SIGNALS FROM MARS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3437, 17 March 1920, Page 5

SIGNALS FROM MARS.

Is Mars trying to signal to the earth?

The question is raised by some unusually interesting observations of the planet which have recently been made public by M. le Coultre, the distinguished astronomer of Geneva. During observations, which lasted seventeen days, the astronomer romarked a series of luminous apparitions of :1 bluish-white colour, like the light of powerful electric arc lamps. T-he illuminutions, which usually lasted seven seconds, were observed on several different nights. This is not the first occasion on which they have been seen. Several astronomers have, at. different periods within the last six or seven’ years. drawn attention to them, and have trined to explain them as being due to atmospheric or volcanic origin.

Most of the previous theories have, however, been exploded, and the conclusions come to ‘by M. le Coultre, are strongly in favour of the phenonlena.being due to regular attempts made during recent years by the Wartians to get into communication with our planet. '