Sir Arthur C. Clarke Cracks
The Tip of the Mars Iceberg
YOWUSA.COM, 28-March-01
Steve Russell
…Continued
Public Tug Of War
NASA originally approached the NIMA for help, and now suddenly they are not accepting their results.
Space.Com, March 22 2001
Mars Polar Lander: NASA and NIMA at Odds Over Spy Agency Findings
When NIMA presented their data to NASA, however, space agency officials contended that "noise" in the imagery may be contributing to a false interpretation.
According to a joint statement expected to be released today by NASA and NIMA, the two agencies will work together to resolve their differences.
"NIMA researchers looked at the images that we provided them early last year. They thought they saw things that indicated the lander, the aeroshell and the heat shield. We've looked at
their work and we've looked at the images. We think that what they've seen could very well be ‘noise' in the camera," Carl
Pilcher, NASA's science director for solar system exploration, told SPACE.com.
When solar elevation angles are high enough -- where shadows may help photo interpreters -- the
Mars Global Surveyor is to
be tasked to snap
more pictures.
The expertise of the NIMA far exceeds anything that NASA could offer towards a solution for finding the MPL. What grounds then, does NASA have to dismiss NIMA's results as "false interpretations"? The NIMA are
the experts.
Perhaps this publicly staged tug-of-war between opinions has been set up to achieve a goal. It seems the only thing the arguments have achieved, is
a priority to get more images of the South Pole. Could this be because NRO investigations using the hijacked spacecraft have determined that evidence for life on Mars exists there?
Your Own World USA, March 9 2001
A Geo-Biological Mars?
During various orbits around Mars, Malin Space Science Systems quietly and repeatedly targeted their camera on an area of the South Pole exhibiting extraordinary circular, symmetrical features.
What surprised us recently, were some amazingly perfect geometrical structures situated only a few degrees away from the Inca City. These images were not seen by Viking and were
recently captured on extremely high-resolution photos.
The Inca City formation can also be found at the South Pole, along with what looks like either strange plant growth or ancient coral that was discovered by Graham Orme.
Did it really take the NIMA 14 months to find the MPL? NASA proved it could not be found using MGS data only weeks after the loss. If the
turnaround time on Earthly defence imagery took this long, I am sure there would be hell to pay. Why has this information on a discovery of MPL been released only now?
There is an old saying; "people who light fires are the first to yell fire".
Fire Starters - A Look Inside The Tinderbox
Congressional Research Service
The Library of Congress
Issue Brief for Congress,
Order Code IB92011, Updated January 22, 2001
U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial
The 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act specified that military space activities be conducted by the Department of Defense (DOD). The Air Force is DOD's executive agent for most
space programs. The intelligence community (coordinated by the Director of Central Intelligence) makes significant use of space-based intelligence collection capabilities, and
participates in managing satellite reconnaissance programs through the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an agency within DOD. NRO builds and operates intelligence collection
satellites, and collects and processes the resulting data. The data are provided to users such as the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).
In order for the NIMA to show where the MPL is on NASA's images, they would need the valuable information from the MCO camera now operated presumably by the NRO.
If JPL were originally in complete control of the MCO and MPL, how could they possibly lose them to the NRO, and for what purpose?
He Who Holds The Matchstick
On March 28 2000, Dan Goldin flew to JPL in order to raise the troops moral after a public drilling for the failures.
Dan Goldin Speech, March 29 2000
When The Best Must Do Even Better
"…I'd also like to acknowledge Admiral Inman, head of the JPL Oversight Committee at Cal Tech. He couldn't be here today,
but I talked to him by phone. His commitment to the team here is also unwavering. And I thank him for that…"
What is this "JPL Oversight Committee"? If Admiral Inman is the head of this committee, then who are the other members? Strangely enough, the
other members are not publicly known. A transcript of this speech can also be found at Space.Com. As expected, there are a few minor words
accidentally missing from the transcript. However, the very important second half to the first sentence is completely missing! Did NASA not want this line so blatantly reported by the public media?
Space.Com, March 29 2000
NASA Chief's Speech to JPL
I'd also like to acknowledge Admiral Inman. He couldn't be here today, but I talked to him by phone. His commitment to the team here is also unwavering. And I thank him for that.
Perhaps we can glean some information about this committee by investigating the leader.
THE WHITE HOUSE, December 16 1993
Office of the Press Secretary
BIOGRAPHY OF BOBBY RAY INMAN
 During a 31-year military career that
included some of the most sensitive national security posts in government, Bobby Ray Inman earned a bipartisan reputation as one of the nation's finest intelligence officers.
…Director of Naval Intelligence in 1974, and Vice Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976. He was named director of the National Security Agency in 1977, and served
four years at the head of this major agency. As he rose through these posts, Inman won the Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy's highest non-combat award, and the DIA's
Defense Superior Service Medal for "achievements unparalleled in the history of intelligence."
In 1981, Inman was nominated by President Regan to be the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He was easily confirmed, and served in that position until resigning in March 1982.
Why is the Nations greatest military intelligence success story heading an "Oversight Committee" at a private University, which watches over a
civilian agency operating unmanned spacecraft on Mars, that suddenly disappeared?
The answer is quite simply, "National Security".
Controlling Information
At the time of these missions, the topic of life on Mars was at an all-time peak. The famous Mars rock ALH84001 was showing signs of microscopic
life, and a new case for liquid water on the surface of Mars was captivating the public and governments alike. Where there is water, there is life. There was
also the passing of comet 76P around Mars, which NASA has kept incredibly quiet about.
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It is no secret that NASAs original Brookings document called for the containment of information confirming the existence of life on Mars.
Brookings Institution, April 18 1961
Proposed Studies On The Implications
Of Peaceful Space Activities For Human Affairs
Prepared for NASA by the Brookings Institution
While face-to-face meetings with it [aliens] will not occur within the next 20 years… artefacts left at some point in time by these life forms might possibly be discovered through our space
activities on the Moon, Mars or Venus.
Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing
different ideas and different life ways: others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behaviour.
…two research areas can be recommended -
…successive alterations of [intellectual understanding, and attitudes] …
How might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public for what ends?
Science vs Security
Since NASA does not have the right to classify or withhold information obtained from its projects, perhaps the DOD believed that national security
would be compromised should life be found and announced too soon. There is no way a military organisation like the DOD could get the approval or
funding to send their own spacecraft to Mars in order to find evidence of life. So perhaps they decided to hijack the NASA mission and get control of the
latest in Orbiter, Lander and Probe technology to control the flow of information about life on Mars.
If so, we would expect to see a period of silence as the information was studied, followed by spoon-fed "discoveries" with news releases and even movies designed to "successively alter" public awareness without causing
the "disintegration" predicted by Brookings.
Here is a small five-step example of how this might work.
- Stir up old arguments.
- Excite the public with a planted information leak that exaggerates the story.
- Make the announcement.
- Mislead the public into thinking this is a new idea.
- Flood the public news with evidence supporting the "new idea".
And here is how it was actually accomplished!
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