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Ancient Aliens on Mars
New York Times best-selling author and Secret Space Program researcher Mike Bara brings us this lavishly illustrated volume on alien structures on Mars. Was there once a vast, technologically advanced civilization on Mars, and did it leave evidence of its existence behind for humans to find eons later? Did these advanced extraterrestrials vanish in a solar system-wide cataclysm of their own making, only to make their way to Earth and start anew? Was Mars once as lush and green as the Earth, and teeming with life? Did Mars once orbit a missing member of the solar system, a “Super Earth†that vanished in a disaster that devastated life on Earth and Venus and left us only the asteroid belt as evidence of its once grand existence? Did the survivors of this catastrophe leave monuments and temples behind, arranged in a mathematical precision designed to teach us the Secret of a new physics that could lift us back to the stars? Does the planet have an automated defense shield that swallows up robotic probes if they wander into the wrong areas? And are the lights still on down there, deep below the sands of Mars, just waiting for us to uncover them? Mike Bara examines all these questions and more in this astounding book, full of fascinating information on the following Mars as the Abode of Life What Happened to Mars? The True Colors of Mars The Message of Cydonia The Politics of Mars The Pathfinder Sphinx Mars Global Surveyor Discoveries Face it, It’s a Face Tons More!
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 20, 2013
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January 6, 2015
Well written
Full of info and both sides using science a good read for noobs to genre. Now on to book two
Full of info and both sides using science a good read for noobs to genre. Now on to book two
September 18, 2014
There is so much on Mars to see, this book just scratches the surface.
July 22, 2023
A VIGOROUS ARGUMENT SUPPORTING INTELLIGENCE ON MARS (NOW, OR PAST)
(Author Mike Bara devoted the first thirty pages of this 2013 book to a Foreword that is mostly a series of sharp arguments with critics of his ideas (many of the comments are rather ‘snarky,’ on ALL sides…!), that would probably have been better placed as a ‘Afterword’ or Appendix.’ (Refer to his Blog, to get the exhaustive details---from his perspective---of these arguments…)
In the first chapter, he recounts how in 1924 Francis Jenkins’s Radio-Camera recorded on photographic film 29 hours of radio signals while Mars was (relatively) close to Earth in its orbit. “at about evenly spaced intervals, are curiously jumbled groups, each taking the form of a crudely drawn face.” (Pg. 54) He notes that Dr, David Peck Todd, professor emeritus at Amherst College, commented, “The Jenkins machine is perhaps the hypothetical Martians’ best chance of making themselves known to earth… a machine that is now transmitting earthward their ‘close-up’ of faces, scenes, buildings, landscapes and what not…” (Pg. 54) Bara adds, “Unfortunately, the only record that seems to exist of the Jenkins Radio Camera output from the listening session is a crude scan done by the Yale University Library. Still, the dot-dash pattern and the creepy face are clearly visible… there does indeed appear to be the image of humanoid face in profile… [which] appears proto-human, with no real noes and some oddly shaped features on the skull around the eye socket.” (Pg. 55)
He states, “Mars is not a planet but a moon---a former moon of a planet near its current orbit that doesn’t exist anymore.” (Pg. 59) He continues, “[Tom] Van Flandern… also asserted that Mercury was not a planet, but rather an escaped moon of Venus, and that Mars was a remnant moon of a second exploded planet… which I dubbed ‘Maldek’ in [a previous book].” (Pg. 65) He says that on Mars, “the cratered area … was caused by debris from the explosion of Maldek… The smooth-planed northern hemisphere … was created when this massive global ocean was released from the gravitational tug of Maldek and scoured the surface of the planet facing away from the impact zone. It later froze there, creating the smooth, nearly un-cratered surface we see today. And killing Mars. This catastrophe not only destroyed whatever civilization had once flourished on Mars, leaving only ruins… mainstream, scientists will tell you that there isn’t much of anything there… What I will tell you is that there is an unbelievable amount of Ancient Alien evidence on Mars, that it was once covered by a vast and complex civilization, one that was far more advanced than ours… Mars still lives… Microbial and even advanced plant life is a given.” (Pg. 77-78)
