June 13, 1894
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California: A Three Light, Triangle Shaped Object Seen When Viewing Mars
The 1800s brought improved optics and powerful telescopes, advances in radio technology, and an increasing interest in Mars; Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. While professional and amateur astronomers focused on looking at Mars, amateur and professional radio operators began to listen to Mars. Their discoveries quickly became front-page news and the public could not get enough of Mars news!
Does the following news report allege the strange sounds emitting from Mars are celestial messages? This question was brought up at the Society of Arts in London, 1894. His name was W.H. Reece. He was an engineer for the telegraph department for the British Post Office and read the paper “Electric Signalling Without Wires” to the group.
The article leads with, “Can we open up the electric communication with the inhabitants of Mars?” This is during the pioneering days of radio and wireless technology. W.H. Preece had a hypothesis that was very interesting and advanced for the time. The royal commission conducted a series of experiments with wireless technology to see how far the signals could travel. They were [easily] able to communicate over a 3-mile distance. They took their conclusion one step further, offering this as evidence to communicate far distances, such as Mars.
W.H. Preece was in close contact with Thomas Edison regarding this subject. Both Preece and Edison ran experiments to confirm strange signals and sounds are signals from Mars. According to this report, scientists believed that within the next few years they would witness the opening up of communication of the people on both planets. This belief gained momentum when the Lick Observatory in California witnessed ‘strange lights’ when Mars was under observation.
‘Three lights were arranged in a triangle, flashed our as soon as the darkness had set in, and in the immense lens of the telescope, they glowed steadily…Is this reminiscent of the Phoenix Lights of the late 1990s?
W.H. Preece kept records of the mysterious sounds coming from Mars. We have begun efforts to re-examine his data with a modern, scientific perspective. The mysterious triangular lights seen at the Lick Observatory provide an interesting link to modern U.F.O. and aerial phenomena, particularly the events of 1997 in Phoenix, AZ.
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