While Hoagland is here following the standard line that such cratering is due to the early stages of the solar system and its presumed intense bombardment of planets by meteors, and therefore that he is following the standard model’s dating of such surface features with an age more or less concurrent with that of the planet’s formation some four billion years ago, Hoagland is quite alive to other possibilities of explanation, and therefore, for the formation of these features in much more recent times.628
The presence within the southern, heavily-cratered hemisphere of Mars of many apparent water-run off channels in the same terrain, however, indicated a problem. For the standard theory, it indicated that Mars either had abundant water very early in its planetary history, or that it was suddenly inundated with abundant water. Either way, this appeared to pose problems for the age of Mars. For one thing, it meant that water and atmosphere were stripped from Mars at a very early period, making the idea of intelligent life dwelling on that planet quite problematic. This, plus the anomalous “Face-Sphinx” and pyramidal structures at Cydonia on Mars, which were of an apparently later date, was the problem. How to reconcile the two conflicting data streams? Hoagland was thrust back upon the method of “dating by cratering,” and began to look at the Viking Cydonia images from this point of view:
The area of the single Viking frame encompassing the objects - 35A72 — was slightly less than a thousand miles in area. - a thousand times smaller than the areas used for “crater counting” in the literature. Nonetheless, I decided to apply this tried and true technique to this single Viking frame, for it would give me some rough estimate of the numbers of craters in this region of the planet — and thus a rough idea of the underlying landscape’s age...
And moments later I was presented with a paradox: there were “too many” craters.
....
(The) actual numbers of craters in the picture, exceeding a kilometer in size, was three to five times the numbers in the published curves. This could be explained by “clumping” (the numbers were a statistic fluke...), or they could be real...
In which case, this region of Cydonia was among the oldest on the planet — over 4 billion years in age! 629
It is worth pausing for a moment to consider this possibility in the light of what has been written previously here about the primordial nature of the revolt and cosmic war in the pantheon. If — and it must be emphasized that this is a gigantic “if” — Cydonia and its artifacts were that old, then it would constitute prima facie corroborative evidence of this primordial cosmic war.
However, such an extreme date for all these Martian anomalies need not actually have been the case. Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis in any of its versions would also explain why there is such heavy cratering on Mars and much more aptly explain why it is limited to largely the southern hemisphere of that planet. It would similarly explain why Mars shows every sign of having been suddenly and violently inundated with water. It would explain the run-off channels and their presence in heavily crated areas quite easily. But this would place the cratering dates at a much later 65,000,000 or 3,200,000 years ago. This is more acceptable, to be sure, in terms of the possibility of the presence of life on Mars.
Hoagland began to turn his attention to the phenomenon of double-cratering, i.e., twin craters of almost the exact same size and internal features, laid out in neat linear patterns. But there was another problem he noticed about many of the craters on Mars, whether double or not: many were too shallow to have been caused by impacts. This, plus the evidence of strange damage to the admittedly eroded “Face” and even stranger apparent damage to the massive five-sided D&M Pyramid on Mars formed “one of the most disturbing observations” that Hoagland made, “that the objects at Cydonia exhibited considerably more than ‘natural degradation’ — for any reasonable age.”630 And it all went back to Hoagland’s highly anomalous crater counts for the Cydonia Viking frame.
This led him to pose the following significant question. This, and the response of the scientist whom he consulted, is cited extensively below, for it is of paramount importance as corroborative evidence of the Cosmic War Hypothesis:
Was it possible (I’d dared to ask myself, after the numbers consistently came out too high), that the evidence of significant erosion on the Face and pyramids - and the abnormally high number of 1-kilometer creators in the area were a result of some powerful artificial agent...?
In other words, had life on Mars — the Roman “God of War” — been exterminated in an all-out nuclear holocaust?!
The thought was too fantastic...yet, it could explain a lot of things ... the craters... and the other evidence I’d seen; in examining the City under the magnifying glass, I’d viewed direct evidence of melting and flow on the Main Pyramid within the City. In addition, there was the apparent massive destruction of much of the southeast sides of both that structure, and the equally puzzling “Fort” — and of forces which had, somehow, apparently completely vaporized (or blown off) the “roof” which must have originally covered up “the honeycomb!”
Then, there was the strategically placed “impact crater” in the south-eastern flank of the D&M pyramid, and the equally suspicious “domed uplift” distorting its geometry. Was this the work of some kind of “rocket-borne explosive” — which had penetrated the interior of the pyramid, and then detonated, leaving an exit “blow-hole” type crater, and severe internal structural deformation?
Very cautiously, during our second phone call, I explored with (plasma physicist John Brandenburg) the kinds of craters a nuclear exchange would leave behind, and the “statistical anomalies” of so many craters on the objects of most interest — like the Face and the D&M pyramid.