He reports, “Mariner 9 … led to the first modern speculation about the possibility of an Ancient Alien presence… Carl Sagan… spotted some tetrahedra and polyhedral ‘mounds’ in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars… [that] he eloquently dubbed the ‘Pyramids of Elysium’ in both his 1980 book Cosmos and his PBS TC series of the same name… ‘The largest are .. much larger than the pyramids … on Earth… They seem eroded an ancient, and are, perhaps, only small mountains, sandblasted for ages. But they warrant, I think, a careful look.” (Pg. 80-81)
He contends, “The weakest part of NASA’s [negative] argument about … pyramidal structures on Mars … is their complete isolation in the surrounding terrain… fully isolated pyramidal forms are always artificial, at least on Earth… how is it that Dr. Sagan can find tetrahedral and four-sided pyramids on Mars in complete isolation, and yet their origin must somehow be natural?” (Pg. 84)
He explains, “Another very interesting discovery by Mariner 9 was a very strange, geometric formation near the South Polar Region. Informally dubbed the ‘Inca City’ by Mariner 9 scientists in 1972, the Inca City was a set of intersecting ridges, uniform in height and at right angles to each other… Unconventional Mars investigators have always looked at the Inca City as potentially artificial, citing their resemblance to partially buried ruins on the Earth.” (Pg. 85-87)
Of the famous ‘Face On Mars’ photographed by the Viking orbiter, he comments, “So why did they [NASA] rush to get it out in the press and claim that there was nothing to this ‘Face’ thing? And how could the Viking project scientists have made such a huge mistake in their claim about a second, disconfirming image? They didn’t. They lied.” (Pg. 93)
He notes, “[Richard] Hoagland was the first to realize that all of this detail was ultimately meaningless if it turned out that the Face was an isolated landform… if it was all by itself, with no evidence of any civilization around it to have constructed the monument, then it could simply be a marvelous trick of erosion and shadow after all. So Hoagland and the members of the investigation began to look in the immediate vicinity of the Face to see if there was any other evidence of anomalous objects nearby… By the mid-1980s, the various members of the investigation were ready to present their findings to the scientific community and call for more analysis and better pictures to determine the validity of their observations. They met with a chilly reception. Efforts to get their work published in peer-reviewed journals were quickly rebuked… Carl Sagan helped [Mark] Carlotto get a couple of papers published in computer optics journals and featured his images in an update of the Cosmos TV series on DVD.” (Pg. 103)
Of the Mars Pathfinder mission, “Worldwide viewers, watching the NASA unmanned mission live on CNN, began calling in about the strangely geometric rocks that they were seeing in the sudden flood of images… [Ron] Nicks and Hoagland… quickly realized that what they were seeing was not the expected wind or water eroded rocks… but a debris field filled with a variety of apparently corroded, MANUFACTURED metal objects.” (Pg. 151) He adds, “What had been merely a huge, dark, somewhat blobby shape on the original images suddenly emerged as recognizable on the new, highly processed images. It quickly apparent that something very interesting might have been imaged on the Martian landscape… What it seemed to be---at least to my eyes---as a SPHINX.” (Pg. 158) He continue, “Critics point out that it is unlikely that a ‘sphinx’ could survive intact in an area devastated by a large flood… So how could the sphinx have survived relatively intact? Easy. The water flowed around it.” (Pg. 162)
He concludes, “When I first began this project, it was my intention to cover far more examples of Ancient Alien ruins on Mars than just famous objects in Cydonia and the other sites we have discovered here. Unfortunately, the Face and other enigmatic landforms there have a way of taking over a manuscript and dominating it…. I was unable to even cover all of the information on that region that I was planning to include… While this disappoints me to some extent, it will give me the freedom and time to do justice to mysteries like the petroglyphs on Mars, the Martian skull, and the enduring mysteries of the rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. There are simply so many more Ancient Alien stories to tell about Mars that I can’t wait to get started, even as I close the proverbial chapter of this work… The bottom line is that Mars is a place of such rich mysteries that this series really could go on for a long time.” (Pg. 215-216)
This book will interest those studying ‘Ancient Aliens,’ and related topics.
