June 13th, 2004
Dear X:
I know there are many issues of great importance and that your time is very valuable. However, there is one issue that very much deserves your time and attention. In the early 1970’s, I recovered a meteorite that landed on my great aunt’s ranch near Canadian, Texas. To make a very long story shorter, I now have extensive evidence that this meteorite came from Mars, and in fact, was one of the last rocks made on Mars. This meteorite clearly shows that Mars is alive, at least at the microscopic level, and evidence now returned from the two rovers on Mars fulfils predictions I made before the rovers left Earth. The rovers have now “seen” basaltic magnetic sand and small filament creatures that I now believe represent some of the primitive life of Mars.
Not thinking that the rock was important, I kept it in my closet most of the last 30+ years. But over the years I had noticed that a “fuzz” seemed to be “growing” out of the rock and then in 1996 NASA announced that they had found the possible remains of life in a meteorite from Mars that they had recovered from Antarctica. From the first few days after I recovered the meteorite, I had suspected that it was from Mars for three reasons. First the rock was red in color and Mars was known as the “red” planet. Second, the rock was clearly made by a volcano and Mars seemed big enough to have volcanoes (We didn’t know in those days). And finally, Mars is in the right position in the solar system to easily get material to Earth (NASA thinks 1,000 pounds a year of Mars falls on Earth). Mars is a smaller planet, near the asteroid belt where it’s likely to get hit by something. It’s outside Earth’s orbit, so the sun is likely to pull material inward, past Earth’s orbit once it is dislodged from Mars. This causes “parts” of Mars to “rain” down on Earth, and if the parts are large enough, they make it to the surface as a meteorite from Mars. I still think all of this logic is valid to this day.
Once NASA announced the possibility of life on Mars, the existence of the fuzz growing out of the meteorite began to make some sense to me. But I immediately realized that I had a dilemma on my hands. I knew that I must seek professional scientists to look at the meteorite, yet if I told them I suspected there might be life in the meteorite, they may not take me seriously and not study the rock. But if I lied to them, and didn’t tell them about the life that might exist in any sample I sent them, there was a chance that an extraterrestrial organism could cause disease, or otherwise harm these people. I felt I had a moral obligation to inform them of my suspicions and so I did. In the end, this has cost me dearly as the scientists have “banded” together to fight any research on the meteorite. I have given everything I have in the fight to discover the truth about the life of Mars, including my only son who died in mysterious circumstances that surely would not have occurred if any “real” scientist had ever seriously and openly studied my meteorite.
Although over the years I have sent out over a dozen samples, no one to my knowledge has ever preformed any scientific test on the rock, except me. Each scientist has only said in their opinion the rock is not a meteorite from Mars. My claim (which is supported by the evidence) is that my meteorite represents a new class of meteorites known philosophically to exist, but as yet, unrecognized. This class of meteorites is called newly formed meteorites from planetary bodies. This could be lava from any planetary body that has volcanoes that could be dislodged by asteroid impacts and eventually make their way to Earth. If my rock is a new type of meteorite, then there are no experts, and therefore, no expert opinions. The evidence indicates that my meteorite was made on Mars over a period of 50 million years by several flows of lava at the same volcano. Apparently parts of the meteorite lay on the surface of Mars for over 36 million years and nothing happened to the material, except a small amount of sand accumulated between the layers.
Evidence from the meteorite led me to predict several things before the rovers left the Earth on their way to explore Mars. One thing that struck me about my meteorite was the basaltic magnetic dust that filled the inner vesicles of the rock. This was apparently surface sand from Mars and so it should be similar to what we would find on Mars. I therefore predicted Martian sand would consist of small fine grains of magnetic basalt particles, because this was what I saw in my meteorite. This condition has now been reported on several occasions by rover scientists and I believe fulfils my prediction. I know of no one else in the world that has predicted this condition.
Evidence from the meteorite indicated that Mars has had liquid water on the surface within the last 50 million years. No one else predicted that the surface of Mars was still wet, yet all of the new data and models of surface water have now come my direction and indicate that Mars still has some surface water. Many think they have seen the direct evidence of surface water in the many photos that have come back from Mars via the rovers. The official NASA position has yet to recognize this fact, but drainage ditches and surface features clearly show that water is still playing an active role in and on the surface of Mars.
The third and most important prediction that I made was that Mars is still alive. This is a very controversial proposal, yet the evidence is now becoming overwhelming that I am correct. When I first recovered the meteorite, it had been “cleaned” by its trip through our atmosphere. The surface had been melted and re-solidified and everything on the outside had been swept away. So I was very surprised about 15 years later to see something “growing” out of the meteorite. When NASA made their announcement in 1996, I began seriously making microscopic observations of the meteorite and the contents of its numerous vesicles (holes). The result has been an unbelievably rich diversity of the bodies and parts of things that once lived more than 13 million years ago, apparently on Mars. But among all of these small plant and animal parts was a filament that seemed to be alive and growing. After conducting several experiments, I was able to determine that this filament creature did grow, without benefit of liquid water or light and that six months in my freezer didn’t bother it at all.
