The above 8–12th images all offer closer views of the various evidence in the Sol 1830, 1833, 1836 and 1843 images. The 9th image demonstrates the strange moving object the best as well as the rock with the very pronounced crack in it. It is hard to imagine that a little difference in camera angle as exampled in the above 12th image could visually close up that much pronounced crack space from the top down as is demonstrated beginning in the Sol 1836 image and continuing progressively downward in the Sol 1843 image.

ADDENDUM added 5/27/09:

There are a few viewers observing that movement of the rover and therefore the position of the camera and its angle perspective explains the object visually moving from its position at the left end of the cracked rock. The argument is that change in camera perspective places the object behind and hidden by the large cracked rock. When one thinks about it, this at first seems a plausible position, at least until one examines closer.

Please look at the Sol 1833 9th image above. Note the low profile small rock laying horizontally on its side on the ground at the left end of the cracked rock. Also note very precisely the position of the moving object very close to the left rear of this smaller rock. Now note that the moving object is gone in the Sol 1836 10th and Sol 1843 11th images and yet the small horizontal rock is still fully visible in those subsequent images.

If any of this evidence is real, this demonstrates that the camera angle is not that much changed between the Sol 1833, 1836 and 1843 images. It also demonstrates conclusively that the location that this moving object was in on Sol 1833 also continues to be fully visible in the Sol 1836 and 1843 images even though the moving object is no longer there behind the small rock.

This of course doesn't explain conclusively what is going on with this moving object. However, it certainly demonstrates that the object is not hidden by the cracked rock in the Sol 1836 and 1843 image due to camera angle and that something strange is definitely going on here.

CONTINUING on with the 5/25/09 reporting:

Further, that fluke looking projection out from the right bottom of the cracked rock object also looks suspicious. Likewise there is a ridge of "something" that looks a lot like course hair or growth projecting from the top and right side of the crack rock that also looks suspicious. Additionally, what appeared to be just another large rock to the right of the cracked rock, now in the above 12th image no longer looks like that. It tends to look more like a blurry partially consumed carcass laying on its left side with its head toward us in the image lower right corner. What is going on here?

The poor imaging just doesn't allow the needed better examination of this fascinating evidence and so it and we cannot be definitive. One thing that does stand out beyond all the rest of this suggestive material though is the strange looking moving object. It does appear to be the same object under close examination and it has clearly moved from one location a few feet over to our left to another location. IF this object is real, then we have to logically consider that it may be something alive here.

On the other hand, a very careful search of the context field this evidence sits in reveals many subtle changes in rocks both as to position and as to surface textures and the degree of this is more than can be explained by camera and processing variables. That could suggest the possibility of very subtle image tampering. If so, this would explain much.

However, I cannot definitively answer the questions raised here because the poor quality imaging as publicly released will just not allow sufficient closer examination and that is the root of the problem. If I took these same pictures with my old limited 3 mega pixel camera at the close to medium distances involved here and in decent high quality .jpeg format without the presence of obfuscation tactics, you can bet that answers would be forthcoming because those images would allow that kind of sufficiently close inspection before running into the image resolution problems you see in the above images and that is another point.

If we were looking at the real science data at the real camera resolutions publicly promoted before the rover missions were launched to Mars and un compromised by later "questionable" processing instead of this poor sanitized material we are being fed, answers and truth would be forth coming and this frustration would get short shift. Let's face it, someone just doesn't want you and I to know any truth here. The over riding question is why?

That question is important enough to digress a little here. I see this question asked over and over again. To so many in the more trusting mainstream, it just doesn't make any sense. To them, the presence of a viable distant world within our technological reach like Mars with surface water and sustaining bio-life would just result in massive interest and funding pouring into space research coffers and that would be extremely desirable by entities like NASA and JPL. Even old now defunct civilization evidence could be a treasure trove of new information and learning. So what's the big deal?

That observation has the ring of truth to it but, in my opinion, they just haven't thought questioningly about it quite far enough. For example, what if the more simple surface water and bio-life wasn't the end of it? What if space in general, the Moon right over our heads, and nearby planets collectively have a lot of very technologically advanced beyond us active civilizations on them rather than just empty or containing ruins of defunct civilizations?

In other words, what if we aren't alone and in a big way? I know that some of you viewers might welcome such information. In fact I would myself. But, do you really think that the bulk of the mainstream population conditioned to focus primarily on self and shallow social interests is going to take such information in stride and just move on with it?

