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" The
Real mystery is no longer who can see them ( canals ) and who can't,
but rather why are they now appearing on CCD images that amateur
astronomers are taking with their telescopes." Daniel Lauderback
In his book UFOs and the Complete Evidence from Space,
David Ross is able to tell us about observations in relation to Mars
which go against the typical descriptions with which we are
familiar.
From Page 61:
A distinguished American
astronomer, Percival Lowell,
decided to dedicate his life to
studying Mars. In 1894, he built the Flagstaff Observatory in
Arizona, which housed a 24-inch refracting telescope. By 1915, he
and his staff had charted nearly 700 canals - a precise network of
large-sscale construction on Mars that channeled water from the
polar ice caps. They were straight, narrow, sometimes parallel, and
at numerous locations the canals intersected geometrically.
From Page 63:
Lowell made a special expedition to
Chile in 1907 and
obtained the first photographic evidence of
the canals. His successor Dr. E.C. Slipher, had better success in
later years with observations from South Africa, when camera
equipment had improved considerably. The Martian canals
are seen
on plates VI and XLVII in the book, The
Photographic Story of
Mars, by E.C. Slipher. The edition I
obtained was published by
Northland Press, Flagstaff,
Arizona, in 1962.
Now to
clarify the situation regarding the canal evidence first discovered
by Schiaparelli and Lowell through their telescopic studies. It was
only laid to rest because authorities withheld official
confirmation. Mariner 4 did photograph some straight-line canals,
and this was finally admitted some time later by Dr. William
Pickering, the head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ( JPL conducts all
the planetary projects for NASA. ) Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, the scientist
who discovered Pluto, also confirmed that the canals were
photographed by the 1965 probe. But officially, this type of
evidence has never been released. The public was shown
computer-enhanced photographs, but the detailed originals were in
the hands of the authorities. And if the canals were filmed by that
first probe, it is a certainty that they were filmed by later
Mariner and Viking probes, yet that information has always been
withheld.
From Page 71:
Dr. Slipher assigned himself
to make observations from the best location possible- the Lamont
Hussey Observatory in South Africa [ The Mars Expedition ]. It had
the largest refracting telescope in the Southern hemisphere, and
Mars would be passing directly overhead each night during
opposition. And before the project got underway, Slipher publicly
stated that if he found proof of life on Mars, he would announce it
to the world.
The Mars Expedition took 20,000 photographs
and confirmed the presence of both the canals and vegetation. The
canals did not meander at all like a river would; they followed
great circle courses, which are the shortest distance between two
points on a globe. Many planetary astronomers had speculated
previously, that if photographs showed that the canals were along
great circle paths, it could be concluded that they were the work of
intelligent beings. The scientists were getting exceptional pictures
also,
because the Lowell Observatory was using a new electronic
camera that could amplify faint markings, and photograph in 1/10 of
a second to prevent atmospheric turbulence from blurring the
details. One canal was found to run straight as an arrow for 1,500
miles, something that no natural water channel could do.
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