Forgotten Ages Research

Once More to the Stars?— Part One: Out-of-Place Objects on the Moon, Mars and Beyond

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Report Topics:

• Mystery of the Blair Cuspids and other artificial ruins on the surface of the Moon
• Descriptions of spaceflight and voyages to the Moon in ancient Mesopotamian and Chinese literature
• Lunar rocks found in Tibet
• Pyramid structures, faces, machine parts and other “out-of-place” artifacts photographed on Mars
• A detailed listing of “anomalous objects” observed on practically every world in our solar system

Full Report:

On November 21, 1966, America’s Orbiter, while circling the Moon and photographing the lunar surface from thirty miles up, using a 24-inch telephoto lens, discovered a strange grouping of objects. The objects are located at the western edge of the Sea of Tranquility, and are known as the Blair Cuspids, after being noticed and studied by William Blair, a specialist in physical anthropology at the Boeing Institute of Biotechnology.

The Cuspids, as they appear in NASA photo *66-H-758, consist of eight pointed spires or obelisks. They are not directly visible in the photos, but the long, thin, pointed shadows they cast are clearly seen, and—based on calculations using the angle of the Sun—the spires average a width of fifty feet and a height between forty and seventy-five feet, with the largest said to be taller than a fifteen-story building--a lunar Washington Monument.

But more curious than their shape is their arrangement. Blair noted:

“If the Cuspids really were the result of some geophysical event, it would be natural to expect to see them distributed at random. As a result the triangulations would be scalene or irregular, whereas those of the Cuspids lead to a basilary system—with six isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points each.”

So unnatural is such an arrangement that, in Blair’s opinion:

“If a similar arrangement had been found on Earth, archaeology’s first concern would have been to inspect the place and carry out trial excavations to assess the extent of the discovery.

“In other words, the intelligence displayed in the configuration of the Cuspids is a sign they are artificial in origin, and are a sign of civilization.”

Russian space engineer Alexander Abramov, in his study of the Blair Cuspids, has gone one step beyond. Calculating out the angles of the lunar spires, he has discovered that they represent a definite configuration known to the ancient Egyptians, called the abaka or Egyptian triangle. Abramov found further that:

“The distribution of these lunar objects is similar to the plan of the Egyptian pyramids constructed at Giza near Cairo. The centers of the spires in this lunar abaka are arranged in precisely the same way as the apexes of the three great pyramids.”

The Cuspids are by no means the only such “anomalies” on the the Moon, for we find many other structure-like objects scattered across the lunar surface, both on the Near Side facing the Earth, and on the Far Side. These are not American or Russian space objects of recent history—instead they are monuments and machines placed on the Moon long before our civilization came into existence. Some of the observed and photographed “anomalous” objects include:

*A concentration of spires in the region of the Moscow Sea, the Gagarin and Mendeleyev Craters
*Two parallel rows of spires and pyramids equally spaced out, the largest structure fifteen stories high, on the Ocean of Storms
*An obelisk structure casting a long shadow on the rim of Lobachevsky crater
*A large menhir or standing stone southeast of Sinus Medii
*A mile-high crystalline tower-like construction on the eastern edge of Sinus Medii
*A cross-like object seen in King Crater
*Geometric object shaped like a cross in Eratosthenes Crater
*Anomalous straight walls with right angles accompanying four pyramidal structures, observed in Gassendi Crater
*Straight line crossing through an unnamed oval crater near Lassell Crater
*Straight-line “lunar canals” running between Tycho Crater and the Mares Nubium and Nectaris
*Linear structures crossing each other at right angles in Hevelius Crater
*Two double walls to the east and west of Damoiseau D Crater, with five evenly spaced constructions nearby, and other linear structures extending for several miles to the southeast
*Walls forming a perfect square immediately west of Fontenelle Crater, to the northeast of Plato Crater on the north edge of Mare Frigoris
*A perfect circle of objects forty feet in diameter, accompanied by a large dome with a turret, in the Ranger Seven Crater
*Series of faint ring formations in Sinus Iridium that are not craters
*Aligned craterlets and straight walls observed in the Licetus-Heraclitus region
*Ladder-like structure descending into an unnamed crater on the Lunar Far Side
*Equilateral triangle overlaying a second triangular formation in Ukert Crater
*Platform constructions on the northern side of both Klaproth and Casatus Craters
*Pyramid structure casting a long pointed shadow in Moretus Crater
*Pyramid structures in Copernicus Crater and nearby Carpathian Mountains
*Large pyramid structure which covers half a small crater in the Alpine Valley
*A cluster of seven pyramids on the floor of Aristillus Crater in the Mare Imbrium region
*Another large cluster of tower structures in the center of Tsiolkovsky Crater on the Lunar Far Side
*Parallel structures observed north of Schroter Crater, dubbed “Lunar City” by its discoverers
*City-like rectangular-shaped structures in the center of Kepler Crater
*Dome-like objects reflecting sunlight in Langrenus Crater
*Eighty miles north or Triesnecker Crater, a “cathedral-like entrance cut into the mountain.”
*Large letters and a prominent oblong structure south of Archimedes Crater
*On the slopes of Vitello Crater’s central peak, two objects that have left trails behind them—one 75 feet across with a 900-foot “tread,” and the other 15 feet across with a long triangular shadow accompanied by a 1,200-foot “skid mark.”
*A cigar-shaped object with high reflectivity near Romer Crater
*Very large dome and cigar-shaped object in the Moscow Sea
*Dome-like objects with structural supports and machine parts found in the Tycho Crater area
*An odd-looking machine appears on the southeast edge of the Sea of Tranquility
*A metallic T-shaped extends one and a half miles long glittering in the sun to the east of Mare Smythii
*Titanic X’s, crosses and bridge-like objects seen in Tycho Crater, the Alpine Valley, Mare Crisium and Plato Crater
*A thousand-foot dome, long mounds and a gigantic screw rest on the floor of Tycho Crater
*A prominent straight pipe penetrating through a minor impact crater east of Aristarchus Crater
*Unusual “pipe-line” object observed in Mersenius Crater
*A pipe-shaped object with two nozzles a quarter of am mile long stands out against the bland landscape in the northwestern quadrant of King Crater
*A half-broken wheeled object sticks out of soil in Vitello Crater
*More wrecked and partly buried machine wheels are scattered over the Frau Maro area
*Huge gears and shafts two miles long with ruptured casing and gear housings over five miles in size outlined sharply against the black shadows, located in the Bullialdus region near Crater Lubinsky
*A machine-tooled object south of Maskelyne F
*A mile-long platform with a dome on Oceanus Procellarum near the Herodotus Mountain Range
*A right-angled pipe to the west of Rima Maskelyne in the southern Sea of Tranquility
*Shattered domes and platforms near the Alpine Valley northeast of Mare Imbrium
*A bridge arch in the Sea of Crisis area that spans an incredible twelve miles across the lunar landscape, with the great arch casting a perfect shadow across the Sea Floor
*Megalith block structuring observed near the Apollo 15 landing site