If you believe that they will do so without a serious and prolonged adjustment period and turmoil, then in my opinion you haven't thought about it objectively and/or enough. If you don't believe it, just try to bring your friends into the truth fold with the verifiable evidence record here and see what their majority reaction will be. Make no mistake about it, you will almost certainly encounter emotional dismissal reactions with little rational mind set behind it to modify such behavior. So, in other words, be prepared for rejection.

Now also remember that these are your friends who are going to make allowances for you if they can as compared to strangers who will not make such allowances. You know the answer as well as I do, as well as we all do. Most of us who are more open minded have encountered it all of our lives and for me that has been a while. Let's face it, in Earth human behavior, differences from the herd are historically not well received.

The mainstream population, due to long conditioning and as compared to you and I, must move collectively as a body and they must be able to emotionally feel collectively that it is safe to do so as a body and within the framework of socially approved consensus. Likewise, although there are individual exceptions, they must generally be convinced primarily as a body that there is more than they ever imagined there was to this space exploration business.

The secrecy agenda has been conditioning this collective body subtly for decades through the media as well as science and learning centers and government and that conditioning is not now going to turn around from its habituated course willingly or readily. That includes science and academia because they are already firmly entrenched social communities within the larger social context. Think of it as a great collective mass that resists change automatically and eventually changes direction only collectively and grudgingly, if at all.

If there was a sudden effective revelation of very technologically advanced active alien presence all around us and even on what we consider as "our" Moon, how do you think that would impact mainstream populations habituated to thousands of years of perceived isolation thinking we were and are alone? There would be a huge amount of uncertainty and insecurity and that would translate into strong reactionary demands on perceived leaders. However, perceived leaders are the products of our mainstream social structure used to dealing and counter dealing in a political process that corrupts. They would have no clue and no real answers.

Right quick the public eye political leaders would be pounding at the gates of real hidden leaders they defer to and clamoring for solutions. However, hidden leaders are the kind even more thoroughly addicted to self interest, money, power, and subtlety. They effectively maneuver behind the scenes and not out in the open. If they get out in the open very much, long experience tells them that bad things happen for them. The American and French revolutions come to mind as adverse reactions in populations prevailing over the perception of greed and parasitic leader behavior gone too far.

Space exploration from the hidden leaders point of view is a business that aspires to profit and benefit mostly for them and their now world wide community. In this time of our Earth human civilizations, real benefit and the power edge comes via technological advances. The old model produced benefit and power via controlling the media and thereby public opinion, controlling key governmental positions directing public wealth, and controlling the industry that the public wealth is directed at and thereby into their coffers.

The newer model does this as well but for decades and generations now adds in a much larger way the constant search for technological advances that translate to advantage. You and I out here in the public call is space exploration. When any advances gained in this search and acquisition process have used up their time serving secrecy interests directly, they then and only then trickle down into the mainstream population. Even then the downward distribution benefit is still in the hands of the hidden leaders for their second harvest.

For example, if what we consider an alien craft is shot down, simply crashes, or is acquired by interaction trickery, it is a priceless technological treasure trove for who ever can acquire it. Such an acquisition can provide a power edge here on Earth that may sometimes last for generations. However, that's just one example. Another very important and more reliable one is to simply acquire images of alien technology in operation. That is why missions to the Moon and Mars are for the most part covert operations that scoop up technology intelligence under the guise of terrain surveys. Any insight gained is priceless ultimately leading to reverse engineering technological advantage, wealth and power.

This model eventually trickles down technology gained to populations and so there is advancement in absolute terms. However, it also requires those populations to be dumbed down into ignorance to prevent any public attempts at intrusion into what hidden leaders regard as their territory and disturbing the balance. However, this negates too much that is important to broader Earth human well being. Meanwhile, hidden leaders live the good life relative to you and I and at our expense. We are the cash cow that supplies the money that enables the search and acquisition while the great bulk of any benefit goes to those who parasite off of us.

From their point of view, if populations were to become more involved and wake up to too many realities, we would of course get excited and be making demands and striving for greater participation at minimum. Do you see anything in such a scenario that would be desirable from the hidden leaders point of view? They would regard anything like that as intrusion into their territory by we great unwashed masses.

For example, inconvenient laws and enforcement would be passed as to full disclosure negating their advantage. You can bet that even more inconvenient laws and enforcement would be enabled to disable their parasitic process and redistribute the technological gain. Why ultimately breaking the chains of public control by them could even be an issue! If you are a hidden leader thoroughly addicted to control, power and self benefit, what in such a scenario would be attractive to you?

