that these few people -- who hold in their hands the
literal destiny of the entire world -- know that there exist
tonight awesome, ancient ruins on the surface of a nearby world
that we will visit shortly . . . ruins filled with unknown
wonders, spectacular technologies, and perhaps, secrets of our
own beginnings . . . which someone built and occupied . . . and
mysteriously abandoned . . . when the human race was new. Ruins
whose centerpiece is a mile-long "monument to us" . . . and,
perhaps, to what we would become, in several hundred thousand
years . . . ?
How would they -- could they! -- tell a world that story, a
world held hostage for ten thousand tragic years by a thousand
animosities and hatreds, a world not yet ready for a vastly
different future, unless . . . ?
Would not the dynamic, almost inconceivable political
changes which have suddenly been thrust upon us -- glimmerings of
sudden, real new hope, not just in Eastern Europe, but for age-
old conflicts all around the globe, from South Africa to Central
America to the Middle East itself -- resemble, in appearance if
not in conformance with the repeated "warnings" of a former
President of the United States, what is now happening with
increasing and dizzying acceleration: the long sought End of
Childhood, the first hesitating steps toward realization of our
vast, too-long delayed potential -- as "one human family . . . on
one Earth?" And behind it all . . . waiting . . . an almost
timeless Monument -- lying on a near-by planet, foreshadowing
this ancient Truth?
* * *
Which brings us to the stormy Malta Summit . . .
First of all, why "Malta?"
Was it only sheer "convenience" -- close to Rome, where the
leader of the Communist world had just completed an unprecedented
audience with Pope John-Paul -- or was a deeper symbolism also
subtly intended . . . including, a meeting in the only bay on
Earth called "Marsaxlokk" -- "the Bay of Mars!"
And why the almost dogged insistence on meeting on those
ships -- to the point where the most severe Mediterranean storm
in over twenty years was allowed (in peacetime!) to threaten the
life of the President of the United States -- and then, the
meetings merely shifted to another ship, but still within the Bay
-- instead of (as common sense would strongly seem to indicate),
a stable location on the island? More symbolism -- to reinforce
the "importance" of the Bay -- or that . . . coupled with
someone's overriding interest in "security?" But security from
whom -- the press?; what could possibly have been that "secret?"
Which brings us to one of the few results, coming from this
quite extraordinary meeting, that we've been told about so far:
the announcement of an accelerated timetable on the complex, but
globally-important Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Which raises
an additional important question: why a sudden decision to come
to an agreement by next June? Just so a treaty (on weapons whose
likelihood of use is rapidly diminishing) can formally be
ratified at the next Summit? Or . . . is Something Else urging
now an even greater acceleration of events . . . beyond the
dizzying rate at which they've been occurring (such as the GDR
Party coming apart for the second time, and just as the Malta
Summit was concluding . . .)?
These are only some of the nagging questions left hanging in
the air by a suddenly-called Summit, in a bay called "Mars" at
Malta . . . as Something lies waiting for us on the planet Mars
itself . . . something Big Enough to be shaping all of this . . .
if we could only see the evidence before us.
Mr. Gorbachev . . . Mr. Bush . . . under any definition of
"glasnost" or "self-determination" -- as we now enter your self-
proclaimed "New Era" -- we have a right to know.
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- as we now enter your self- proclaimed "New Era" -- we have a right to know.
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