Are all these remains on the Moon the result of “extraterrestrials” as some have claimed? Or do the affinities of the spires, pyramids and other lunar structures with those of the known ancient civilizations here on Earth point to these artifacts having a human origin, from terrestrial space explorers from our forgotten past?

The overall impression we get looking at all these lunar remains is that some major building project was undertaken on the Moon’s surface by one or more advanced civilizations long before our own.

For some reason the project was abandoned or destroyed, and what we see now are only ruins that have stood silent for untold numbers of generations, left to the mercy of falling meteorites and buried under interstellar dust.

As a confirmation as to their Earthly source, still other series of lunar artificial shapes appear to be giant letters and symbols. Many of these are from lost alphabets and ancient scripts—Sanskrit, Aramaic, Phoenician, Egyptian, proto-Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Harappan, Minoan, Celtic, Punic, Maya, Dravidian, and others as yet unknown.

In some places are located craters with straight or angled rims, or platforms and stone structures similar to the Blair Cuspids, arranged in geometric forms and straight-lined rills, rays and fans extend outward for hundreds of miles from many of the larger lunar craters.

These remind us of similar spoked patterns seen all over the Earth—ley-lines in England, the dragon paths of China, the ceque and Nazca lines of Peru, the dream paths of Australia, the fairy paths of Ireland, the sacbes or raised white roadways interconnecting the pyramid temples of the Yucatan, the Mound Builder alignments in North America, and so many others.

As one example, we see in Gassendi Crater a series of parallel lines, triangles and other shapes that look like Adena remains found in the American Midwest, and submerged off the Caribbean islands of Bimini and Andros.

What was the purpose of all this lunar construction? One reason is that the lunar globe has its own energy grid system just like the Earth. The Ancients once engaged in an attempt to re-engineer the Moon’s surface just like they did back on your home planet. They wanted to conform surface features with the energy grid and tap into its power.

One goal in doing this was to temper the inter-relationship between the lunar and Earth seismic activity—earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Even as NASA scientists are rediscovering today, what affects one sphere also affects the other, with a time lag between the two worlds of up to three Earth days.

The Ancients knew the means of averting Earth seismic events by monitoring and controlling events on the Moon through their lunar energy grid system constructed age ago.

As archaeologists know from studying the alignments among the majority of ancient stone circle sites on the Earth, the builders had an almost obsessive preoccupation with measuring the movements of the Moon. They knew how to figure minute deviations in its orbit, axis alignment, wobble and eclipse periods to within a fraction of a degree.

There were periods in the distant past when the Moon’s movements had been unstable, causing physical disruption on the Earth’s surface in the form of erratic tides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, violent weather and disturbances in plant and animal growth and behavior. The ancient structures placed on the Moon and the Earth were an attempt to keep the lunar orbit stable and tranquil, as well as being a method of monitoring any future changes.

However, just as the grid system was eventually abandoned and forgotten on the Earth in the prehistoric past, the same fate appears to have happened to the grid system on the Moon, for today we observe on the lunar surface only broken structures and silent ruins.

Legends and stories from among many of our terrestrial civilizations confirm that humanity did indeed reach out into deep space, perhaps more than once in unknown antiquity.

