The Charlatan aspect has always been a question and has to be in any of these subject areas.
I think it is possible that he's authentic but been pressed into some of his emotional, mental weaknesses by the burdens such a stand would require. He may have also become such a true believer that his screen has become somewhat worthless in terms of sorting out signal/noise.
Then there are the possibilities of the government playing with his mind with chemicals or other means and he may have lost his tinfoil hat.
In case you don't make it to the bottom of the link I just provided you, here's the last line.....
"The funniest thing he [Richard Hoagland] ever suggested was that Bill Clinton went golfing at night so he could alert the public to impending asteroid strikes. His golf balls, landing on the green, you see, were simulations of asterioids striking Earth."