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Richard C. Hoagland

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After the Apollo 11 crew's liftoff from the Moon in the Lunar Module Eagle and rendezvous with the Command Module Columbia in lunar orbit, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)'s unit relocated to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to cover the remainder of the flight.
“After the heady events of that unforgettable 32 hours... the successful liftoff of the Lunar Module "Eagle" and rendezvous with the Command Module "Columbia," still in lunar orbit—CBS moved our unit up the street, to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena.”
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Richard C. Hoagland observed a man wearing jeans and a long light-coloured raincoat, carrying a dark leather bag, slowly and methodically placing something on each chair in the Von Karman Auditorium.
“a man, wearing jeans and a long, light-colored raincoat... complete with a dark leather bag slung over one shoulder, was slowly, methodically, placing "something" on each chair in Von Karman.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers Ralph Greenberg's dismissal of the Great Pyramid of Giza's mathematical alignments as coincidence to be pure reductionism that fails to grasp that Hoagland and Erol Torun's measurements are nominal, valid to the closest fit of the methodology employed, rather than loose approximations.
“Greenberg's arguments are pure reductionism. ... Greenberg completely fails to grasp the issue—Hoagland and Torun's measurements are *nominal*, meaning that they are valid to the closest fit of the methodology employed.”
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The unidentified man handed reporters a mimeographed broadsheet dated 1969-07-22 claiming that NASA had faked the entire Apollo 11 lunar landing on a soundstage in Nevada, along with a small aluminised mylar American flag.
“The date was July 22, 1969... someone with an obvious "in" to JPL was handing out a mimeographed broadsheet to all the real reporters … claiming that "NASA has just faked the entire Apollo 11 Lunar Landing… on a soundstage in Nevada!"”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes NASA has, since 1976, discovered evidence of microbial life in two Viking-era experiments but has repeatedly chosen to debunk, ignore, suppress, or destroy evidence supporting a finding of current-day life on Mars.
“In Mars exploration since 1976, NASA has discovered evidence of microbial life in two Viking-era experiments...In each case, at each crossroad, they have chosen to debunk, ignore, suppress and even destroy the evidence that could support a finding of current-day life on Mars.”
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Lynn Bondurant told Richard C. Hoagland that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had learned of the Hoagland's Mars series and had raised objections at NASA Headquarters about it.
“When Hoagland asked what had happened, Bondurant told him that JPL had somehow “got wind of the series,” and had absolutely “raised hell” back at Headquarters about it.”
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Richard C. Hoagland later confirmed from another long-term source within NASA Headquarters that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had objected to the Hoagland's Mars series.
“Later, Hoagland confirmed as much from another long-term source within NASA Headquarters itself.”
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In early 1990, Richard C. Hoagland began an educational project called the U.S.S. Dunbar at Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, DC.
“In early 1990, Hoagland had begun an educational project of his own in Washington, D.C., at Dunbar Senior High.”
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The USS Dunbar project was designed by Richard C. Hoagland and colleagues, drawing on the Star Trek motif of Gene Roddenberry, to stimulate interest in science among students at the 99% black inner-city Dunbar Senior High School by focusing research on real space science issues including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Magellan Venus Mission, and Mars.
“Drawing unabashedly upon the Star Trek motif of his friend Gene Roddenberry, the U.S.S. Dunbar was designed by Hoagland and colleagues to stimulate interest in science among the students at this 99% black inner-city school by focusing their research on various real space science issues and arguments within NASA—such as the Hubble Telescope; the Magellan Venus Mission; and Mars.”
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Richard C. Hoagland sent Lynn Bondurant a tape of Barbara Bush's appearance at the USS Dunbar project, shot by the students themselves, suggesting it be included at the end of the Hoagland's Mars PBS production.
“Hoagland promptly sent a tape of her appearance (shot by the students themselves) to Bondurant, and suggested it be included at the end of his production of “Hoagland’s Mars,””
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the notion of Barbara Bush tacitly endorsing artificial ruins at Cydonia by her presence at his project to have been too much for people at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“It seems that the notion of the First Lady of the United States, the wife of the President of the United States, tacitly endorsing the notion of artificial ruins at Cydonia by her mere presence at a Hoagland project, was just a bit too much for the folks at JPL.”
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John Klineberg's formal introduction of Richard C. Hoagland on 1990-03-20 was mysteriously excluded from the official NASA/Lewis versions of the presentation videotapes, including those sent to American Broadcasting Company (ABC) News.
“Perhaps this is also why Klineberg’s formal introduction of Hoagland, back on March 20, was somehow mysteriously excluded from the official NASA/ Lewis versions of the presentation video tapes (including those that went—very late—to ABC News).”
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The NASA/Lewis technical department attributed the exclusion of John Klineberg's introduction from the videotapes to a simultaneous failure of all three cameras, which all came back online just as Richard C. Hoagland began speaking.
“The cause, according to the Lewis technical department, was due to “simultaneous failure of all three cameras.” Miraculously, they all came back online just in time for Hoagland to begin speaking.”
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Richard C. Hoagland disputes Steven Squyres's claim, stating the measurements by Hoagland and Erol Torun had in fact been made on ortho-rectified versions of the Cydonia data.
“the notorious assertion that the measurements done by Hoagland and Torun had not been made on ortho-rectified versions of the data (they had)”
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During the 1988 Nightwatch debate, Steven Squyres claimed that measurements done by Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun had not been made on ortho-rectified versions of the Cydonia data.
“the notorious assertion that the measurements done by Hoagland and Torun had not been made on ortho-rectified versions of the data (they had)”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun made inroads in the United States Congress to make Cydonia an imaging priority for the upcoming Mars Observer program.
“When Hoagland and Erol Torun began making inroads in the United States Congress to make Cydonia an imaging priority for the upcoming Mars Observer program, the response began to get harried.”
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During the Voyager flyby of Saturn, Jim Dilettoso was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a contractor, where he met Richard C. Hoagland, who was also at the Lab working as a reporter covering the Voyager mission for American Airlines' American Way Magazine.
“During the Voyager fly-by of Saturn, Dilettoso was at JPL as a contractor and it was there he met Richard C. Hoagland—who was also at the Lab working as a reporter covering the Voyager mission for American Airlines’ American Way Magazine.”
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Richard C. Hoagland was invited on five occasions by various NASA facilities to make presentations to Agency employees on the subject of Cydonia.
“he was invited on no less than five occasions by various NASA facilities to make presentations to the Agency employees on the subject of Cydonia”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it notable that Michael Malin admitted to Gary Kinder he had tested the Billy Meier photographs and did not make a negative comment about his findings, given Malin's later hostility to the Cydonia artefacts hypothesis.
“It is interesting that Malin even admitted to Kinder that he had tested the Meier photos, let alone that he did not make a negative comment about his findings, given his later hostility to the notion of the Cydonia artifacts.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the Billy Meier case significantly more "far out" than anything he ever proposed regarding Cydonia, and unlike the Cydonia investigation, not inherently falsifiable.
“If anything, the Meier case was significantly more “far out” than anything Hoagland ever proposed, and unlike the Cydonia investigation, was not inherently falsifiable.”
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A presentation Richard C. Hoagland gave at NASA/Lewis (now NASA/Glenn) in Cleveland was videotaped and eventually released as Hoagland's Mars, Vol. 1.
“One of these appearances, at Cleveland’s NASA/Lewis (now NASA/Glenn) facility was videotaped and eventually released as Hoagland’s Mars, Vol. 1.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it likely that Michael Malin's secretary, referred to as "Barbara," had no real scientific training and was being guided by Malin in her crypto-archaeology work.
“It is easy to conclude that “Barbara” likely had no real scientific training of her own, and was being guided by Malin in these endeavors.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers that Michael Malin, a geologist with no experience in engineering or archaeology, used his secretary as a public surrogate to become expert in techniques for spotting artefacts in images to be received by Mars Observer and later Mars Global Surveyor, without arousing suspicion about his true intentions regarding Cydonia.
“Since Malin himself was a geologist and had no experience in engineering or archaeology, using his secretary as a public surrogate would enable him to become expert in the techniques necessary to spot artifacts in the images set to be received by Mars Observer (and later Mars Global Surveyor) without arousing suspicion as to his true intentions regarding Cydonia. In fact, it was a perfect cover.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel investigated Michael Malin's claim of at best "one or two" opportunities to target the Face on Mars and found it greatly understated.
“Hoagland and Dr. Stanley McDaniel began to dig into Malin’s contentions, and quickly discovered that Malin’s claim of at best “one or two” opportunities to target the Face was greatly understated.”
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After consulting with mission planners at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and reviewing the technical specifications, Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel found there would be more on the order of forty-plus chances to target the Face on Mars during the regular two-year science phase of Mars Observer.
“After consulting with Mission Planners at JPL and reviewing the technical specs, they found that there would be more on the order of *forty plus* chances to target the Face during the regular two-year science phase.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and other researchers lobbied the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Congress to target the Cydonia formations, discovering that neither NASA nor Congress had authority over where Michael Malin pointed the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).
“Hoagland and the other researchers then began to lobby NASA and Congress to target the formations, only to make an extremely unpleasant discovery. Neither NASA nor Congress had anything to say about where Michael Malin had pointed his Mars Orbiter camera.”
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According to Gary Posner, John Kleinberg claims that Richard C. Hoagland's appearances at NASA were nothing out of the ordinary.
“Foremost among them is Dr. John Kleinberg, who now claims (at least according to Posner) that Hoagland’s appearances were nothing out of the ordinary.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:2734-2875 hearsay second hand
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Richard C. Hoagland's initial NASA/Lewis presentation took place on 1990-03-20.
“The reality is that Hoagland’s initial NASA/Lewis presentation, on March 20, 1990, was quite significant.”
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Throughout the 1980s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s official position on Cydonia was uniformly caustic, even as many NASA officials and prominent scientists privately expressed interest in Richard C. Hoagland's independent research.
“Throughout the 1980s, though many NASA officials and prominent scientists expressed interest and curiosity about the results of Hoagland’s independent research behind the scenes, the Agency’s quarter-century-long position on Cydonia—as well as the position of its planetary scientists—was uniformly caustic.”
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The NASA/Lewis Research Center Auditorium was filled with NASA engineers and scientists, to the point of overflowing to the aisles, during Richard C. Hoagland's 1990-03-20 presentation.
“Not only was the Center Auditorium filled with NASA engineers and scientists (even to the point of overflowing to the aisles), but special viewing rooms were set up around the complex to allow other NASA/Lewis personnel still on the job to view the presentation via closed-circuit NASA television.”
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Special viewing rooms were set up around the NASA/Lewis complex to allow personnel still on the job to view Richard C. Hoagland's 1990-03-20 presentation via closed-circuit NASA Television.
“special viewing rooms were set up around the complex to allow other NASA/Lewis personnel still on the job to view the presentation via closed-circuit NASA television”
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NASA/Lewis Research Center issued an official charge number for employees who attended the auditorium to view Richard C. Hoagland's presentation so they could be compensated for the time.
“There was even an official “charge number” for Lewis employees who came to the Auditorium to use so they could be compensated for the time they spent watching Hoagland’s Cydonia presentation live.”
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As the launch of Mars Observer approached, Richard C. Hoagland appeared live on Cable News Network (CNN) reminding viewers of the mission's controversial history as the spacecraft lifted off.
“Hoagland was live on CNN, reminding viewers of all this strange history even as the spacecraft lifted off.”
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Three video cameras and cameramen were in place in the main NASA/Lewis Research Center Auditorium to broadcast Richard C. Hoagland's presentation live to other Center buildings and to officially record it for NASA's archive.
“Three video cameras (and cameramen) were in place in the main Lewis Auditorium to both broadcast the event live to all the other Center buildings as well as to officially record it for NASA’s archive.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and other independent researchers pressured the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through political and media contacts as Stanley V. McDaniel's three-year investigation into the Cydonia controversy neared publication.
“Buoyed by the imminent publication of Dr. McDaniel’s three-year long investigation into the Cydonia controversy, Hoagland and the other independent researchers had been very successful in pressuring the Agency through newly found political and media contacts.”
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Joyce Bergstrom of NASA-Lewis's Public Affairs Office promised to provide subsequent broadcast quality copies of Richard C. Hoagland's presentation to American Broadcasting Company (ABC) News, among others, due to media requests.
“Joyce Bergstrom, of NASA-Lewis’s Public Affairs Office, had promised to provide subsequent broadcast quality copies of the presentation to ABC News, among others, due to requests from the media.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel considered the sudden lengthening of the Mars Observer calibration phase an obvious ruse, since extra calibration time would negate the advantage of the power-in manoeuvre.
“To Hoagland and McDaniel, the sudden lengthening of the unnecessary “calibration” phase was an obvious ruse. If JPL was going to take extra time to “calibrate” the instruments, effectively negating the advantage of the power-in maneuver, why bother “powering in” at all?”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers that by powering in twenty-one days early, NASA could secretly examine whatever Martian real estate it wished, including Cydonia, without public or media pressure to release the data.
“The answer seemed simple: by powering in, NASA could buy themselves twenty-one priceless days to secretly examine whatever Martian real estate they wished (obviously Cydonia) without any public or media pressure to release the data they were gathering.”
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Any images acquired by Mars Observer during the extended calibration period could be officially denied as science-quality data, since the spacecraft was ostensibly being calibrated.
“Any and all of the images acquired in this time period could be “officially” denied—since the spacecraft was simply being “calibrated” and not really gathering science quality data at all.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel publicised the calibration-phase controversy, putting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under additional pressure to provide live images of Cydonia.
“Predictably, Hoagland and McDaniel raised a stink, and NASA suddenly found itself under additional pressure from various sources to provide live images of Cydonia.”
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Richard C. Hoagland scheduled a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the day Mars Observer was scheduled to achieve orbit around Mars.
“Hoagland upped the ante by scheduling a press conference for the day that Mars Observer was scheduled to achieve orbit around the Red Planet. The briefing would be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.”
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The night before Richard C. Hoagland's 1990-03-20 presentation, Joyce Bergstrom set up a special NASA television interview for Hoagland conducted by Lynn Bondurant, director of NASA/Lewis' Educational Programs Office.
“The night before the presentation, Bergstrom also set up a special NASA television interview for Hoagland—by Dr. Lynn Bondurant, director of NASA/Lewis’ Educational Programs Office.”
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On Sunday, 1993-08-22, Bevan French was scheduled to debate Richard C. Hoagland on national television on ABC's Good Morning America.
“The following Sunday, August 22, 1993, French was scheduled to debate Hoagland on national TV, on ABC’s *Good Morning America*”
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As he had done previously with Steven Squyres of Cornell University, Richard C. Hoagland dominated Bevan French in the debate on Good Morning America.
“Just as he had with Cornell’s Dr. Steven Squyres, Hoagland destroyed French in the open forum.”
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Richard C. Hoagland was given six minutes on the Good Morning America segment, more than twice the usual time allotted for such segments, which he used to challenge Bevan French's arguments.
“Having been given an astonishing six minutes, more than twice the usual time allotted for such segments, Hoagland used the opportunity to bludgeon French’s weak and sometimes contradictory arguments.”
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At exactly 11am Eastern Time, just moments after Richard C. Hoagland's Good Morning America appearance, Associated Press (AP) science reporter Lee Siegel received a call from a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) spokesman.
“Then, at exactly 11 a.m. Eastern Time, just moments after Hoagland had creamed French on national television, AP science reporter Lee Siegel got a call from a JPL spokesman.”
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Bevan French, the Mars Observer Program Scientist, appeared on Good Morning America and did not admit that Mars Observer was lost, despite having lost signal roughly fourteen hours earlier.
“The timing of this announcement, just moments after the Mars Observer Program Scientist had badly lost a very public nationally televised debate with the leader of a highly critical Agency opponent, seemed a bit too coincidental. Why hadn’t French simply admitted that the Mars Observer was lost at the top of the segment?”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it inconceivable that Bevan French, as Mars Observer Program Scientist, did not know for over fourteen hours that Mars Observer had been lost.
“It is inconceivable that he, the Program Scientist, didn’t know for over fourteen hours that “his” spacecraft had been lost.”
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Lynn Bondurant personally conducted the interview with Richard C. Hoagland and arranged to professionally record it for a later Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) broadcast.
“Not only did Bondurant personally conduct the interview, he also arranged to professionally record it for a later PBS broadcast.”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes NASA either terminated the Mars Observer mission or took it entirely classified ("black") to prevent uncensored images of Cydonia from being released, after Bevan French's Cydonia spin control failed on live television.
“after other high NASA officials (and their bosses) watched French’s lame Cydonia spin control fail miserably—and on live television—NASA went to Plan B. They either pulled the plug on the Mission outright—out of fear of what uncensored images of Cydonia would reveal—or NASA...simply took the entire Mission “black.””
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Richard C. Hoagland believes that with Mars Observer officially declared lost, NASA could conduct a detailed secret survey of Cydonia to determine how to release or withhold future public images.
“With Mars Observer officially “lost,” they could conduct a highly detailed survey that could tell them either how to take future “public” images to ensure minimum political impact, or even how to whitewash the images believably.”
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Lynn Bondurant requested Richard C. Hoagland come in after hours the night before his scheduled NASA/Lewis presentation and set him up in a teleconference room with the official NASA/Lewis logo framed behind him for the interview.
