This is the famed Cydonia plain as it would be seen from a plane flying high over this region of Mars. To the top right, one can easily see the Face, while to the bottom left of the photo, a group of pyramids are probably the ruins of a vast city/arcology. (The circle in the centre is just a camera registration mark!)

The Discovery

In 1976 the Viking I & II orbiters and landers reached Mars. Thousands of photographs were taken of the red planet and transmitted to Earth. During one of the press conferences where the photographs were presented to the public, a NASA employee jokingly said that one of the mesas photographed resembled a human face. This was just a trick of light and shadow, he said, as a photo of the same area taken at a later hour did not show anything unusual. And that was that, for the time being.

Two men, Vince DiPietro and Greg Molenaar did not forget about this incident. They found the original frame with the face and cleaned it up with various computer imaging techniques including one they developed specifically for these images (called Starburst Pixel Interleaving Technique SPIT !), and made another discovery. This was a huge five sided pyramid several miles to the South-West of the face. This pyramid is now known as the D & M Pyramid. In 1983, Richard Hoagland, a former science adviser to Walter Cronkite, read a paper written by DiPietro and Molenaar on the Face and D & M Pyramid. The saga had begun!

Intelligent Origin

Richard Hoagland and The Mars Mission found a number of structures that did not match the terrain in the area and it is highly improbable that these structures would have been formed through wind/water erosion over the millenia. After discovering that the very position of the structures actually formed a "message" -- the angles between the buildings, Face, D & M Pyramid and other structures recurringly pointing out mathematical constants and ratios such as pi and e -- the extreme significance of Cydonia cannot be ignored.

When SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) was first proposed, the first contact was expected to be made by receiving a radio signal which encoded a message using universal mathematical constants which can be easily understood by any intelligence notwithstanding the different languages. Here we now have a group of highly anomalous structures on a neighbouring planet that is not only encoding a number of universal constants in the way it was built, but when translated, these constants/ratios/angles, are actually giving us what now seems to be a NEW PHYSICS! This cannot be anything but proof that the message of Cydonia is of intelligent, extra-terrestrial origin and not "a trick of light and shadow" as NASA is so fond of saying.

The Structures

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Note the extraordinary detail, including 'teeth' in the mouth and horizontal stripes on the 'head-dress' framing the face! This monument is some 2.5 km long, 2 km wide and 400 metres high!! The Face viewed under various filters.

A group of large pyramids to the West of the Face. Note the five columns/mounds in the exact centre of the city. Someone standing at this point and looking eastwards would have seen the sun rising over the Face during the summer solstice, showing that the buildings were built with specific celestial alignments in mind, once again confirming their artificiality.

THE CITY. Click here for a larger version.

One of the most unusual structures in the whole complex is a three walled enclosure which due to its shape, has been nicknamed "The Fort". This may very well be the foundations of a pyramid that was never completed!

THE FORT. Click here for a larger version.

The D & M Pyramid is an enormous five-sided structure. Note the buttresses at each corner, the two damaged sides on the right, and the "bottomless" crater.

THE D & M PYRAMID. Click here for a larger version.

To the east of the Face there is a 3 km long cliff. Further east is a large crater with a three-sided pyramid (or tetrahedron) on the edge. Both structures are thought to be artificial. If they had been there before the meteor impacted to create the crater, they would have been damaged. Therefore, the objects were built after the crater was formed! THE CLIFF AND CRATER. Click here for a larger version.

A few miles to the south of the cliff, a hill or mound known as the "Tholus" forms part of the Cydonia complex. What is so unusual about the Tholus is that it has a spiral ramp circling it like a path to the top. If a vertical line is drawn along the cliff to the top of the Tholus, and another line drawn from the top of the Tholus to the pyramid on the crater's edge, the angle thus formed is 19.5 degrees, an angle found repeatedly throughout the complex.

There are other anomalies on Mars besides the structures at Cydonia. One of them, located in the Utopia region half way round the planet from Cydonia, is featured here and is known as the "Runway" and "Bow-tie". Is the "Runway" some form of magnetic accelerator or rail gun?

THE RUNWAY & BOW-TIE Click here for a larger version.

A MARS/EARTH CONNECTION?

There are many pyramids on the Earth, and some are found in Egypt.
The Egyptian word "Al Qahira" means "to conquer".  It also means 
"Cairo", the capital city of Egypt.  The root of this Egyptian word,
"Al Qahir" means "MARS", a strange coincidental fact that has 
existed in this language for thousands of years.  Although this 
translation may not have direct bearing on this investigation, it 
is certainly a fact which cannot be ignored in the future when men
finally set foot on Mars and examine the pyramids there.

References and Acknowledgements :

Enhanced Images courtesy of Dr Mark J. Carlotto (Face on Mars home page)
author of "The Martian Enigmas : A Closer Look" ISBN 1-55643-129-1

Richard C. Hoagland author of "The Monuments of Mars" ISBN 1-55643-118-X

David Hatcher Childress author of "ExtraTerrestrial Archaeology"
ISBN 0-932813-21-6

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