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At this point we can accept it as a fact that ufos exist. Understand that the word "unidentified" means what it says; all we know for certain is that something modern science is utterly unable to explain is flying around in and beyond our atmosphere and under our oceans as well. The skeptics cannot explain the mass of videos involving multiple witnesses from places like Mexico City and Phoenix, nor shuttle astronaut Story Musgrave's showing of a video of what appears to be a bizarre living creature shaped like a serpentine blob flying near the shuttle, nor the NASA videos of anomalies painstakingly searched for and downloaded by researchers like Jeff Challender. A cryptic question about an upper rocket stage by Apollo 11 astronauts has long been suspected of being in reality a reference to a ufo, and, recently, the commander of Apollo 11 actually admitted this and publicly displayed the video of the object. No, beyond question, ufos exist.

But there is that great big word "unidentified." We don't really know what they are. People who should know better make sweeping statements about "Sirian craft" and "Pleiadean motherships," but this is just speculation disguised as certainty. Few people are aware that Sirius and all the stars in the Pleiades cluster are very young stars, a fraction of the age of our own solar system. How likely is it that advanced races have had time to develop there? With our modern atheist/materialist mindset, we forget that, to the ancients, these stars were important for magical, astrological reasons. Among other things, as the Pleiades rise higher in the sky they herald the coming of spring in the northern hemisphere, and Sirius notified the Egyptians of the imminent arrival of the yearly Nile floods. Actually, there is reason to suspect that many ufos may not be craft at all, but, possibly, paranormal manifestations and/or bizarre living creatures, an old theory given new life by the research of Jose Escamilla and others, and their videotapes of "rods" that look more like lifeforms than anything else. Yet there is also reason to believe that some ufos are indeed craft; the Roswell and other crashes and the fact that the USAF for years had a ufo crash retrieval unit seems to prove this. We cannot rule out the possibility that at least some of these craft originate here on Earth, perhaps built by modern governments and secret societies or originating underground or under the sea. Yet an interplanetary origin for at least some of the craft is at least as likely an explanation as any. Remember, there is nothing wrong with speculation, as long as it is informed speculation, and as long as we are honest with ourselves and others and admit that we don't really know for certain. But, if some ufos are interplanetary, what planet do they come from?

In recent decades, as evidence of the seeming uninhabitability of other planets in our own solar system seemed to mount researchers have suggested other solar systems as a likely origin. But what if we were right the first time, over a century ago? What if they come, not from distant star systems, but from our own planetary neighbor, Mars? In 1996, in Architects of the Underworld, author Bruce Rux suggested, not only that the ufos come from Mars, but that the Martians, originally, came from right here. In other words, he was suggesting that the ufos are piloted by our own distant relatives. It's hard to imagine any theory more radical than that, but other researchers (myself included) were beginning to suspect the same thing. So let us examine the evidence for this, and remember that everything is in the patterns; always look for the overall pattern.

So if we have unidentified craft on and near Earth and at the same time can see evidence of a technologically advanced civilization having been on the Moon and Mars, and at the same time see evidence of continuing anomalous activities on those worlds, we have a pattern. The face in the Cydonia region of Mars is fairly well known, but what is important here is a smaller pattern imbedded in the larger one. In a small area near what looks like a face are what appear to be pyramids, a dome, a wall, and a triangular enclosure, all looking suspiciously artificial and yet all very different from one another; the odds are very much against all of that being natural. Chuck Reever, a MUFON investigator in Northern California, has shown me a picture taken from a Mars orbiter, showing what appears to be a rectilinear grid pattern like a city near the South Pole of Mars, and what appears to be steam rising from one of the structures. A Soviet probe, years ago, photographed an anomolous shadow on Mars just before contact with the probe was lost. On the Moon, lights, clouds, and other phenomena are so common that there is even a name for them: transient Lunar phenomena, or TLPs. And there are a great variety of unusual structures on the Moon, including immense towers, domes, walls, what looks like a huge bridge, and the pyramidal structures referred to as the Blair Cuspids. It looks like we have company.