“He requested that Hoagland come in after hours the night before his scheduled presentation, and proceeded to set him up in a teleconference room—with a huge backdrop of the official NASA/Lewis logo framed behind him, so that during the entire interview it would appear in virtually every shot.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and other researchers decided to proceed with their press briefing on the following Tuesday, on the chance that communications with Mars Observer could still be re-established.
“Regardless, Hoagland and the others decided to go on with their press briefing the following Tuesday, as there was still a remote chance that communications could be re-established.”
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An anonymous caller claiming to work as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee, in a phone message left for Richard C. Hoagland a few days after the National Press Club briefing, said Mars Observer was still alive but had been taken black by a group operating inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“A few days after returning from Washington and the Press Club briefing, Hoagland discovered several messages on his answering machine. There were four especially intriguing ones—from four separate individuals—each independently claiming to be “JPL employees.” Each had a similar story to tell: Mars Observer was “still alive,” but had been taken “black” by a cabal that was operating inside JPL.”
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An anonymous caller claiming to work as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee told Richard C. Hoagland, via voicemail, that he and Stanley V. McDaniel had placed too much pressure on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and that NASA could not risk showing the real ground truth at Cydonia live without first previewing what it might reveal.
“The anonymous voices told Hoagland that he and McDaniel had placed “too much heat on JPL,” and they (NASA) could not risk showing the real ground truth at Cydonia “live,” without having a chance to preview what it might reveal first.”
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An anonymous caller claiming to work as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee told Richard C. Hoagland, via voicemail, that the plan was to miraculously "find" Mars Observer some months later and return it to public operation, but that if extraterrestrial artifacts at Cydonia could be confirmed, Mars Observer would never be heard from again.
“The plan, they said, was to miraculously “find” Mars Observer some months later and bring it back into public operation. There was, however, one condition: if what Hoagland and the independent researchers suspected were down there (i.e. genuine ET artifacts) could be reasonably confirmed, “You’ll never hear from Mars Observer again,” one of them promised.”
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Richard C. Hoagland was never able to verify the identities of the four anonymous callers, but each appeared unaware of the others and each had technical expertise and inside knowledge of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) system and facilities.
“Hoagland was never able to verify their identities, but each of the men seemed to be unaware of the others and beyond that, each had the technical expertise and inside knowledge of the JPL system and facilities to be who they claimed to be.”
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An anonymous caller claiming to work as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee told Richard C. Hoagland, via voicemail, that because the Deep Space Network was being used to search for Mars Observer, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory could not risk sending the missing spacecraft's data back to Earth over the conventional Deep Space Network antenna network, and that alternative methods would be used instead.
“one of the men claimed that since the Deep Space Network was being used to look for Mars Observer, JPL could not risk sending the “missing” spacecraft data back to Earth over the conventional DSN antenna network. This source claimed that “they” would use “alternative methods” to get the data back to Earth, without elaborating.”
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An anonymous source, in a call to Richard C. Hoagland a few months after the Mars Observer voicemails, said the Hubble Space Telescope was being used to photograph UFOs using its high-speed photometer instrument, and that the then-imminent Hubble repair mission would secretly bring back videotapes of the event.
“A few months later, another anonymous source told Hoagland that the Hubble Space Telescope was being used to “photograph UFOs” using a light gathering device called the “high speed photometer,” and that the (then) imminent “Hubble Repair Mission” was going to secretly bring back a load of videotapes of the event.”
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An anonymous caller, in a call to Richard C. Hoagland a couple of days after the Hubble Space Telescope call, said Hubble was to be used in a future "New World Order" laser light display in the clouds to fake the Second Coming.
“Then another caller, a couple days later, called with an even more extraordinary tale … that Hubble was to be used in a future “New World Order ‘laser light display in the clouds ... to fake the Second Coming!’””
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Richard C. Hoagland speculated that Mars Observer's laser altimeter could have been used to send a data stream over a narrow infrared beam back to Earth, where the Hubble Space Telescope's high-speed photometer could secretly detect and relay the signal.
“This powerful laser could, indeed, be used to send a data stream over a very narrow infrared beam, literally millions of miles back to Earth, where one very special instrument could secretly detect and relay the signal to the appropriate “audience” on Earth: the Hubble’s high-speed photometer.”
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Richard C. Hoagland never obtained proof that Mars Observer's laser altimeter was used to secretly transmit data to the Hubble Space Telescope's high-speed photometer.
“Hoagland never got any proof that this was done, but there was one more curious side bar.”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes it is only preposterous when taken in isolation to suggest that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or its Pentagon overseers might manipulate two highly visible missions to gain surreptitious first access to the ground truth of Cydonia, but that in the broader context it becomes plausible or even imperative.
“The idea that NASA, or its Pentagon handlers, might go to the trouble and expense of fiddling with two highly visible missions just to have a surreptitious “first crack” at the ground truth of Cydonia only seems preposterous when taken in isolation. In the context we are about to put it in, it becomes not only plausible, but perhaps even imperative.”
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The Mars Observer episode convinced Richard C. Hoagland that the "honest but stupid" model of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s behaviour was no longer tenable, and he adopted the view that there was an out-and-out cover-up of the Cydonia question.
“In the end, the whole Mars Observer debacle had been enough to convince Hoagland that the “honest but stupid” model of NASA’s behavior was simply no longer tenable. He gave up any notion that there was a logical, nonconspiratorial explanation for the Agency’s erratic and unethical behavior, and gave himself fully to the concept of an out-and-out cover-up of the whole Cydonia question.”
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Richard C. Hoagland was ostracised from the independent Mars research community he had helped create, after publicly stating his belief in a NASA cover-up of the Cydonia question.
“For simply publicly admitting what any logical person would conclude, given the same evidence, Hoagland was forever ostracized from the independent Mars research community he played such a major role in creating.”
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Stanley V. McDaniel asked Richard C. Hoagland for assistance in locating difficult-to-find historical National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) documents and research papers relating to its Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project.
“In the final stages of his study, McDaniel asked Richard C. Hoagland for some assistance in locating difficult-to-find historical NASA documents and research papers relating to its SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project.”
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Richard C. Hoagland told Stanley V. McDaniel of the long-rumoured existence of an official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) report, supposedly commissioned by the agency in its early years, relating to prospective censorship of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) evidence if it was ever discovered.
“Hoagland advised McDaniel of the long-rumored existence of an official NASA report—supposedly commissioned by the space agency in its early years and relating to prospective NASA censorship of SETI evidence if it was ever discovered.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:51210-51432 testimony first hand
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Lee Clinton made several copies of the 300-page Brookings Report and forwarded sets to Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel.
“Clinton made several copies of the 300-page study, and duly forwarded sets of the complete document to Hoagland, as well as McDaniel, who featured it in his final Report as strongly indicating a long-standing potential NASA policy of “cover-up” on this specific issue.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:52084-52346 administrative
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Lynn Bondurant spent over two and a half hours interviewing Richard C. Hoagland with serious, sober and highly detailed questions based on extensive knowledge of the work of Hoagland and other Mars anomalies investigators.
“The Director of the NASA/Lewis Education Office spent over two and a half hours asking a series of serious, sober and highly detailed questions, based on an obviously extensive knowledge of the work of not only Hoagland, but of the other Mars anomalies investigators as well.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:5491-5761 observation first hand
70
Richard C. Hoagland believes the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast was a warfare psychology experiment, and that America dramatically failed the test.
“The implication is that the broadcast was a warfare psychology experiment, and that America dramatically failed the test.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:55071-55187 opinion first hand
71
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the Brookings Report as concluding that artifacts are likely to be found by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the Moon and/or Mars.
“1. Artifacts are likely to be found by NASA on the Moon and\or Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:55316-55379 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland interprets the Brookings Report as concluding that if discovered artifacts point to the existence of a superior civilisation, the social impact would be unpredictable.
“2. If the artifacts point to the existence of a superior civilization, the social impact is “unpredictable.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:55386-55479 opinion first hand
73
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the Brookings Report as recommending serious consideration of withholding information about discovered extraterrestrial artifacts from the public.
“4. Serious consideration should be given to “withholding” such information from the public if, in fact, artifacts are ever discovered.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:55782-55905 opinion first hand
74
The Brookings Report itself recommends that its key questions on extraterrestrial artifact discovery should be further studied, but no formal follow-up study has been uncovered.
“The Brookings Report itself recommends that the key questions we cite should be “further studied,” but as yet no one has uncovered such a formal study, even though one presumably took place.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:58355-58539 opinion first hand
75
Richard C. Hoagland argues that the Brookings Report may have had significant influence on the realpolitik of the day, contrary to critics who claim there is no evidence it had any impact.
“We will now argue that this is not the case, and that Brookings may have had a great deal of influence on one of the seminal events of the twentieth century.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:59413-59563 opinion first hand
76
Richard C. Hoagland believes that John F. Kennedy's proposal to merge the United States and Soviet Union space programmes may have been the last straw that ultimately got him killed.
“Not only was this idea a radical one for its day given the deep suspicions both countries held of each other, but it may have been the last straw that ultimately got him killed.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:59778-59948 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers John F. Kennedy's "The President and the Press" speech to have been responding directly to the Brookings Report's calls for NASA to consider suppression of the discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts.
“as if he was responding directly to the calls in the Report for NASA to consider suppression of the discovery of ET artifacts, Kennedy made a speech”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:60390-60532 opinion first hand
78
A few months after his March 1990 NASA/Lewis appearance, Richard C. Hoagland was invited again to the facility by Lynn Bondurant for a full briefing and educational workshop on The Monuments of Mars for representatives from high schools, universities and NASA Headquarters.
“A few months after his appearance at NASA/Lewis, Hoagland was invited again to the facility by the same Dr. Bondurant who had so thoroughly interviewed him back in March. The intent this time was to hold a full briefing and educational workshop for representatives from various high schools and universities from around the country—and even NASA Headquarters itself—on The Monuments of Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:6047-6434 administrative first hand
79
Richard C. Hoagland interprets John F. Kennedy's remarks on "secret societies" and "unwarranted concealment" as a direct reference to the recommendations contained in the Brookings Report.
“we take it as a direct reference to the recommendations contained in the Brookings Report”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:61353-61436 opinion first hand
80
Richard C. Hoagland considers that John F. Kennedy's "The President and the Press" speech may have been influenced by the Brookings Report.
“This sequence of events implies that his “President and the Press” speech may have been influenced by the Brookings Report.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:62236-62352 opinion first hand
81
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider Sergei Khrushchev to have a unique perspective and credibility as a first-hand witness to this virtually unknown but documented twist in space history.
“We feel it is important to emphasize that Sergei Khrushchev has a unique perspective, if not bullet proof credibility as a first-hand witness to this virtually unknown—but absolutely documented—twist in space history.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:73755-73964 opinion first hand
82
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara have little doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Dallas on the morning of 1963-11-22, that he was in the Texas School Book Depository sixth-floor window, and that he fired at John F. Kennedy.
“Let us start by saying that we have little doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Dallas that morning, that he was in the Texas School Book Depository sixth floor window, that he certainly fired at the President and that he may have even fired the fatal shot.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:78455-78706 opinion first hand
83
Richard C. Hoagland's initial NASA/Lewis appearance was viewed by over a thousand NASA scientists and engineers live in the NASA/Lewis Main Auditorium and shown to thousands more via closed circuit television.
“isn’t Hoagland’s previous NASA/Lewis appearance, viewed by over a thousand NASA scientists and engineers in the NASA/Lewis Main Auditorium live and shown to literally thousands more via closed circuit television, to be considered “major?””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:8065-8298 observation first hand
84
The Marie Muchmore film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy shows both the babushka lady (Beverly Oliver) and Mary Moorman using their cameras at the instant the President was struck by the fatal shot.
“In one film of the assassination, known as the “Marie Muchmore” film, you can certainly see both the babushka lady and Mary Moorman using their cameras at the instant the President is struck with the fatal shot.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:83478-83684 observation first hand
85
In frame-by-frame analysis of the Marie Muchmore film, the first spray of blood from President John F. Kennedy's fatal head wound is visible.
“In frame by frame analysis, you can even see the first spray of blood from the president’s fatal head wound.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:83690-83792 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the direction of the blood spray visible in the Marie Muchmore film inconsistent with the medical evidence indicating the fatal head shot came from behind President John F. Kennedy.
“This would seem to be inconsistent with the medical evidence that dictates the head shot came from behind”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:83799-83898 opinion first hand
87
Richard C. Hoagland considers there to be nothing in the Mary Moorman Photograph enhancements that contradicts Gordon Arnold's story, and, assuming the enhancement techniques are valid, considers it a credible eyewitness account of a true event.
“There is flatly nothing in the Moorman enhancements which contradict Arnold’s story, and assuming the techniques are valid, every reason to conclude it is a credible eyewitness account of a true event.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:85948-86143 opinion first hand
88
At the second NASA/Lewis workshop, Lynn Bondurant announced to the assembled scientists, engineers and educators that Richard C. Hoagland's March 1990 taped appearance and the current session were to be part of an upcoming PBS miniseries called Hoagland's Mars.
“not only did Bondurant’s NASA-Lewis Office of Education officially put on this Conference, but he also used it to announce to the assembled scientists, engineers and educators that this session and Hoagland’s previously taped appearances (from March) were going to be part of an upcoming PBS miniseries to be called “Hoagland’s Mars.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:8833-9161 administrative first hand
89
Lyndon B. Johnson had enormous political capital in the weeks following the assassination of John F. Kennedy to continue any of Kennedy's initiatives that he chose.
“Keep in mind that Johnson had enormous political capital to continue any initiative of the martyred Kennedy that he so chose in those days and weeks following the assassination.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:91620-91783 opinion first hand
90
Lynn Bondurant had been planning to create the Hoagland's Mars PBS miniseries at the behest of his boss John Klineberg since the initial night-before interview.
“Bondurant had evidently been planning (obviously at the behest of his boss, Dr. Klineberg), since that initial “night before” interview in front of the NASA/Lewis logo, to create this program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:9169-9353 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland was surprised, along with everyone at the second workshop, by Lynn Bondurant's announcement of the Hoagland's Mars PBS miniseries.
“Hoagland, along with everyone at the Conference, was surprised at this announcement, since they hadn’t been in the loop on the plans at all.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:9362-9498 observation first hand
92
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that if figures like Lyndon B. Johnson and Albert Thomas were willing to orchestrate the murder of President John F. Kennedy to protect the United States' space program, they must have expected to find extraordinary discoveries over the course of the space program's voyages.
“If men like Johnson and Thomas were willing to go so far as to orchestrate the murder of the President in order to protect the United States’ own, singular (and singularly expensive) space program, then they must have expected to find wonders beyond imagining over the course of their voyages.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:93823-94108 opinion first hand
93
The Hoagland's Mars PBS miniseries production went forward with no input from Richard C. Hoagland other than providing some of his own Cydonia images and graphics, and was 100 percent a NASA/Lewis production.
“the process of creating the series went forward with no input from Hoagland (other than providing some of his own Cydonia images and graphics); it was 100 percent a NASA/Lewis production”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:9544-9721 observation first hand
94
On 1990-12-13, less than three weeks before the scheduled air date, Lynn Bondurant called Richard C. Hoagland with news that the Hoagland's Mars PBS series had been pulled and that Hoagland was to report to NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC immediately with all tapes, scripts and graphics.
“Then, less than three weeks before the scheduled air date, on December 13, 1990, Bondurant called Hoagland with bad news. Sounding (according to Hoagland) “like death warmed over,” he somberly informed Hoagland that the plug had been had pulled on the planned “Hoagland’s Mars” series, and he was to report to NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. immediately with all the tapes, scripts and graphics for the programs.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:9789-10198 testimony first hand
95
In 1988, Richard C. Hoagland and Steven Squyres debated the extraterrestrial artifacts issue at Cydonia on a nationally televised Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News programme, Nightwatch (CBS news program), hosted by Charlie Rose.
“In 1988, Hoagland and Squyres faced off in a nationally televised debate on the extraterrestrial artifacts issue on CBS’s Nightwatch news program, hosted by Charlie Rose”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch10:984-1151 observation
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Richard C. Hoagland decided to focus his research first on the 16mm film that NASA had released just after Apollo 12, called Pinpoint for Science.
“Hoagland decided to focus first on the 16mm film that NASA had released just after Apollo 12, called *Pinpoint for Science*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:100630-100745 observation first hand
97
At Richard C. Hoagland's request, John Stevens rented a U-Haul and personally drove his floating bed film viewer/projector equipment approximately 16,000 kilometres (round trip) from Los Angeles to Goddard Spaceflight Center outside Washington DC and back, to transfer key Apollo mission films to video for Hoagland's research.
“at Hoagland's request Stevens rented a U-Haul, loaded up his "floating bed film viewer/projector" in L.A., and *personally* drove the equipment 10,000 miles (round trip) from Los Angeles to the Goddard Spaceflight Center, just outside Washington, D.C., and back—just to transfer key Apollo mission films to video for Hoagland's research.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:102387-102715 observation
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Richard C. Hoagland measured the formation near Ukert with a ruler and confirmed increasing regular geometry in that small geographic region.
