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New Comparisons Prove Again
That Laney Cydonia IR is “Real”
By
Mike Bara

Last year, when the Enterprise Mission released indisputable proof of massive-city like ruins buried underneath the ice at Cydonia (“Ghost Town … And The Darkness” 9/5/2002), we were almost universally attacked by various harping critics in the so-called “anomalist community.” These critics, many of whom operate at the fringes of the Cydonia question and fancy themselves as self appointed arbiters of what constitutes “valid” lines of Cydonia research, seemed unable to cope with the reality of what they were Facing. They resorted to various methods of attack to try and discredit not only our analysis of the images, but the legitimacy of Keith Laney’s processing and the integrity of the data (one former ally even accusing us of “lying” when we presented the results of our work).

Despite our showing repeatedly that ASU’s Noel Gorelick and Dr. Phillip Christensen had lied and manipulated data, these critics preferred to attack us rather than admit the legitimacy of the data and complicity of ASU in perpetrating a scientific fraud on the world.

Through it all, we have steadfastly maintained that not only is the data obtained from ASU by Keith Laney legitimate, but his processing methods, skills, and his personal integrity in this instance are beyond reproach. Keith has continued to process and post various color images of Mars on his excellent web site, including some of the Cydonia area.

One of the major reasons we have been so confident that Keith’s work and the leaked ASU image are legitimate is that we have been able to correlate various features in the IR enhancements (which the critics have universally derided as “enhancement artifacts”) with shallow, subtle surface features in the visible light images. We have also shown that another type of analysis, fractal analysis, predicted what the IR would find many years ago.

Obviously, if an object visible in detail in the ground penetrating IR can be correlated in this way, then it follows without question that the IR data is revealing “real” details of “real” objects, and not just some enhancement artifacts. As we put it in our initial analysis:

"The second major proof validating the "real" version is obtained by a comparison of specific features in earlier visible light images of Cydonia. There are numerous areas on the Odyssey, MGS, and Viking visible light images which can be inspected and compared to the "real" IR data. When we do so, we would expect to see some of the "block" features that appear in the infrared to also appear in the visible light images, assuming that some of these buried structures are actually near the top of the dusty, icy layer.

Again, this in fact is exactly what we see (below) ….

This is a side-by-side comparison of two typical "blocks" from Keith's processed IR image, located on the platform just north of the D&M Pyramid. As you can see, the very obvious block features directly correspond with features from the decorrelation stretched IR image. There are numerous other examples of similar features, which will be included in Richard's full Report -- but the point is that if these were processing artifacts (or "scanner marks," as one person actually suggested), then there would not be any correlation between visible features and the IR "blocks." The existence of even one correlation constitutes a "proof" that the blocks represent real features -- on or just beneath the Cydonia dusty plain."

Allow us to add to this database.

One of the features we pointed as a proof of this thesis were the so called “travel tubes;” long, winding ridged structures that appeared partially buried above the surface, but were shown to continue for many miles below the surface in the Cydonia IR. Obviously, our critics could not concede that the tubes were really visible in the IR, because if they did, it would be a tacit admission that the data – and all the other unimaginable wonders on it – were real as well.

So we couldn’t help but be pleased when we browsed some of Keith’s recent color imaging of Cydonia. On one of the images, thanks to his exquisite processing skills, he has given us yet another “smoking gun” in this ongoing battle with our jealous critics.

On it, Keith has enhanced an area covering one of the travel tubes. In the earlier IR, it was clear that the tube ended at the base of a buried building, complete with doorways or arches that looked to be the entrance to some kind of “subway station.” In the subtle details of Keith’s new false color enhancements, lo and behold, these same archways, and also some of the larger walled structures around it, can be clearly and easily made out. It seems that the arches and the buildings around them are very shallowly buried, in what we argue is a layer of ice coved by a light layer of dust.

So again, the challenge goes out to our critics; if these and other features can be seen even in the visible light images, how can they be mere “enhancement artifacts?” Obviously, they can’t. And just as obviously, these same critics were and are completely wrong on the reality of Keith’s Cydonia IR work.

Perhaps if these people would have spent as much energy actually studying the dataset in detail (as we have) and less time trying to jealously knock down our work with amateurish “analysis,” endless excuses for NASA\ASU’s reprehensible lies vis-à-vis Cydonia, and spurious claims about the integrity of Keith Laney and our own work, we’d be a bit farther along in our quest to get at the truth of the city beneath Cydonia.

But we won’t hold our breath on that one.

--MB