Sue Kovach & Linda Moulton Howe - Dec 7, 1997

Linda Moulton Howe reports on the Kyoto greenhouse-gas negotiations, followed by investigative journalist Sue Kovach discussing Hidden Files, her collection of law-enforcement paranormal cases. Howe also covers NASA''s upcoming Lunar Prospector mission and provides an extensive update on the Cydonia region of Mars, featuring an interview with Dr. Mark Carlotto, whose fractal analysis suggests the formations there are 100,000 to one in favor of being artificial rather than natural.

In the second half, Kovach discusses her book "Hidden Files," a collection of true paranormal encounters reported by law enforcement officers. She shares accounts of police helicopter pilots chased by unidentified orange objects in Kentucky, a Florida officer who witnessed a massive black triangular craft, and a Hawaiian homicide case where luminol revealed a murder scene at the exact location where employees sensed a ghost.

Art opens the phone lines exclusively to law enforcement and military callers. Officers from across the country respond with their own accounts of unexplained encounters, including a Florida officer who fired two rounds at a brown figure that vanished without a trace, and a Marine who describes radar contacts at 29 Palms that were invisible through night vision equipment.

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Kyoto talks and Lunar Prospector launch: Howe opens her Dreamland report covering the Kyoto greenhouse gas negotiations among 150 nations and NASA's January 5, 1998 Lunar Prospector launch into a polar lunar orbit.

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Malin reverses on Cydonia face photo: Howe reports that Mars Global Surveyor camera lead Dr. Michael Malin told the Philadelphia Inquirer NASA now plans to image the Cydonia face - a reversal of his earlier refusal - quoting him saying 'the taxpayers are footing the bill... if they want the face, NASA should try to give them the face.'

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Carlotto: 100,000-to-1 odds Cydonia is artificial: Dr. Mark Carlotto explains his fractal-analysis-based Bayesian estimate: starting from a million-to-one prior against artificiality, accumulated evidence yields odds 'between 100 and 100,000 to one in favor of the hypothesis' that the Cydonia objects are not natural.

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33,000-year Cydonia solstice alignment: Carlotto reports the average orientation of Cydonia objects differs by about one degree from the current Martian summer-solstice sunrise - translating, via Mars's axial wobble, to roughly 33,000 years ago, the same window in which Neanderthals died out and modern humans emerged.

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Kentucky helicopter chase: orange UFO in plastic casing: Kovach details a 1993 case in which two Kentucky police helicopter patrolmen, on a burglary call, were chased at 120-130 mph by a bright orange light 'encased in some kind of a plastic covering,' confirmed by ground units; the object emitted orange fireballs that left no trace in fresh snow.