“Awestruck, he took out a ruler and began to measure—but even as he confirmed more and more regular geometry in this one tiny geographic region”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:10253-10389 observation first hand
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After having a National Space Science Data Center 16mm print of Pinpoint for Science transferred to video via John Stevens' machine set up in the Goddard parking lot, Richard C. Hoagland made selected screen grabs from the resulting video on a computer.
“After having an NSSDC 16mm print of *Pinpoint for Science* transferred to video, via John's "miracle machine" set up in the Goddard parking lot, Hoagland made selected screen grabs from the resulting video in the computer.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:102757-102971 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland focused on original Oxberry Animation Stand animations that NASA's contract producers had incorporated into Pinpoint for Science, consisting of pans and zooms of stills from the original Apollo 12 Hasselblad shots taken on the Moon by Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.
“He was focusing on original Oxberry Animation Stand (another Hollywood device, used to animate still photographs in movies) animations that NASA's "contract producers" had incorporated in the film—pans and zooms of "stills" from the original Apollo 12 Hasselblad shots taken on the Moon by the Apollo 12 crew, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:102981-103312 observation first hand
101
In scanning Ken Johnston's Apollo 14 C-prints, Richard C. Hoagland discovered that a computer could reveal geometric detail in the pitch black areas of the lunar sky that the human eye could not see.
“in scanning Ken's priceless Apollo 14 C-prints, he'd discovered that the computer could "see" what the human eye could not—incredible geometric detail in the pitch black areas, like the lunar sky.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:103352-103544 observation first hand
102
Richard C. Hoagland used Adobe Photoshop combined with commercial CCD image scanners to reveal detail buried in the black layers of thirty-year-old film emulsions.
“The sensitivity of modern "CCD" imaging technology, in even commercially-available image scanners, coupled with the amazing enhancement capabilities of state-of-the-art commercial software—like Adobe's Photoshop—allowed the invisible detail buried in these supposedly black layers, of these thirty-year-old emulsions, to ultimately be revealed”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:103549-103884 observation first hand
103
Richard C. Hoagland reasoned that if the Pinpoint for Science producers had taken rush hardcopy prints from the original Hasselblad Moon shots and placed them under intense lights on an Oxberry Animation Stand to add pans and zooms, then vital invisible detail in the otherwise pitch black lunar skies over the Apollo 12 landing site might remain detectable by computer, even after several generations of copying onto 16mm release prints.
“Hoagland reasoned that if the *Pinpoint for Lunar Landing* producers had taken rush 8x10 hardcopy prints from the original Hasselblad Moon shots, placed them under the intense lights on a professional Oxberry Animation Stand ... then on those frames of the 16mm release print, even after several generations of copying, some vital, invisible detail in the otherwise pitch black lunar skies over the Apollo 12 landing site might remain—still detectable by the computer.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:104051-104584 opinion first hand
104
The enhanced 16mm frames captured by John Stevens' machine from NASA's Pinpoint for Science print revealed reflective, glass-like ruins over the horizon from the Apollo 12 landing site, and massive inclined buttresses slanting down beyond the lunar horizon.
“The enhanced 16mm frames (captured by John Stevens' machine from NASA's official *Pinpoint for Science* print) unquestionably revealed more "reflective, glass-like ruins" over the horizon from the Apollo 12 landing site, and the *same* massive inclined buttresses, slanting down beyond the lunar horizon in the distance.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:104820-105131 observation first hand
105
Richard C. Hoagland interprets bright star-like objects seen amid the lunar ruins in the enhanced Pinpoint for Science frames as bits of a lunar glass matrix still attached to the shattered geometric framework of the once vast lunar dome, rather than real stars, because exposure times of the original Hasselblad frames were too short to enable stellar photography.
“Bright star-like objects sparkled amid the amazing, steeply-pitched, stair-stepped lunar ruins; these could not be *real* stars, of course (the exposure times of the original Hasselblad frames were far too short to enable stellar photography, even on the airless lunar surface). They had to be more remaining "bits of the lunar glass matrix" that Hoagland had previously established”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:105141-105513 opinion first hand
106
Richard C. Hoagland considers the slanted buttresses seen at large scale from the Apollo 12 landing site to be independent confirmation of his ancient lunar dome hypothesis.
“but it was the striking, unmistakable appearance of those slanted buttresses, seen on a much bigger scale from the Apollo 12 landing site, which gave Hoagland independent but vital confirmation for his entire model of the "ancient lunar domes."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:105784-106021 opinion first hand
107
Richard C. Hoagland became more convinced that his lunar dome theory was correct given that Apollo 14 and Apollo 12 had photographed the same crystalline geometry in generally the same location.
“Given that two Apollo missions—14 and now 12—had photographed the same crystalline geometry, and apparently in generally the same location ... Hoagland was more convinced than ever that his lunar dome theory was correct.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:106030-106287 opinion first hand
108
Richard C. Hoagland identified the Apollo 10 photograph frame number he was studying and sought to acquire, from sources outside the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Apollo 10 photographic maps and other data pertaining to the image.
“Still measuring, he copied down the Apollo 10 frame number. The next step involved attempting to acquire, from sources outside NASA, Apollo 10 photographic maps and other data pertaining to this image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:10625-10820 administrative first hand
109
Richard C. Hoagland became virtually certain that the inclined buttresses were foundational components of a single mega-engineering structure that once covered a huge portion of Oceanus Procellarum.
“That these inclined buttresses were actual foundational components of a single mega-engineering structure—apparently once covering a huge portion of Oceanus Procellarum—Hoagland was now virtually certain”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:106328-106524 opinion first hand
110
Richard C. Hoagland's lunar dome hypothesis predicts that the shiny appearance of the lunar sky seen by astronauts in untouched lunar images is caused by glass.
“The core prediction of Hoagland's entire lunar dome hypothesis is that what we (and the astronauts) are seeing in the sky—in all these *untouched* lunar images—is *glass*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:107677-107841 opinion first hand
111
Richard C. Hoagland considers the anomalous shiny black space that Alan Bean still vividly remembers to be photographically confirmed as caused by a billion bits of meteor-shattered glass still catching sunlight against what should have been a pitch black lunar sky.
“This is now photographically confirmed as having been caused by a billion bits of meteor-shattered glass still catching sunlight against what should have been a pitch black lunar sky.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:108657-108836 opinion first hand
112
One of Richard C. Hoagland's colleagues had saved original documents from the Apollo missions from over a quarter of a century earlier, and sent copies of the Apollo 10 maps and documentation to Hoagland.
“one of Hoagland’s colleagues had carefully saved original documents from the Apollo missions, from over a quarter of a century ago. Soon, copies of the crucial Apollo 10 maps and other documentation were on their way.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:10866-11079 administrative
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The Apollo 10 footprint maps indicated that someone had wanted the Apollo 10 astronauts to extensively photograph the entire Sinus Medii/Ukert region of the Moon.
“it soon became obvious, from even casually looking at these quarter-of-a-century-old NASA “footprint maps,” that someone, early on, had very much wanted the Apollo 10 astronauts to simply photograph the hell out of the entire Sinus Medii/Ukert region”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:11104-11348 observation first hand
114
Richard C. Hoagland predicted years ago the existence of billions of prismatic rainbows sprayed across the lunar landscape from shards of glass suspended in the gridded network of the lunar domes, differentially refracting sunlight.
“Hoagland made a second flat prediction vis-à-vis his "lunar domes" years ago: Hoagland forecast the existence of "a billion prismatic rainbows," sprayed across the desolate lunar landscape from a billion shards of glass suspended in the gridded network of the awesome lunar domes still arching overhead”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:111668-111962 opinion first hand
115
Richard C. Hoagland interprets what Gene Cernan captured in image AS17-134-20426 as backscattered reflection of a refractive sunrise on the Moon, produced by hundreds of miles of shattered glass and rebar suspended in the remains of a lunar dome arching over Mare Serenitatis directly behind Cernan.
“What Cernan captured on this spectacular Hasselblad color image was nothing less than the backscattered *reflection* of "a refractive sunrise on the Moon," coming through the literally "hundreds of miles of shattered bits of glass and rebar" still suspended in the remains of the lunar dome arching over Mare Serenitatis”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:113350-113659 opinion first hand
116
Richard C. Hoagland compares the optical phenomenon in AS17-134-20426 to a terrestrial sunset over San Francisco, where a scattered refractive rainbow occurring in the west behind the photographer is reflected back into the camera lens from the east by the earth's atmosphere.
“This comparison is of a sunset occurring over San Francisco, with the scattered "refractive rainbow" occurring in the west (above the setting sun *behind* the photographer) being *reflected* back into the camera lens from the east—from the earth's atmosphere scattering the "prism of atmospheric sunset."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:113900-114196 opinion first hand
117
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that the material scattering sunlight on the Moon (causing colour refraction) is not a lunar atmosphere of gases but a rigid, grid-like matrix of rebar with shards of glass still attached, refracting sunlight at low angles similarly to Earth's atmosphere.
“The situation on the Moon seems to be essentially identical, except that the material scattering the sunlight (and causing the color refraction) is not a "lunar atmosphere of gases," but a rigid, grid-like matrix of "rebar"—on which is still attached sufficient shards of glass to differentially *refract* sunlight”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:114206-114512 opinion first hand
118
Surveyor 6 took post-sunset shots in 1967 that Richard C. Hoagland interprets as showing a glasslike lunar dome rising over Sinus Medii and refracting sunlight forward.
“Imagine if those Surveyor 6 "post-sunset shots" taken in 1967 of "the glasslike lunar dome rising over Sinus Medii," refracting sunlight *forward*, had been in *color*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:114643-114804 opinion first hand
119
The photograph AS10-32-4819 focused less on the flat areas where an Apollo landing might be made and more on the anomalous geometric areas and mountains where a landing would be nearly impossible.
“many of the photographs, like AS10-32-4819 [Fig. 4-2], seemed to focus less on the flatlands where a landing might be made, and more on the anomalous geometric areas and mountains where such a landing would be well nigh impossible.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:11469-11690 observation first hand
120
Richard C. Hoagland attributes the psychedelic colours seen in some Apollo lunar images to overlapping prismatic beams created by sunlight refracted through a suspended network of glass located above the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
“this (and other, equally blatant examples of "psychedelic colors" on the Moon) is unquestionably the direct result of "overlapping, prismatic beams" created by sunlight *refracted* through a vast network of suspended glass—in this case, located literally miles above the Taurus-Littrow landing site”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:116147-116441 opinion first hand
121
During an autumn speaking tour, Richard C. Hoagland was introduced to a high-tech inventor and industrialist who had founded a company based on his perfection of a unique military optical technology.
“During an autumn speaking tour, Hoagland was introduced to a high-tech inventor and industrialist who had founded a company based on his perfection of a unique military optical technology.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:11898-12075 administrative
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Richard C. Hoagland attributes a possible shift in enhancement colours partly to the colour-stretching technique of the Enterprise Mission's computer enhancement process, and partly to a possible dye shift over decades in Ken Johnston's private collection of Apollo C-prints.
“Keep in mind that the "blue shift" in the sky color of the *Enterprise* enhancements is partially a consequence of the color stretching technique of the computer enhancement process, and partially a consequence of a possible "dye shift" in Ken Johnston's private collection of Apollo C-prints, from over the last thirty years.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:119111-119431 opinion first hand
123
Alan Bean's colourful, geometric depictions of the Moon are, in Richard C. Hoagland's view, one more building block in a case arguing for decades of deliberate NASA deceptions and disinformation regarding the Moon.
“Bean’s highly personal colorful and geometric Moon is one more building block in a growing case arguing for literally *decades* of deliberate NASA deceptions and disinformation vis-à-vis the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:120374-120566 opinion first hand
124
An anonymous industrialist offered to help Richard C. Hoagland but wished to remain anonymous, and Hoagland was led to believe the industrialist might adapt his optical technology for terrestrial telescopic observations of the Ukert region of the Moon.
“The industrialist said he wanted to help (but wished to remain anonymous). Hoagland was led to believe that, with appropriate coaxing, this “industrialist” might be persuaded to adapt his remarkable optical technology for unparalleled terrestrial observations of the Moon—specifically now, the central Ukert region.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:12087-12397 hearsay second hand
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The large web-published version of photograph AS17-147-22465 did not show the colours Richard C. Hoagland had expected from his prismatic dome model.
“The web image, part of an entire pre-landing series, was crystal clear … and very large (~16 MB)—but, curiously, *didn’t* show the colors we’d expected from Hoagland’s “prismatic” dome model”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:121521-121706 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland used the vivid gold-mylar thermal insulation around the Service Propulsion System engine bell of the Command and Service Module America, visible in photograph AS17-147-22465, as a colour calibrator to correct the colour balance of the entire Hasselblad scene from the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
“using accurate color images of this mylar covering, from the CSM during “stacking” activities at the Cape (Canaveral), Hoagland was then able to correct the color balance in the entire Hasselblad scene … to reflect the *true* “colors of the Moon” at Taurus-Littrow that December morning in 1972”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:122381-122671 observation first hand
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After colour correction of photograph AS17-147-22465, Richard C. Hoagland observed pink, purple, and blue mountains on the Moon, which he considers a confirmation of his prismatic light refraction model of ancient lunar domes.
“we are suddenly witness to the *real* “pink, purple and blue mountains” of the Moon—another striking confirmation of Hoagland’s prismatic light refraction model of the ancient lunar domes”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:122776-122958 opinion first hand
128
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the Apollo photographs newly scanned and posted on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website had been desaturated before posting, despite being described there as originals.
“the newly scanned photographs *cannot* be the “originals”—having all been curiously “desaturated” before posting, in terms of *calibrated*, real lunar *colors*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:123127-123279 opinion first hand
129
Richard C. Hoagland discovered that the same prismatic colour pattern he identified on the Moon could be found in high-resolution, multicolour CCD studies of the Moon taken from Earth on amateur astronomy websites.
“In perusing some amateur astronomy web sites, Hoagland discovered that this *same prismatic color pattern* could be found in high-resolution, multicolor CCD studies of the Moon taken from Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:123405-123593 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland found that a terrestrial sunset or sunrise seen from Earth orbit shows the same refractive colour properties as the prismatic pattern he identified on the Moon.
“When compared side-by-side with a terrestrial sunset (or sunrise) seen from Earth orbit (from the shuttle or space station), the results confirm that *both* worlds—impossibly—possess the same *refractive* color properties!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:123600-123811 observation first hand
131
Richard C. Hoagland suspected, since disproved, that all easily accessible National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) images might have been sanitised in the thirty years since they were originally taken, making Fred Steckling's frame immediately suspect.
“This strategy... was based on Hoagland’s early suspicion (since disproved) that all easily accessible NASA images might have been “sanitized” in the intervening thirty years since they were originally taken, thus making Steckling’s frame immediately suspect.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:12406-12741 opinion first hand
132
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that a vast surface area of ancient, shattered glass, extending to an altitude of several kilometres, covers most of the visible lunar surface, since the Moon has no atmosphere to explain the observed refractive colour effects.
“the only logical possibility for that is “a vast surface area of ancient, shattered glass …” covering *most* of the visible lunar surface … and to an altitude of “miles.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:124179-124342 opinion first hand
133
John Stevens processed 16mm Apollo sequence camera footage that Richard C. Hoagland obtained during his visit to the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), transferring it to video and electronically restoring it using a floating bed film viewer/projector system.
“The 16mm Apollo “sequence camera” footage that Hoagland obtained from his NSSDC visit (part of his “agreement”), turned out to be another stunning treasure trove from the whole “Goddard expedition.” Transfer of the Apollo NSSDC out-the-window film to video, and then electronically restoring it—via John Stevens’ previously mentioned, state-of-the-art floating bed film viewer/projector system”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:124370-124757 administrative
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Richard C. Hoagland became interested in an Apollo 10 film sequence taken over the Mare Smythii region showing the Earth rising over the lunar horizon as the spacecraft returned from the lunar farside during its circumlunar orbit.
“Hoagland became very interested in a particular sequence from Apollo 10—taken over the Mare Smythii region as the spacecraft “came around the hill” from the Farside of the Moon; on this particular “magazine” … the crew had taken images of the Earth rising dramatically over the lunar horizon”
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Richard C. Hoagland observed that the Earth, when freeze-framed in the Apollo 10 Earthrise footage over Mare Smythii, appeared flattened and asymmetrically angular on one side, as if subjected to compression forces.
“The planet—when he finally “freeze-framed” it on John’s tape [Fig. 4-35]—was strangely, radically, *distorted;* it was both flattened *and* asymmetrically “angular” on one side—as if the whole globe had been subjected to some kind of bizarre “compression forces” as it rose”
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Richard C. Hoagland noted that because the Moon has no atmosphere, there is nothing to explain the dramatic distortion of the Earth's shape as seen rising over the lunar horizon in the Apollo 10 Earthrise film over Mare Smythii.
“The only problem with applying this optical analogy to the “Earthrise” sequence captured over Mare Smythii, is that the Moon *has no atmosphere* to bend the light. And thus, *nothing* to distort the shape of the Earth as it rises over the *lunar* horizon”
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Richard C. Hoagland noticed a visible hint of something positioned between the spacecraft window and the rising Earth near the last few frames of the Apollo 10 Earthrise film over the Moon.