(Author Mike Bara devoted the first thirty pages of this 2013 book to a Foreword that is mostly a series of sharp arguments with critics of his ideas (many of the comments are rather ‘snarky,’ on ALL sides…!), that would probably have been better placed as a ‘Afterword’ or Appendix.’ (Refer to his Blog, to get the exhaustive details---from his perspective---of these arguments…)
In the first chapter, he recounts how in 1924 Francis Jenkins’s Radio-Camera recorded on photographic film 29 hours of radio signals while Mars was (relatively) close to Earth in its orbit. “at about evenly spaced intervals, are curiously jumbled groups, each taking the form of a crudely drawn face.” (Pg. 54) He notes that Dr, David Peck Todd, professor emeritus at Amherst College, commented, “The Jenkins machine is perhaps the hypothetical Martians’ best chance of making themselves known to earth… a machine that is now transmitting earthward their ‘close-up’ of faces, scenes, buildings, landscapes and what not…” (Pg. 54) Bara adds, “Unfortunately, the only record that seems to exist of the Jenkins Radio Camera output from the listening session is a crude scan done by the Yale University Library. Still, the dot-dash pattern and the creepy face are clearly visible… there does indeed appear to be the image of humanoid face in profile… [which] appears proto-human, with no real noes and some oddly shaped features on the skull around the eye socket.” (Pg. 55)
He states, “Mars is not a planet but a moon---a former moon of a planet near its current orbit that doesn’t exist anymore.” (Pg. 59) He continues, “[Tom] Van Flandern… also asserted that Mercury was not a planet, but rather an escaped moon of Venus, and that Mars was a remnant moon of a second exploded planet… which I dubbed ‘Maldek’ in [a previous book].” (Pg. 65) He says that on Mars, “the cratered area … was caused by debris from the explosion of Maldek… The smooth-planed northern hemisphere … was created when this massive global ocean was released from the gravitational tug of Maldek and scoured the surface of the planet facing away from the impact zone. It later froze there, creating the smooth, nearly un-cratered surface we see today. And killing Mars. This catastrophe not only destroyed whatever civilization had once flourished on Mars, leaving only ruins… mainstream, scientists will tell you that there isn’t much of anything there… What I will tell you is that there is an unbelievable amount of Ancient Alien evidence on Mars, that it was once covered by a vast and complex civilization, one that was far more advanced than ours… Mars still lives… Microbial and even advanced plant life is a given.” (Pg. 77-78)
He reports, “Mariner 9 … led to the first modern speculation about the possibility of an Ancient Alien presence… Carl Sagan… spotted some tetrahedra and polyhedral ‘mounds’ in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars… [that] he eloquently dubbed the ‘Pyramids of Elysium’ in both his 1980 book Cosmos and his PBS TC series of the same name… ‘The largest are .. much larger than the pyramids … on Earth… They seem eroded an ancient, and are, perhaps, only small mountains, sandblasted for ages. But they warrant, I think, a careful look.” (Pg. 80-81)
He contends, “The weakest part of NASA’s [negative] argument about … pyramidal structures on Mars … is their complete isolation in the surrounding terrain… fully isolated pyramidal forms are always artificial, at least on Earth… how is it that Dr. Sagan can find tetrahedral and four-sided pyramids on Mars in complete isolation, and yet their origin must somehow be natural?” (Pg. 84)
He explains, “Another very interesting discovery by Mariner 9 was a very strange, geometric formation near the South Polar Region. Informally dubbed the ‘Inca City’ by Mariner 9 scientists in 1972, the Inca City was a set of intersecting ridges, uniform in height and at right angles to each other… Unconventional Mars investigators have always looked at the Inca City as potentially artificial, citing their resemblance to partially buried ruins on the Earth.” (Pg. 85-87)
Of the famous ‘Face On Mars’ photographed by the Viking orbiter, he comments, “So why did they [NASA] rush to get it out in the press and claim that there was nothing to this ‘Face’ thing? And how could the Viking project scientists have made such a huge mistake in their claim about a second, disconfirming image? They didn’t. They lied.” (Pg. 93)
