Mark Carlotto

Mark Carlotto is an aerospace engineer, scientist, and author with almost forty years of experience in satellite imaging, remote sensing, image processing, and pattern recognition. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and has written over one hundred technical papers and seven books. Outside of his occupation as an engineer in the aerospace industry, his journey as an independent scientist has taken him to Mars and back again by way of planetary mysteries, UFOs, local history, and most recently, ancient origins and archaeology. The journey began in 1985 when he first learned about the existence of the infamous “Face on Mars” in a newspaper article in the Boston Globe. Carlotto’s first book The Martian Enigmas describes his investigation of the Face and other unusual objects on Mars that were first imaged by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976. His work using a method known as shape-from-shading to analyze the 3-D structure of the Face was cited by Carl Sagan in his TV series Cosmos. His second book The Cydonia Controversy steps back from the science of the Mars investigation and examines it within the context of the centuries-old search for life beyond Earth and its possible implications. Carlotto’s involvement in space-related investigations continued through the late 1990s with analysis of imagery from later Mars Global Surveyor and other probes, videos from two Space Shuttle missions of what appeared to be UFOs in space, and publication of the on-line electronic journal New Frontiers in Science. Carlotto comes full circle back to explore basic questions concerning ancient mysteries and human origins. His most recent book, Before Atlantis, shows that numerous ancient sites across the world whose alignments cannot be explained using conventional theories are aligned to previous locations of the North Pole first proposed by Charles Hapgood more than a half-century ago. That Carlotto has found so many sites aligned to old poles offers new proof of Hapgood’s theory and suggests that these sites are not just thousands, but many tens of thousands of years old. His blog and website https://beforeAtlantis.com is frequently updated with his latest research.

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Both of these women are gifted practitioners who clearly are dedicated to their healing modalities. Sarite is not just a healer but a teacher–a very powerful combination for a true wellness practitioner. She even suggested movement exercises that I could do at home to help with an old injury–one I had not told her about, but that she “felt” as she worked on my body. Both of these women took time to explain what and why they were doing certain things and thus were able to create a very safe environment for healing. Thank you for a truly lovely experience.

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