The Babylonian Epic of Etana describes a prehistoric flight, preserved for us in fragmentary cuneiform texts dating back to a period between 3000 and 2400 B.C.E. The Epic tells of Etana, a poor shepherd who finds an eagle with injured wings. He nurses the eagle back to health, and in return the eagle promises to take him on a journey up into the heavens. Etana thereupon sits atop the bird, and together they soar off into the sky, gazing at intervals down on the world below.

At the first stage the eagle cries:

“Behold, my friend, the land and how it is. Look upon the sea also. Lo, the land has become like a hill and the sea like a watercourse.”

This observation is made after an ascent of a double hour’s march—in modern terms, six to eight miles high. Rising above the Tigris-Euphrates river valley of Mesopotamia, Etana can see the mountains of Armenia to the north, and to the southeast the “sea” of the Persian Gulf looking like a “watercourse” or river stretching to the horizon.

According to the inscriptions, the two climb three more double marches higher before the eagle again directs Etana’s gaze to the world’s appearance. From here, he says, the Earth looks like a “plantation,” and the land is like a “hut” surrounded by the “courtyard of the sea.” Etan has reached a height from which he can see the waters of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, encompassing the Middle East.

As they look from still farther up, the land appears like a “grinding stone” and the sea like a “gardener’s canal” or irrigation ditch. The mountains are no longer distinguishable; from this altitude the surface appears even and curved, like the surface of a grindstone. At its circumference Etana sees the waters of the oceans surrounding Asia, Europe and Africa.

Higher still, the eagle remarks that the Earth now looks like a “garden,” the sea like a “wicker basket.” The various characteristic shapes of the continents are now apparent, as are the orange deserts, dark green forested areas, gray valleys and brown-yellow mountainous regions, which altogether look like the colored patches of a garden. Now Etana also sees the oceans of the world, this time no longer as a surrounding ditch but as separate basins, like various “baskets” filled with water.

Finally it is recorded that he reaches a height so far up where he is unable to distinguish between land and sea. He has reached an altitude where the clouds and water vapor of the atmosphere hide most of the Earth’s features in a bluish-white haze. At this point the journey ends, and Etana is returned to his home.

The only mythic element the Epic contains is the eagle, who may represent some form of craft that with the passing of time was transformed into a bird by a people ignorant of the mechanics of space flight. In truth, an ordinary eagle could not have flown to the tremendous heights as described in the texts. Whatever the actual vehicle of ascent may have been, the Epic certainly supplies us with a very accurate description of the Earth’s surface from various altitudes—descriptions which were not verified in our own era until high-altitude aerial flights of the 1950’s and the first space shots in the 1960’s.

The question remains, who made these observations in the ancient Middle East almost five thousand years ago?

Among the Hindus of India their ancient Sanskrit texts of the Surya Siddhanta and the Matsya Purana speak of certain Siddhas and Vidyaharas, or philosophers and scientists, flying their Vimana crafts powered by mercury and fire engines to visit the surface of Maha, the Moon. They returned to report it was covered with “burnt ash and dust.”

In ancient Chinese legends the Emperor Yao ordered his chief engineer and his wife, Chi Ching Tszu and Chang Ngo, to build a “celestial bird” and travel the heavens. Rising on “currents of luminous air,” they found the Moon to be “a frozen horizon, an illuminated sphere, shimmering, enormous, airless and cold.”

In Europe, even as late as toward the end of the nineteenth century, the mistaken belief still prevailed among Western scientists that the Moon had an atmosphere like the Earth and its terrain was habitable. Fiction writer Jules Verne had his imagined travelers, in his story From the Earth to the Moon, taking grapevines with them to plant on the lunar surface, while H. G. Wells, in his novel The First Men in the Moon, pictured his wayfarers walking around without any spacesuits whatsoever, observing “lunar cows” grazing in open fields.

Only in the twentieth century have modern astronomers recognized—and astronauts have verified by traveling there—that the far older descriptions of the Moon dating back thousands of years are the more accurate. This only confirms that the Ancients had been to the Moon also, ages ago.

In a remote region of northern Tibet is located the ruins of the city of Hsing Nu, explored by the French traveler Dupare in 1725. He reported many wonders still existing there, including monoliths coated in silver, a tower covered in blue porcelain, a pyramid, and the remains of a royal palace containing thrones with sun and moon images. Of special interest to Dupare, however, was a large milky white stone displayed in a prominent location, surrounded by walls filled with inscriptions and exquisite artwork.

In 1952 a Soviet expedition arrived in Hsing Nu and verified everything that their French predecessor had described in his writings from two centuries before. What intrigued the Soviets was that when local monks translated the inscriptions surrounding the white stone, they indicated that it had been “brought to Earth from the Moon.” Four decades later, after American astronauts brought back samples of lunar rock from the last Apollo missions, Russian experts were able to find definite geological and chemical similarities with the Tibetan white stone.

Even a picture of the stone, when placed side by side with images of the Apollo samples, shows no differences whatsoever.

The Hsing Nu stone has no burnt or pitted marks as one would expect if it had been blown off the lunar surface by a meteor strike and had plummeted to Earth as a meteorite. Instead, experts classified the sample as “pristine,” as if it had been directly picked up off the lunar landscape and carried to Earth by hand. Nothing in the ancient Tibetan texts indicated how or when the older lunar sample had reached the land of the Himalayas—but the fact of its very presence indicates that someone in the unknown past had accomplished this very real task.

Just as strange ruins have been observed on the Moon, so the planet Mars has its own collection of enigmatic structures and artificial objects. These include:

The celebrated “Face” which measures three miles across, located in the Cydonia region. As photographic engineers Vincent de Pietro and Gregory Molenaar concluded in their analysis of this image first pictured by Viking 1, “If this object is a natural formation, the amount of detail makes Nature herself a very intelligent being.” In 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor made even more detailed photographs of the Face—and the mystery of its origins has only deepened. It now appears that the rocky countenance is really two half-faces placed side by side, portraying two different species.

About ten miles from the Face is a cluster of pyramids set out in a Golden Ratio spiral, the largest of which is perfectly aligned with Martian north, measures over two miles to a side and rises an estimated 4,800 feet tall. This compares with the Great Pyramid at Giza, only 481 feet tall.

As on the Moon, however, Mars has a lesser gravity pull than our planet, only one-third, so that erections of such large structures would have been easier, and commensurate with Martian conditions.

Clustered around the larger pyramids at Cydonia are a number of smaller pyramidal mounds which together form a complex grid based on the square root of 2.

The Cydonia cluster of monuments also includes a five-sided pyramid or pentagonal-shaped structure that contains in its inherent geometry some very sophisticated mathematical formulas.

Near Cydonia can be seen embedded in the landscape a perfect equilateral triangle formation with a tetrahedron pyramid precisely north of it, as well as a hexagonal-shaped structure.

On February 8, 1972, Mariner 9 cameras captured four other pyramids in the Elysium plateau region, the largest two estimated to be 9,800 feet across at the base and 6,300 feet high, each having a volume a thousand times that of the Giza Great Pyramid. These appear to be three-sided, or tetrahedrons, rather than the usual four-sided true pyramids we are most familiar with.

The question is, are these huge tetrahedrons natural or artificial? The pyramids are not wind-blown formations, for they do not appear in connected series as dunes on Earth, but are totally separate, free-standing, and are oriented in different directions, indicating that wind sculpting—which occurs in one direction—is not the answer.

Neither were the pyramids formed by fracture lines, or faulting, for they do not conform to any of the nearby geologic fracture zone formations.

Even more curious, the four triangle-pyramids of Elysium are paired, the two larger and the two smaller structures existing side by side, and together delineating a regular parallelogram. Again, a very intelligent geometry has been at work here, of a higher order than natural processes alone would have created.

Significantly, these tetrahedron pyramids are located in an area of Elysium called Trivium Charontis, noted as a region which goes through sharp changes in color, waxing and waning with the Martian seasons. Do the pyramids somehow maintain a fertilizing energy field in this area, keeping life alive, much like the Giza pyramids maintain life in the Nile Delta?

On the outer edge of the northwestern flanks around the Martian crater-volcano Arsia Mons are a series of straight, parallel ridges than run for hundreds of miles in length. The mystery about them is that they do not conform with the craters and flow features of the rest of the landscape, and in some places they actually run counter to them.

In effect, the ridges exhibit all the characteristics of a construction work, built on top of a natural topography.

At +45 degrees latitude and 350 degrees longitude, Viking 1 detected huge parallel contours very regularly spaced one-half mile from crest to crest, which even NASA admitted looked like “an aerial view of plowed ground.”

Another ridge complex is located near the Martian south pole, and was picked up by Mariner 9. Scientists working on the mission christened the formation “Inca City,” which geologist John MacCauley described this way:

“The ridges are continuous, show no breaching, and stand out among the surrounding plains and small hills like walls of an ancient ruin. The origins of the reticulate pattern is problematic.”

Commenting on attempts to explain this structure as the result of igneous dike formation, author David Chandler noted:

“A few straight walls would not have been too surprising, and maybe even a right angle or two. But the regularity of the many squared off corners, and the many boxed-in areas of approximately the same size, in terrestrial agriculture, and in much of human architecture and engineering, but on a much larger scale.

“Each box in ‘Inca City’ is about three miles across. That makes them about ten times larger than any human construction of similar regularity and symmetry.

“But no natural formation has been seen on Earth that exhibits such a pattern, even on a smaller scale. Geologists are still baffled by the origins of this patterning.”

What appears to be the ruins of an ancient city, looking like a Martian version of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, can be seen in the Traverse Highland Channel of Arda Valles.

Semi-circular structures not connected with any craters are to be found in the Ismenae Fossae Trough.

The northwestern flanks of the huge volcano Arsia Mens in the Tharsis uplands contains dozens of dome-like structures surrounded by parallel ridges running dead straight for hundreds of miles, undisturbed by craters, flow features, fractures and variations in surface brightness.

A pyramid dominates a crater rim in the Deuteronilius Mensae region.

Linear wall-like structures run for miles across Utopia Planitia. Also in this region a second Face has been found, complete with two eye cavities and a headdress, accompanied by a double rectangular structure having a cross glyph on its roof.

The Ruell Vallis region, not far from Hellas, reveals numerous anomalous structures, including pyramids and hangar-like buildings.

At several locations in the Mare Acidalium region, glass-like tube structures averaging over five hundred feet wide have been observed and photographed. They appear to be segmented in regular intervals, portions shimmering in the sunlight, and in some cases join each other at major intersections. They do not appear to be lava tubes or any other type of known natural formation.

