Before the Phoenix lander left its home planet of Teegeeack to land on Martian tundra, NASA launched a different program: Visions of Mars.

Visions of Mars is a message from our world to future human inhabitants of Mars. It launched on its way to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007 aboard the spacecraft Phoenix. Along with personal messages from leading space visionaries of our time, Visions of Mars includes a priceless collection of Mars literature, and art, and a list of hundreds of thousands of names of space enthusiasts from around the world. The entire collection was encoded on an archival silica-glass mini-DVD provided by The Planetary Society, designed to last hundreds — if not thousands — of years.

“So what?” you might ask. Well, it seems our favourite intergalatic despot after 75 million years decided to use his one legally-permitted phonecall to drop a line to NASA and have his name included on this DVD.

Who knows what Xenu (or someone acting on his behalf) wrote.  It could be the story of a wife-beating, child-abusing drunk.  It could be a description of a very tiny dwarf.  It could even be Xenu’s own story.

Whatever it is, when its recovered, it’ll be related to what will then be a long-forgotten cult.

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