George Haas on Lost Civilizations on Mars, Part 2

Summary

Artist and Mars anomaly researcher George Haas returns to share outtakes from his book The Great Architects of Mars, focusing on a cluster of geometric formations in the Astapus region that he interprets as a ruined military outpost. He ties these alleged structures to Tom Van Flandern's exploding planet hypothesis, John Brandenburg's claims of ancient nuclear war on Mars, and Maya inscriptions he reads as describing a 'star war' involving Mars. The conversation also covers hidden pyramids in China, the history of the term pareidolia, and claims that Mars's moon Phobos is a hollow artificial object.

Key takeaways

• 1Haas cites Tom Van Flandern's book 'Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets' (1999), which argues Mars was once the moon of a planet that exploded about 65 million years ago, forming the asteroid belt. Haas links this event to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
• 2Haas describes a cluster of formations in the Astapus region of Mars, including a D-shaped walled enclosure, a pentagonal 'fort', an octagonal dome, a 'diamond mound', an egg-shaped mound and an 'engagement ring' crater. He claims they are circularly aligned and compares them to Fort Sumter, Mesa Verde and Native American mound sites.
• 3Mac Gibson published 'Pyramidal Structures on Mars' in the journal Icarus in 1974; these Elysium formations later became popularized as the 'Sagan pyramids' through Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
• 4Haas claims Simon Martin's 'Chronicles of the Maya Kings and Queens' references a Naranjo 'star war' involving 'Six Earth Place', which Haas interprets as Mars. He dates these battles to about 896,000 years ago and about 22,000 years ago.
• 5Dr. John Brandenburg argues that Xenon-129 detected in the Martian atmosphere is evidence of ancient nuclear explosions over Cydonia and Utopia about a million years ago. Haas says CIA remote viewer Joe McMoneagle independently described a dying Martian civilization from the same era.
• 6Haas claims Phobos is a hollow artificial object based on seismic data, comparing it to the Star Trek episode 'For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky'. He also cites Douglas Vakoch's 2014 study, which he says concluded that scientists would struggle to recognize artificial structures on Mars or the Moon.

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Excerpt from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Jul 25, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.