Other intriguing remains on the Martian surface include:

*A colossal head, animal figurines, a processional avenue, cross patterns and “hangars” along with domes, platforms and connecting bridges and trestles in the Syrtis Major region
*Oblong structures covered with “veins” and a “crossed circle” inside Green Crater n the Argyre southern region. Nearby are two gigantic “half-shells” with shadows under their open ends
*A cubical building with a long pipe or chute extending out from it for over a mile, in the Tithonium Chasma
*Square block patterning on the floor of Hale Crater, Argyre Planitia
*Rectangular “urban formations” accompanied by domes and spires in the Tharsis region
*Straddling the ice cap in the Martian southern polar region is a series of towers rising above what appears to be a forest of unusual tree-like plant life and small lakes of standing water
*Also on the edge of the southern ice cap appears an anomalous black ring with a huge dome in its center
*In the same area can be seen pyramidal towers in cleared areas between extensive fields of lichen
*A sphinx-like visage is located near the Martian north pole
*A brightly lit “super-dome,” double dome constructions and an “industrial complex” is in Kaiser Crater
*Geometric structures and “tubes” are submerged in a large lake in Aram Chaos
*Towering spires shine in sunlight from an unnamed crater in Sinus Sabaeus
*High-rise “skyscraper” structures rise over a dense carpet of plant life in the Dicria area
*An unusual dome wrapped around an immense tower dominates Iapygia *A dual dome system with glass covers, plus a rectangular “bunker” and “arrow marker,” in Noachia
*A cubical structural complex rises near a large body of standing water in Oxia Palus
*West of the Cydonia Face is another countenance called the Sirisena Face, which has similar features and the exact same orientation
*A third Face appears in West Candor Chasma
*Yet another very human-looking Face gazes out is in the Meridiani region
*A most remarkable Face, with details of eyes, nose and lips, looks out over King’s Valley in the Libya Montes area
*A feature called the “Runway” or the “String of Beads,” up close reveals to be a segmented linear pattern composed of cones and pyramids, located on the slopes of Hecates Tholus
*A stepped pyramid with terraces towers over the Eden region
*A large T-shaped formation is at the base of Mons Olympus, while on its slopes are linear patterns, triangles and segmented rectangles
*A large platform with several domes can be observed in the Cerbeus area
*A terraced conical pyramid called the “Bullseye” is in Arabia Terra
*At 10.98 West and 24.30 North are huge alphabetic symbols in a straight line

Like the remains on the Moon, the ruins on Mars appear to be of tremendous age. The “Inca City” mega-structure may have been constructed long before the present Martian polar ice formed, or when they were in different locations, for periodically the structure is now lost beneath the permafrost of the polar winter.

At Cydonia, the pyramids and other structures, and the mysterious “Face,” all show signs of heavy erosion, or are buried in drifting sand, or are partially destroyed by nearby impact craters. It has also been demonstrated that, if an observer in the midst of the Cydonian pyramids looked into the dawn light of the Martian summer solstice, they would first see a faint blue point—the Earth—and then the Sun, rise from the mouth of the Face. This tell-tale alignment would have been possible only about half a million years ago.

As more photos are analyzed, and as future probes explore Mars further, there may yet be more surprising discoveries in store, in terms of other uncovered remains.

We have only begun to scan the Martian landscape from above, and we know even about the surface, having received pictures from a few small areas. Yet even these are not without some mystery. Here are a few examples:

Even though the Viking 1 landing site was in a pock-marked, crater-strewn region in the Martian southern hemisphere, it did pick up at least one out-of-place feature. One of its surface pictures shows a flat-surfaced boulder with a glyph etched into it, which can easily be identified as the letter “B.” NASA first dismissed the image as “an illusion caused by weathering and the angle of the sun.” Except that, when photographed during different hours in the Martian day, the glyph did not change in overall shape. This indicates the etching was uniform in width and depth, not uneven like natural cracks or erosion patterns. It has all the characteristics of having been formed by an intelligent hand, using a tool.

The Viking 2 landing site was near the Utopia area, where a number of “anomalies” have been observed from above. The Viking camera, in its sweep across the Martian terrain, picked up:

*Amid reddish boulders is a black box-like stone with at least one smooth square side that appears cut
*Another box-like stone, half-buried, has a large trident glyph composed of three connected crescents on its topside, appearing bright white in the sunlight
*Leaning up against an oblong rock is a dark grey metal rod or staff, its dead-straight edge standing out against the rough rock surface
*Sitting between two flat boulders is an object the photo enhancers have dubbed the “Lolipop,” which also bears a striking resemblance to a large oblate golf ball atop a tee. The base pedestal is black, while the globe balanced on its tip is bright white, with sunlight reflecting off its surface.
*Farther off in the distance are two more enigmatic objects—what looks like the casing off a machine part, and a small pyramid or pyramidion, with a dark-colored apex.