“As Hoagland ran the film out to its last few frames, he noticed that there, in fact, seemed to be a visible hint of “something” at the very end … indeed, positioned *between* the window … and the rising Earth”
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Richard C. Hoagland identified the distorting intervening medium visible in the last Earthrise frames of the Apollo 10 film as another massive, battered, glass-like lunar dome stretching over Mare Smythii, complete with layers and a jagged, meteor-bombarded upper surface.
“It was—analyzed literally “frame-by frame”—none other than *another* “massive, battered, glass-like *lunar dome”—* stretching over Mare Smythii. Complete with obvious *layers…* and a jagged, *meteor-bombarded* upper surface”
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Richard C. Hoagland considered the Mare Smythii dome identical to the dome model he had sketched from the Apollo 10 photograph frame 4822 and related frames arching over Sinus Medii.
“*Identical* to the model Hoagland himself had sketched (from the various versions of 4822 and the other frames in the Apollo 10 “4800” series …), anciently arching over Sinus Medii.”
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Robert Fiertek had worked with Richard C. Hoagland for years trying to determine the original layout of the City at Cydonia.
“Bob had been working with Hoagland for years, trying to figure out the original layout of “the City” at Cydonia”
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Robert Fiertek accompanied Richard C. Hoagland on the trip to the Goddard Space Flight Center to examine Apollo film.
“he had been with him on the key trip to Goddard”
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The anonymous industrialist, who boasted of extensive National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and military contacts, told Richard C. Hoagland he had been following Hoagland's Cydonia research for several years.
“the company founder (who boasted repeatedly of “extensive NASA and military contacts”… ) told Hoagland that he had been carefully following his Cydonia work for “several years.””
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Richard C. Hoagland scheduled a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC for March 1996 to present the accumulating lunar dome evidence.
“he scheduled a March 1996 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.”
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The McDaniel Report served as an independent peer review of the methods and findings of Richard C. Hoagland's early Mars investigations.
“The McDaniel Report had served as an excellent, independent “peerreview” of the methods and findings of the early Mars investigations.”
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Bruce Cornet is a geologist who had independently reviewed Richard C. Hoagland's initial lunar findings.
“Hoagland had brought along Dr. Bruce Cornet, a geologist who had independently reviewed his initial lunar findings earlier”
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The anonymous industrialist told Richard C. Hoagland that high-powered military officers involved in Pentagon procurement, who would later lay the groundwork for the United States Navy's Clementine lunar probe, routinely gathered in his conference room to watch Hoagland's NASA-Cydonia Briefing video from the United Nations presentations.
“He also informed Hoagland that high-powered military brass involved in Pentagon “procurement” (later to lay the groundwork of the Navy’s “Clementine” lunar probe) routinely gathered in his conference room, to watch Hoagland’s latest “NASA-Cydonia Briefing” video (from the UN presentations …) on the large-screen television console”
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Because of Bruce Cornet's personal problems, Richard C. Hoagland was unable to consult him about subsequent discoveries stemming from access to the Ken Johnston Collection.
“because of these domestic problems, Hoagland had been unable to consult with him about the subsequent stunning discoveries stemming from access to the Ken Johnston collection”
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Ron Nicks was a consulting geologist who volunteered his services to Richard C. Hoagland's investigation.
“Ron Nicks, another consulting geologist, had volunteered his services to the investigation and was more than willing to discuss his first impressions”
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Marvin Czarnik had been quietly reviewing Richard C. Hoagland's claims about the Moon since Ohio State University.
“He got it in the personage of Marvin Czarnik—a NASA veteran who had been quietly reviewing Hoagland’s claims about the Moon ever since Ohio State”
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After viewing a tape of Richard C. Hoagland's Ohio State University presentation, Marvin Czarnik decided to try to confirm some of Hoagland's lunar claims himself.
“After seeing a tape of Hoagland’s Ohio State presentation, Czarnik decided to try and confirm some of the lunar claims himself.”
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The Lunar Artifacts Research Group validated most of the findings from Richard C. Hoagland's Ohio State University presentation, including the existence and optical properties of the Shard and the Tower lunar objects.
“L.A.RGE validated most of the findings from Hoagland’s presentation at Ohio State, including, the existence and optical properties of the Shard and the Tower”
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The final three presenters at the March 1996 National Press Club press conference were Ken Johnston, architect Robert Fiertek, and Alex Cook, a student from Bellingham, Washington whom Richard C. Hoagland had flown to Washington DC for the event.
“The final three presenters were Ken Johnston, architect Robert Fiertek and Alex Cook, the latter a student from Bellingham Washington, whom Hoagland had flown to Washington DC specifically for the event.”
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At the March 1996 National Press Club press conference, Marvin Czarnik explained that he had confirmed many of Richard C. Hoagland's earlier observations around Sinus Medii, including two separate views of the Tower from different Apollo missions.
“gave way to Czarnik, who explained that he had confirmed many of the earlier observations Hoagland had made around Sinus Medii, which he had presented at Ohio State—including the two separate views of the “Tower,” from completely different missions.”
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At the March 1996 press conference, Ron Nicks stated that as an engineering geologist familiar with both geology and man-made engineering, he could not find any geologic explanation for the objects he had seen on Richard C. Hoagland's National Space Science Data Center images.
“Johnston was followed by Ron Nicks, who said that—as an “engineering geologist” (thus, being familiar with both geology and man-made engineering)—he simply could not come up with any “geologic” explanations for the objects he had seen on Hoagland’s NSSDC images.”
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During the autumn of 1992, the anonymous industrialist would call Richard C. Hoagland unannounced from his conference room in the company of visiting colonels or generals from Washington DC, while they watched the NASA-Cydonia and United Nations video presentations, so the visitors could ask questions about the Cydonia investigation.
“Several times throughout the Fall of 1992, this individual would call Hoagland without warning from “that” conference room—in the company of “this Colonel,” or “that General,” visiting from Washington, D.C.—while they were (ostensibly) watching the “NASA-Cydonia” and “U.N.” video presentations, so his distinguished visitors could ask questions directly regarding the Cydonia investigation.”
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Brian Moore stated that he had enhanced the same Apollo photographic frames as Richard C. Hoagland and achieved the same results.
“He stated that he had also enhanced the same frames as Hoagland, and had achieved the same results.”
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Brian Moore confirmed Richard C. Hoagland's assertion that the images presented at the March 1996 press conference were consistent with the existence of a dome over Sinus Medii.
“He also discussed the feasibility of such a lunar dome, and confirmed Hoagland’s assertion that the images presented were consistent with Hoagland’s proposal … that such a “dome” over Simus Medii existed.”
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Richard Leiby dismissed Richard C. Hoagland as a "kook" and misled his readers into thinking Hoagland had spoken at the March 1996 press conference without expert support.
“Leiby simply dismissed Hoagland as a “kook,” and misled his readers into thinking that Hoagland had been up at the podium without any expert support.”
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Richard Leiby called Paul Lowman an expert in orbital photography, though Richard C. Hoagland considers this an inaccurate characterisation.
“Leiby called Lowman an “expert in orbital photography,” which he is not.”
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Paul Lowman offered his opinion that the objects in the images presented at the March 1996 press conference were merely photographic defects, despite being a geologist with no experience in photo processing or image enhancement.
“Lowman quickly ventured his opinion that the objects in the images were merely “photographic defects,” despite the fact that he was a geologist, with no experience in photo processing or image enhancement of the type that Hoagland and the others had presented.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers Richard Leiby to have relied on Paul Lowman's opinion, a known critic of Hoagland who had previously distorted facts on the subject, over the opinions of experts with relevant knowledge such as Marvin Czarnik.
“Leiby had enlisted the expertise of a *known* critic of Hoagland’s, who had already demonstrated a willingness to distort the facts on the subject at hand, and then took his opinion on subjects he knew little or nothing about as gospel—over the opinions of experts who did have such knowledge.”
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After the National Press Club press conference, Richard C. Hoagland was sought for interviews by news outlets from Mexico, France and Brazil.
“Immediately after the news conference, Hoagland was sought for interviews with news outlets from Mexico, France and Brazil, among others.”
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Several astronauts publicly denied that there were structures like those alleged by Richard C. Hoagland on the Moon or that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had covered it up.
“Several astronauts came out and immediately denied that there was anything like the structures Hoagland had alleged on the Moon, or that NASA had covered it up.”
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Buzz Aldrin considers any attempt to investigate the kind of ruins alleged by Richard C. Hoagland on the Moon a waste of time.
“any attempt to investigate the types of ruins that Hoagland had alleged was a waste of time”
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Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell knew Richard C. Hoagland from his National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) days.
“former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who knew Hoagland from his NASA days”
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After the Hoagland-Mitchell debate broadcast, Richard C. Hoagland promised to send Edgar Mitchell additional materials to review, and Mitchell agreed to a follow-up programme to review the new material.
“The program ended with Hoagland promising to send Mitchell additional materials to review, and Mitchell agreeing to another mutual program to review the new material.”
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Richard C. Hoagland sent Edgar Mitchell the pictures and other data as promised, but Mitchell never responded, and the planned follow-up programme never took place.
“Hoagland did send the pictures and other data, but Mitchell never responded, and the follow-up program never took place.”
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David Percy, Bill Kaysing and James Collier were prominent recent promoters of the Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory.
“this idea (most recently advanced by a few well-known self-promoters such as David Percy, Bill Kaysing and the late James Collier)”
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The Moon-landing-hoax conspiracy theory originated as far back as the Apollo 11 mission itself.
“this idea (most recently advanced by a few well-known self-promoters such as David Percy, Bill Kaysing and the late James Collier) had its origins as far back as the Apollo 11 mission itself”
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Richard C. Hoagland flew to New York to debate Bevan French on Good Morning America (ABC) regarding developments on the Martian front.
“These meetings were briefly interrupted by an acceleration of events occurring on the “Martian front,” and the hurried call and a flight to and from New York to debate Dr. French on Good Morning America.”
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Richard C. Hoagland rejects the notion that the Apollo missions or subsequent Moon landings were faked.
“That said one thing they did *not* do, unquestionably, was *fake* the Moon landings.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory to have been professionally instigated and kept alive by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) itself, to serve as a 'perfect cover' for other things NASA is not telling the public.
“we have come, slowly and reluctantly, to believe that the entire “Moon Hoax myth” was, in fact, *professionally* instigated—and is currently being kept very much alive—by none other than *NASA!*”
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When Richard C. Hoagland returned south after the Good Morning America debate, the anonymous industrialist presented him with the rare lunar atlas to demonstrate support for opening a lunar wing to the Mars investigation.
“When Hoagland returned south, his newfound industrial friend demonstrated his support for opening “a lunar wing” to the on-going Mars investigation, by presenting him with the rare lunar atlas.”
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Richard C. Hoagland observed first-hand at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that NASA carefully planned, from the beginning, to give conspiracy-minded people a fake conspiracy to cover up the real one.
“as Hoagland observed *first-hand* at JPL all those years ago, NASA carefully planned, from the beginning, to give those folks a “conspiracy,” alright, but—a *fake* conspiracy … to cover up the *real* one.”
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In 2006 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formally commissioned James Oberg, a leading space authority, to write an official NASA book on why the Moon Hoax conspiracy theory is unfounded.
“How else do you explain NASA formally commissioning James Oberg, a leading space authority, just last year (2006) to finally write an official NASA book on “why the Moon Hoax crowd is ‘out to lunch.’””
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Another part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) abruptly cancelled James Oberg's contract to write the official NASA book debunking the Moon Hoax conspiracy theory, withdrawing from publishing it.
“Only, to have *another* part of NASA suddenly *cancel* Oberg’s contract … abruptly withdrawing from publishing the one book”
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Glass-based minerals such as quartz silica take on different physical properties in the hard, cold vacuum of space than they do on Earth.
“all materials, including glass-based minerals like quartz silica, take on different properties in the hard, cold vacuum of space than they do on Earth”
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Richard C. Hoagland asked his industrialist contact to procure a negative of the Apollo 10 image from the Steckling book through his contacts at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
“Hoagland brought out his copy of the Apollo 10 image from the Steckling book, and asked if his “executive friend” could procure a negative on his behalf through his contacts at the National Space Science Data Center.”
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The hard-cold vacuum of the Moon enhances the strength of lunar glass to the point that it is approximately twice as strong as steel under the same stress conditions.
“The hard-cold vacuum enhances the strength of lunar glass to the point that it is approximately *twice as strong as steel* under the same stress conditions.”
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During the 1996 Hoagland-Mitchell debate on Coast to Coast AM with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Richard C. Hoagland considered that the distant lunar ruins might have been very faint and further filtered by the gold visors worn by the astronauts on the lunar surface.
“during the 1996 “Hoagland-Mitchell debate” with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell on *Coast to Coast AM,* Hoagland went out of his way to consider that the distant ruins might have been very faint, and might have even been further filtered by the gold visors that the astronauts wore on the surface”
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Richard C. Hoagland told the anonymous industrialist about his concerns regarding what might happen to lunar data inside the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) if he personally and visibly involved himself in examining the Moon during the ongoing Cydonia controversy.
“Hoagland told him of his apprehensions regarding what might happen to the lunar data inside NASA, if he personally, visibly, involved himself in looking at the Moon, in the midst of the on-going controversy over the Cydonia investigation.”
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At the time of the 1996 debate with Edgar Mitchell, Richard C. Hoagland had not yet checked the specific optical properties of the gold visors worn by Apollo astronauts.
“Hoagland had yet to check on the specific optical properties of the gold visors when he discussed the subject with Mitchell on the air”
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Richard C. Hoagland found that the gold visors worn by Apollo astronauts were designed to enhance the blue-violet portion of the light spectrum by a factor of over twenty to one, rather than filter it out.
“Far from filtering out the areas of the spectrum in which the glass ruins would have been most prominent, it turned out that the gold visors were designed specifically to *enhance* this blue-violet portion of the spectrum! And, by a factor of over *twenty to one*”
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A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) insider who was a medical doctor directly involved in the medical aspects of the Apollo Program anecdotally confirmed to Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston that all of the Apollo astronauts had been hypnotised during their debriefings by NASA, ostensibly to help them remember more clearly their time on the Moon.
“a NASA insider (an MD directly involved in the medical aspects of the Program …) confirmed to Hoagland and Johnston anecdotally that during their “debriefings” by NASA, all of the Apollo astronauts had been *hypnotized—*ostensibly to help them remember more clearly their time on the Moon”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston consider it more likely that the debriefing hypnosis sessions were used to make the Apollo astronauts forget what they had seen, rather than to help them remember.
“In actual fact, it seems more likely that these sessions were used to make them *forget* what they had seen, as evidenced by the astronauts own post-Apollo behavior.”
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After the Apollo programme, Neil Armstrong largely withdrew from public life, becoming reclusive.
“Neil Armstrong, for one, basically fell off the edge of the Earth, all but becoming a hermit.”
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Buzz Aldrin has continued to struggle with an inability to remember certain parts of the Apollo 11 mission up until recent years.
“Aldrin has continued to struggle with his inability to remember certain parts of the Apollo 11 mission right up until recent years.”
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Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad, frustrated with his own inadequacy at answering questions about what it felt like to be on the Moon, resorted to giving the same banal answer each time: 'Super! Really enjoyed it!'
“The Apollo 12 commander, the late Pete Conrad, got so frustrated with his inadequacy at answering the same question that he resorted to giving the same, banal answer each time: “‘Super! Really enjoyed it!””
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Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston physically possess Edgar Mitchell's original NASA photograph showing him standing on the Moon.
“These are amazing admissions from Mitchell, coming from a man whose original NASA photograph we actually, physically possess (thanks again to Ken Johnston)”
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Edgar Mitchell eventually sought the help of a professional hypnotist and psychologist on his own to try to 'deprogram' himself regarding his inability to remember his feelings on the Moon.
“Mitchell struggled so much with the issue that, on his own, he eventually sought the help of a professional hypnotist and psychologist, to basically “deprogram” himself!”
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After several months of the industrialist demanding large amounts of money, around a million dollars, to point his telescope at the Moon, Richard C. Hoagland instead placed an order for the Apollo frame with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Johnson Space Center in Houston through another friend.
“the conversations... now began to shift to the need for “large amounts of money”—a million dollars—for him to simply point his telescope towards the Moon! After several months of this, through another friend, a real one this time, Hoagland quietly placed an order for the Apollo frame with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.”
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Fig. 4-10 shows a side view of the Tower and Cube lunar anomaly from NASA frame AS10-32-4856, a second confirming image taken on another mission using a different photographic medium.
“Fig. 4-10 - Side view of the Tower and Cube from NASA frame AS10-32-4856. This second confirming image, taken on another mission and using a different photographic medium, proves the Tower is a real object on the Moon and not a photographic defect or enhancement artifact.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers NASA frame AS10-32-4856 proof that the Tower lunar anomaly is a real object on the Moon rather than a photographic defect or enhancement artefact.
“This second confirming image, taken on another mission and using a different photographic medium, proves the Tower is a real object on the Moon and not a photographic defect or enhancement artifact.”
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An Apollo 10 wide-angle Hasselblad image, NASA frame AS10-32-4810, shows an array of forms over Sinus Medii on the Moon that Richard C. Hoagland describes as architectural and impossible in any natural model of the Moon.
