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The Man in the Moon and the Face on Mars
the 'fort'? Ziggurats, towers, columned temples, monumental
statuary, immense frescoes? Or just rocks?
Even if these claims are extremely improbable - as I think they
are - they are worth examining. Unlike the UFO phenomenon,
we have here the opportunity for a definitive experiment. This
kind of hypothesis is falsifiable, a property that brings it well into
the scientific arena. I hope that forthcoming American and
Russian missions to Mars, especially orbiters with high-resolution
television cameras, will make a special effort - among hundreds of
other scientific questions - to look much more closely at the
pyramids and what some people call the Face and the city.
Even if it becomes plain to everyone that these Martian features
are geological and not artificial, monumental faces in space (and
allied wonders) will not, I fear, go away. Already there are
supermarket tabloids reporting nearly identical faces seen from
Venus to Neptune (floating in the clouds?). The 'findings' are
typically attributed to fictitious Russian spacecraft and imaginary
space scientists, which of course makes it marginally harder for a
sceptic to check the story out.
One of the Mars face enthusiasts now announces:
Breakthru News of the Century
Censored by NASA
for fear of Religious upheavals and breakdowns.
The Discovery of ancient
ALIEN RUINS ON THE MOON
A 'giant city, size of Los Angeles basin, covered by immense glass
dome, abandoned millions of years ago, and shattered by meteors
with gigantic tower 5 miles tall, with giant one mile square cube on
top' is breathlessly 'CONFIRMED' on the well-studied Moon.
The evidence? Photos taken by NASA robotic and Apollo missions
whose significance was suppressed by the government and
overlooked by all those lunar scientists in many countries who
don't work for the 'government'.
The 18 August 1992 issue of Weekly World News reports the
discovery by 'a secret NASA satellite' of 'thousands maybe even
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