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Three SPSR members at AlienCon - Three members of the Society for Planetary SETI Research, Dr. John Brandenburg, George J Haas and Keith Morgan attended Ancient Alien’s AlienCon at the Baltimore Convention Center during November 9-11, 2018.

Photographic Tribute to Dr. Horace Crater - On the 10th May 2006, Malcolm Smith had organised a meeting at the British Interplanetary Society in London. Some of the photographs taken on that day are presented here in memory of the late professor of physics Dr. Horace Crater who taught for over 40 years at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI).

Report on i-Mars event 2017 - On Tuesday 14th March 2017, Malcolm Smith and Ananda Sirisena attended the i-Mars event organized by UCL (University College London), part of the University of London. The speaker who introduced all the contributors was professor Jan Muller

Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C - Journal of Space Exploration, 2016, Vol: 5 No 2. Authors: Carlotto MJ, Ridge FL and Sirisena A. The authors present an analysis of Apollo 15 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of two unusual features in the crater Paracelsus C on the far side of the moon. At first glance these structures appear to be walls or towers on the lunar surface. By combining multiple images we show the larger feature, oriented in a northeast/southwest direction, is not simply a wall but two walls on either side of a narrow valley or "passageway".

The Mounds of Cydonia: Elegant Geology, or Tetrahedral Geometry and Reactions of Pythagoras and Dirac? - Journal of Space Exploration, 2016, Volume: 5, No 3. Authors: Crater HW, McDaniel SV and Sirisena A. Based on high resolution images from the ESA Mars express and NASA orbiter HiRise cameras, this paper gives new in-depth analysis of the remarkable geometric distribution of certain "mounds" or hill-like features in the Cydonia region of Mars. It validates the earlier measurements obtained using the lower resolution NASA Viking images, which hinted strongly at artificial surface interventions and adds new information regarding the geometry.

Special Mars issue of the Journal of Space Exploration 2015 - Nine members of the SPSR have papers published in a special Mars issue of the Journal of Space Exploration (Vol. 4, No. 2, 2015).

Space Technology & Applications International Form (STAIF II) 2015 - Three members of the SPSR, Dr. John Brandenburg, George J. Haas and William R. Saunders, had science papers presented at the Space Technology & Applications International Form (STAIF II) in Albuquerque, New Mexico during the conference held during April 17 19, 2015.

Gilbert Levin Interview with BBC (2 minute video) - Gilbert Levin Interview with BBC (2 minute video)

The Two Faces of ESA - The Two Faces of ESA Since September of last year (2006), the BBC , Sky & Telescope Magazine, British National Space Centre News and other news organizations published articles presenting what was called a 3D perspective of the Face on Mars.

A Reply to "The Two Faces of ESA", by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neukum -

Space Technology & Applications International Form (STAIF II) - Five members of the SPSR, Dr. Horace Crater, Dr. John Brandenburg, Greg Orme, J.P. Levasseur and George J. Haas, will have science papers presented at the Space Technology & Applications International Form (STAIF II) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 18th 2014.

The British Interplanetary Society, Archaeology for Space, May 10, 2006 - A symposium from the British interplanetary Society, to address a number of space-age archaeological approaches. Relates to how Earth satellites can assist in locating archaeological sites and the theoretical possibilities relating to proves and landing sites becoming "future human space archaeology: