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phenomenon will soon have a new database to draw from. Work has begun on the most

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comprehensive review of alien abduction accounts ever compiled.

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In Morris, Michigan, Dan Wright, former deputy director of MUFON, is compiling

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data from alien abduction experiences throughout North America. It is an

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unprecedented program called the MUFON Alien Abduction Transcription Project

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and its goal is to create a comprehensive computer database of abduction experience.

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These are people from all walks of life, equal numbers approximately of males and

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females and of an age from early childhood until perhaps in one's fifties.

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Over 50 MUFON researchers are now working on the project using hypnotherapy to

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bring out details of the abduction experience from volunteers. So far more

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than 200 experiences have participated in the transcription project and more than

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900 pages of data have been collected. Even MUFON veterans are surprised at the

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number of startlingly similar details. There are so many of these that cut across

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numerous cases that I know it has to be a real phenomenon and now I have to

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stay around until the last chapter is drawn out. After Wright receives the

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transcriptions of the hypnotherapy sessions, he breaks the information down

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into 54 different categories, building a physical composite of the abductor's and

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a blueprint for their craft. Thus far his analysis of the database has led him to

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believe that extraterrestrial contact on a global scale may be very near.

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I think we're coming to some sort of culmination, whether that has to do with

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some tumultuous event on the earth. All cases that I've been dealing with are

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suggestive of something happening very soon.

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Government researchers in Bethesda, Maryland report the discovery of a

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microscopic bug with properties that are simply out of this world. The remarkable

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find of the bacterium Dinoconcus radiodurans lends support to the theory

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of panspermia that life on earth was born from cosmic spores drifting in outer

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space. We've picked it up from elephant feces in a zoo in Japan, from llama feces,

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from weather granted in Antarctica, from irradiated underpants in Sweden.

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In fact, this bacterium has been found to have more radiation resistance than any

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other known creature, even enough to withstand extraterrestrial travel.

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There's nothing terrestrial that we know about that would call for that kind of

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radiation resistance. Studies continue to determine the origin of Dinoconcus

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radiodurans and decode secrets of the universe that might be locked inside its DNA.

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They're nearly visible, which looks remarkably like a human face. The pictures are intriguing,

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but they're not the first evidence of a face on Mars. That happened in 1924.

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It is reasonably certain that Mars has been inhabited in the past and is inhabited now.

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These were the words of Dr. David Todd, an Amherst College professor and astronomy genius,

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who believed he had recorded a radio message from Mars.

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David Todd was, like many people, a believer in the existence of intelligent beings on Mars,

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because of the apparent existence of features that seem to be not natural, but engineered.

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So his idea was that, in fact, we should listen to Mars and we should

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see if we could pick up radio signals directed towards us.

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Today's search for extraterrestrial intelligence is high-tech and computerized,

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but in 1924, one of the greatest mechanical minds in the country was an appliance builder named

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C. Francis Jenkins. If there was anyone in the kind of world of invention at that time who had

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all the tools to do the kind of thing that Todd wanted to have done, I think Jenkins was a logical

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choice. Jenkins had already developed an early form of television that converted radio signals

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into images on film. Dr. Todd had Jenkins aim this device toward Mars on a day of national radio

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silence in October of 1924. Effectively from what I understand, they used it to aim at Mars,

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knowing that it was going to be closest to the Earth on whatever that date was, and used it to

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record signals of some kind coming from Mars. The signals proved to be astonishing.

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For the first time in human history, a strange message coming from the direction of Mars

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was actually recorded on film. They brought the film back and then had markings on the film,

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which were very hard to decipher. There was apparently something that looked like a face

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that was constantly repeated along one edge of the film. And it was this first so-called face on

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Mars that rocked the scientific world in 1924. Many called it Martian Code and demanded that it be

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deciphered. Todd and Jenkins submitted their film to the country's leading cryptologist. No one knows

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what happened next. They sent it to a cryptologist and I don't believe it was ever satisfactorily

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deciphered to see what they had gotten. That cryptologist was the late William Friedman,

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the United States government's master of decoded military secrets and the godfather of the CIA.

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William Friedman is important in cryptology basically because of national security issues.

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He was working for the government in a security area decoding messages.

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And what happened when two of America's best scientists met the master of cryptology? The

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answer has been shrouded in mystery for three quarters of a century until sightings finally

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tracked down the long lost Mars film in Friedman's personal archives at the Virginia Military Institute.

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William Friedman looked at the code, made an attempt to decipher it. There's no evidence in

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the files which indicate that he actually broke the code. Why he did not return the files to

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the gentleman who brought the subject to his attention is not known.

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As a result, both Todd and Jenkins died in obscurity like their once famous Mars message.

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In Friedman's archives purged by the National Security Agency of much of its important

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correspondence. We did find one revealing letter. The author reports that his men had

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recorded the same radio signals on that same day in 1924. They consisted in part of dashes of

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six seconds duration separated by intervals of seven seconds. These dashes continued for

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several minutes were followed by a voice pronouncing words. They were isolated words from one to four

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syllables. The author of this amazing letter to Friedman was a captain in the US Signal Corps.

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Could this be Todd and Jenkins' ultimate vindication? A clue hidden by Friedman,

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until he was no longer here to keep the secret. To decode a message from another planet that that

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may or may not indicate extraterrestrial life. I believe William Friedman would have seen that

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as the ultimate code. During our research for this story, Sightings was contacted by the NSA,

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the National Security Agency. They informed us that while they would supply us with material

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relating to the 1924 face on Mars, they wanted us to know that neither the NSA nor the CIA has ever

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officially engaged in the collection of intelligence concerning messages from extraterrestrials.