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 think Sitchin would agree with that. :)
For a fully-paid vacation to Mars, name the last religion who made the same claim after a failed prediction of the 'Second-coming?'
I used to listen to Bell. Hoaxie (the affectionate name from the on-topic posters in the a.f.a-b newsgroup) was on and was
giving Art cr@p about his then-new radio station antenna being 195 feet, aka 19.5 degrees (something Masonic, IIRC).
Bell said something about FAA, lighting, and 200+ foot towers.
Some poster just complained paying $10 to sit through a 6 hour Hoaxie seminar a while back is still kicking himself over the $10.
Heck, I'm still kicking myself over the $10 I paid for a marriage license.
Specifically he said N Korea would start a war when the Iraq war began. Beware the Ides of March he said. Guess that was another miss. Other famous misses- Amelia Erhardt (still not found), Chandra Levy (found but not by anything Ed Dames said), the missing A-10 that crashed in Colo.
Yes. They seem to have dissipated into thin air. Hahaha. But there are still some hold-outs. Rep. Kucinich is sponsoring a Bill to ban them. Seems the 'idiot' categorizes the DOD atmospheric aerosol weather control program as an 'exotic weapon.'
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