It was his suggestion that, if craters on this part of Mars were “artificial,” there would be a way to tell — because nuclear explosions (as opposed to meteor craters) would be shallower... On the other hand, he said (undercutting in the next breath, my brief hope that here was a definitive test!), the craters produced in targets in the lab, as part of the new Space Defense Initiative tests, were deep — not unlike meteor craters themselves — a direct result of the way they were produced: by exotic particle beams “burying” their energy deep within the targets.
Now shades of ray guns and Orson Welles’ green Martians!
More significant was the fact that (John Brandenburg) had access to people at the lab who did have information regarding the kinds of exotic isotopes a nuclear exchange would likely leave behind within the atmosphere... 631
Remember the Xenon129 found on Mars, a nuclear by-product not normally encountered naturally?
What Hoagland has clearly implied is that the Cydonia region shows every sign of having been deliberately targeted and destroyed in a war, a war that notably was fought not only with nuclear bombs, but exotic energy weaponry, weaponry recalling the plasma discharges of Anthony Peratt, and the ancient petroglyphs. Cydonia, in other words, constitutes not only strong prima facie evidence of a civilization on Mars, but also of a war, a cosmic war, that destroyed it.
6. Plasma Discharge, Valles Marineris, and Strange Sumerian Myth
But why call this war “cosmic,” inferring that it was of an interplanetary nature, and not simply a war fought just on Mars itself, by elements of the civilization that was there? The answer, as seen in chapter two, lies in a peculiar “interdisciplinary” piece of evidence, that of the colossal gashing wound on the surface of Mars called the Valles Marineris:
The Valles Mariners
Reference has already been made of this unusual feature of Mars in chapter two, and to the fact that it fulfills geologically the ancient mythological archetype of the “wounded warrior,” for in mythology and astrological lore, Mars — Nergal, Aries, Herakles in his Babylonian and Greek nomenclature — was certainly a warrior. A wounded warrior.
After all the foregoing chapters, it should not now surprise us that there is possibly very curious corroboration of this gashing wound from t
he ancient Sumerian myth, the Lugal-E, which we have referred to previously in this work.
To recapitulate what was previously said about the Lugal-E, it recounts the revolt of Azag against Ninurta, and Ninurta’s subsequent “inventory of the stones.” However, we now draw attention to some other features. In the myth, Azag is referred to as a “fearless warrior,”632 a title with suggestive connections to Mars as we have seen. But most curiously are the Lugal-E’s identification of Azag, not with a person, but with a thing, an object of incredible power, as the following passages indicate:
The Azag rose to attack In the front line of the battle.
The sky it pulled down as a weapon For its hip, took it in hand,
Into the earth it struck the head snakelike
...It screamed wrathfully
Like a formidable serpent It hissed from among its people
It wiped up the waters in the highland Swept away the tamarisks,
It gashed the earth’s body.
Made painful wounds
...
And till today black cinders are in the fields. 633
If one take the statement about a gash made “in the earth’s body” as a reference not to this specific planet, but rather simply to the ground beneath one’s feat, to a planetary frame of reference in general, then the depiction of Azag’s war against Ninurta in this passage fits remarkably well with the features on Mars recounted by Hoagland and others.
For example, the statement that the Azag “pulled down the sky” as a weapon, plus the subsequent sentence that it intended it as a weapon for its “hip,” that it could “take in hand” implies a sword. Azag’s weapon appears as a version of Zeus’ divine thunderbolt and Ninurta’s divine lightning discussed in chapter two. It sounds very much like the plasma discharges of Anthony Peratt. Thus, the gashing wound that it made, whose “black cinders are in the fields” up “till today” is a reference to a gaping wound of planetary scale, a wound made by “lightning,” whose scorching effects are still visible. The Valles Marineris fits the bill perfectly for a “wound in a warrior,” Mars, that is caused by lightning, or plasma discharge, which is still visible. This type of discharge, moreover, could easily be taken as “pulling down the sky” and striking like a sword “into the earth” in a twisting, lightning bolt fashion, like a snake.
The planetary context, in other words, of at least some parts of the Lugal-E would appear to fit better with events on Mars, than on Earth.
B. The “Fear” of Mars: the Moonlet Phobos and its Monolith
In this context of the Azag as a “thing”, and a context for some parts of the Lugal-E taking place on Mars, the peculiar features of Mars’ little moonlet Phobos should be considered. Phobos,634 a name which in the Greek means “fear,” is an unusual object in its own right.
Mars’Moonlet, Phobos
Note carefully the large crater, barely visible in the above picture, which more or less faces toward the right of the Moonlet, looking toward the surface of Mars. A close-up of this feature follows:
Close-up of the Large Crater Feature on Phobos
Careful scrutiny of this picture will reveal that the large crater is hexagonally shaped!
Phobos’Peculiar Hexagon Crater
This feature, plus the strange grooves running on the surface of the little moon just beneath the hexagonal crater, suggest, once again, that there is more afoot on Mars and its satellites than just natural geological processes. As we shall see in the next chapter, the strangeness of this feature is magnified by the fact that there is almost an exact analogue of this feature on yet another moonlet, far far away from Phobos.
