Ok, this is wierd. I was listening to KFI 640 AM radio on the way home last night. The show was Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and they were talking about the confirmation of methane on and ammonia on mars.
According to that article, this discovery had been made some 35 years ago by a guy by the name of Dr. George Pimentel, who had made the historic announcement, then a few weeks later had a sudden “change of heart” and retracted his statements. Now it appears that three separate groups have also made these confirmations, most notably one led by Professor Vittorio Formisano of the Institute of Physics and Interplanetary Science in Rome and creator of the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on Mars Express. This was the part that got me thinking: Dr. Formisano was supposed to hold a press conference yesterday to discuss his new findings, but from what I had heard on Coast to Coast, he has gone MIA and his office is not returning any calls.
Not trying to be a conspiracy buff or anything like that, I’m just saying it looks like someones got some information to protect.
Here’s the story that ran on BBC News last week that i totally missed.