ufotv: planet mars and the world of tomorrow

Is there an established Mars Colony to insure survival of the human race? A UFOTV video by Jim Nichols, "Planet Mars And The World of Tomorrow," is an entertaining collection of "life on Mars" theories or "urban legends". It is, perhaps, best to allow the film to introduce itself with its opening statement that seems to serve dual purpose as a disclaimer:

"The cautionary tale offered in this video essay is an "urban legend" in other words; popular conjecture that cannot be absolutely verified. It may be viewed as clever disinformation, preposterous lies, entertaining fiction or a deeply disturbing truth! None the less...You'll likely find this an amazing story."

Nichol's video essay inspired, in part, by recent Mars colony whistleblowers Laura Eisenhower and Andrew Basiago. Eisenhower's experience detailed in a previous post here. The film opens with early sightings of canals on Mars by astronomers Percival Lowell and Giovanni Schiaparelli, a similar history available on this website here. A rather amazing story, indeed, where an unknown group called the Committee at Residence and according to Nichols, makes the CIA appear a small influence on human affairs in comparison. There's also the Archons, who are grey aliens that have influenced earthly affairs through history. The theme offered is in keeping with subjugation of mankind - not an uplifting message. You can raise your alternative history IQ, however, in just a half hour with this interesting yet enigmatic program.

iras detected planet x in 1983?

Did the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) make the long sought discovery after its 1983 launch? A 1984 article, Planet X--Is It Really Out There?, confirmed: "Last year, the infrared astronomical satellite (IRAS), circling in a polar orbit 560 miles from the Earth, detected heat from an object about 50 billion miles away that is now the subject of intense speculation." A reader can be their own judge why this event went without notice?

The art of planet discovery began in 1781 when English astronomer William Herschel found Uranus. Astronomers observed a wobble in the newest planet's orbit and inferred another body must be exerting a gravitational influence. Finally, in the 1840s, Neptune's discovery followed those earlier observations. But Neptune was itself affected and led to the belief an even more remote planet must be influencing it. William H. Pickering and Percival Lowell, two American astronomers in the late 19th century, "...predicted the size and approximate location of the trans-Neptunian body, which Lowell called Planet X," as related in a 1983 New York Times article, "Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X," by John Noble Wilford.

"Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune, which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says could be explained by “a single undiscovered planet.” He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly elliptical orbit that takes it some 5 billion miles beyond that of Pluto – hardly next-door but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun."

Planet discovery remains guesswork although much more refined with the aid of computer models. Wilford reported in the same article, "But according to Dr. Ray T. Reynolds of the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, other astronomers 'are so sure of the 10th planet, they think there’s nothing left but to name it'.” Today, most astronomers dismiss the existence of a tenth planet, or Planet X, as Lowell defined it.

But, the existence of an object 50 billion miles away was reported by newspapers and magazines in the early eighties. It follows a pattern, where early reports can be quickly erased into a black hole of short term memory, if the news makes powerful parties uncomfortable! You have to ask, why was a news event suppressed almost thirty years ago?

canals on mars?

Cecil Adams wrote "Whatever Happened to the Canals of Mars?", as a response to the popular myth.  Adams believes the lines spotted on the planet were an optical illusion.  In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, was first to widely circulate observations of  "canali" which means channels in Italian.  The English translation of Schiaparelli's work became canals, implying a source of higher intelligence however. "This idea was taken up a few years later by the amateur American astronomer Percival Lowell, who had built an observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell made detailed observations of Mars and published several popular books about the planet, notably Mars and Its Canals (1903), which included elaborate maps of the canals and outlined the theory that they were waterways used for irrigation."

 Lowell is the principal source for the longevity of the myth with Lowell's 1909 map of Mars.  Adams concludes the Mariner 9 satellite, which took close up pictures of Mars in 1971, dispelled once and for all "the canals myth" as an illusion, but at the same time, refers to many channels formed by some liquid that appear to be of natural origin.  Adams, an obvious debunker, brutally concludes his response with throwaway lines, "...the old theory that one of the Martian moons is an artificial satellite is out the window, too. As for that business in recent years about a "face" on Mars … please, let's say no more." 

Pictures taken by telescope of Mars such as this one by the Air Force as recent as 1962 along with a mapping history of the Red Planet can be found at the Planetary Blog.  The pictures would seem to push the idea of canals at least into the sixties as the present writer remembers?  Were the Mariner program pictures air brushed (no Photoshop) and why only map projections shown in this blog, which distort the planet's surface? The blog states the inelegant map projection is great for storing data but makes features far less apparent!  Is the Red Planet really red or a tint added?  Do you trust NASA? 
Please move along there is nothing to see here!