Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Matt Barone brings together two of the most active researchers in Mars anomaly analysis, Brian Cory Dobbs and Jean Ward, for a wide-ranging panel covering the Face on Mars, newly identified pyramidal structures, and the case for taking Martian archaeology seriously.
The Face at Cydonia Mensa, nearly a mile long and first photographed by Viking orbiters in 1976, is the anchor of the conversation. Dr. Mark Carlotto is credited as the only researcher to publish peer-reviewed quantitative analysis on the structure, applying fractal modelling software originally developed for military satellite imaging to distinguish natural terrain from artificial construction. The surrounding hills and mountains at Cydonia return high fractal values, consistent with natural geological formation. The Face itself returns a low fractal value, the same signature that would flag a man-made structure to aerospace analysts. Brian adds a piece of terrestrial precedent that predates the Viking discovery entirely: in the 1940s, Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi proposed a mile-long face-shaped earthwork designed to signal to future observers that intelligent life had once existed on Earth, in case nuclear war ended civilisation. The concept of a symbolic marker facing skyward existed in human art before anyone photographed one on Mars.
Jean Ward's methodology, developed across nearly ten years reviewing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE imagery and rover photographs, is built on distinguishing geometric and symmetrical anomalies from the random shapes typical of natural terrain. He walks through several specific finds: a three-kilometre pyramidal structure in Elysium Planitia with visible water erosion at its base and what appears to be a collapsed ramp comparable to the staircases at Teotihuacan; a formation of three pyramidal rings, one offset in an arrangement that mirrors the layout of the three Great Pyramids of Giza relative to Orion's Belt; and Crater Pyramid, a symmetrical four-sided structure sitting directly on the rim of a two to two-and-a-half-mile-wide impact crater, previously investigated by remote viewers Ingo Swann and Joe McMoneagle, whose survival on the crater's edge raises the obvious question of sequence: which came first, and how did one avoid destroying the other. Researcher Gary Leser's discovery of a perfectly square, flat-topped structure adjacent to another crater, closely resembling flat-topped pyramids in China, is highlighted as one of several independent finds NASA has never formally investigated.
The panel closes on why this matters beyond Mars itself. Brian's argument is direct: Mars disclosure sits at the intersection of the ancient civilisation community and the UAP disclosure community, with researchers including John Brandenburg and Gary Sivertsen documenting gimbal-shaped UAPs in Martian rover imagery, and any serious discussion of pyramid age on Earth needs to account for structurally comparable megaliths existing on another planet. Both researchers close with a shared hope: that Mars anomaly research receives the same institutional attention currently being extended to Earth-based UAP disclosure, rather than remaining the work of independent researchers citing their own source data.
**CHAPTERS**
00:00 Cold open: bypassing the microbial life conversation for the anomaly data
00:49 Introduction: Brian Cory Dobbs and Jean Ward
01:39 The Face on Mars: overview and Dr. Mark Carlotto's research
03:57 Fractal analysis explained: how military satellite software found the anomaly
10:44 Was Cydonia the original planned landing site
11:52 The Noguchi precedent: a 1940s art proposal for a face visible from space
14:22 Jean Ward's methodology: geometry, symmetry, and distinguishing anomalies
14:27 The Elysium Planitia pyramid: water erosion and the collapsed ramp theory
19:16 Three pyramidal rings and the Orion's Belt comparison
22:03 Crater Pyramid: remote viewing history and the survival paradox
26:59 Gary Leser's square pyramid discovery near China's flat-topped pyramids
~35:00 UAP sightings in Martian sky photography
~40:00 Suppression, classified technology, and why disclosure might be inevitable
43:07 Closing thoughts: Mars disclosure and the overlap with ancient civilisation research
47:55 Thanks to John Brandenburg and the researchers doing the source citation work
**GUESTS**
Brian Cory Dobbs / Blue Planet Red — [blueplanetred.net/]
Jean Ward — [https://x.com/JeanWardMars]
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Matt Barone brings together two of the most active researchers in Mars anomaly analysis, Brian Cory Dobbs and Jean Ward, for a wide-ranging panel covering the Face on Mars, newly identified pyramidal structures, and the case for taking Martian archaeology seriously.
