January, 2009
Andrew D. Basiago, lawyer, writer, environmental scholar, former member of Mensa and holding five college degrees, has studied the NASA photograph PIA10214 and found anomalies in it. This is the photograph of the Home Plate plateau on Mars' surface, taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in 2007, and published on the World Wide Web in January, 2008. It shows a humanoid figure that appears similar to a woman sitting on the edge of the ledge.
In December, 2008, Basiago refined the resolution of the photograph to find that "the object is standing on an ornately carved pediment featuring a plumed serpent motif, establishing that it is a statue and not a rock formation or a living being." There is, of course, much speculation and controversy surrounding this announcement.
Basiago has found other figures in this area, including some wearing clothing, and others with four or more arms, a serpent figure that seems to be biting a male humanoid, a huge humanoid skull and even some portions of the "statues" having colored paint.
This announcement was made January 5, 2009, on Vancouver Co-op Radio with Alfred Webre, head of the Mars Anomaly
Research Society of Vancouver, WA, as host and interviewer of Basiago. The radio show was heard on 1-5-09 and is available at http://exopolitics.blogs.com. A text with more details and the photo in question can be seen at http://exopolitics.blogs.com/files/mars---andrew-d.-basiago---the-beings-on-the-edge-are-a-statue---1-5-09.pdf,