“Fig 4-13 - Lunar architecture. This wide-angle Apollo 10 Hasselblad image reveals a stunning array of blatantly architectural forms suspended over Sinus Medii - Obviously impossible in any “natural” model of the Moon. (NASA AS10-32-4810)”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) secretly acquired several different images of the same Apollo 10 photographic scene, all maintained under the same frame number.
“This object does not appear on other versions of the same frame number -- revealing that NASA secretly acquired several different images, all now maintained under *the same frame number*.”
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The Apollo photograph Richard C. Hoagland received from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Johnson Space Center within a week was not the same photo he had seen in Fred Steckling's book.
“It came within a week, but with a shock: it wasn’t the photo that he’d seen in Steckling’s book.”
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Richard C. Hoagland proposes that a former 'Sinus Medii Dome' once covered the entire central region of the Moon, of which 'the Castle' and other smaller bright objects are apparently surviving members.
“The Castle is surrounded by a host of other, equally bright, but much smaller “sliverlike” objects - apparently also surviving members of a former “Sinus Medii Dome” that Hoagland is proposing once covered this entire central region of the Moon.”
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In 1995, Richard C. Hoagland showed National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center two photographic enlargements from Apollo 10 frame AS10-32-4822, one containing 'the Castle' and one not containing it.
“Fig. 4-22 - Richard C. Hoagland points out to NSSDC officials at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in 1995, two photographic enlargements from AS10-32-4822 - one containing “the Castle,” the other which did not.”
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During the 1995 National Space Science Data Center visit, Richard C. Hoagland asked how one official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) image can verifiably contain two different sets of data.
“And, he’s asking the critical question: “How can one official NASA image verifiably contain two different sets of data?””
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Richard C. Hoagland discovered that the frame reproduced in Fred Steckling's book was not frame AS10-32-4810, the photo he had received from Houston, but was actually AS10-32-4819, which Steckling had mislabeled three separate times in his book.
“the frame in Steckling’s book was not frame “AS 10-32-4810,” the photo he’d just received from Houston... The Apollo 10 photomap said “AS10-32-4819,” but if Hoagland hadn’t had the official AS-10 image footprint map, he’d have been up the proverbial creek”
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Richard C. Hoagland interprets the increasing exposure across frames of the Apollo 10 'Earthrise' film over Mare Smythii as revealing a layered, light-scattering glass dome matrix over Mare Smythii with a jagged, meteor-eroded upper surface.
“revealing a layered, light-scattering “glass dome matrix” over Mare Smythii … with a jagged, meteor eroded upper surface (6).”
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Richard C. Hoagland discovered that Fred Steckling had, at one time, also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“we should probably mention at this point that Hoagland eventually discovered that Fred Steckling, at one time, also worked for the CIA”
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Richard C. Hoagland discovered that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) photograph AS10-32-4810 he received from Houston was the second frame in an entire hand-held Apollo 10 photo sequence acquired across the Sinus Medii region, taken by astronauts orbiting just south of the craters Triesnecker and Ukert.
“Hoagland now discovered it was the second frame (according to the footprint maps) of an entire hand-held Apollo 10 photo sequence acquired across the Sinus Medii region, taken by the astronauts orbiting just south of the craters Triesnecker and Ukert.”
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In frame AS10-32-4819, the sun appeared to come from the right, whereas in AS10-32-4810 the sun came from over the astronaut's shoulder, providing critical comparative surface reflectance information.
“if the first image (which he now knew was really AS10-32-4819) had the sun coming from the right, then this image (the real AS10-32-4810, no thanks to Steckling) had it coming from over the astronaut’s shoulder, providing critical comparative surface reflectance information.”
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The location of the Apollo photograph of Ukert was consistent with the Cydonia grid, falling within a few degrees of the centre of the Earth-facing lunar disc at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude.
“Curiously, the location of the Apollo photograph he now had in his possession was also quite consistent with the “Cydonia grid” discussed earlier (within a few degrees of the center of the Earthside lunar disc at 00 latitude, 00 longitude).”
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Richard C. Hoagland ordered the entire 70mm hand-held photographic sequence taken by the Apollo 10 crew across Ukert in May 1969, from an inside NASA source, the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), and directly through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Johnson Space Center.
“Hoagland proceeded to order—from another “inside” source at NASA, then directly from NSSDC and (simultaneously) through NASA’s Johnson Space Center—the entire 70mm, hand-held photographic sequence taken by the Apollo 10 crew across Ukert in May 1969.”
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Richard C. Hoagland widened his investigation by ordering overlapping Sinus Medii/Ukert data from the 1966-1967 Lunar Orbiters II, III and IV, and the late 1967 soft-landed Surveyor 6 spacecraft.
“He also widened the investigation by ordering overlapping Sinus Medii/Ukert data from two previous classes of unmanned NASA lunar missions (the 1966-1967 Lunar Orbiters II, III and IV, and the late 1967 soft-landed Surveyor 6 spacecraft).”
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Richard C. Hoagland was invited to join the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) but declined, while all other invited academics accepted.
“Hoagland, along with all the academic folks who had gravitated to this unusual research because of Hoagland, had been asked to join. All immediately said “yes” … except Hoagland.”
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Richard C. Hoagland compared three different photographic technologies from three different kinds of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reconnaissance missions, from a variety of lighting angles, to examine the Sinus Medii region.
“This strategy allowed him to compare three different photographic technologies, from three different kinds of NASA reconnaissance missions, from a variety of different lighting angles, on what he now strongly suspected to exist in the Sinus Medii region.”
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Richard C. Hoagland concluded that for the previous thirty years, someone inside the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had been hiding major segments of the real United States space programme, not only on Mars but on the Moon.
“That—for the previous thirty years—“someone” inside NASA (probably, a lot of “someones” …) had been hiding major segments of the real U.S. space program—not just on Mars … but on the Moon.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considered it not credible that, of all the thousands of scientists in and outside the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) who had examined lunar information over the previous thirty years, he was the first to notice anything unusual.
“The alternative hypothesis—that of all the thousands of scientists in and outside NASA who had examined this lunar information over the past thirty years, Hoagland was the first to notice anything “unusual”—was simply not credible.”
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Richard C. Hoagland's conclusion that NASA had hidden information was based primarily on his discovery of blacked-out thumbnail images in official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) catalogues.
“This distasteful political conclusion was based primarily on his startling discovery of “blacked out” thumbnail images in official NASA catalogues—su”
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On 1994-06-02, Richard C. Hoagland presented the preliminary results of a two-year investigation into the possibility of alien lunar ruins at Ohio State University.
“On June 2, 1994, Hoagland presented the preliminary results of his two-year old, quiet investigation into the possibility of “alien” lunar ruins at Ohio State University.”
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The 1994-06-02 Ohio State University presentation by Richard C. Hoagland spanned four hours before an audience of over 700 students, faculty and members of the general public.
“The presentation—made at the largest land grant college in the United States, which in the 1950s hosted one of the first radio SETI projects in the world—spanned four hours, and was conducted before an audience of over 700 students, faculty and members of the general public.”
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Richard C. Hoagland objected to the use of the term Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) because he considered it a moniker developed by Carl Sagan for radio astronomy searches for stray radio signals from other stellar systems, which Hoagland believed gave unnecessary credibility to what he saw as a waste of time or an outright scam.
“He objected to the use of the term “SETI.” This was a moniker developed by Carl Sagan for the use of radio astronomy to scan for stray radio signals from other stellar systems... Hoagland felt that the use of SETI gave unnecessary credibility to what he had come to believe was a waste of time at best or an outright scam at worst.”
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The first image Richard C. Hoagland presented at Ohio State University was an oblique, medium-angle Lunar Orbiter frame acquired from an altitude of approximately 48 kilometres, showing objects on the southwest perimeter of Sinus Medii.
“The first image presented by Hoagland at Ohio State was an oblique, medium-angle Lunar Orbiter frame acquired from a thirty-mile altitude, looking across Sinus Medii to objects located on its southwest perimeter”
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Richard C. Hoagland believed no truly advanced extraterrestrial culture would use simple radio communications when they could instead use scalar or hyperdimensional technologies.
“No truly advanced ET culture would use communications as simple radio when they could use “scalar,” or hyperdimensional technologies instead.”
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The first photographic image Richard C. Hoagland acquired from this Lunar Orbiter reprocessing chain was frame LO-III-84M, which revealed a number of striking new architectural anomalies.
“The first photographic image from this elaborate film/electronic process that Hoagland was able to acquire and examine (LO-III-84M) immediately revealed a number of striking, new “architectural” anomalies.”
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On frame LO-III-84M, Richard C. Hoagland found a highly anomalous object appearing above the distant lunar horizon, directly beneath a geometric calibration cross placed by Kodak on the original NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) film during manufacture.
“Hoagland reviewed the results: one highly anomalous object immediately “popped out” above the distant lunar horizon on frame “LO-III-84M”—directly beneath a geometric calibration “cross” placed by Kodak on the original NASA film during manufacture.”
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Richard C. Hoagland named the anomalous object he found on frame LO-III-84M "the Shard."
“Dubbed “the Shard” by Hoagland, the extraordinary object stood about 1.5 miles above the lunar surface”
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Richard C. Hoagland believed using the term Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) would give Carl Sagan unearned influence over the philosophical development of the new science of extraterrestrial archaeology.
“Hoagland also felt using this term gave Sagan the political playing field, and would permit him to hold an unearned sway over the philosophical development of what was essentially a brand new science—“extraterrestrial archaeology.””
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The Shard, an object identified by Richard C. Hoagland on the lunar surface, stood approximately 2.4 kilometres above the lunar surface based on the spacecraft geometry of the original Lunar Orbiter image acquisition.
“the extraordinary object stood about 1.5 miles above the lunar surface (judging by the spacecraft geometry of the original image acquisition)”
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The Shard measured over 2.4 kilometres tall, a height and shape argued by Richard C. Hoagland to indicate an origin more recent than the ancient, eroded lunar landscape surrounding it.
“The sheer height and shape of this object—a rough spire, over a mile and a half tall—also argued forcefully for an origin far more recent than the extremely ancient, rounded and eroded lunar landscape that surrounds it.”
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Richard C. Hoagland could not accept one of the dictums of Stanley V. McDaniel's new organisation, the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR), that no NASA conspiracies now existed.
“He also could not abide by one of the dictums of McDaniel’s new organization—that no “NASA conspiracies” now existed.”
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Hoagland's computer enhancements of enlarged prints made from NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) negatives of frame III-84M revealed the Shard's internal pattern was composed of highly reflective, cubical, possibly hexagonal geometric compartments.
“additional Hoagland computer enhancements of additional enlarged prints, also made from NSSDC negatives of III-84M, revealed this stunning, internal pattern was made up of highly reflective, cubical—possibly hexagonal—geometric “compartments,” greatly damaged but still visible and overwhelmingly redundant.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it impossible to have simultaneously imaged the daytime sunlit Moon and dim background stars or nebulae using 1966 Lunar Orbiter film cameras, or similar Apollo film cameras used between 1969 and 1972.
“imaging the daytime sunlit Moon, and incredibly dim background stars (or nebulae) simultaneously, was just impossible in 1966 from Lunar Orbiter ... and, in 1969-1972, with similar Apollo film cameras.”
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High Definition Image Photographic Laboratories reproduced dozens of differently-exposed versions of the Tower/Cube negative by printing the NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) negative repeatedly at various exposure settings, which Richard C. Hoagland then scanned and subjected to computer-imaging enhancements.
“It was only after High Definition reproduced literally dozens of differently-exposed versions of this object (by printing the NSSDC negative over and over again at various exposure settings), with Hoagland repeatedly scanning the results until all the subtle details were brought out, then subjecting those raw scans to a series of extensive computer-imaging enhancements”
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After Mars Observer's apparent disappearance, Richard C. Hoagland began a new parallel line of research into artefacts, starting around 1990.
“By the time Mars Observer had (apparently) taken its leave of the solar system, Hoagland was quietly into a new, parallel line of “artifacts” research... begun around 1990.”
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Stanley V. McDaniel and Richard C. Hoagland had a final conversation in which McDaniel urged Hoagland to join the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR), and when Hoagland refused, McDaniel parted from him bitterly.
“The two men had one final conversation in which McDaniel implored Hoagland to join the group, but when Hoagland turned him down, McDaniel parted with him bitterly.”
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Richard C. Hoagland and Stanley V. McDaniel had worked closely together on McDaniel's report on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Cydonia for over a year before rarely communicating afterward.
“After working closely together on McDaniel’s seminal, brutally honest expose’ on NASA and Cydonia for over a year, the two now rarely communicated.”
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Computer enhancements of the Tower/Cube revealed an additional fainter surrounding grid-like framework of highly reflective debris embedded in a darker vertical matrix that Richard C. Hoagland termed "rebar."
“The primary reason for the latter uncertainty was the additional discovery (on the computer enhancements) of a much fainter, surrounding “grid-like framework.” This enveloping structure appeared to be composed of more highly reflective “debris,” sparkling around the “Tower/Cube” itself, embedded in a much darker, vertical matrix Hoagland termed “rebar” (for reinforcing bars).”
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Richard C. Hoagland believed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had been consistently, consciously, and deliberately hiding a wider truth for decades, not only from the American people but from people around the world.
“he was going to have to pursue the wider truth about what NASA had been consistently, consciously, deliberately hiding for decades—not only from the American people, but from the people of the entire world”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:3851-4053 opinion first hand
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The apparent existence of remaining glittering glass fragments stretching north along the western edge of Sinus Medii, as viewed by Lunar Orbiter, prompted Richard C. Hoagland to propose the one-time existence of an artificial, ancient "Sinus Medii Dome" that formerly completely enclosed that lunar mare.
“The existence of these few remaining “glittering glass fragments” from this former complete structure—viewed by Lunar Orbiter stretching north along the western edge of Sinus Medii—is what prompted Hoagland to propose the one-time existence of an artificial, very ancient “Sinus Medii Dome”—formerly completely enclosing this central “maria” on the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:39351-39702 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland's initial lunar investigation intensively analysed a Surveyor 6 image showing a light-scattering phenomenon correlated with the geometric optical anomalies observed by Lunar Orbiter III and Apollo 10, located approximately 160 kilometres southwest of the Surveyor 6 landing site along the western edge of Sinus Medii.
“One such image was intensively analyzed during Hoagland’s initial lunar investigation. The analysis yielded a remarkable corroboration of a peculiar light-scattering phenomenon strongly correlated with the geometric optical anomalies observed by Lunar Orbiter III and Apollo 10 (the Shard and the Tower) approximately 100 miles southwest of the Surveyor 6 landing site—along the western edge of Sinus Medii.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:42833-43234 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the intense illumination of the Surveyor 6 horizon beads, saturating the Surveyor vidicon television system more than an hour after sunset, to be attributable to forward-refracted sunlight bent around the lunar horizon by the remains of a lunar glass dome architecture.
“It was Hoagland’s contention that this phenomenon could *only* be caused by forward *refracted* sunlight: the myriad, tiny lens-like images of the actual *photosphere* of the sun, being literally bent (for over twenty miles) around the sharp curvature of the lunar horizon by the densest layers of his surviving “lunar glass dome architecture” … just *above* the lunar surface.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the geometric lattice-like structure seen above the Surveyor 6 horizon beads to be caused by surviving geometrically organised bits of glass and rebar at higher altitude scattering sunlight, rather than the sun's corona as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) claimed.
“This delicate geometry was not merely the sun’s distant corona seen against space (as NASA claimed), but was caused by the still geometrically organized, still surviving bits of glass and rebar *physically* present at much higher altitudes, faintly scattering (as opposed to refracting) the brilliant light of the sun still directly visible at their high altitude down toward Surveyor’s camera”
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Richard C. Hoagland was provided with a lunar photo catalogue from the 1960s containing ground-based telescopic images of lunar features, from which he found his first clue on where to begin his lunar investigation.
“From one of his sources, Hoagland had been provided a lunar photo catalog from the 1960s, containing state-of-the-art ground-based telescopic images of various lunar features. It was on one of those Earth-based images that Hoagland spotted his first clue as to where to begin looking.”
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In 1992, Richard C. Hoagland began efforts to acquire a copy of Apollo 10 frame AS10-32-4822 at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where Apollo photography was initially processed after the astronauts' return.
“Hoagland’s initial efforts to acquire even one version of 4822 began in 1992, in Houston at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where the Apollo photography acquired by the astronauts was initially processed on their return from the Moon.”
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A commercial photo lab in Dallas, delegated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to respond to Richard C. Hoagland's 1992 request, sent him a high-quality version of Apollo 10 frame AS10-32-4822, contradicting the blank frame printed in the official mission catalogue.
“the commercial photo lab delegated by NASA to respond to the request (not in Houston, but in Dallas) promptly sent a high-quality version of this supposedly “missing image”—completely belying the *blank* frame printed in the official mission catalogue.”
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Richard C. Hoagland acquired a historic lunar atlas compiled by the Space Sciences Laboratory of the old North American Aviation, Inc. in September 1992, a few days after the launch of Mars Observer.
“Hoagland acquired this historic lunar atlas, compiled by the Space Sciences Laboratory of the old “North American Aviation, Inc.” in September 1992, a few days after the lift-off of the Mars Observer.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:4950-5141 administrative first hand
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Years after his initial analysis, Richard C. Hoagland, with the help of Steve Troy, found a second set of Apollo 10 images of the L.A. on the Moon region, referred to as the "4600 series".
