Release of the new image should have put to rest all confusion about the intelligently designed nature of this object. But, because of the political and national security agenda that fuels NASA�s "public" policy, the agency was compelled to advance a public relations spin which attempted to debunk the reality of what the new image actually shows. This PR spin consisted of purely un-scientific opinions and pronouncements advanced into the "mainstream" media by NASA�s public relations spin machine and purported to prove that "the face" was just an interesting "rock" that had no resemblance to an artificially-constructed monument.

These negative pronouncements were fed to media outlets by NASA�s spin doctors, devoid of any independent, scientific, peer-reviewed analysis by scientists and researchers not tied to NASA. In fact, most major news outlets ran NASA�s PR spin to the American public without showing the public the new photograph of the face! This approach was deliberately taken by NASA so that the majority of the American public, who may not be familiar with this subject matter, would simply accept the "it�s just a rock" pronouncement.

Many who have closely examined the new image of the face have pointed out the obvious man-lion fusion (left side-humanoid/right side feline) symbology in this object, the same man-lion symbology that is reflected in the sphinx of Egypt, a monument constructed by the ancestors of the Black man and woman on this planet.

Despite NASA�s propaganda spin, many independent scientists and researchers have indicated that the new image confirms without a doubt, the artificially constructed nature of this object.

You may be asking yourself, why would NASA want to cover-up what would be the greatest scientific discovery of the last 6,000 years? To answer this question one must go back to the very origins of NASA as a supposedly civilian space agency, and the research document that established its national security and operating procedure mandate.

On April 18, 1961, at the very beginning of NASA�s space exploration program, a little known but extraordinary research document was submitted to the 87th Congress of the United States, in the House of Representatives. This research document, which was commissioned by NASA�formulated by the prestigious Brookings Institute and involving some of the most esteemed and respected scientists and philosophers in America at that time�was titled: "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs." This document, which many researchers believe established the operating mandate that NASA presently functions under; also highlights national security concerns that tie directly into certain information and knowledge from lessons confiscated from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad when the government arrested and imprisoned him. U.S. government agencies studied these documents for at least 20 years prior to that time.

On page 215 of the Brookings Institute report, under the subtitle "The Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life," this incredible statement is made: "While face-to-face meetings with it (extraterrestrial life) will not occur within the next 20 years; artifacts left at some point in time by these life forms might possibly be discovered through our space activities on the moon, Mars, or Venus." Now remember, this document was written in 1961; what information could these scientists and researchers have had at that time, which would indicate that "artifacts" left by intelligent beings might be discovered on the moon, Mars or Venus?

Could it be that these scientists�in possession of knowledge and information contained in the lessons stolen from the Hon. Elijah Muhammad on the subjects of life on Mars, the other inhabited planets in our solar system, and the history of the deportation of the moon from the Earth�simply made predictions based on this "Supreme Wisdom" in their possession?

On page 216 of the same document, the question of how might such information be "withheld from the public" to insure that society does not disintegrate into chaos; being unable to psychologically assimilate this new reality" is raised. It is in this context that the withholding of this information becomes a national security issue. On page 225 of the report, two groups in particular are pointed out as potentially being the "most devastated" by this information. Those groups were religious fundamentalists and, most surprisingly, scientists and engineers!

A hard place

NASA cover-ups not-withstanding, the Mars information dike is beginning to burst, and the space agency has run out of fingers to plug the holes. In recent weeks, scientists and researchers from around the world, after studying the latest pictures from Mars and reviewing old data from previous Mars space probes, have begun to draw a picture of the red planet, as a place literally teeming with life forms!

In a recent space.com article, dated July 18, 2001, titled, "Images Stir Life on Mars Debate," astronomers, evolutionary biologists and other scientists from around the world, are said to have found evidence of vegetation, what appears to be trees, and other biological growth and activity, in recent pictures from Mars! (Reference: www.space.com)

In another recent news article from the Reuters News Agency, dated July 27, 2001, titled: "NASA Data Point to Mars �Bugs�, Scientist Says," University of Southern California neurobiologist Joseph Miller is said to have discovered evidence of life on Mars from 25-year-old misplaced data from the Mars Viking space probe launched in 1975. Dr. Miller is quoted as saying, regarding the biological activity detected in Martian soil samples examined by the Viking probe; "I think, basically that it�s bugs."

If all of this was not enough to keep the NASA cover-up spin doctors busy, the same public action group that threatened legal action against the space agency to get the new pictures of the face released is now pressuring NASA to image other possible artifacts on the Martian surface, including the mysterious "glass tunnels" that seem to appear around that planet. This public action group, called FACETS (Formal Action Committee for Extraterrestrial Studies), has retained the services of Arizona attorney Peter A. Gersten, best known for his successful Freedom of Information Act challenges against the CIA and the NSA in the 1980s.

As anybody who has been there knows, to be between a rock and a hard place is not a comfortable place to be!

(Robert Muhammad assists the National Secretary at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.)