The Mission
In 1992, an official U.S. unmanned Defense Department (DOD) mission to the Moon was announced
by the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The first return
to the Moon by the United States in 23 years, the mission was officially termed "the
Deep Space Program Science Experiment" but has become better known by its public nickname
"Clementine". Within a record two years of its origination, the completed BMDO Clementine
spacecraft was dispatched to lunar orbit, commencing January 25, 1994.
The two-part mission, according to DOD press announcements, was initially intended to orbit the
Moon for two months, beginning in February, 1994. The immediate goal of Clementine, according
to these official statements, was the testing of advanced "off-the-shelf" military sensor technology -
to be accomplished by means of extensive lunar imaging, mapping, and multi-spectral mineral identification;
subsequent to successfully completing this lunar mapping phase, the spacecraft was to
continue sensor testing by departing lunar orbit in early May, 1994 - for an August 1994
fly-by of a well-known Earth-crossing asteroid, "1620 Geographos".
The Malfunction & The Leak!
Unfortunately, after brilliantly completing the lunar mapping phase of the intended
two-part mission, according to Pentagon sources "a Clementine spacecraft computer failed"
resulting in the depletion of all on-board attitude-control fuel. According to these sources,
this, in turn, resulted in an inability to point Clementine's extensive array of multi-spectral
sensors during the Geographos asteroid fly-by segment of the mission. For this reason, the
planned fly-by of Geographos was canceled.
But before this unfortunate occurrence, enormous quantities of superb-quality lunar data were
successfully returned to Earth - in terms of pictures, over 25,000 images per day!
According to official "inside" NASA sources these images were to have been disseminated over the
Internet by the end of 1994 - this would have included visual images, multi-spectral composites,
laser altimetry, and global maps - data approaching 400 gigabytes of information!
However, since then almost nothing from the Clementine mission has been officially released; except
for a paltry handful of low-quality BMDO lunar photographs sporadically on the Internet, literally
99.99995% of the almost 2 million Clementine images acquired during two full months of extraordinary
lunar orbit science have been inexplicably withheld from all outside scientific scrutiny - as well as
from members of the press and public.
On January 20, 1995, a Mars Mission associate chanced upon a very different kind of Clementine
image, anonymously uploaded to the Internet. After preliminary analysis, this particular
Clementine data set has turned out to represent a major breakthrough into the continuing
investigation into the possibility of artificial structures on the Moon. The "leaked" image mosaic
is known as APP172.JPG.
The APP172.JPG Mosaic
The APP172.jpg - Larger Version (78 K)-
is a Near Infra-Red (NIR) image covering approximately 300,000 square miles of lunar surface. It is centered almost
directly on the Earthside hemisphere - the Sinus Medii region. Note that the circular features are NOT craters but
may actually be similar to the Megacube Structure as seen from above!
Remember the Ukert crater 16-mile triangle? How about this - ANOTHER triangle
but this time it measures 272 miles on each side. The three structures at each vertex of the triangle are probably miles
high cube/towers holding up the Sinus Medii dome!
Click here for a larger version of the Triangle.
Close-ups of Vertex 1, Vertex 2 and Vertex 3.
The object on the left is a SPOT satellite photo of the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the one
on the right is of another Pentagon, but this time on the moon and measuring some 30 miles across!
Click here for a larger version of this Pentagon.
Three close-ups of Manilius crater - NIR mosaic (colour), Apollo 10 Frame 4822 (B & W).
Note that what is seen as "haze" floating above the crater is colour-coded in red/pink and light-blue (see lines) on the Clementine photograph.
The "haze" is probably semi-transparent (damaged) glass of the highly geometric structure which is also suspended over Sinus Medii.
Click here for a larger version of the Manilius Crater.
| More Structures on the Moon |
| Astronauts among Lunar Ruins |
| Clementine Mosaic Analysis |
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