'The re-imaging of the so-called 'Face on
Mars' by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft in April 1998 has done little to dampen the vigorous debate on its possible artificial manufacture by an unknown extraterrestrial race.Despite the widespread dismissal
of the 'Face' as a natural mountain by the vast majority of astronomers and geologists, at least one professional astronomer has recently asserted that the new images strengthen rather than weaken the case for
artificiality...
According to this new paradigm [of Van Flandern], Mars was once a moon of Planet V, and there is no reason why this watery parent planet could not have harboured its own indigenous life forms,
including an intelligent species...
My best guess concerning the enigmatic 'Face' at Cydonia on Mars is that this mesa was originally a natural mountain (I do not feel comfortable with the idea that it was built from
the ground up), which by a complete fluke happened to resemble a face. Such an artefact, on the equator of a moon orbiting Planet V, would certainly have attracted the curiosity of an intelligent species on the parent
planet. Moreover, the Cydonia region is thought to lie very close to the coast of an ancient ocean on Mars.
These factors might well have led to Cydonia being selected as a first landing site by a hypothetical race of
explorers from Planet V. Did these visitors then enhance the natural mountain to look even more like a Face, peering back towards their home planet? Although I do not feel comfortable with the idea of anyone enhancing
the natural imagery of eyes/nose/mouth etc in the upper parts of the mesa, I am attracted by the idea that the amazing regularity of the so-called 'headdress' surrouding the 'Face' (with straight lines and 90-degree
corners) is highly indicative of a deliberate design. It would indeed make much more sense for a people to enhance a natural mountain at its borders, rather than in its highland regions, purely for reasons of
accessibility by heavy earth-moving equipment.
This scenario is entirely intuitive on my part, and does, of course, rest on the supposition that an intelligent race evolved on Planet V. But it does serve to
demonstrate that artificality at Cydonia is nowhere near as 'impossible' as some scientists would have us believe.'
(Extracts from an article on www2.eridu.co.uk/eridu/minisites/mars.html, August 1998)
'On a more
speculative note, there is perhaps a 10 per cent probability that Mars, the last surviving moon from the two exploded planets, might bear signs of intelligent visitation, either from a terrestrial culture or an
extraterrestrial culture (perhaps from Planet V or K).'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 413)
