Something is Moving on Mars [Updated]
And I Watched NASA Cover It Up in Real Time
Listen. I made the title as straightforward and fact-based as possible, and I know it still sounds insane. I’d never make this post if I didn’t have proof to back it up. Maybe my receipts will not be convincing enough for everyone, but no one can say I didn’t bring them.
I haven’t been posting my UFO research for very long. I don’t have a podcast or even a medium-sized social media following. I’m not causing ripples in the status quo. Yet I know from both history and personal experience that power likes to go after the little guys, even (especially?) when they seem so insignificant as to be a waste of resources to bother. There’s no logic to the reactionary ideology of domination. And bullies often don’t plan ahead very well. These are the things I remind myself of on the days when this doesn’t feel real.
I started posting about Martian anomalies and UFOs on Twitter/X in 2024. My follower account stayed steady at around 200, so basically invisible. (I’ve since moved to Bluesky and built a better following.) I pinned a mega-thread about my issues with the Mars Return Sample Mission— the main issue being that I’ve become convinced NASA is suppressing data about the potential existence of current life on the planet and thus would be unethically endangering life on Earth through the sample return mission. I want transparency and democratic input on the mission more than a rush for contaminated rocks.
On July 13, 2024, I posted this tweet to the mega-thread about two Spirit Rover navigation cam photos taken 10 days apart that clearly show something moving over the course of those 10 days:
The same day I posted the tweet, someone anonymously reported it as “sensitive material”, which put a warning on the post and limited its visibility. I appealed it, and the tweet was fixed on July 16th. At the time I just thought it was stupid and funny since I barely got any engagement. I never got any further details on who did it or why, but it’s clear it did not meet the criteria for any kind of sensitive material warning.
Occasionally, I would troll official NASA-related Twitter/X accounts by replying to their posts with photos of anomalies, or historical sources about how they’ve suppressed data in the past. This was for the sake of the audience. I never figured NASA was seeing my replies, but other people would, and maybe they’d start asking questions too.
It turns out, the abyss I was trolling into was about to troll back. On July 15th, the official NASA JPL account favorited one of my replies to their post wherein I had included some of the more shocking satellite photos of potential anomalies on Mars. This happened after Twitter made favorites private and thus invisible to the public. This means that unless someone saw the screenshot I took of my notifications, there’s no way they’d ever know the NASA account had acknowledged my existence.
NASA didn’t argue with me. They didn’t tell me I was crazy. They didn’t say my pictures were fake or edited. They didn’t offer a prosaic explanation. They simply winked at me and walked away.
I was shocked in a way I, frankly, still haven’t internalized. It didn’t prove anything, but it also didn’t mean nothing. Because now I knew without a doubt that at least one person at NASA was aware of my existence.
On July 18th, I was copying the Spirit cam photo post from the mega-thread to another platform. But when I posted and double-checked my URLs to the photos, I discovered they were suddenly redirecting to a splash plage about the rover program that I’d never seen before. I checked three times that I’d copied the correct URLs I’d used before. It wasn’t my mistake. It appeared someone on the back end of the NASA website had changed where the URLs landed. Below is a screen recording showing the new landing pages of the URLs.
Not only did they not go to the individual photos as before, but they didn’t even redirect to a photo gallery. There was no 404 message, no heads-up about the redirect, no indication at all the redirects had happened, no indication of what had previously existed at the URL. And now anyone who found my original post and tried to check my source links would be disappointed.
This was the moment I started to feel a little crazy.
I took the original URLs to the Wayback Machine. I discovered that the two Spirit rover photos, SOL 1833 and SOL 1843, had remained at their previous URLs on NASA’s webpage for ten fucking years before I came across them. But within a week of my mega-thread post about the moving anomalies, the post was flagged, NASA JPL acknowledged my account, and, apparently, someone at NASA permanently changed the URLs to the photos.
I don’t have a screen recording of the links working on the original July 13 post (I hadn’t yet worried about, you know, protecting myself against governmental sabotage), but they definitely worked, because that’s where I downloaded the photos in the first place. Nonetheless, Wayback Machine proves that the photos were at their original URLs as recently as February 28, 2024. So even the most generous interpretation here is that two different URLs to controversial rover cam photos, which had remained unchanged since 2014, coincidentally got changed between Feb-July 2024— a time frame where someone happened to publicly call them out.
Also, by pure coincidence, my post about those URLs got flagged and restricted on Twitter the same week NASA acknowledged my existence on the site.
This response on its own is so much to deal with, but let’s not blow past the original domino that sent all of this falling: something appears to be moving on Mars. I don’t see what other interpretation there is of these photos. That weird-looking pyramidal object made a significant journey in 10 days, moving so much farther that there’s no way to blame it on a perspective trick. Nothing else around it appears to have moved, which would eliminate some kind of environmental source (wind, water, seismic) pushing a rock around. It doesn’t rain on Mars, which eliminates the sailing stone theory. The object itself also seems to have physically changed; the thin spike on top in the first photo is not visible in the second photo. It would be awesome if we had access to colorized versions of the photos so we could get better handle on textures and colors, but alas, NASA ain’t about that.
UPDATE 4/13/2026
I’ll jump right in, folks: I have more photos of this scene to share with you, and it only deepens the mystery.
The new photos in question are from SOL 1830 and SOL 1836.
Here is the full sequence of the four photos.
Like I said, this has only brought me more questions than answers. But I’m glad to have more data to, hopefully, help identify what’s happening here.
In addition to the moving object, I’d also like to point out whatever the hell this thing is:
I’m not confident it moved between photos, and if it did, it was very minute. It’s everything else about this thing that made my jaw drop: the organic curves; the smooth texture that doesn’t match any other texture in the immediate area; and most of all, the feature coming out of it that looks like either a forked tail or a vine with a single thick leaf at the end. It’s probably neither of those things in reality, but I don’t know how else to describe it. Incidentally, that’s part of the object that seems like it might have moved between photos, but the slight angle change of the rover could also be responsible for the different perspective. The other part that seems to have shifted is the “gap” down the middle of the object, which appears to have closed or narrowed between photos— but, again, could be due to perspective from rover movement. There’s no reason it can’t be a group of broken rocks with just the right angles and sizes; regardless, it has fascinating features that are unique in the landscape.
My friends, I truly don’t know what’s going on here. I obviously have my opinion but ultimately, I don’t understand what’s in these photos, or why NASA has acted the way they have about my posts. I am simply stating the facts of what occurred. But this quick succession of events is too bizarre and unlikely to brush aside as mere coincidence. This is especially true in context of the government’s well-documented harassment of citizen researchers of many subjects. It’s not like this behavior would be out of character for them. Understandably my initial reaction was self-gaslighting— “how the hell could they give a shit about my tiny account?”— but, again, power doesn’t like to play fair. They like punching down. Way down. And gut-punching my little post was as simple for them as a few keystrokes on a smart phone during lunch break.
That they felt the need to respond in the first place, well… grandpa always said a hit dog is gonna holler.
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NASA loves censorship. Read all about it in my essay:
The simplest explanation is these are not Mars. The moving objects are moving because they are on Earth and someone is wandering about the movie set moving things, right here on Earth.
Many years ago i used to read a lot of SF. One story I remember goes like this: On a far away planet there are beings who live very long but they move and communicate almost too slow to be noticed by fast living species like the the people coming from earth.