I predicted that these filament creatures would be seen in the microscopic images returned from Mars and I now believe that at least 100 photographs show evidence of these creatures still surviving on the surface of Mars. And to make matters more interesting, in the last year, I have been contacted by a number of people who suffer from a little known disease called Morgellons, where very similar filaments inhabit the bodies and sores of human beings. This may represent the first example of an extraterrestrial disease, yet the resistance on the part of the “real scientist” may put the future of the meteorite and these poor people at risk. Surely the people that suffer from this condition have the right to have their disease studied properly, without being called delusional. Some of my detractors have also said that I am delusional, yet I have managed to take pictures of these “delusional” creatures for years and I still have the original “colony” that I retrieved from the meteorite in 1996. It is many times its original size and has clearly grown through the years.
As I went through the process of trying to get the “real scientists” to study my meteorite in 1998, I had been rejected so many times by the scientist that I eventually contacted my congressman and senators, as I then lived in Texas. At first, they were responsive to my pleas and they were able to get me a “hearing” before a NASA science group. I was assigned a scientist by the name of Buck Sharpton, who was to help me get the tests I needed so that we could determine the planet of origin of the meteorite. I worked with Buck for about six months as we discussed the proper tests to be run. Also, I was supposed to have a fair hearing, where I could present my evidence to at least a dozen scientists from different aspects of science, not just meteoritics. Since I knew the meteorite to be a new class of meteorites, I wanted people besides the meteoritic community involved in the process, to keep things fair and balanced.
What eventually happened was that a week before the planned meeting, Buck Sharpton was transferred to Alaska and I haven’t heard from him since. After that, Allan Treiman of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston agreed to take over the “fair” review. Allan represented the very heart of those that had opposed me, but I thought he would provide a fair interview. When I arrived, I was told by him that a NASA policy prevented anyone else but him from being at the meeting, but that he would give me a fair review. That did not occur and Dr. Treiman wrote a completely false review of the meteorite that totally ignored all of my evidence and rested on his “theory” that the meteorite was not melted enough to be a meteorite. This report and my review of it can be found on my web site, which is listed below. After he sent his report to my senators and congressman, they would no longer answer my letters. I was in no position to fight the power of their positions. To this date, I still haven’t had the fair review I requested, even though so much evidence is now in my favor that this rock came from Mars and shows the evidence of the life that once lived there.
Unwilling to discuss the evidence, the meteoritic community has taken to calling me names and questioning my character. I have found stories on the internet that are completely made up, where people have written completely false stories in my name. I have offered from the very beginning to meet them in public debate over the evidence, but they would rather call names than discus science. I have also offered on more than one occasion to submit to any kind of test necessary to determine if I tell the truth and if I am competent to make the claims I have made. The life of Mars is too important a concept. If Mars is alive, then the world needs to know. I think I now have that evidence and the debate should begin within the scientific community. Yet they do all in their power to make sure the debate does not occur. If you would but get me a fair jury of 12 people, I think I could easily get you a “conviction” on my meteorite coming from Mars. But where does one find 12 honest people?
Part of the problem, I am sure, is because I have challenged the rules for finding meteorites. I have pointed out that they are not logically correct, especially for finding newly formed meteorites from planetary bodies. The problem occurs because most meteorites are made from the “dead bodies” of suns and planets that have been torn apart for some reason. Thus the material is usually very dense and doesn’t show many “new-looking” surface features. When these dense objects come through the atmosphere, they melt in a particular way that has come to be the “standard” for meteorites. It is a circular process where the definition is made, and then only those rocks that fit their definition are included. The logic is thus: “All cats I’ve seen have black tails; therefore all cats have black tails.” This logic is obviously not true, yet the meteoritic community refuses to even look at anything that falls outside their narrow definition. Thus my light weight, highly vesicled rock from Mars, is not included as a meteorite, despite its apparent origin on Mars.
After all of this time, a second meteorite has now sufaced that is very similar to mine. It was found in North America, far from where I found mine. Mine landed over thirty years ago, while this new meteorite landed about five years ago. It contains the same volcanic structure, the same butterscotch colored sand, the same magnetic basaltic dust particles, and the same filament creatures growing from the interior of the rock. This is more evidence that I am correct about the life of Mars and that both meteorites originated on Mars.
I have recently sent samples from my meteorite and the second meteorite to Dr. Phil Christensen of the University of Arizona. He is in charge of the rovers and the science that comes back from that mission. He has the necessary equipment to compare my meteorite to the rocks and sand he is seeing on Mars. He has yet to acknowledge my existence after a month. The runaround seems to be continuing.
I don’t understand why the people of NASA and the many universities have fought the existence of my meteorite for so long. It would seem to me that it would be much easier for NASA to get funding if life on Mars was proven. I think most of the people of the world would want to go there and see what we could learn. And if life does exist on Mars, shouldn’t we study it here on Earth first, so that we will have a better understanding of the dangers we will face once we are on Mars?
My prayer is that you will take this matter under your wings and help me get the fair hearing I have sought for so many years. Surely the health of the Morgellons patients needs to be considered. But why do we have scientists that are keeping information from the public? How can that be of public interest? Doesn’t the public pay for the salaries and equipment that are used by the scientists? Don’t they have an obligation to tell us the truth about the world around us?
The meteorite can be seen on any “banking” day, as it is kept in a safety deposit box here in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The evidence for its Martian origin can be found at my web site, which is www.marslife.com. On the left side of the screen, select the Evidence Summary and Beginning of Tour to learn more about the meteorite and its probable Martian origin.
Thank you very much for your time and energy in this matter. Please consider helping me.
Your friend,
μmike
Mike Moore
Box 975
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544
505 412-1371