The Face at Cydonia Mensa, nearly a mile long and first photographed by Viking orbiters in 1976, is the anchor of the conversation. Dr. Mark Carlotto is credited as the only researcher to publish peer-reviewed quantitative analysis on the structure, applying fractal modelling software originally developed for military satellite imaging to distinguish natural terrain from artificial construction. The surrounding hills and mountains at Cydonia return high fractal values, consistent with natural geological formation. The Face itself returns a low fractal value, the same signature that would flag a man-made structure to aerospace analysts. Brian adds a piece of terrestrial precedent that predates the Viking discovery entirely: in the 1940s, Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi proposed a mile-long face-shaped earthwork designed to signal to future observers that intelligent life had once existed on Earth, in case nuclear war ended civilisation. The concept of a symbolic marker facing skyward existed in human art before anyone photographed one on Mars.
Jean Ward's methodology, developed across nearly ten years reviewing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE imagery and rover photographs, is built on distinguishing geometric and symmetrical anomalies from the random shapes typical of natural terrain. He walks through several specific finds: a three-kilometre pyramidal structure in Elysium Planitia with visible water erosion at its base and what appears to be a collapsed ramp comparable to the staircases at Teotihuacan; a formation of three pyramidal rings, one offset in an arrangement that mirrors the layout of the three Great Pyramids of Giza relative to Orion's Belt; and Crater Pyramid, a symmetrical four-sided structure sitting directly on the rim of a two to two-and-a-half-mile-wide impact crater, previously investigated by remote viewers Ingo Swann and Joe McMoneagle, whose survival on the crater's edge raises the obvious question of sequence: which came first, and how did one avoid destroying the other. Researcher Gary Leser's discovery of a perfectly square, flat-topped structure adjacent to another crater, closely resembling flat-topped pyramids in China, is highlighted as one of several independent finds NASA has never formally investigated.
The panel closes on why this matters beyond Mars itself. Brian's argument is direct: Mars disclosure sits at the intersection of the ancient civilisation community and the UAP disclosure community, with researchers including John Brandenburg and Gary Sivertsen documenting gimbal-shaped UAPs in Martian rover imagery, and any serious discussion of pyramid age on Earth needs to account for structurally comparable megaliths existing on another planet. Both researchers close with a shared hope: that Mars anomaly research receives the same institutional attention currently being extended to Earth-based UAP disclosure, rather than remaining the work of independent researchers citing their own source data.
**CHAPTERS**
00:00 Cold open: bypassing the microbial life conversation for the anomaly data
00:49 Introduction: Brian Cory Dobbs and Jean Ward
01:39 The Face on Mars: overview and Dr. Mark Carlotto's research
03:57 Fractal analysis explained: how military satellite software found the anomaly
10:44 Was Cydonia the original planned landing site
11:52 The Noguchi precedent: a 1940s art proposal for a face visible from space
14:22 Jean Ward's methodology: geometry, symmetry, and distinguishing anomalies
14:27 The Elysium Planitia pyramid: water erosion and the collapsed ramp theory
19:16 Three pyramidal rings and the Orion's Belt comparison
22:03 Crater Pyramid: remote viewing history and the survival paradox
26:59 Gary Leser's square pyramid discovery near China's flat-topped pyramids
~35:00 UAP sightings in Martian sky photography
~40:00 Suppression, classified technology, and why disclosure might be inevitable
43:07 Closing thoughts: Mars disclosure and the overlap with ancient civilisation research
47:55 Thanks to John Brandenburg and the researchers doing the source citation work
**GUESTS**
Brian Cory Dobbs / Blue Planet Red — [blueplanetred.net/]
Jean Ward — [https://x.com/JeanWardMars]
**ABOUT**
TTN News covers the cosmic history that shaped this planet, the deep human past still buried in the ground, and the disclosure story unfolding right now, with primary sources and the people doing the work.
**FOLLOW TTN NEWS**
[facebook.com/cosmicsummit] · [https://x.com/Cosmicsummitx] · [instagram.com/cosmic.summit/] · [https://thetitan.network/]
#TTNNews #MattBarone #BrianCoreyDobbs #JeanWard #MarsAnomalies #FaceOnMars #MarsPyramids #MarsDisclosure #MarkCarlotto #UAP