Wide spread public knowledge of any greater realities represents nothing good or desirable to hidden leaders. To them, good means something good for them, not you and I. Quite the contrary, intrusion puts their position of privilege at risk and that is to be avoided. It is they who currently control our space exploration and that means NASA and JPL as well as the key influential positions in Congress associated with space exploration. For them, space exploration is the business of search and acquisition of technological advantage to their benefit. To you and I space exploration is simply the acquiring of universal knowledge. I trust that you can see there is a difference.

So those that can't understand why the need for secrecy and find it just too incredible to be reasonable need to put themselves in others shoes and look at it from the other party's point of view a bit. After all, the human civilization currently on Earth, regardless of country boundaries or ethnic differences is all about capitalism and the acquisition of wealth and power. It is simple, wealth = power = security! Given human diversity, it should come as no surprise that some carry the concept further than others and to extremes.

In any case, even though I've digressed perhaps too much away from the evidence in this report, I thought a little insight into secrecy and why it exists might be informative. In any case, before ending this report, I have some other evidence for you that I'm going to include below even though it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with moving objects.

Remember that fluke looking appendage in the above 5th and 9th images protruding from the cracked rock? Before you settle on identifying this as merely a rock and disregard it as nothing of likely importance, take a look at the evidence below from a website at the link below brought to my attention by a viewer. It takes you to a no longer active website a researcher Tim Beech established back in the late 1990s with parts of it still available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The images surviving there are too small with links to larger images broken but some very interesting evidence can still be discerned as appears below.

http://web.archive.org~tbeech/directry.html

The above 13th image is taken from the old Tim Beech website. It is sourced there from the vertical column of small thumbnail images on the left side of the page and the 6th image down from the top. Left click on it to open a slightly larger black and white image. In my work I've added some color to the image to help with viewing comfort and also to add some better visual detail.

The image demonstrates what appears to be some hard bone or rock material now laying on the ground. It is possible that this object was originally sticking upright and was knocked over broken on the ground by a portion of Viking 1 passing in the air over it. The hard object laying on the ground appears to contain within it a light color material that may be living matter. This protrudes from within the hard object and then appears to have been literally cut off as some portion of the Viking 1 plowed across the ground at this point forming a significant trench in the soil. This cut off the protruding material pointed out with my blue arrows which is now hanging limp and draining fluid into the trench very much like bleeding body fluids.

ADDENDUM added 6/5/2009

I have been in contact with Tim Beech now at his new website www.martianlifeforms.com thanks to the help of the viewer who originally brought his work to my attention. With Tim Beech's cooperation and assistance, between the two of us the above 13th report image is now identified as image number 12D091.BB2 as well as located and verified on official CD ROM as a browser compatible image at the address below.

Go to http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/vikingl/vl_images.html. On the page that opens there scroll down near the bottom and note the input box there labeled "CE Label." Enter the image number "12D091.BB2" in this box. Below that is another input box labeled "Mars Solar Day" but leave this box blank. To the right of that box are two small round input boxes. Click in the left of those two and this equates to selecting Viking Lander 1. Then click on the "Submit" button right below those boxes and the page with only the 12D091.BB2 image will come up.

On this page will be a very small thumbnail image. Click on the thumbnail and a larger but still thumbnail size image will come up. Immediately under that image is a menu of various types of images for selection such as FITS, GIF, JPG, PDS, TIFF, and VICAR. The menu defaults to GIF and that is what you want because it is actually a BMP image that will download and the other options are no better or worse than this one despite what the selection ability implies. With GIF appearing in the menu selection box, click on the larger thumbnail image and the full image will display.

But, that's not quite all. Note the additional evidence below also from the old Beech website. It isn't that great evidence wise and so I'm not going to try and document it as I did the one above but it is still interesting.

http://web.archive.org~tbeech/directry.html

The above fourteenth and last image here is taken from the 7th thumbnail image down from the top on the Beech website page. When you click on this thumbnail and the image page opens, there are three small oval images on the right. The above is the 2nd or middle one worked on a bit by me.

It is suggestive but not conclusive of possibly one creature sticking out from an underground lair with another possible creature in its mouth. Note the light reflective body and very dark eye. This is typical of other Beech poorly viewed evidence. This might be a plausible characteristic of creatures that live mostly underground and other Beech poorer quality evidence tends to suggest this as well.

However, please note the similarity of this evidence to the eel looking creature in my Report #157 titled "Mars Spirit Rover Mixed Life." It might be prudent to consider that any barren appearing Martian wastes are not the place to take a casual unprotected evening stroll unless you want something not so pleasant latched onto your leg.

, Investigator