- *UPDATE* - 2003/08/15 -

SAUFOR's free lance investigator, NightStalker, has the following 2 say:

Here a follow up on the Mars Pix

The Mystery of Anomaly 502.

by NightStalker.

Greetings fellow surfers. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the NightStalker. I am a surfer, programmer, self confessd hacker (white hat of course) and I like to explore. I am also a free lance investigator for SAUFOR and like to research unusual things. And for now, that is all you are going to know about me.

Rather, let me get on with the subject of this article.

It was about two years ago that an aquaintance of mine and I were chatting online. It was in the context of trying to resolve whether or not we are alone in the universe. Could we definitively resolve the question? We chatted about this and that and then the discussion turned to the red plane, Mars! What was the buzz on the face of Mars, what about the pyramid. Were they natural or were they created by some artificial entity.

Well, as we chatted online, he made a fantastic claim. There was not just the face, there was other far more compelling evidence of another civilisation that had been on Mars. Whether it was a Martian species or an outpost of some other entity that had visited Mars could not be determined at that time but, there was evidence of something that had not been created by nature. There was a structure of a complexity that could not possibly be created by natural forces as we understand them.

Not only was there this group of structures, but there was detailed photographic evidence of its existence. Yeah, right. Send it to me, and I'll take a look for myself. So, he did just that. The sequence of images showed pix of something that was not created by mother nature, cos she don't work in straight lines..

I forwarded these images to my friend CRiSTo who created SAUFOR and asked him to post the images on his site. I also asked him to ask around and see if he could pick up any info on this entity that had been named ANOMALY 502.

CRiSTo, myself and others carried out extensive web searches to see if we could find any reference to this entity and, apart from some dead ends ending up in some obscure URL's, there was nothing. I have looked at those images from time to time and have wondered what to make of them.

It is some two years that have passed and then, last month, I was chatting to a friend and the subject once again turned to the issue of life on Mars. Once again I looked over the images, and once again, I set off in search of an answer. If it did exist in cyberspace, then, I would find it.

And, lo and behold, this time, I found something very curious. So, for you conspiracy buffs, here is something that I am going to propose, not as truth, not as fact, but as a conspiracy with a number of very interesting aspects.

Have a read, and when you are finished, you decide for yourself.

In about May 2001, a sequence of images surfaced depicting a structure on the surface of Mars. Exact location undisclosed. The images were marked with certain text, depicting the sequence and date. It also referred to an entity called IEC and a date marker in the doccument/project reference refering to the year 1998.

Logicaly this would date the images as circa 1998. Well logic says that if a sattelite took a photo of an anomaly on Mars in 1998, well then it stands to reason that it must have been launched in about 1997. I didn't expect to find anything, but to my total suprise, I discovered that there was a 'qualification' launch of an Arianne rocket designated as --- wait for it --- A 502.

In fact A 502 was launched in July 1997. And, as I researched the A 502 launch, more and more curious aspects surrounding this launch vehicle came to light. Allow me to tell you about them.

The launch payload was put together by ESTEC, an Informatics division of ESA. Could the ESTEC project have been designated as IEC ?

It was put together in a record time of just seven months, under great pressure.

The A 502 launch vehicle carried three payloads. One was the ESTEC project, MAQSAT and one was a dummy.

No charges were levied for the launch.

Now, I like to read between the lines, and some may accuse me of reading too much between the lines, but if this is just a simple little student launch being sponsored by some benevolent 'big brother', for an experimental earth orbit sattelite; Why then does the front page of the official website of this mission feature a picture of Earth and Mars? Check it out for yourself at http://www.estec.esa.nl/teamsat/

So, a launcher, put together in record time, with no charge to anyone, with a whole lot of parts donated by other agencies, that uses technicians and scientists called back out of retirement, with the ability to achieve escape velocity, is launched in October of 1997 on a launcher designated as A 502. It is carrying an impressive array of imaging systems, ia. Autonomous Vision System (AVS) , Visual Telemetry System (VTS), and Flux Probe Experiment (FIPEX) - And while FIPEX may be used to measure the density of hydrogen atoms in outer space - YEAH RIGHT! - in my understanding, Flux sensors are primarily used to sense Energy field strengths, And, as I said before, the official website features a pic of Earth, the 'Sattelite' and Mars.

And - oh yes of course - a payload designated as a 'dummy' unit. Why launch a dummy sattelite when there are so many fledgeling agencies who would love to put a live payload on an experimental launch.

Then, a year later, an impressive sequence of images comes back. Pictures of a structure on Mars, with a group of structures that must have been created by some kind of intelligence. A sequence of images designated as Anomaly 502 - Is it too great a leap of imagination to think that the designation 502 refers to the launcher, and not to the posibility that there are 501 other anomalies on Mars.

(Must admit the 502 had me going for a while, I was trying to figure out the significance of the 502, because it was definately relevant.)

Three years later these images 'leak' out. As I said before, we searched the net extensively two years ago when these images came our way for any combination of MARS ANOMALY 502 IEC etc, etc, etc and we found nothing - nada - zilch! Now, years later, little hints are starting to leak out here and there. You, go ahead, start doing your own web search - and see what you come up with.

So, boys and girls, let me lay it out for you in plain english.

Do you remember about five years ago when everyone was all in wonder at the discovery of the face on the surface of Mars. Well, they found more, much more and A502 was a rush mission to Mars to get a better set of images using every possible type of immaging system possible.

Methinks that dummy, whose actual owners paid for the launch, went straight on to Mars, took a whole lot of enhanced images of an entity designated Anomaly 502, sent them back home, then landed there - then took some more images - and sent them home too. Why do I say that ? Because my friends, I was told so by my aquaintance, and he sent me some pix to prove it.

Ever hear of plausable deniability. Acording to the public stuff, every significant space agency contributed to this baby in one way or another, Nasa - Nothing. The most important aspect of the mision, The Visual Telemetry System, was supplied by the Brits. So, how come the Brittish (who have never launched a rocket of their own) contribute the key component of the mission. Wonder who told them how to put it together ? Nasa ? No never.

Now, I am not going to claim this as fact, it is just a theory, but, you sit up and look around and decide for yourself how much substance there is in this little conspiracy theory of mine. You go and read all about the A 502 mission, and look at the facts in the context that I have outlined above.

Cheers for now

Your friend

The Nightstalker

- *end of UPDATE - 2003/08/15* -