“Years after the preceding analysis, Hoagland (with the help of Steve Troy) found a *second* set of Apollo 10 images of “L.A. on the Moon”: the “4600 series.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:51639-51788 administrative first hand
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After Richard C. Hoagland's presentation of the Ukert anomaly data at Ohio State University, some National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials unofficially dismissed the geometric pattern northeast of Ukert as standard lunar geological activity caused by cooling lava flows subsequently excavated by meteorite impacts.
“Subsequent to the presentation of this data at Ohio State, some unofficial reaction by NASA officials attempted to dismiss the anomalous geometric pattern northeast of Ukert as nothing more than “standard lunar geological activity”: lunar lava flows cooling to create geometric fractures, subsequently excavated and exposed by “random meteorite impacts.””
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On the southeast corner of page 241 of the lunar atlas, Richard C. Hoagland found the first appearance in the collection of the crater Triesnecker.
“his eye fell to the southeast corner of page 241, where the crater Triesnecker first appeared in the collection.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:5251-5352 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland argues that natural lava-fracture geometry on Earth measures only inches to feet, not the thousands-of-feet-scale city-block-sized geometric pattern observed on multiple Apollo 10 images near Ukert.
“such as the fact that on this planet, the size of such typically expected lava fractures is mere *inches,* or at best, feet *…* not thousands of feet as observed in the city-block-sized pattern photographed, on *multiple* Apollo 10 images (and from almost a full 180-degree arc) near Ukert!”
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Richard C. Hoagland estimates the geometric pattern near Ukert to be relatively young, on the order of a few hundred million years, based on National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s measurements of the rate of past and present impact crater formation on the Moon.
“A separate estimate, based on NASA’s attempted measurements of the rate of past and present impact crater formation on the Moon (that smattering of “one-to-two mile craters” lying over “L.A.,” mentioned previously), independently supports a relatively “young” geological age for this enigmatic pattern near Ukert—a “few hundred million years,” at best.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:54824-55172 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland found what he interpreted as an equilateral triangle, the two-dimensional foundation of tetrahedral geometry and hallmark of hyperdimensional physics, immortalised in a lunar crater near the centre of the Moon.
“This extraordinary photo revealed an unmistakable image of an equilateral triangle—the 2D foundation of tetrahedral geometry and hallmark of hyperdimensional physics—immortalized in a lunar crater … in the center of the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:5544-5767 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland first identified the Castle, a geometric lunar formation, on a special version of Apollo 10 frame AS10-32-4822 provided to him in 1992 by a highly-placed source at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Spaceflight Center.
“The Castle [Fig. 4-18] is another glittering, remarkably intact geometric formation Hoagland first identified on a special version of frame 4822—provided him by “a highly-placed” source at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in 1992.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:55569-55795 administrative second hand
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Richard C. Hoagland used a 486 personal computer, a 1600 dpi scanner, and contemporary digital photo-processing software to analyse old National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) photos and negatives, beginning with Apollo 10 and the unmanned Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor programmes.
“Armed with a 486 personal computer, a 1600 dpi scanner and a variety of then state-of-the-art digital photo-processing software—more powerful than all the millions of dollars in equipment and manpower that NASA had twenty-five years before—Hoagland began anew to analyze, from his desktop, old NASA photos and negatives—beginning with Apollo 10 and the unmanned Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor Programs.”
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Richard C. Hoagland concludes that the Apollo 10 crew, via frame AS10-32-4822, recorded a section of the Sinus Medii dome far northeast of the Tower/Cube remains.
“In other words, the Apollo 10 crew, via 4822, apparently recorded another section (far northeast of the Tower/Cube remains) of this extensive “Sinus Medii dome.””
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Richard C. Hoagland obtained a copy of Apollo 10 photograph frame AS10-32-4822 from various NASA archives.
“2-4822 from various NASA archives. To his surprise he discovered that there was something even stranger about the image”
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Multiple different photographic images were found labelled with the identical Apollo frame number AS10-32-4822.
“it seemed to exist, simultaneously, in a number of “different” forms—but all labeled with the *identical* frame number: AS10-32-4822.”
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A student named Alex Cook independently ordered a copy of Apollo photograph frame AS10-32-4822 through Goddard Space Flight Center.
“a second copy provided by a student, Alex Cook (who ordered it separately through Goddard)”
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Comparison of Richard C. Hoagland's original AS10-32-4822 print with Alex Cook's separately obtained copy revealed the two prints were completely different photographs sharing the same frame number.
“revealed a *major* surprise: Alex’s copy turned out, in fact, to be a completely *different* photograph, hitherto apparently unknown.”
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Richard C. Hoagland obtained his original copy of AS10-32-4822 from a NASA-Goddard source in 1992.
“the “4822” that Hoagland had obtained completely independently (from his NASA-Goddard source, in 1992)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:60658-60755 administrative first hand
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Setting up Richard C. Hoagland's and Alex Cook's copies of AS10-32-4822 side by side for stereo viewing revealed new details about the lunar object known as "the Castle".
“Setting up both photographs side-by-side for stereo viewing revealed several startling new details about “the Castle” … and frame 4822”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:60762-60892 observation first hand
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In Richard C. Hoagland's original version of AS10-32-4822, a cable-like feature appears to be holding "the Castle" within a lunar grid structure.
“the amazing drooping cable (apparently, *really* holding the Castle “in the grid!”) is clearly visible”
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In Alex Cook's copy of AS10-32-4822, the drooping cable feature seen in Richard C. Hoagland's version is absent and the structure known as "the Castle" appears foreshortened due to the change in viewing angle.
“in Cook’s version of “4822,” not only has the cable disappeared with the increased viewing angle, but the entire structure has visibly “foreshortened”—clearly the result of optical parallax”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:61051-61232 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland attributes the difference between his and Alex Cook's versions of AS10-32-4822 to optical parallax caused by the Apollo 10 spacecraft moving farther west between the two exposures.
“clearly the result of optical parallax, as the Apollo spacecraft moved farther to the west between the two exposures”
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Richard C. Hoagland concludes that Alex Cook's and his own copies of AS10-32-4822, despite sharing the same frame number, are two views of the same object present on two distinctly different photographic images.
“there is no doubt that—despite (inexplicably …) sharing the *same* frame number—these are two views of the same object, present on two distinctly *different* photographic images!”
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Richard C. Hoagland describes the bulk of the material within "the Castle" as resembling frosted glass in close-up, consistent with an originally transparent substance exposed to hypervelocity micro-meteorite impacts in a vacuum over a long period.
“In close-up, the bulk of the material within the Castle looks exactly like *frosted* glass; like any originally transparent substance would look, after being exposed for countless millennia to hypervelocity micro-meteorite impacts in a vacuum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:61892-62129 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland found over a dozen different versions of Apollo photograph frame AS10-32-4822.
“why there were “so *many* different versions of 4822” (Hoagland eventually found over a *dozen* …)”
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In 1995, Richard C. Hoagland led a team of colleagues and associates on a visit to the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) in Greenbelt, Maryland.
“in 1995 he led a team of diverse colleagues and associates on a unique visit to the National Space Science Data Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—NASA’s chief repository for space imagery”
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The 1995 visit by Richard C. Hoagland's team to the National Space Science Data Center lasted two days.
“The visit lasted two days, with one major objective being to show NSSDC officials some of the astonishing “anomalies” he’d found”
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During the 1995 National Space Science Data Center visit, additional versions of Apollo frame AS10-32-4822 were identified, revealing further details of what Richard C. Hoagland calls the "Sinus Medii Dome".
“including identification of several *additional* versions of “4822” also existing at NSSDC, ultimately revealing even more critical details of the “Sinus Medii Dome””
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On the second day of the 1995 National Space Science Data Center presentations, NSSDC officials told Richard C. Hoagland and his eight visiting associates that the Apollo 10 negative from which Hoagland's "Castle" print had been produced had disappeared overnight.
“embarrassed NSSDC officials reluctantly revealed to Hoagland and his eight visiting associates that—apparently, overnight—there had been a mysterious “disappearance” of (presumably) *the one Apollo 10 negative* from which Hoagland’s “special Castle print” had been produced”
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The Apollo 10 negative used to produce Richard C. Hoagland's "Castle" print had been sent to him three years before the 1995 NSSDC visit, at the request of a high-level Goddard official.
“had been produced and sent to Hoagland, at the request of that “high-level Goddard official,” three years earlier”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes the disappearance of the Apollo 10 negative made it impossible to verify his public claims about the properties of "the Castle".
“Without that crucial negative—freely accessible to other scientists worldwide from an *official* NASA archive—any public claims made by Hoagland regarding the properties of “the Castle” *on that negative—*would be impossible for anyone to verify”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:63632-63871 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland believes the disappearance of the Apollo 10 negative was deliberately arranged by someone at the National Space Science Data Center after seeing what he had discovered.
“seemed to be exactly what “someone” at NSSDC—after they’d seen what Hoagland had discovered on *that* NASA negative—had (overnight) carefully arranged”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:64007-64149 opinion first hand
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An anonymous source claiming to regularly visit NASA Headquarters gave Richard C. Hoagland an Apollo 16 lunar photographic print shortly before the 1995 National Space Science Data Center trip.
“Shortly before the trip to NSSDC, Hoagland had been given (by a “source”) a remarkable Apollo 16 lunar photographic print.”
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Richard C. Hoagland describes the story behind the anonymous NASA Headquarters source's account as reading almost like the plot of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", a popular 1960s spy-themed television show that ran during the Apollo era.
“The story that came with it was almost right out of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (a popular 1960’s “cloak-anddagger” TV show, which ran during the timeframe of the Apollo missions).”
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An anonymous source claiming to regularly visit NASA Headquarters told Richard C. Hoagland that he was there in the Administrator's office a few days after Apollo 16 returned to Earth on 1972-04-27.
“The “source” was well-known to NASA and (according to his account), “regularly visited” at NASA Headquarters. He had been there, in the Administrator’s office, a few days after Apollo 16 returned to Earth from its successful visit to “the highlands of the Moon”—April 27, 1972.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:64585-64857 hearsay second hand
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An anonymous source claiming to regularly visit NASA Headquarters told Richard C. Hoagland that, left alone in the NASA Administrator's office between meetings, he saw a large bunch of Apollo photographs on the Administrator's desk and leafed through some of them.
“For some reason he was left alone in the Administrators office between meetings; he looked over and saw a massive bunch of Apollo photographs lying on the Administrator’s desk. Bored, he casually leafed through a few ... and was shocked by what he saw.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:64863-65111 hearsay second hand
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An anonymous source claiming to regularly visit NASA Headquarters told Richard C. Hoagland that he slipped one of the Apollo photographs into his briefcase and left the Administrator's office before the Administrator returned.
“On impulse (he said later …) he quickly slipped one of the prints into his briefcase and—before the Administrator could return—abruptly left.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:65117-65253 hearsay second hand
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Twenty-three years after taking it, the anonymous source claiming to regularly visit NASA Headquarters handed a copy of the stolen NASA Headquarters Apollo photograph to Richard C. Hoagland.
“Twenty three years later, he handed a copy of that “stolen Headquarters Apollo print” to Richard Hoagland.”
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Richard C. Hoagland interprets the purloined NASA Apollo 16 photograph of Mare Crisium as showing a several-miles-high tower surrounded by glass-like material above reflective, dome-like craters on the surface of Mare Crisium.
“What was *on* that purloined NASA photo was simply astonishing—unequivocal evidence for more “massive, ancient lunar engineering”—this time, stretching all across *Mare Crisium* … The centerpiece of that construction was none other than another several-miles-high *tower*—surrounded by a host of other glass-like stuff, all arrayed above a series of incredibly reflective lunar “craters””
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One objective of the 1995 Goddard trip was to find the official negative of the Apollo 16 Mare Crisium photograph, identified as AS16-121-19438, to compare it with Richard C. Hoagland's version.
“One of the prime objectives of Goddard trip was to find an *official* negative of this “hot” *Apollo 16* photograph (it had an ID number)—to see if the two versions were *the same.*”
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Richard C. Hoagland concluded that an advanced, space-faring civilisation that had left ruins on Mars would also likely have visited other planets or moons in the Solar System, making Earth's Moon the most obvious place to search for evidence of prior visitation.
“Working on the assumption that an advanced, space-faring civilization had flourished and “cared enough to leave the very best” on Mars in the distant past, Hoagland concluded early-on that they would also likely have visited other planets or moons in the solar system. The most obvious place to find these telltale signs of prior visitation, it seemed to him, was Earth’s own Moon.”
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When Richard C. Hoagland compared his second-generation enlargement of the stolen Apollo 16 photograph with the National Space Science Data Center's version produced from the on-site negative of AS16-121-19438, the glittering detail hanging above Mare Crisium in his version was absent, replaced by black that appeared to have been airbrushed onto the copy negative.
“all the marvelous, “glittering detail” hanging in the sky *over* Crisium on Hoagland’s version had *disappeared* ... replaced by a dead, dead “black”—which obviously had been airbrushed in on the copy negative, to represent what someone thought space above the lunar surface *ought* to look like.”
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The National Space Science Data Center version of the Apollo 16 photograph AS16-121-19438 did not show the tower that appeared in Richard C. Hoagland's version.
“And, of course, there was no longer any stunning “tower” ….”
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During the 1995 Goddard visit, Richard C. Hoagland's lunar investigation team obtained additional Hasselblad negatives of new areas of interest on the Moon.
“when they left, Hoagland was able to walk away with a number of additional Hasselblad negatives of *new* areas of interest on the Moon”
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During the 1995 Goddard visit, Richard C. Hoagland's team obtained several reels of 5-inch Apollo 16 panoramic camera negatives, described as the highest-resolution Apollo photographs then available.
“as well as (surprisingly) several *reels* of 5-inch Apollo 16 *panoramic* camera negatives (the highest-resolution Apollo photographs currently available), comprising literally thousands of superb high-resolution negatives”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes the scientific case presented during the 1995 National Space Science Data Center visit sparked enough interest among NASA officials to secure a continued flow of future images from the archive.
“Hoagland was able to spark enough serious “inside” interest to insure a steady flow of *future* images from this official NASA archive”
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During the 1995 National Space Science Data Center visit, Richard C. Hoagland examined official NASA publications containing images from the Soviet Zond 3 lunar mission of the 1960s.
“During the NSSDC visit, Hoagland was also able to examine some official NASA publications containing images from one of the key USSR lunar missions of the 1960s, Zond 3.”
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Richard C. Hoagland believed that if his ideas about the Moon had merit, independent Soviet lunar probes would have encountered and recorded the same kinds of anomalies he found in American data.
“If his ideas about the Moon had any merit, then it seemed likely that the independent Russian probes would have encountered—and recorded—the same sorts of anomalies Hoagland was finding in the American data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:68198-68400 opinion first hand
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Much of the data gathered by Soviet space probes remained inaccessible to Western researchers even after the Cold War officially ended in 1991.
“much of the data gathered by a variety of Soviet space probes was (and still is …) inexplicably off-limits to researchers from the West. Even after the Cold War officially ended, in 1991”
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After the Cold War ended, Richard C. Hoagland sent personal emissaries to Moscow for months-long efforts to locate original Soviet Mars and lunar photographs but encountered a wall of resistance around the subject.
“Hoagland was finally able to send personal “emissaries” to Moscow in months-long efforts to locate *original* versions (negatives or prints) of old Soviet Mars and lunar photographs—he had met with a virtual “Berlin wall” around the subject.”
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One of Richard C. Hoagland's associates was pulled into an empty room at the National Academy of Sciences in Moscow by the KGB (Committee for State Security) and told to stop looking for Soviet space imagery.
“one of his folks was actually pulled out of a long hallway and into an empty room at the National Academy of Sciences, in Moscow by the KGB—and told flatly to “stop looking!””
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At the Goddard library during the 1995 NSSDC visit, Richard C. Hoagland examined NASA-published photographs from the Zond 3 mission, which had been sent to NASA Headquarters shortly after the mission returned its images to Moscow in July 1965.
“Eventually, at the Goddard library during the NSSDC visit, Hoagland was at least able to examine some of the NASA *published* photographs from the Zond-3 Mission, sent to NASA Headquarters in Washington shortly after the Mission first returned its images to Moscow, in July 1965.”
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As Zond 3 passed thousands of miles over the Mare Orientale impact basin heading away from Earth, it recorded two images of anomalous lunar structures that Richard C. Hoagland interprets as fitting his model of an ancient Sinus Medii Dome.
“As the spacecraft passed thousands of miles “over” the massive Mare Orientale impact “basin,” heading forever away from Earth, in looking back toward the Moon it serendipitously recorded two images of two completely different “anomalous lunar structures,” that fit perfectly into Hoagland’s evolving model of an ancient Sinus Medii Dome.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:70499-70831 opinion first hand
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The first Zond 3 image, published in TRW's Solar System Log in 1967, showed a feature Richard C. Hoagland describes as another twenty-mile-high tower, located in the western end of Oceanus Procellarum.
