THE PLANET MARS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 2

THE PLANET MARS.

SUPPOSED SIGNALS

M. le Coultre, the distinguished Swiss astronomer who is at the head of the Geneva Observatory, has just made public his researches concerning the planet Mars, which he has been studying for the past five years. Although very reserved in his language, there is (reports the Geneva correspondent of the London Chronicle) .little doubt that he'thinks that the Martians have ben signalling to the earth. / During his long observations—7o nights were thuß spent in 1909—M. le Coultre observed a' series of luminous apparitions" of a bluish white color resembling the light of powerful electric arc lamps or searchlights. At first these lights appeared for seconds and then disappeared, but in the following weeks the intervals lasted minutes, and were always from the same spots. During the past six or seven years the same lights have been-seen by astronomers in different parts of the world, who have put tttem down to atmospheric or volcanic origin. M. le Coultre does not agree with this theory. He will continue his researches from January next on the summit of the Saleve, 4200 ft. high, above Geneva; where a new observatory has just been completed.