Guest Andrew Basiago

The president and founder of MARS, Andrew D. Basiago, J.D., M.C.R.P. (Dist), M.Phil. (Cantab), 48, is an American lawyer, writer, and environmental scholar. He was born on September 18, 1961 in Morristown, New Jersey, the youngest of five children, and grew up in Northern New Jersey and Southern California. Andy was one of the "whiz kids" who served from 1969 to 1972 in DARPA's secret time-space exploration program, Project Pegasus. He was the editor of Alfred Lambremont Webre's book, Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe (Universe Books, 2005), which uses as a case study human contact with an advanced civilization on Mars. He also edited The Fátima Trilogy by Joaquim Fernandes, Fina d'Armada, and others (Anomalist Books, 2007), a definitive history of the Fátima Incident of 1917 that explores its extraterrestrial aspects. Andy founded the Mars Anomaly Research Society (MARS) in 2008 after discovering evidence of life in a photograph of the Red Planet beamed back to Earth by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. His discovery of life on Mars might be an epochal event in history. His crusade to evaluate and prove his findings and bring them to public light has been called "heroic." About his discovery of life on Mars, Andy stated: "From my perspective, the question that now confronts us is not 'Shall we permit the belief that Mars is inhabited?' but rather, 'How shall we think about it, now that we have knowledge that another planet in our solar system harbors life?'" See his full bio at http://www.projectmars.net/andrew_d_basiago