“The first image, published in TRW’s “*Solar System Log”* in 1967, captured *another* “twenty-mile-high tower” (like the one in Crisium)—extending vertically straight up from the lunar surface, located somewhere in the western end of *Oceanus Procellarum*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:70838-71092 opinion second hand
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A second Zond 3 image, taken thirty-four seconds after the first, showed no tower, which Richard C. Hoagland attributes to the feature having slipped over the lunar horizon due to the spacecraft's motion.
“The next Zond 3 image, taken thirty-four seconds later, had no “tower”—indicating it had, by that time, slipped over the lunar horizon due to the fast Soviet spacecraft motion and direction.”
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Richard C. Hoagland states that the reproduction quality of other geometric anomalies visible in the first Zond 3 image published in Solar System Log was not high enough to confirm their true nature, though the tower feature was unmistakable against black space.
“the reproduction quality in the *Solar System Log* was not quite high enough to be confident of their true nature; the “tower,” however—standing stark against *black space* … was unmistakable”
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Richard C. Hoagland compares the tower feature in the first Zond 3 image to features seen in Lunar Orbiter III frame LO-III-84M and Apollo 16 photograph AS16-121-19438.
“looking remarkably like the features seen on LO-III-84M *and* AS16-121-19438 (although from a lot farther away)”
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After the tower feature vanished from Zond 3's imagery, a second anomalous glassy-looking dome-shaped structure appeared on the lunar horizon roughly a thousand miles further south.
“After the “tower” vanished (due to the continuing trajectory of Zond 3 past the Moon …), it was replaced by an equally “anomalous feature,” located on the lunar horizon about a thousand miles further to the south. This glassy-looking structure appeared strikingly like another lunar “dome””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:71911-72195 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland describes the second Zond 3 dome feature as extending several miles above the airless lunar horizon and aligned with the local vertical, similar to the earlier Zond 3 tower.
“this “Zond 3 dome” extended several *miles* above the airless lunar horizon, against black space. And, like the earlier “Zond tower,” neatly aligned with the local *vertical*”
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A close-up view of the second Zond 3 dome feature, rotated 90 degrees, shows significant deterioration attributed to long-exposure meteor erosion, but with a still-clear outline that Richard C. Hoagland describes as another giant glass-like geometric structure extending miles above the Moon.
“A close-up of this Zond 3 “dome” (rotated 90 degrees) reveals a significant amount of deterioration due, undoubtedly, to long-exposure effects from meteor erosion, but the outline is still strikingly clear: another giant, *glass-like* geometric structure ... extending *miles* above the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:72560-72859 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland speculates that the Soviet Union may have deliberately launched Zond 3 as a clandestine lunar mission to photograph suspected large artificial artifacts on the Moon, using the stated Mars destination as a cover story.
“did the Soviets deliberately launch it as a “clandestine lunar mission,” to actually take pictures of the largest artifacts they suspected on the Moon ... with “Mars” just as a cover story?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:73082-73265 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland asserts that the date 1969-07-20 (the Apollo 11 Moon landing) also has significance for secret societies that John F. Kennedy publicly criticised in his American Newspaper Publishers Association speech.
“a date which also has bizarre “significance” far beyond that moment and event for the very “secret societies” that Kennedy publicly decried at his American Newspaper Publishers Association speech”
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Richard C. Hoagland concludes that the 1995 National Space Science Data Center visit established that the lunar data sets in which he was finding artificial-looking objects were genuinely real NASA data.
“The visit established that the lunar data sets on which Hoagland was finding truly astonishing, clearly artificial objects, was absolutely real.”
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Richard C. Hoagland believes the 1995 NSSDC visit demonstrated that some individuals within NASA were willing to consider his and his associates' findings with an open mind, consistent with other official NASA invitations he had received to address other NASA Centers.
“It further established that some in NASA (at least, in the beginning …) were willing to look with open minds at what Hoagland and his associates were finding (this, tallying with the other official NASA invitations Hoagland had received earlier, to address other NASA Centers)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:74260-74528 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it possible that NASA arranged the official 1995 NSSDC visit specifically to learn how much he already knew, in order to sanitise the relevant data afterward.
“An alternative hypothesis is that NASA really needed to find out exactly *how much* Hoagland already *knew* … and agreed to the “official NSSDC visit” as a clever means of getting him to show them—so they could effectively sanitize *that* data.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considered that potential lunar artefacts might be locatable through the same type of hyperdimensional grid successfully applied to Earth by Carl Munk and others, relating ancient terrestrial sites such as the Giza Plateau in Egypt and Teotihuacan in Mexico to the geometry of the Cydonia complex on Mars.
“perhaps potential lunar artifacts, like the ruins at Cydonia, might be locatable through the same type of “hyperdimensional grid” that had been successfully applied to Earth by Carl Munk and several others. These coordinates related ancient terrestrial sites (the Giza Plateau in Egypt, Teotihuacán in Mexico, etc.) to the geometry supplied by the Martian complex at Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:7476-7845 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland believes someone within NASA deliberately caused evidence supporting his claims, including an official Apollo photographic record, to disappear in order to prevent further scientific investigation of his research findings.
“the visit also demonstrated that “someone” in the Agency really was willing to make crucial evidence *supporting* Hoagland’s claims—like, an official Apollo photographic record—simply *disappear* … to effectively prevent further scientific investigation of key elements of Hoagland’s research findings.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:74799-75092 opinion first hand
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As of the writing of Dark Mission, twelve years after the 1995 NSSDC visit, the disappearance of the Apollo 10 negative believed to hold proof of "the Castle" remains unsolved for Richard C. Hoagland.
“Hoagland’s only lingering disappointment of the entire experience is the still unsolved mystery (and yes, it’s still unanswered … after 12 long years) what *really* happened to that critical Apollo 10 negative that night at Goddard—the one that holds the *proof* that “the Castle” is quite real?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:75103-75393 opinion first hand
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A few months after the 1995 NSSDC visit, Richard C. Hoagland met Ken Johnston while on a lecture tour in Seattle.
“A few months after the NSSDC visit in early 1995, Hoagland was on a lecture tour in Seattle when he met Ken Johnston”
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Ken Johnston described the Lunar Receiving Laboratory as the literal "eye of the storm" during the Apollo programme.
“Johnston later moved across the center, going to work for Brown-Root Corporation and the Northrop Corporation in MSC’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)—the literal “eye of the storm” during Apollo.”
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Ken Johnston developed an interest in Richard C. Hoagland's research into what NASA may have discovered on the Moon and kept hidden.
“The specific “trigger” that brought Ken and Richard together, decades later, was Johnston’s developing interest in Hoagland’s latest line of research—what NASA might have actually discovered on the Moon … and then kept *hidden*.”
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After reading Richard C. Hoagland's book The Monuments of Mars, Ken Johnston wrote a letter of introduction and sent it to Hoagland when he learned Hoagland was coming to Seattle on his lecture tour.
“Having read *Monuments*, and seeing that Hoagland was coming to town as part of his national lecture tour, Johnston had written a letter of introduction and sent it to Hoagland.”
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Ken Johnston told Richard C. Hoagland that memories of disturbing incidents from his own time at NASA had always stuck in the back of his mind.
“events “that had always stuck in the back of my mind” he told Hoagland, which he could not easily dismiss even years later”
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At Richard C. Hoagland's Seattle presentation, Ken Johnston introduced himself during a break and invited Hoagland to view his collection of about 1,000 old NASA photographs and other memorabilia from his time at NASA.
“At Hoagland’s Seattle presentation, during one of the breaks, Ken introduced himself and invited Richard over to his house the next day, to look at Ken’s collection of “about 1,000 old NASA photos and other memorabilia” of his time at NASA.”
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Richard C. Hoagland states that the existence of Ken Johnston's extensive private collection of Apollo photographs, and how it came to be in private hands, disturbed him once he heard Johnston's account of it.
“However, the existence of this extensive number of Apollo photos, in a *private* collection—and how they got there, as he listened to Ken tell it later—really disturbed Hoagland.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:77853-78022 opinion first hand
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Airbrushing photographic negatives, rather than prints, means the original data could never be reproduced in the form it had originally been taken.
“meaning that, after that drastic process had been applied, the original data could *never be reproduced in the form it had originally been taken.*”
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Richard C. Hoagland personally observed anomalies with Apollo 16 photograph frame AS16-121-19438 during his visit to the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
“(Shades of what Hoagland had personally observed, with frame AS16-121- 19438, at NSSDC).”
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In late 1992, Richard C. Hoagland came across Fred Steckling's book We Found Alien Bases on the Moon, which he considered a wildly unsupported example of lunar extraterrestrial claims.
“It provided Hoagland, in late 1992, with one particularly egregious example of those previously cited, wildly unsupported lunar ET claims: Fred Steckling’s someday sure-to-be-a-classic (because it is so bad) paperback We Found Alien Bases on the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:8288-8537 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the destruction of the Apollo lunar photograph archive by official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) order to be evidence of a deliberate cover-up of extraterrestrial artefacts originating from NASA headquarters in Washington.
“He was now totally convinced of a *deliberate* Apollo cover-up of "ET artifacts" —coming *officially* from NASA headquarters, in Washington.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:84309-84438 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland had been given a remarkable 8x10 original Apollo 16 print before his National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) visit, revealing a mile-high, spire-like structure in Mare Crisium.
“Hoagland, you will recall, had been slipped a remarkable 8 X 10 original Apollo 16 print just before his NSSDC visit—revealing an unmistakable "mileshigh, spire-like structure" in Mare Crisium”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the mile-high spire-like structure in Mare Crisium astonishingly similar to the Zond 3 tower visible on the far side of the Moon.
“astonishingly similar to the 'Zond 3 tower' plainly visible on the other side of the Moon.”
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Richard C. Hoagland saw the Zond 3 tower image in the library at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center.
“Hoagland, after seeing the Zond 3 'tower' in the library at Goddard”
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In We Found Alien Bases on the Moon, one lunar image stood out to Richard C. Hoagland: three reproductions at various magnifications of a single hand-held Apollo 10 orbital frame acquired by an astronaut during the Apollo 10 mission.
“In Steckling’s non-stop comedy of errors... one lunar image suddenly stood out: three reproductions (at various magnifications) of a single, hand-held Apollo orbital frame acquired by an astronaut “sometime during the mission of Apollo 10.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:8544-8860 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland modified his evolving lunar dome model to include all the visible lunar mare on the Earth-facing side of the Moon.
“had modified his evolving 'lunar dome model' to include *all* the visible 'lunar mare' on the Earthside of the Moon.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers Al Worden's description of a haze layer over Mare Crisium to be visual confirmation, recorded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), of his lunar dome hypothesis.
“his slowly accumulating photographic data re a possible 'Crisium Dome' had been *visually* confirmed (and recorded) by NASA, from astronaut Al Worden, in his official Apollo 15 debriefing”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers craters like Proclus and Picard unable to have overlaying haze on an airless Moon, implying Al Worden's described haze must have been seen through a partially transparent intervening medium.
“Craters, like neighboring Proclus and Picard, simply *can't* have 'overlaying haze' on an airless Moon. The only way for Worden to have observed this 'haze' is if he is looking down from orbit *through* a partially transparent *intervening medium*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:86510-86750 opinion first hand
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Steve Troy became interested in Richard C. Hoagland's lunar research in 1996.
“Steve took an interest in Hoagland's lunar work early on, in 1996.”
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Richard C. Hoagland looked at Fred Steckling's reproduction and saw nothing at the claimed underground alien base entrance near the crater Ukert.
“Hoagland looked hard, but could see nothing.”
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Richard C. Hoagland discovered two untouched panoramas of the Apollo 14 landing site among Ken Johnston's photographs, each a mosaic of individual Hasselblad images printed on two 8x10 glossies.
“Hoagland was then able to discover two untouched panoramas of the Apollo 14 landing site—each a mosaic composed of individual Hasselblad images, printed on two 8x10 glossies.”
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By adjusting the gamma and contrast of scanned Apollo 14 panorama images, Richard C. Hoagland found an enormous amount of previously invisible geometric detail appearing in the lunar sky above the landing site.
“by simply adjusting the gamma and contrast in the resulting digital images Hoagland was stunned to see an enormous amount of previously invisible *geometric* detail suddenly appear … hanging in the supposedly pitch-black, airless lunar *sky.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:93782-94019 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland recognised that the crater Ukert was the same triangular crater he had seen in the lunar atlas, suggesting to him that the area held special significance.
“he was immediately intrigued by a pretty weird “coincidence”; Ukert was none other than the very same “triangular crater” he had seen in the lunar atlas, perhaps implying that this particular area, indeed, did have “special significance.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:9427-9651 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland's further enhancements and enlargements of the full-resolution Apollo 14 image revealed multiple layers of structural construction, including cell-like rooms, three-dimensional cross-bracing, and angled stringers.
“As Hoagland made further enhancements and enlargements of this astonishing full-resolution Apollo 14 image, he discovered multiple *layers* of breathtaking 'structural construction' embedded in the NASA frame; multiple surviving 'cell-like rooms,' three-dimensional 'cross-bracing,' angled 'stringers,' etc”
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Richard C. Hoagland noticed a rectilinear arrangement of small hills, dark grooves and parallel lines immediately adjacent to and southeast of the crater Ukert, in the middle of one representation of the Steckling photograph, which appeared to have been overlooked by Fred Steckling.
“His eye then fell on a formation immediately adjacent to and southeast of “Ukert”: a curious, rectilinear arrangement of small hills, dark grooves and suspiciously parallel lines in the middle of one representation of the photograph, apparently completely overlooked by Steckling.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch11:9667-9937 observation first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland decided to search National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s public database at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) for similar untouched Apollo images still under NASA's control, after returning east with Ken Johnston's photographs.
“Hoagland decided to begin an intensive search again through NASA's public database at NSSDC, for similar *untouched* Apollo images still under NASA's control.”
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Richard C. Hoagland was a former consultant to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News.
“As a scientist and former consultant to CBS, he realized that only if he could find publicly-accessible confirmation”
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Richard C. Hoagland believed that publicly-accessible confirmation of the anomalies seen on Ken Johnston's photographs was necessary for other scientists, the public, and the press to take seriously the hypothesis that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had found and deliberately suppressed evidence of an ancient extraterrestrial civilisation that left miles-high ruins on the Moon.
“he realized that only if he could find publicly-accessible confirmation of the amazing details on Ken's 'hidden stash,' would other scientists, the public … and, most critically, the press … even begin to take seriously the overall hypothesis that NASA had found, and then *deliberately* suppressed, the remains of an almost inconceivable ancient, extraterrestrial civilization”
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333
Wernher von Braun, Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Debus, Humbertus Strughold and other German scientists brought to the United States under Project Paperclip had elaborate Nazi pasts.
“The simple fact that Von Braun, Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Debus, Humbertus Strughold and many other German scientists with elaborate Nazi pasts were brought to the U.S. at all is a testament to Cold War convenience.”
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Wernher von Braun held the rank of Major in the Schutzstaffel (SS).
“Clearly, as a Major in the SS, Von Braun met the minimum criteria of "ardent Nazi."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:100564-100641 opinion first hand
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Vannevar Bush and Theodore von Karman used their influence to have doubts about Wernher von Braun's SS Nazi past overlooked.
“Fortunately (for Von Braun) he had "friends in high places," not just in Germany, but in the U.S.—in the personages of Drs. Bush and Von Karman. Their influence was so powerful, that doubts expressed by the field investigators about Von Braun's SS Nazi past were ultimately "conveniently" overlooked.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:100648-100937 opinion first hand
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In his 1992 United Nations presentation, Richard C. Hoagland demonstrated that the right half of the Face on Mars, when flipped symmetrically over the left half, appeared distinctly feline.
“In the same 1992 U.N. presentation Hoagland went on to demonstrate an additional level to this possible Earth/Mars connection. He showed that the right half of the Face, when flipped symmetrically over the left half, appeared distinctly feline.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:10084-10322 observation first hand
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1717-06-25 is one date given for the founding of modern Freemasonry.
“coincidently the same date as the "founding" of modern Freemasonry in 1717”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:101008-101078 opinion first hand
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1947-06-25 is one possible date given for the Roswell UFO crash in New Mexico.
“and one possible date given for the infamous UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:101084-101155 opinion first hand
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While reviewing Ken Johnston's photo albums with Ken Johnston, Richard C. Hoagland found an official Apollo mission patch from the early days of the Apollo programme.
“As he and Ken were thumbing through the pictures in Ken's vast photo albums, they had come across an official Apollo mission patch from the early days of the Program[Fig. 5-1].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:1018-1191 observation first hand
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Wernher von Braun's team of German scientists made no attempt to conceal their Nazi pasts or affinity for the Third Reich once settled in the United States.
“Von Braun and his cohorts were so certain of their "value" that they made no attempt to conceal either their Nazi pasts or, apparently, their love for the Third Reich; having beaten the system through Paperclip, they evidently didn't care who knew of their "ardent Nazi" histories.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:102306-102577 opinion first hand
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Members of Wernher von Braun's group displayed swastikas and other Nazi symbols on their clothes and on signs at the camps where they were housed in the United States after their immigration.
“The group freely displayed swastikas and other Nazi symbols on their clothes and on signs in the camps where they were kept for years after their immigration to the U.S.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:102749-102916 opinion first hand
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the feline symmetry of the Face on Mars a symbolic parallel to the Great Sphinx of Egypt, completing a terrestrial connection to Cydonia.