He notes, “[Richard] Hoagland was the first to realize that all of this detail was ultimately meaningless if it turned out that the Face was an isolated landform… if it was all by itself, with no evidence of any civilization around it to have constructed the monument, then it could simply be a marvelous trick of erosion and shadow after all. So Hoagland and the members of the investigation began to look in the immediate vicinity of the Face to see if there was any other evidence of anomalous objects nearby… By the mid-1980s, the various members of the investigation were ready to present their findings to the scientific community and call for more analysis and better pictures to determine the validity of their observations. They met with a chilly reception. Efforts to get their work published in peer-reviewed journals were quickly rebuked… Carl Sagan helped [Mark] Carlotto get a couple of papers published in computer optics journals and featured his images in an update of the Cosmos TV series on DVD.” (Pg. 103)
Of the Mars Pathfinder mission, “Worldwide viewers, watching the NASA unmanned mission live on CNN, began calling in about the strangely geometric rocks that they were seeing in the sudden flood of images… [Ron] Nicks and Hoagland… quickly realized that what they were seeing was not the expected wind or water eroded rocks… but a debris field filled with a variety of apparently corroded, MANUFACTURED metal objects.” (Pg. 151) He adds, “What had been merely a huge, dark, somewhat blobby shape on the original images suddenly emerged as recognizable on the new, highly processed images. It quickly apparent that something very interesting might have been imaged on the Martian landscape… What it seemed to be---at least to my eyes---as a SPHINX.” (Pg. 158) He continue, “Critics point out that it is unlikely that a ‘sphinx’ could survive intact in an area devastated by a large flood… So how could the sphinx have survived relatively intact? Easy. The water flowed around it.” (Pg. 162)
He concludes, “When I first began this project, it was my intention to cover far more examples of Ancient Alien ruins on Mars than just famous objects in Cydonia and the other sites we have discovered here. Unfortunately, the Face and other enigmatic landforms there have a way of taking over a manuscript and dominating it…. I was unable to even cover all of the information on that region that I was planning to include… While this disappoints me to some extent, it will give me the freedom and time to do justice to mysteries like the petroglyphs on Mars, the Martian skull, and the enduring mysteries of the rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. There are simply so many more Ancient Alien stories to tell about Mars that I can’t wait to get started, even as I close the proverbial chapter of this work… The bottom line is that Mars is a place of such rich mysteries that this series really could go on for a long time.” (Pg. 215-216)
This book will interest those studying ‘Ancient Aliens,’ and related topics.
December 10, 2013
Save your hard-earned money and waning hours; this book, which examines an interesting notion, does so in an unconvincing and in some cases, rather absurd fashion. I read this as research for a screenplay I'm working on, and do not recommend this as anything other than entertainment/humor. The idea that life once existed on Mars is probable; the idea that ancient humanoid aliens were building a handful of giant structures for no apparent reason and somehow lacked the means to move to earth before their planet became too arid to survive is not believable. We should always leave room in our minds to consider the improbable; we should not, however, abandon reason, science and common sense when we do so.
November 6, 2013
Atrocious. A 29-page foreword which is a personal attack on a critic of the author, which had nothing to do with either ancient aliens or Mars. That's followed by highly inaccurate recycled anti-NASA propaganda. Nothing whatever in this book about the Curiosity rover. I trashed it.
March 10, 2024
The second book in the series is a great book, it is called The Dark Mission, written by the author Richard Hoagland, so he makes this material easier to understand, and also includes loads more material. Though the book starts with a rant against a debunker and a lot of readers complain about this, even this part is relevant. So Bara goes bit by bit on the Mars investigation, perhaps is even better to start your research on Mars through Bara, and then go to Hoagland and perceive in minutes how everything was researched. Well, fascinating stuff, I highly recommend reading it.
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