In 1997 Pathfinder became the first roving craft to reach Mars, and in its wanderings over the landscape came across several mysterious finds:

*Several rectilinear carved stone blocks, as well as others with regular geometric shapes, lay broken and scattered in several locations
*Not far from the Pathfinder landing site is a boulder with a spoked wheel carving on its lefthand surface
*Another stone, this one with two carved circles with ringed outer circumferences on its side, is a short distance away
*Protruding from the ground is a double square “scoop” or opened box with sharply defined edges
*A wedged-shaped stone with a flat top looks like a broken piece of architectural decoration
*Another wedged stone has measured ridges across its upper surface
*In the distance, several pieces of broken machine parts, with tubes or piping sticking out, appear dark against a sunlit background. Among these are other pipe segments, either clustered together or as individual cylinders.
*Two objects of bright metal lay side-by-side, which photo enhancers have christened the “Aerofoil” and the “Gear.” The Aerofoil is composed of an unusual vertical tile with two parallel curved pieces attached to its ends. The Gear is cylindrical, is pointed at one end and on the other has a handle with a hole in its center.
*Another bright metal tile, this one folded at a right angle, sticks out of the soil, and has an oblong dark hole in its upper surface
*Propped up at an angle against a large boulder is a three-dimensional symbol or glyph, which enhancers call the “Staff of Ra.” It has an upper loop like an Egyptian ankh, but its lower end has a squared double terminal that precisely angles off in a mirror image of itself. It is composed of a uniform metal exterior that is brighter than the boulder its leaning against.
*A machine part or architectural form can be seen that is composed of two parallel right triangles joined by several evenly spaced cross-beams. The triangles and beam edges stand out in the sunlight.
*A bright shiny translucent objects sticks out of the soil that appears to be made entirely of glass, looking very much like a glass bottle with a squared base and a round neck opening
*Within half a mile of the Pathfinder landing site, near the horizon, are two topographical features called the Twin Peaks. The peak to the south, having a more pointed summit, has been named Pyramid Peak. At its base is the image of a sphinx alongside a rectangular temple-like structure, both facing into the Martian equinox sunrise.
*Atop the northern or second and more truncated of the Twin Peaks the Pathfinder camera picked up a series of rectilinear geometric shapes and repeating geometric structures that look like a nested set of buildings with roofs. Computer reconstruction imaging has produced a picture of a central square form surrounded by double square walls with ramparts.

The more recent rover explorers to reach Mars—Opportunity and Spirit—have just begun to find their share of “anomalous” encounters. So far for Opportunity these include the following items:

Near the landing site can be clearly seen a plank of timber wood, artificially cut and worked. It has an elongated shape with sprung open grains and splits running down its length, typical of a substantially aged, heavily weathered worn, and dried out milled and planed wood timber. Close by are other smaller pieces of cut wood partially buried in the sand.

Another mysterious “something” near the lander which raised much controversy was a bright flower-like object about two inches in diameter with two prominent petals or stalks raised up off the soil. The media dubbed it “Bunny Ears,” and different photos first showed one of its petals or “ears” moving back and forth in the wind. The object then was blown about fifteen to twenty feet away from the lander, before it eventually disappeared. NASA explained the object as a piece of airbag torn off the lander on impact. But given the fact that the airbag material is stronger than steel, if it had torn that easily the lander itself would have been ripped to shreds when it reached the Martian surface. Besides, the petaled enigma had more the appearance of being plant-like instead of metallic.

What was really mysterious was that NASA officials refused to allow the Opportunity rover to travel the short distance to retrieve it and study it. Did they seriously question their own explanation?

Looking across Eagle Crater toward the horizon, Opportunity’s camera system found a very dark upright semi-spherical object with multiple dark angled projections and two very bright spheres looking like headlights. Next to it is a bright white platform. Officially these objects have been identified as the lander backshell and parachute which were discarded before impacting the surface.

Yet questions have been raised about this identification, as both the shape and size of these anomalies do not readily correspond to any known NASA design specifications whatsoever, let alone as a component of the Opportunity descent craft. The enigmatic objects have the bulk and dimensions of a separate vehicle, larger that Opportunity itself.

During its touring across the Martian landscape, on an outcropping christened Opportunity Ledge, the rover focused on an area around a rock dubbed “El Capitan.” Near it the camera system picked out a segmented fossil crinoid, looking like part of a giant centipede’s body. Unfortunately, NASA ordered the object turned to dust by Opportunity’s grinder for taking soil samples. Had this been done deliberately?

In the meantime, half a planet away, Spirit has encountered its own assortment of out-of-place artifacts:

On the nearside rim of Bonneville Crater the Spirit camera observed a stela or slab of black stone with sharply defined straight rectilinear edges, looking like a tombstone made of jet or basalt. The slab stands out amid the lighter colored boulders in front of, and around it, and unlike them has no reflectivity whatsoever.

Nearby is another very dark stone, this one triangular or pyramidal, with angled apex. In the same vicinity is a rectangular rock with bright varnish on its top, that has a neatly cut or drilled square hole in its side.

A few yards in front of the black slab is a small yellowish metal axle with a small polygonal-shaped wheel head.