But, if there are Martians, did they originate there or come from someplace else, like here? The simplest answer is usually the correct one (Occam's Razor), and, at first glance, a Martian origin seems likely. Increasingly, mainstream scientists are convinced that Mars once was warmer than today, and had water, even oceans. Apparent fossils found in a meteorite of Martian origin seem to show that bacteria, at least, once lived there. Earth based astronomers long noted a wave of darkening spreading across whatever Martian hemisphere was experiencing spring and early summer, looking for all the world like vegetation. Some astronomers believed that they could detect a green color. But when the first Mars probes were launched, NASA and JPL denied all this and claimed that seasonal dust storms somehow caused the darkening, an "explanation" that is rather hard to visualize. Yet NASA's own photographs from orbiters and the Hubble telescope clearly show green areas. Orbiters have also photographed what appear to be huge trees, but skeptics claim that these are merely sand dunes. Astronomers had long believed that Mars' air at the planet's mean surface level was about as dense as our own atmosphere at the top of Mount Everest; they based this on observations of the haze above the limb of the planet. Yet NASA claimed that the Martan atmosphere was only about one percent as dense as ours, a near vacuum equivalent to our own atmosphere twenty miles above the Earth. They showed lander photographs depicting the Martian sky as light pink in color, not the navy blue that would have been expected; they claimed that this was due to suspended dust. But how could a near vacuum suspend so much dust, let alone generate the planet-wide dust storms that have been observed? Information has leaked out that NASA may have deliberately miscalabrated the colors, and the only explanation for this would be to disguise the true color of the Martian sky, for the true color would allow any decent atmospheric physicist to make a rough estimate of the atmospheric density. Furthermore, orbiter photos show temporary meltwater lakes on Mars, complete with small ice bergs and a progressively darker color away from shore toward the center of the lakes, just like bodies of water bon Earth appear when viwed from above. The catch is that liquid water, even very cold water, cannot exist in a near vacuum. So it is beginning to appear that NASA has lied to us about the Martian atmosphere, just as they have lied to us about everything else.

So maybe indiginous Martians could have evolved after all. But what about prehistoric colonists from Earth? Entire books have been written effectively proving that human civilization is far more ancient than the conventional pundits claim, here we only have space for the briefest of summaries. It was long the accepted wisdom that fully modern Man as a species was only perhaps fifty thousand or so years old, making us by far the youngest species of large animal on Earth. We were told that woven fabrics, fired ceramics, agriculture, writing, and long sea voyages were, at the most, only five or six thousand years old. But now even mainstram archaeologists and physical anthropologists admit that Man as a species is at least 120-150 thousand years old, and, of course, there is some evidence for vastly greater antiquity.

The walled city of Jericho is admitted to be some ten thousand years old, agriculture is at least twelve to fourteen thousand years old, and woven fabrics and fired ceramics have been found at a site in central Europe and dated to twenty eight thousand years. On the outskirts of Mexico City is a circular stepped "pyramid" partly covered by a lava flow hard dated at seven thousand years. A stepped pyramid of unknown origin has been found in the Canary Islands. Even mainstream authorities are now becoming convinced that prehistoric Man was an accomplished seafarer, and that Europeans may have colonized eastern North America and Yucatan before the Indians. DNA evidence links the remnant natives of Tierra del Fuego to, incredibly, the Australian aborigines. Most recently, underwater ruins have been found in a number of locations, including off the coast of India,and there depth proves that at least one of them dates back over twelve thousand years.

But could our ancestors have achieved space flight? There is nothing in all of this to suggest anything more than a relatively primitive and non-technological culture. Yet we know that the ancient Greeks built complex mechanical computers, with multiple gears. A two thousand year old electric battery has been found in Iraq. Ancient calendars and systems of measurement show that the ancients knew the size of the Earth and Moon and knew about the 25,920 year axial wobble of our planet. And then there are the stones that speak. They speak with their mass and location, for the ancients regularly quarried stones weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds, transported them as much as forty miles, lifted them up hillsides as much as a thousand feet, and emplaced them with incredible precision. It has been proven that stones weighing twenty tons and more can indeed be moved by human muscle, given patience and a little ingenuity, but there are limits, and as the wight increases the difficulty increases exponentially. The evidence does not quite prove, but does strongly suggest, that our remote ancestors knew the secret of gravity control. And that would solve the biggest problem in space flight: how to climb out of Earth's deep "gravity well."

So, on the one hand evidence suggests that indiginous Martians could have evolved, and, on the other hand, that our ancestors may have been capable of space flight. And, of course, the slightly denser Martian atmosphere that makes home-grown Martians seem more likely would also aid human colonists; they would have needed oxygen masks but not full pressure suits. Like I said earlier, speculation is quite all right, if, ultimately, we are honest enough to admit our own ignorance before a great and enduring mystery.

William B Stoecker
The Atlantis Conspiracy
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