Richard Hoagland
Posted on 04/14/2003 2:32:11 PM PDT by green team 1999
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Richard Hoagland
When a friendly journalist leaked to Richard Hoagland details of the plot of the upcoming film Mission to Mars, he was simultaneously ecstatic and suspicious.
The film apparently depicts the discovery of an immense artificial structure on the martian surface that resembles a face — a touch eerily evocative of Hoagland's belief that the Viking I probe photo from 1976 depicts precisely such a structure in the Cydonia region of Mars' northern hemisphere.
But that unrecognized nod to his theories only gave him pause; he notes that his longtime adversary, NASA — whose officials have sought to debunk Hoagland's Mars face as a photographic glitch — have been conspicuously involved in the film project.
As often is his inclination, Hoagland divines a hidden meaning: A cabal of dissenters within the space agency, he speculates, must be moving to embrace the martian-face theory at last.
"I would say there is a group in NASA using this (film) as a vehicle to run it up the flagpole," he says. "I'm fascinated why now is the time someone would decide to put it out there, in a major motion picture."
Hoagland is an exoarcheologist, a specialist in the study of archeological sites on other worlds. It is a particularly speculative discipline, since, as Joel Achenbach notes in his book Captured By Aliens, it depends upon the yet-unproven assumption that there is extraterrestrial life to create such ruins.
Yet Hoagland, a frequent guest on the Art Bell radio show, is not without some credentials. He earned an undergraduate degree in astronomy, and worked as a curator of a space museum in Springfield, Mass.
As a journalist, he worked as a science consultant for CBS News during the coverage of the race to the moon, and subsequently wrote for publications such as Star and Sky and Science Digest.
According to Achenbach's book, in the 1970s Hoagland gave Carl Sagan the idea of putting a message on the Voyager satellites to greet extraterrestrials, in case other beings someday found the craft.
In 1980, he authored a well-regarded article in Star and Sky speculating about the possibility of life in the oceans beneath the icy outer layer of the Jovian moon Europa.
From those relatively staid beginnings, Hoagland ventured out into the rarefied upper atmosphere of the search for extraterrestrial life, where the molecules of scientific hypotheses start to intermingle and collide with conspiracy theories and mysticism.
In the early 1980s, Hoagland subsequently championed the idea that the martian formation was an immense, artificial object — a humanoid face a mile long. Additionally, he has argued that there are other objects around the face: pyramids, located in relation to one another at angles of 19.5 degrees, remnants of an ancient, seminal interplanetary civilization whose handiwork may also include the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge and the circular Native American ruins recently discovered in Miami.
A subsequent probe's high-resolution photo, in NASA's view, shows the face to be an illusion; Hoagland suggests that the "new" photo is a fake, part of a government conspiracy to cover up evidence of extraterrestrials.
"We need good reporters to delve behind the propaganda and find out what is going on," he says.
for information and discusion only,not for profit,etc,etc.
I had already heard the "In my Father's house are many mansions" quote used for just that, and under peculiar conditions.
Many years ago I was out back with my telescope, which was tracking the Coma Berenices Cluster..a swarm of galaxies, when the doorbell rang. It was some religious guy handing out tracts.
"Never mind THAT..come out here and look at this!".
For him it was a religious experience..it really blew his mind and he got INTO it, and came back at my invitation a week later. He had no trouble with the concept at all.
He felt his Boss could do anything He wanted, including populating anything He built.
Maybe more orthodox religions would gag on the concept, I don't know.
From an entertainment aspect, I loved his old show. It kept me up too late!
the problem is nasa get to play with photoshop first and a year later releases thounsands of pictures.
With the war coming to an end, there's some reporters Gen. Brooks would highly recommend for that new assignment.
About the chemtrails - I wasn't a believer until there was one (big time publicity) over the house and suddenly I got sicker than I'd ever been in my life and it lasted for six months. The doctors never found out what it was. They thought it was bacterial but no antibiotics ever even slowed it down. I still have complications years later. I dunno, but after that I'm leaning toward thinking there may be something to chemtrails.
if the engines don`t make contrails,why would the side of the body??, that picture made me realise we don`t have all the answers.
What many would gag on is the final "de-thrownment" of man. First, the Earth was the center of the Universe...Bzzzzt! Wrong! Okay, but at least we were at the Center of the solar system....sorry, but that's incorrect. Well at least we are the only place in the Universe with life....Ooooh, nice try, but thanks for playing. The last pedistal for us to fall from is that of the high place of "Only Intelligent Life In The Universe." A high place to fall from...maybe to far to fall for many to consider.
Now its 2012. I want to know what happened to 1999? That guy who relocated to the Sandwich islands was predicting all hell would break loose in then. Well both he and the Nostradumass dude (the one who thinks the message of Nostradomas for the ages is to vote deomocrat) got that wrong by two years (or not at all, depending on how you keep score). Of course they have to move the date out again. The 1999 scenario was such a bust.
How many times do you have to be lied to before you figure it out?
The Planet X people have been clearly saying that it would be VISIBLE and a REAL planet and that it would arrive by the middle of May. My prediction? Soon they will say the arrival of Planet X is going to be spiritual and be marked by Earth changes and weather upheavals but you won't be able to see it.
Maybe someone can do a better job than I did. It looks like what might be described as a classic GREY!
that was major ed dames aka (dr.doom). gradually,it`s starting,wars,famine,water drought,epidemies,weather etc.
grey means the small aliens with big head,like the ones from roswell,same that abducted whietly strieber.
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