Not far distant from the black stones, axle and drilled rock is an equally startling enigma—what appears to be the remains of a dead animal, about the size and shape of a small rodent or shrew. Photo investigator Joseph Skipper describes the find in these words:

“You can see an object that looks very much like some small dead animal’s possibly desiccated carcass lying in the sand. The head with eye cavity and the stiff quadruped appendages sticking out and all with correct general anatomical proportions, is strong visual evidence that leads to the impression that this is a life form of some kind. So is this really evidence of a dead life form on Mars? It could very well be, the visual evidence is strong in this regard.”

Also at the very edge of the Crater rim appears a piece of architecture with right triangle sides and two cross beams connecting them, looking like ladder steps up to a small platform.

From Bonneville Crater a shiny object can be seen in the distance, so bright that Spirit’s camera first caught it as a large flash. At first this anomaly was explained as part of the discarded heat shield from the Spirit landing. But the silvery object has several features not accounted for in the craft’s design. Standing out prominently on top of a large flat square panel are three large globes in a triangular pattern. A second piece protrudes from one side, appearing to be partially buried. This indicates it has been present on the Martian surface for a considerable time—far longer than when Spirit arrived.

In exploring Gusev Crater in the Aeolis area, Spirit found a rock field containing small fossil skulls. The first skull has a long pointed snout, medium-sized eye sockets, small nostrils and small mouth with teeth, akin to the cranium of a terrestrial feline such as a cheetah. The second skull is more aviary in appearance, with a beak and large eye cavities, not unlike a modern emu or turkey from Earth. Bits and pieces of other bone material are also scattered over the surface amid the rocks around the skulls, suggesting that a larger predator has been at work eating the remains. But what kind of Martian predator would it have been?

The Moon and Mars are not alone in our Solar system, for more “anomalies” also have appeared to space probes visiting other neighboring worlds. Here are only a few of many sample sightings:

ON MERCURY:
*Twin pyramidal structures can be seen in a crater in the Shakespeare Region
*Oblong structures and linear patterns appear in Caloris Basin
*A large cross and domes are to be seen east of the Discovery Rupes escarpment
*Huge linear patterns extend from Sobkor Planitia into the Renoir Region
*Track-like pathways linking Rubler Crater to Goya and Sopho Craters are interspersed with domes
*Pyramidal structures rise within Ustad Isa and Bastio Craters
*Radiating oblong structures and what appear to be huge machine parts are scattered across the landscape south of Liszt Crater
*A prominent pyramidal “castle” dominates the center of Amru Al-Qays Crater
*Geometric ridges exist south of Fet Crater in Tir Planitia
*Linear patterns form a huge triangle and square west of Rodin Crater
*A major alignment of craters, domes and pyramidal structures run north-to-south for over a thousand miles from Rodin Crater to Sor Juana Crater, ending in a central pyramid
*An “excavated” double ringed crater can be observed north of Vyasa Crater
*Giant glyph patterns were carved throughout the Victoria Rupes area

ON VENUS:
*A circular domed formation is surrounded by an artificial ring construction in Metis Regio
*Unusual parallel line formations can be found throughout Ishtar Terra
*An “hourglass” glyph, a cross and a pyramid complex appear in Ammavaru Regio
*Rectangles in repeated patterns dominate the Quetzalpetatl Corona
*Lavinia Planitia is covered with mounds and other structural complexes
*”Geometric enclosures” are to be seen in Ladio Regio, along with mega-structures which may have once formed parts of a machine
*Polygonal pyramid structures rise to the east of Hathor Mons
*Unusual oblong domes are scattered throughout Aphrodite Terra, along with prominent “raised blocks,” “lineation ridges,” “cross-fractures,” “parallel troughs” and geometric “tesseracts”
*In Sedna Planitia a “face” and “radiating walls” have been observed
*In Themis Regio are artificial platforms placed in geometric arrangements, associated with a concentration of geometric coronas extending from Beta Regio to Themis Regio
*A prominent pyramid cluster stands out brightly in the Sif Mons and Gula Mons areas, along with a number of machine-like objects
*Huge parallel and radiating ridges are set in regular repeating formations in the Thea Mons area
*A “Venusian Face” with a pyramid complex together look into the heavens in Thetis B Regio

ON THE JUPITER MOON IO:
*Unusual dark circular features, with pyramid structures and oblong domes near Lerna Regio
*Two “unusual circular constructs,” named Inachu Tholus and Apis Tholus, with dome structured centers
*Half-buried geometric structures in Prometheus Crater
*Linear patterning in southern Pole Escarpment
*”Horseshoe” formation in the Danube Planum area
*Large geometric “island with rectangular forms” in Loki Patera, with a straight wall to the north
*Pyramid and pipes in Reshet Catena
*Structures straddling the rim of Dazhbog Patera
*Prominent linear and geometric structures in the Haemus Montes area
*Parallel walls extending for hundreds of miles at right angles to natural fractures in Taranis Patera
*Pyramid-tower centers in Heno Patera and Aten Patera
*Pipe-like structure forming a radius across Tarsus Regio
*Jovian Face and pyramid complex, Viracocha Patera
*Mega-structured complex with spires, Crimea Mons
*Pyramid “island” in the center of Uta Patera
*Machine pieces surrounding Inachus Tholus