The strangeness of this little moonlet does not end there. The following picture of a small “tower”, its square shape and shadow clearly visible, is also from Phobos.
Small “Cylindrical Tower” on Phobos
Additionally, Phobos also has its own gravitational anomalies that strongly suggest that it, too, might be a “hollow” moonlet. Indeed, the Soviets were the first to suggest, as they did with Earth’s far larger Moon, that Mars’ little satellite might indeed be an artificial object in its entirety.
And well they might, for Russian attempts to explore the Red Planet and Phobos have met with some very disastrous results, the most extreme example of which was the apparent deliberate destruction of their Mars probe Phobos II on the 25th of March, 1989. Just before transmissions from the probe suddenly ended, it sent back the following picture of the shadow of an object on the surface of Mars itself, an object that was in the vicinity of the moonlet Phobos. The Russian probe also photographed a now famous picture of a long, thin, cylindrical object beneath the Martian moon shortly before all further communication was permanently lost.
Shadow of Cylindrical Object Cast on the Surface of Mars, Photographed by the Russian Phobos ll Probe, 25 March, 1989
Photograph of Long Cylindrical Object Beneath the Martian Moon Phobos Taken Before Transmissions Ceased, 25 March 1989
Needless to say, the Soviet Union at first placed these photographs under the highest security classification, then, for some reason, decided to share these two pictures with the United States. This fact led some Russian scientists to conclude that Phobos itself was an artificial moon, and that their probe has been deliberately attacked and neutralized by the cylindrical object that it photographed just prior to the probe’s loss.
C. The Two Space Programs Hypothesis
1. The Occult Basis of Missions Timing
The presence of such anomalies on Mars, and the equally mysterious objects and structures on - and around - its little moonlet Phobos, highlight the hypothesis of Two Space Programs, one a public one for show, and the other a deeply covert and hidden one, in no uncertain terms.
In its most recent form, the Two Space Programs Hypothesis has been advanced by such luminaries as former astronaut, physicist, and PhD Brian O‘Leary, and of course, Richard C. Hoagland. O’Leary maintains that the United States - and therefore presumably anyone else with a space program — has maintained a hidden military program under the auspices of the US Air Force in conjunction with various intelligence agencies of the American government. This program has run at least since the inception of NASA, if not before, and oftentimes its missions are wrapped within NASA missions, and sometimes its missions are run entirely independently of NASA. O’Leary maintains that this program has its own launch facilities, vehicles, and its own corps of trained astronauts kept well away from the public eye.
In its Hoagland version, however, the Two Space Programs takes on an additional aspect. Hoagland has often pointed out in interviews on radio shows, and in various papers found on his website, that many space missions appear to be timed to take place when certain astrological conditions or alignments occur. He has marshaled over the years a vast body of evidence to suggest a strong prima facie case that this is so. Additionally, Hoagland has also pointed out that the very names of the space projects of the “golden years” of NASA — Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo - are full of astrological and occult significance. Hoagland and others have pointed to the existence of a variety of Masonic and esoteric symbolism in mission logos, and the heavy presence of Masons within the astronaut corps plus the performance of Masonic rites on the Moon as indicating a hidden, covert or occulted aspect to the space program.
2. A Covert Missions Objective: The Quest for and Recovery of Paleophysics and Paleotechnology
This heavy Masonic presence, plus the astrological alignments of many space missions, does indeed suggest a covert and little known agenda behind the space program. Indeed, as author William Henry has observed, the quest for the recovery of ancient science and technology became
An essential feature of their secret society. In November 1752, when George Washington became a Mason in Fredericksburg, he heard the following words:
“The proper business of a Mason is astronomical, chemical, geological and moral science, and more particularly that of the ancients, with all the mys
teries and fables founded upon it.
“Let us endeavor to turn the stream, to go from priest-craft to science, from mystery to knowledge, from allegory to real history.”635
Weighed in the balance along with the Masonic presence in the early astronaut corps and the likelihood of an additional and hidden military program, it would thus appear that there is another aspect to the Two Space Programs Hypothesis, and that is a paleophysical one. It would appear that one goal of the space effort is to “turn the stream” in precisely the Masonic sense alluded to above, to recover the ancient physics, and its associated technologies.
If so, then the implications are staggering, for it means that from the inception of the space age, someone had already determined on the basis of the then-existing evidence, that this evidence was sufficient to indicate that such technology existed and by implication, that such wars were fought. It stands to reason, then, that any evidence supporting such conclusions in the public sphere would be either suppressed or tampered with.
In short, the reason that NASA does not come clean with an admission of the artificial nature of Cydonia or of other Martian anomalies is not because they are indicators of a former civilization there. It is rather because the mythological context - the Cosmic War context - of those artifacts is also known, and that context implies the possible existence of a science and technology that may be recoverable.
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