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In 1962, Carl Sagan spoke on the possibility of discovering alien artifacts on the Moon stating that "forthcoming photographic reconnaissance of the moon from space vehicles - particularly of the back - might bear these possibilities in mind." ASU scientist, Paul Davies wrote: "Alien technology might also manifest itself in minings or quarrying activity, or even construction work." One of his papers mentioned "Geo-engineering structures":

"If aliens used lunar material as a resource, they may have carried out mining or quarrying activities, or even have built large structures that could still be detected from photographic surveys. The main difficulty in identifying the scars of major geo-engineering work would be to distinguish them from naturally occurring features. A round open-cast mine, for example, may after some millions of years come to resemble an impact crater or collapsed lava tube at first sight, and only a careful analysis of the topography might reveal signs of artificiality. Excavations with more distinctive topography (spirals, rectangles, etc.) would be more conspicuous. Because we have no idea of the motives, capabilities or agenda of a very advanced alien technological community, we cannot guess what form of surface modification might ensue from an alien presence, even a fleeting one, on the moon. It therefore pays to be as broad as possible when seeking signs of past geo-engineering activity."
 

There has been a lot of controversy for the last few decades about such structures on the Moon, but always a reasonable doubt. The objects in Paracelsus C could be an important discovery, but most likely the only way to settle the issue scientifically would be an amazing trip back to the Moon, but this time with an unmanned lunar rover. A manned mission would simply be too dangerous. You see, Paracelsus C lies on the BACK side. But I think Sagan would have given a thumbs up.    

In 2012 an interesting article appeared in UNIVERSE TODAY in April of 2012. "ASU Researchers Propose Looking for Ancient Alien Artifacts on the Moon". Two researchers at Arizona State University had made a rather controversial proposal: have the public and other researchers study the high-resolution photographs of the Moon already being taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), to look for anomalies that may possibly be evidence of artifacts leftover from previous alien visitation, possibly thousands of years ago. The theory is that if our solar system had been visited in the past, the Moon would have made an ideal base from which to study the Earth. The paper had just been published in the journal Acta Astronautica. Professor Paul Davies and research technician Robert Wagner admit that the chances of success were very small, but argue that the endeavor would be worth the minimal investment required. The photographs were already being taken on a regular basis by LRO. Any interesting finds could be examined by others including imaging professionals. Shape-recognizing software could also be used to help discern any possible artificial artifacts from natural ones. Apparently, what they didn't know or hadn't time to see, was they had already imaged a fascinating set of targets on the lunar Far Side.

Nothing was mentioned about the possibility that such artifacts might have been placed there by early man and the Earth went through another extinction. But man or alien, the discovery and proof of a structure on the Moon would be the news of the century.




In late May I began compiling a report a few weeks after my colleague, Ananda Sirisena, sent an email with an attachment of images that looked like dark "towers" on the surface of the Moon. When I searched for images of towers on the Moon, not only did these "towers" show up, but "structures" and some NASA image sources were suggested in a non-NASA website.  All of the attention seemed to be focused on "walls" & "towers" and all lumped into the same basket. The location of all of the objects were suppose to be in the area of Paracelsus, a crater system on the lunar Far Side. After quickly confirming the "structures" in an official LRO image (see Figure 1) I put the Lunascan Project verification team to work and began an investigation of the the most interesting features we're ever seen on our nearest neighbor.  A few weeks later I began drafting another separate report on the elusive "towers" which were interesting, but thought to be different objects somewhere else, up to 85 km to the NE, but still in the region. Within a few weeks it was obvious that both the "towers" and the "structures" were one and the same. And there was a good possibility there was more to come with the images from the Clementine mission of 1994. We soon had images from eleven (11) different NASA missions, from 1971 to 2014! And our colleague, Mark Carlotto had already produced two "3D flyovers".  At this point I knew we had to void both complicated and confusing reports and begin a new comprehensive paper on these objects. I submit that M118769870L is what Carl Sagan was talking about in 1962, and was echoed by ASU scientist Paul Davies in 2011 while LRO was still imaging the Moon. But first, take a look for yourself at M118769870L:
 
Going to the NASA LRO site click on
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-3-CDR-V1.0/M118769870LC
This will take you DIRECTLY.........to LROC Observation frame M118769870L. Go to the center of that vertical frame and left click three times until you see the targets. Center the objects. Left click again three more times to obtain full magnification. This is the original unredacted NASA image obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), one of over a





hundred thousand images throughout the mission,  and transmitted from the Moon to Arizona State University for systematic processing and cataloging. The date was January 22, 2010 and the LROC was on orbit 2636 at 53.5 km when it was on the lunar Far Side taking these incredible pictures at .55 meters per pixel. These images represent some of the highest resolution to date.

Right after the first leads were received from Ananda I discovered two web sites, Alien Anomalies and UFO Sightings Daily, which had posted and copied this information over two years ago on January 11, 2014. These sites briefly discussed tall building-like structures within Paracelsus crater with estimated measurements of .35-.45 km across (totally incorrect) and graphically rendered in Figure 2, and #7 was the image that Ananda had originally transmitted to me. In the other frames there were other objects, some with the orientation and processing changed. Image 3 didn't appear to be the same object. Everyone was calling them "anomalies", "walls", "towers".  For 2-1/2 years the story had not been thoroughly investigated.




All of these images were supposed to be from the same area. They were allegedly from original NASA image sources, AS15-M-0083 (&84) and AS15-P-8868. They were distorted, rotated, H-inverted, and enlarged. It turns out that they are all one and the same targets seen under varying resolution.




As you can see from the LROC image printscreen in Figure 1, the objects are very interesting for several reasons, and one of the first things needed was to find the same "structures" on other images. Out of a hundred thousand images taken of the Moon by the LRO, was this one from the lunar Far Side missed by NASA?



The Panoramic Camera obtained pictures of narrow strips, 20 kilometers wide in the direction of spacecraft motion and 320 kilometers long across the spacecraft's ground track. These pictures had extremely high resolution, showing features just 1 to 2 meters across. Photographs with both cameras were taken so that there was substantial overlap in the ground coverage of consecutive photos. This allowed the technique of stereo photography to be used to determine the heights of features shown in the photos. Under ideal conditions, the heights of these features could be determined to an accuracy of better than 10 meters. The results of this stereo photography were used in producing topographic maps.




Figure 7 above shows the image taken by the Apollo 15 Metric Camera. There are actually two metric camera images of Paracelsus, one a slightly different view (frame 83) both showing a wider area of the target zone in 83-km wide crater Paracelsus (at 95 km up) on July of 1971. This one has Paracelsus more centered.

Using those same coordinates for LRO we had discovered three (3) other LRO "M" mission frames of the "structures", all four imaged on different dates from 2010 to 2014, with varying light conditions, sun angles, LROC altitudes, etc.