ON THE JUPITER MOON EUROPA:
*Geometric linear structures between Alphesiboea Linea, Thera Macula and Thrace Macula
*Domes and circle formations along Pelora Linea
*Pyramidal structures in the center of Tyre Macula
*Double domes, spires and straight line patterns, in and around Taliesin Crater
*Oblong “buildings” north of Tegid Crater and west of Morvran Crater
*Obelisk-spires and pyramids in the Rhiannon Crater region
*Regular rectilinear structures on either side of Argiopo Linea

ON THE JUPITER MOON GANYMEDE:
*Nazca-like rectangular formations in the Sippar Sulcus Region
*Radiating “track lines” from Osiris Crater, interspersed with oblong domes
*Pyramid complex in Gilgamesh Crater
*Rectangular structure northeast of Beta Facula
*Huge rectilinear formations north of Uruk Sulcus
*Ring of pyramids in Memphis Facula
*Artificial dome over a hundred miles wide in Enkidu Crater
*Straight-lined “roadways” running for thousands of miles south of Phrygia Sulcus
*Double pyramids casting long shadows in Tettu Fecula
*Parallel machine-like forms east of Enlil Crater
*Mega-triangle and cross formations westof Dardanus Sulcus
*Artificially “carved” double ringed Ta-Urt Crater
*Double-wheeled track-lines throughout Perrine Regio
*Twin towers half-buried in Ruti Crater
*Temple-like structure in the centre of Kishar Crater
*Crop circle-like arrangement in Selket Crater, with lines connecting other craters in Galileo Regio
*Double ring with domes along the rims, Ninlil and Kulla Craters

ON THE JUPITER MOON CALLISTO:
*Series of “highways” interconnecting Bran Crater with other unnamed craters and other artificial features in the Bran Region
*Prominent towers and rectangles in Askr Crater
*Domes set out at regular intervals within the ring formation of Valhalla Crater
*Ring of huge machine pieces in Igaluk Crater

ON THE SATURN MOON TETHYS:
*Large geometric complex and glyphs in the center of Odysseus Crater
*Oblong structures straddling Iseult and Tristram Craters, and the Camelot Chasma
*Large dome with with regular protrusions dominating the center of Telemachus Center
*Dome and central spire in Phenitis Crater
*Chain of artificial structures together form a large glyph south of Anticleia Crater
*Parallel oblong structures running in north-south parallels across the floor of Penelope Crater

ON THE SATURN MOON RHEA:
*Artificial looking large multi-ring basin

ON THE SATURN MOON MIMAS:
*Oblate mega-structures scattered throughout the northern hemisphere
*Geometric shapes forming a huge circle east of the Pelion Chasma
*Rectilinear structures east of Gwynevere Crater *Pyramid structure in the center of Herschel Crater

ON THE SATURN MOON ENCELADUS:
*Double Craters Aladdin and Ali-Baba with central structures and “rings with rays”
*Spiral Crater, Musa, showing signs of extensive mining and excavation work
*Large domes connected by straight “roadways” east of Daryabar Fossa
*Mega-scale “canals” in linear arrangements criss-crossing the Sarandib Planitia area
*Cluster of oblong structures on the floor of Juban Crater

ON THE SATURN MOON DIONE:
*”Bright streaks” in “parallel groups” in the area of Dido and Aeneas Craters
*Large complex of domes and pyramids, and a cross formation, in the center of Aeneas Crater

ON THE SATURN MOON IAPETUS:
*Several craters, with pyramidal and rectangular constructions in the centers of Charlemagne, Almeric, Oglet and Berenger Craters in the Rencevaux Terra area
*Twelve mile high, twelve mile wide and 1,200 mile long wall spanning an entire planetary hemisphere in the precise plane of the moon’s equator

ON THE URANUS MOON MIRANDA:
*”Curious lines intersecting at right angles” with domes and structural complexes, plus “grooves and “rays” in geometric patterns,located at regular intervals across the entire lunar surface

ON THE URANUS MOON OBERON:
*Pyramidal structures dominating several Crater centers--Corolianus, Lear, Caesar, Anthony, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and Falstaff Craters

ON THE URANUS MOON TITANIA:
*Excavated multi-ring basins accompanied by curious “rays” and straight line formations running for hundreds of miles from Calphurnia Crater to Adriana Crater

ON THE URANUS MOON UMBRIEL:
*”Bright rings” with domes and pyramids in the southern polar region connecting geometric structures in Malingee, Albernaly, Fin, Gob, Peri, Kanalos and Skyrid Craters

ON THE URANUS MOON OF ARIEL:
*Unusual “white streaks and rills” in geometric arrangements, from Kachina Chasma to Keragon Chasma
*Large geometric structures in Yangoor, Domovoy, Finvara, Huen, Laiea, Ataksak and Gweyn Craters

ON THE NEPTUNE MOON TRITON:
*Pyramidal structures in Mazomba, Kurma, Ilemba and Kraken Craters
*Geometric alignments and anomalous “outcroppings” criss-crossing the entire surface

ON THE NEPTUNE MOON PROTEUS:
*Large glyphs and pyramid structures positioned along the lunar equator

As these numerous artifacts suggest, the Ancients appear to have reached the Moon, Mars and other orbs within our system. And if astronauts from Earth once reached these worlds before us, could they have gone beyond, perhaps even voyaging to nearby stars or galaxies, where modern humanity has yet to go?

[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.