Part 2: Silicas – and Hot Springs? – Could Mean Ancient Life On Mars

“To be honest, what would surprise me the most would be if life never was on the planet Mars. That would be surprising and give us all some pause and make us wonder – why?”

- Dorothy Z. Oehler, Ph.D, NASA Johnson Space Center     

Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.

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February 27, 2009  Houston, Texas - Other scientists studying a completely different part of Mars in Arabia Terra have also discovered features they think are the residue of hot springs, largely based on the tell-tale oval rings that closely resemble hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and Dalhousie, Australia. In a recent issue of Astrobiology, NASA Johnson Space Center planetary geologists described one mound on Mars named Vernal crater that could be a dried up hot springs?

 

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Unprecedented Northeast Bat Die-off Spreading Rapidly

“People are starting to comb through old historic records to see, but there is no evidence that I know of anywhere in the fossil record, or in recent recorded history, of a die-off of this nature in bats.”

– DeeAnn Reeder, Ph.D., Bucknell University

 

Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave has white ring of the fungal genus Geomyces  around its nose and on its ears. Image © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources.
Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave has white ring of the fungal genus Geomyces  around its nose and on its ears. Image © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources.

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February 26, 2009  Vicksburg, Mississippi and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania -  One year ago in February 2008, I reported at my news website, Earthfiles.com, about thousands of sick and dead cave-dwelling bats in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. [ See 022908 Earthfiles.]

 

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Part 19:  Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“I asked, ‘Have you been shooting down any saucer vehicles and aliens with this weapon?’ And those Wackenhut types told me they had.”

- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst

 

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal, Wackenhut now as G4S logo, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seal
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal, Wackenhut now as G4S logo, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seal.

 

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February 24, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico -  At the end of Part 18, of my June 29, 1998, interview with Stein at his Florida home, he was talking about the Wackenhut security firm that worked with the CIA in the 1950s. It was also Wackenhut in Coral Gables, Florida, that his phone manager friend told him [ See Stein Earthfiles Part ] was the source of the first call to Stein warning him not to talk with me further about the name of the southeastern military base or its activities during the Cuba stand-off with the Soviet Union or its alleged assassin squad assigned to termination missions. During his work for the Army/CIA unit that studied real UFO Blue Book cases, Stein said, “We could call Wackenhut for background checks on civilians coming to do work. Wackenhut is a worldwide security firm with offices in Europe.”

 

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Part 1: Silicas – and Hot Springs? – Could Mean Ancient Life On Mars

“On Earth, hydrothermal deposits [hot springs] teem with life and the associated silica deposits typically contain fossil remains of microbes.”

- Jack Farmer, Ph.D., Astrobiology, Arizona State Univ.

 

Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.

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February 21, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - NASA landed the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, near the Martian equator on opposite sides of the red planet in January 2004. The goal was to look for evidence of water. Spirit and Opportunity recently came out of 2008 winter hibernation and started their fifth Martian spring of exploring.

 

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Fluorescence Mystery in Red Rain Cells of Kerala, India 

“ ...Organisms replicating at 300 degrees Celsius and showing this kind of autofluorescence are currently unknown to exist on earth, which is again an indication supporting the view that these cells are possibly extraterrestrial.”

- Godfrey Louis, Ph.D., Physics, Cochin University, Kerala, India

South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.
South of Bombay, the state of Kerala, India, is in the southwestern tip of the country bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea. Its capital is Thiruvananthapuram.  Map © by mapsofindia.com.
2001 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for first time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2001 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for first time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2006 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a second time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
2006 summer, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a second time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
August 2007, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a third time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.
August 2007, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a third time on the state of Kerala, India. Photomicrograph © 2007 by Godfrey Louis, Ph.D.

February 14, 2009  Kerala, India   - Three years ago in the April 4, 2006, journal Astrophysics and Space Science was a published paper entitled: “The Red Rain Phenomenon of Kerala and Its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin.” Kerala is on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India. The astrophysical paper was about an event that occurred in July to September 2001 - and several summers since - when raindrops falling on Kerala stained peoples’ clothes. White T-shirts were covered with pinkish-red rain splatters and residents wondered what was happening?

 

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Update and Podcast: Trends Journal Forecasts 2009 Economic Depression

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A depression is any economic downturn where real gross domestic product (GDP) declines by more than 10%. A recession is the reduction of a country's gross domestic product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A Bloomberg News survey reported February 12, 2009:   “This is the biggest U.S. economic decline since 1946 as consumer spending posts its longest slide on record.”

February 12, 2009:  Cong. Budget Office Reports Record $1.2 Trillion Federal Debt in 2009, Bringing Total National Debt to $10.6 Trillion.

Total federal indebtedness has nearly doubled in ten years and every individual (305 million people) in the United States would have to contribute $37,000 each to now pay off the national debt.

 

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Part 18: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“In July, in order to let you survive getting out of the Army and CIA, we’re going to find a derelict who has died of dehydration in the streets. We’re going to get one of the unidentified corpses that the local police department has and we’re going to put your CIA  I.D. on the unidentified corpse and then cremate the body. ”

- Anthony Barden, “Stein's” CIA Boss

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February 11, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico -  My June 29, 1998, interview with Stein at his Florida home continues from Part 17, in which he discusses what happened when he and his boss, Anthony Barden, returned to the southeastern military base and their highly classified CIA Project Blue Book investigations during the period leading up to the presidential election of John F. Kennedy.

 

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Part 17: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“We (CIA) gave President Eisenhower the report we had that U. S. naval ships had radar screen information about saucer craft coming in from outer space and going into the South Pole and down into the Argentina region.”

- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst

 

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February 4, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico -  My June 29, 1998, interview with Stein at his Florida home continues from Part 16, in which he described an April 1959 meeting with both President Dwight David Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D. C. that began with a UFO photo from Puerto Rico.

 

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Part 1:  Viewer Comments On Camouflaged V-Shaped and Other Strange Aircraft

“... this lightning had hit this V-shaped craft and did something to the craft's invisibility device. It teetered as it righted itself and floated upward to hide in the cloud cover.”

- Jacksonville, Florida, resident, 1997

 

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February 3, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - After my January 8, 2009, Earthfiles report about the apparent star field camouflage on the huge V-shaped aircraft near Cape Canaveral, Florida, in August 1987, and my follow up news update on the January 29, 2009, Coast to Coast AM radio broadcast, I have received more email reports about V-shaped craft and other anomalies in which something moving in the sky appears to be using stars to disguise its location and motion. In this Part 1 Earthfiles are a few for consideration and I will follow up with more such reports in Part 2. I hope other eyewitnesses will contact me at [email protected].

 

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