Richard Hoagland
Posted on 04/14/2003 2:32:11 PM PDT by green team 1999
alien chasers
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.
Alien chasers? Did somebody say 'alien chasers'!?
Hey, don't forget about the Hollow Earth crowd. Which way do THEY prey? ;)
Seriously, how would you picture Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell addressing the flock if there were solid proof of a former alien colony on Mars? THAT would be must-see TV!
;)
Like most politicians....
That's the thing, of course. Until we get there to poke around the Martian dust looking for artifacts, which way should we assume, that there was an alien colony on Mars or that it was one of ours?
but then again,is just a radio talk show to entertain people late at night.
It wont even phase the philosophical concept of God and who cares if someone's religious feelings gets hurt. It is called growing I think ;)
Besides you can doubt god all you want but there is no escape from religion which requires no god.
The main body of the lecture dealt with his thesis that there was once an advanced civilization on our moon, and he showed us a bunch of photo slides that he obtained from NASA to "prove" it! Well, then came the surreal part. He used his pointer on the screen to show us these faint "stuctures" both on and above the lunar landscape. Problem is, I couldn't see a damn thing! But many others in the audience were nodding their heads as if they did! It was Twilight Zone material.
After the presentation, a few of us got to talking outside, and I got everyone present to admit that they didn't see anything either.
Richard Hoagland is a complete...uh...lunatic.
Frankly, I find the images from the surface of Mars absolutely fascinating. Whether or not he's right about the rest of it is anyone's guess, but the images themselves are, to me, very interesting.
LOL...He's getting loonier by the second.
Of course, here is a logical explanation for the RODS!
But aren't all living organisms made up of "dead chemicals"?
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