The Neighborhood Watch mission to collect ISR data from Mars in a rapid development and transit time was successful in the regards that a modified launch vehicle was manufactured, an ISR probe was designed and constructed, the spacecraft was launched successfully, made it to the target planet successfully, and successfully transmitted useful ISR data back to Earth.
Analysis of the alert messages in the telemetry data from the probe suggests that at 1 minute and 4 seconds after reaching Mars Closest Approach altitude the spacecraft was destroyed. All systems were functioning properly and no unusual loads were being created by any of the spacecraft systems. This appears to suggest that the spacecraft was shot down due to the immediate and catastrophic nature of its destruction. The spacecraft was well above the atmosphere and a micrometeor impact would not have been as catastrophic. However, the sequential nature of the alerts suggests something else. The alerts appeared from the outer periphery of the spacecraft and then moved inward as if the spacecraft were taken apart rather than blown apart.
Also, imagery obtained by the spacecraft before its destruction shows a dramatic change in the surface of Mars. There are vast grids and infrastructure like textures and structures on scales of tens and hundreds of kilometers. There are single structures larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Impact craters as large as cities have been excavated and built upon.
The general reflectance of the region in the imagery shows that the region is much more specular than Mars should be. The large specular regions suggest shiny, most likely, large metallic or glass covered structures.
Also, a fractal analysis of the imagery was conducted. The fractal dimension calculated for the images suggest artificial structures not those that would appear in nature. The fractal numbers do not match for a natural phenomenon.
In summary, it is very little doubt that the changes in Mars are due to "intelligent design." Alarmingly, the structures are much larger than human standards and must require advanced knowledge of manufacturing principles. Also, these structures must have been constructed in a period of no more than about 2 years as no changes in Mars were detectable before then. This suggests rapid construction on a planet-wide scale, which is far beyond human capabilities.
Finally, the Neighborhood Watch team has discussed at great length the data and implications of this occurrence. It is our opinion that our new "neighbors" can only be considered as hostile as they: 1) destroyed all of our probes that were already there, 2) moved in on a massive scale without contacting us although they knew we were here (see 1), and 3) they destroyed our ISR probe while they must have been able to realize from its trajectory that it would flyby Mars causing it no harm.
This conclusion is quite alarming. It is our final recommendation that Mars is probably not the final stopping point for this phenomenon. Also, the rapid occurrence and large scale of the phenomenon suggest that the implementation was vastly automated and likely mechanized. It is our best guess that self-replicating automatons would be most suited for this amazing task. This suggests either robots or insect-like culture and capabilities. The most likely candidate description that comes to light is that of Von Neumann Probes as described by the Hungarian mathematician John Von Neumann in the previous century.
Von Neumann described that the best suited approach to interstellar travel would be to send self-replicating robots to the new star system. One or a few robots would land at the new star system and use in-situ resources to replicate itself until it reach a critical number. This critical number being that which is required to construct a civilization infrastructure for the real inhabitants that would arrive much later when the new star system has been equipped and ready to move into.
Such automatons would be driven by one goal – prepare the new system for colonization by their masters. If this is the case and Mars was developed by Von Neumann probes, then we can only assume that Mars is not where they will stop. The Von Neumann probes would use every in-situ resource within a solar system to prepare it. We suggest tasking the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the spectra and albedos of the outer planets and possibly Kuiper Belt Objects to determine if Mars is not the first planet within the Sol system being transformed.
We also hope that we are wrong.