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By
David Calvert
It is estimated that within our galaxy alone there are approximately four hundred
thousand million stars, and where there are stars there may be planets similar to that of
our home world. It is in these vast reaches of space that the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence is being conducted. It is generally accepted within the scientific mainstream
that intelligent life does not exist within the confines of our Solar System because of the
data received from probes sent out to our neighbouring worlds. But what if that data was
flawed or, worse still, falsified in order to maintain that belief? Could intelligent life be
much closer to home than we think, or are led to believe?
Thanks to Joseph P. Skipper, et al, truths are emerging into the public domain that
there may well indeed be intelligent life in our Solar System, and that they occupy our
distant planetary neighbour Mars.
Skipper was an insurance investigator with an interest in space exploration and
decades of investigative experience behind him. It was after viewing an official science
data strip that his ‘suspicion meter’ started rising. He knew that what he was looking at
was not any kind of natural geology, but evidence of life on the supposedly dead and
inhospitable planet. ‘If no natural geological explanation fits’, he contends, ‘then one
logically has to consider seriously that these anomalies are forms created by life of some
kind.’
If this is true then why has NASA failed to report such a startling discovery to the
media? The answer to that question may lie in a report prepared for NASA by the
Brookings Institution, Washington DC, on November 30, 1960 and titled, Proposed
Studies On The Peaceful Space Activities For Human Affairs.
The Moon
Our only natural satellite, the Moon, has come under similar suspicion of
photographic tampering as the images on Skipper’s site show quite clearly. Vast towers
and rectangular forms have been subjected to smudge tampering techniques. However,
early imaging techniques were not as sophisticated as today’s and some of these forms
can clearly be seen poking through and, in some instances, left out completely. If they are
merely geological forms then why have the powers that be gone to such lengths to hide
them?
Imaging Technology
In the 1970s satellite imaging resolution limits available to the military were equal
to, if not better than, those being released today. Are we to believe that up-to-date and
state-of-the-art Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) satellite
imaging systems are inferior to those of some forty years ago and that there have been no
significant technological advancements in this area over that period of time? It is
unreasonable to assume that JPL, with its heavy military connections and funding and at
a cost of billions of dollars, would do such a thing. Certainly, much of the image
tampering has been done at closer resolutions than is being admitted to. The question still
remains; why would they go to such great expense and trouble to hide the evidence? And
what do the images contain that they are so afraid to show us?
But the truth, whatever it may ultimately prove to be, is out there for those who
wish to seek it: a grass roots movement that is gathering momentum and members thanks
to the likes of Joseph P. Skipper and others.