“This symbolic parallel to the Great Sphinx of Egypt seemed to complete the “terrestrial connection” to Cydonia—via the same, haunting hominid/feline fusion evident in the Face’s famed terrestrial counterpart on Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:10331-10542 opinion first hand
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The three Disney space television films helped establish Wernher von Braun as America's most notable space expert.
“These programs helped establish Von Braun as America's most notable space expert.”
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In the Man in Space dramatisation, when the flare detonates it reveals a geometric outline of an artificial-looking installation on the far side of the Moon.
“the blast of light reveals the unmistakable, *geometric* outline of an installation—starkly highlighted on the cratered surface far beneath them, on the Farside of the Moon... the formation is also, definitely, *artificial*”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers it highly unlikely that the Man in Space dramatisation's depiction of an artificial lunar formation at 33 degrees latitude was an accident.
“It struck us as highly unlikely that this depiction of what the first manned mission to the Moon would find—and *where* it would find it (at "33º latitude")—was, in any way, an accident.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers that Wernher von Braun and Walt Disney intended the Man in Space film to portray the Moon as previously inhabited while paying homage to the Masonic number 33.
“Von Braun and Disney obviously *intended* to portray the Moon as "previously inhabited" … and, simultaneously, pay homage to the Masonic "33º."”
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347
After the Vanguard rocket's launch failure, Wernher von Braun's team was recruited to achieve a U.S. win in the space race.
“Von Braun's team was then, suddenly, frantically recruited "to save the day"—and get the U.S. some kind of "win" in the onrushing space race.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:106919-107055 opinion first hand
348
Richard C. Hoagland noted in the introduction to Dark Mission that the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 paints a different picture than that of NASA as a public agency beholden only to Congress.
“The Act itself, as Hoagland noted in the Introduction, paints a very different picture.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:107940-108019 opinion first hand
349
Under the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was subject to the Department of Defense on any issue judged necessary for national defence.
“From the beginning, NASA was under the thumb of the Department of Defense, subject to the whims of the Pentagon on any issue judged to be "necessary to make effective provision for the defense of the United States."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:108029-108236 opinion first hand
350
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has always been under the control of the defence and intelligence establishment despite its public persona as a civilian, science-gathering agency.
“Thus, regardless of its well-cultivated public persona—as "a civilian, primarily science-gathering" Agency—NASA has always been under the thumb of the defense/intelligence establishment.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:109344-109516 opinion first hand
351
After his appointment, Michael Griffin began cutting long-term science programmes at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fund the Space Shuttle, the Space Station programme, and the Vision for Space Exploration.
“Griffin began severely cutting long-term science programs in the Agency—"stealing from Peter to pay Paul"—to fund the two biggest financial drains on-going: the aging manned Space Shuttle and increasingly expensive Space Station Programs; and the new "Vision for Space exploration"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:110247-110517 opinion first hand
352
Richard C. Hoagland considers that men with strong Pentagon and intelligence ties, rather than scientists, were the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s first priority to run the agency from its beginning.
“Looking at the original management team that was placed at the Agency in its beginnings, it's easy to see that finding men with strong Pentagon/ intelligence ties to run the place—not "scientists"—was (and still is) the Agency's *first* priority”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:111583-111820 opinion first hand
353
As the first Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), T. Keith Glennan set up a compartmentalised internal structure resembling an intelligence-gathering agency rather than a civilian scientific programme.
“As the first Administrator of NASA, Glennan immediately proceeded to set-up a compartmentalized internal structure, far more akin to an *intelligence-gathering agency* than a civilian scientific program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:112540-112736 opinion first hand
354
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the Brookings Report makes clear that the discovery of extraterrestrial artefacts falls under the dark blanket of national security.
“which, as we covered in Chapter Three, makes crystal clear the discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts fall under the dark blanket of "national security."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:114289-114433 opinion first hand
355
Wernher von Braun placed many of his old Nazi colleagues into key positions in the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) once established as head of the Huntsville rocket development site.
“Once established as the head of the Huntsville rocket development site, Von Braun placed many of his old Nazi cohorts into key positions in the new Space Agency.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:116270-116424 opinion first hand
356
Kurt Debus organised the space centre at Cape Canaveral along the lines of the German rocket programmes at Mittelwerk and Peenemunde, without slave labour.
“he organized the space center at Cape Canaveral along the lines of the German rocket programs at Mittlework and Peenemunde, minus the slave labor, of course.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:116631-116781 opinion first hand
357
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Apollo mission patch design incongruent with the stated goals and mythology of NASA's official Apollo Moon programme.
“In looking at the patch, it struck Hoagland just how incongruent it was with the stated goals and mythology of NASA's official Apollo Program to the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:1195-1344 opinion first hand
358
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun deduced tetrahedral physics from the redundant geometry present at Cydonia in 1989.
“a physics which Hoagland and Torun had only first deduced from the redundant geometry present at Cydonia, in 1989.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:124383-124492 testimony first hand
359
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that "Apollo" is actually "Horus" when Greek mythological literature is examined in detail for its derivation from earlier Egyptian mythology.
“The initial answer is quite simple: “Apollo” is actually “Horus”—if one examines in detail Greek mythological literature and its derivations from the earlier Egyptian.86”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:13082-13249 opinion first hand
360
Richard C. Hoagland regards the $20 billion NASA Apollo exploration programme of the Moon as, in effect, a disguised "Osiris/Horus Lunar Landing Program" derived from ancient Egypt.
“Thus, it turns out that the $20 billion NASA Apollo Exploration Program of the Moon was, in fact, nothing less than a disguised “Osiris/Horus Lunar Landing Program” … straight out of ancient Egypt.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:13345-13537 opinion first hand
361
Richard C. Hoagland found that Orion's belt star Alnitak was approximately 39 degrees beneath the southeast horizon at the time and place relevant to the Surveyor 3 landing, exactly twice the 19.5-degree angle.
“though eventually Hoagland did find that Orion's belt star "Alnitak" was some "39º beneath the southeast horizon"—exactly twice 19.5º”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:133604-133735 measurement first hand
362
Richard C. Hoagland believes that the large letter A on the Apollo programme patch does not stand for "Apollo" but rather for "Asar," a Greek derivation of Orion/Osiris.
“Indeed, it is distinctly possible (and Hoagland certainly believes it …) that the massive “A” on the program patch does not stand for “Apollo” at all, but rather the Greek derivation of Orion/Osiris— “Asar.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:13899-14103 opinion first hand
363
Richard C. Hoagland publicly predicted that the Mars Pathfinder lander would be diverted to Cydonia instead of arriving at its announced touchdown point approximately 1,600 kilometres away.
“Overshadowed by Hoagland's highly advertised public prediction—that the Pathfinder Lander would be diverted to Cydonia, instead of arriving at its announced touchdown point a thousand miles away”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:139775-139966 testimony first hand
364
Viking 1 was originally scheduled to land on Mars on 1976-07-04, the same date planned for Mars Pathfinder.
“Viking 1, for instance, originally scheduled for July 4, 1976 (like Pathfinder), had been redirected”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:140293-140383 observation first hand
365
Viking 1 was redirected to a new landing site after encountering landing site problems, and touched down on 1976-07-20, the same date as the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
“had been redirected (after encountering "landing site problems") to set down at a new site ... and on the twentieth—the same date as the Apollo 11 landing”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:140374-140523 observation first hand
366
Richard C. Hoagland considers NASA's choice of Viking 1's revised landing date, 1976-07-20, matching the Apollo 11 landing date, evidence of a hidden ritual pattern in NASA mission planning.
“had been redirected ... to set down at a new site ... and on the twentieth—the same date as the Apollo 11 landing and Aldrin's "Osiris/Isis ceremony."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:140374-140557 opinion first hand
367
At the announced time of Mars Pathfinder's projected landing, the star Sirius and the belt stars of the constellation Orion would not be in the ritual positions Richard C. Hoagland had identified in prior NASA missions.
“the key "ritual star," Sirius, and the critical belt stars of Orion, would not be in their expected ritual positions above or below the horizon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:140983-141121 observation first hand
368
Richard C. Hoagland found that the sky above Cydonia fit his proposed ritual stellar pattern for 1976-07-20 rather than for 1997-07-04.
“the sky at Cydonia did fit—not for July 4, but for the "perfect" ritual date, July 20”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:141186-141271 observation first hand
369
Ron Nicks and Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the debris field visible near the Mars Pathfinder landing site at Ares Vallis contained corroded metal objects.
“what they were seeing was not the expected "wind or water eroded rocks" of Ares Vallis—but a debris field filled with a variety of apparently corroded metal objects”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:145116-145279 opinion first hand
370
Ron Nicks and Richard C. Hoagland identified apparent canisters with opposable handles in the Mars Pathfinder landing site debris field.
“"canisters" with opposable handles, shimmering "glass-like geometric structures"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:145290-145358 opinion first hand
371
Richard C. Hoagland began connecting the Apollo mission's mythological symbolism after noting the name of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and speculated the ancient Egyptian "Zep-Tepi" (the first time) era of Osiris, Isis and Horus might not be a myth but a reality.
“It was only after Hoagland noted the name of another space vehicle—the Shuttle Atlantis—that he began to put the pieces together. What if this wasn’t the first time Man had reached across space to touch the Moon? What if the ancient Egyptian “Zep-Tepi” (literally, “the first time”) Era of Osiris/Isis/Horus was not a myth … but a reality?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:14531-14865 opinion first hand
372
Ron Nicks and Richard C. Hoagland identified shimmering glass-like geometric structures in the Mars Pathfinder landing site debris field.
“shimmering "glass-like geometric structures"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:145325-145358 opinion first hand
373
Ron Nicks and Richard C. Hoagland identified what they interpreted as deformed tracked vehicles in the Mars Pathfinder landing site debris field.
“even a couple of deformed but recognizable "tracked vehicles."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:145374-145427 opinion first hand
374
Richard C. Hoagland interpreted certain close-up objects at the Mars Pathfinder landing site as the exposed tops of massive buried obelisks.
“Other objects seen close-up looked unmistakably like miniature pyramids—or (as Hoagland would later realize …) the exposed tops of massive, buried obelisks”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:145625-145776 opinion first hand
375
Richard C. Hoagland considers the image discrepancies and colour manipulation in the Mars Pathfinder web images evidence that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was trying to hide something in the images.
“JPL was clearly trying to hide (and not too well, for some reason …) "something" in these images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:147553-147643 opinion first hand
376
Ron Nicks and Richard C. Hoagland studied super-resolution images of the two distant mountains on the horizon of the Mars Pathfinder landing site known as the Twin Peaks.
“Nicks and Hoagland began studying the so-called "super-resolution" images of the two distant (almost one kilometer) "mountains" imaged on the horizon of the landing site: the celebrated "Twin Peaks."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:147753-147945 observation
377
Richard C. Hoagland interpreted a large dark shape visible between South Peak and the Mars Pathfinder Lander in super-resolution images as resembling a sphinx.
“What had been merely a huge, dark "blobby" shape on the original images, suddenly emerged as recognizable on the new, highly processed images. What it seemed to be—at least to our eyes—was a sphinx.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:150699-150891 opinion first hand
378
Richard C. Hoagland identified what appeared to be vertically-faced buildings to the left of the Martian sphinx feature, interpreted as a temple or entrance to a background pyramid arcology.
“There were even a couple of what appeared to be "vertically-faced buildings" to the left of this potential "Martian sphinx"—they could easily be viewed as "a temple" (in the Giza model), or a distant entrance to the background Pyramid arcology itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:151456-151700 opinion first hand
379
Richard C. Hoagland notes that the Great Sphinx of Egypt on the Giza Plateau is the grandest and probably earliest example on Earth of sphinxes used to guard temples, tombs and monuments.
“The grandest example of these and probably the earliest on Earth is, of course, the Great Sphinx itself—forever guarding the three Great Pyramids on the Plateau.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:151884-152039 opinion first hand
380
Richard C. Hoagland compares the enhanced Martian sphinx feature to the Great Sphinx of Egypt, noting attached extended forepaws, a feline hind leg, and a rounded face framed by a nemyss-like headdress with two opposing angles below the chin at approximately 45 degrees.
“there are two attached and extended "forepaws," a body (complete with what looks to be a feline hind leg) and a very clear rounded face, encompassed by a symmetrical nemyss-like Pharaohic "headdress." The headdress even has two opposing angles just below the "chin"—extending outward at about a 45° angle.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:152635-152935 opinion first hand
381
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara concluded that the Mars Pathfinder landing site presented an enigma at least as important and potentially as rich in artifacts as Cydonia.
“the authors were forced to conclude that the Pathfinder landing site presented an enigma at least as important, and potentially as rich in artifacts, as Cydonia itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:153463-153624 opinion first hand
382
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider the Mars Pathfinder landing site evidence that NASA was closely following Hoagland's earlier work on geometric relationships at Cydonia.
“We considered it additional confirmation not only of the ritual alignment model we were constantly refining—but also of the notion that NASA was, in fact, closely following Hoagland's earlier work on geometric relationships at Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:153919-154146 opinion first hand
383
Richard C. Hoagland suspects a double meaning behind the naming of the Sojourner rover, noting that in Freemasonry a "sojourner" is a term applied to a Mason who has also joined a military service.
“In Freemasonry, a "sojourner" is a special term applied to a Mason who has also joined a military service. This obviously implies that the Rover not only served a scientific purpose, but may have also had a separate, military purpose as well.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:154803-155040 opinion first hand
384
Critics accused Richard C. Hoagland of using the Mars Pathfinder artifacts and sphinx claims to divert attention from his failed Coast to Coast AM prediction of the Pathfinder landing date.
“The critics were, of course, quick to accuse us of using the artifacts and "sphinx" just to divert attention from the fact that Hoagland's Coast to Coast AM prediction on the landing date had been obviously wrong.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:155116-155325 opinion
385
Richard C. Hoagland notes that a trained geologist, Ron Nicks, and thousands of viewers of the initial Mars Pathfinder data in real time on Cable News Network (CNN), reported seeing artifacts before Hoagland did.
“given that a trained geologist (Nicks), and thousands of viewers of the initial data in real time on CNN, had come to Hoagland first—regarding "seeing artifacts"—and not the other way around”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:155965-156149 opinion first hand
386
Tom Van Flandern argued that an untested prediction about a past event was scientifically worthless.
“we both rejected Dr. Van Flandern's argument that an untested past event was scientifically worthless”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:157590-157682 opinion second hand
387
To the ancient Egyptians, the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, represented the goddess Isis, described as the mother goddess of the world and the source of all life.
“We agreed that the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major which, to the ancient Egyptians, represented the goddess "Isis"—literally the "mother goddess of the world" and the source of all life”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:158075-158270 opinion first hand
388
To the ancient Egyptians, the three belt stars of Orion represented Osiris, the god of death, judgment and resurrection, and the conveyor of science, astronomy, religion and agriculture to the Egyptian people.
“Orion/Osiris was the god of "death, judgment and resurrection," and the conveyor of science, astronomy, religion and agriculture to the Egyptian people.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:158361-158506 opinion first hand
389
The constellation Leo was evocative of the Sphinx of Giza to the ancient Egyptians and represented the god Horus, son of Isis and Osiris.
“The third major figure in this pattern is the constellation Leo—evocative of the Sphinx of Giza and representative to the Egyptians of the god "Horus," son of Isis and Osiris.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:158927-159095 opinion first hand
390
Regulus, described as the blue-white heart of the lion, is the major star in the constellation Leo used in Richard C. Hoagland's ritual alignment model.
“The major star in the Leonine constellation is Regulus, the blue-white "heart of the lion." It is the only star in this constellation that we focus on for the purposes of determining our pattern.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:159279-159466 opinion first hand
391
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara decided that a mission's ritual alignment would count as a hit if a planet such as Mars was positioned at 19.5 degrees above the launch site at launch, following the Mars Pathfinder precedent.
“We'd also decided, after the Pathfinder incident, to include some of the planets as well. If a mission to Mars was launched at a time when Mars itself was at 19.5º above the launch site, for instance, then it made sense that this ritual positioning would be significant.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:159476-159734 opinion first hand
392
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara decided that an alignment of the Moon in a ritual position over a launch site would not count as a hit unless the mission itself was to the Moon.
“an alignment of the Moon in a ritual position over the launch site would not be a hit, unless the mission was to the Moon itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:159847-159970 opinion first hand
393
In July 1964, Ranger 7 became the first successful United States mission to travel to the Moon.
“In July, 1964, Ranger 7 became the first successful U.S. mission to travel to the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160153-160235 observation first hand
394
The Ranger series of spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on a direct impact trajectory into the lunar surface, with their television cameras activated only for the last few minutes before impact.
“The Ranger series launched from Cape Canaveral on a direct impact trajectory into the lunar surface—with their TV cameras activated and running only for the last few minutes before impact.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160241-160422 observation first hand
395
At the moment of the Ranger 7 launch, the Moon was exactly 33 degrees below the horizon of the launch site and almost due west, in the direction associated with the Egyptian deity Osiris.
“As it launched, the Moon itself was exactly 33° below the horizon of the launch site, and almost due West, in the realm of Osiris.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160431-160554 observation first hand
396
At the moment of the Ranger 7 lunar impact three days after launch, the star Alnitak in Orion's belt was exactly 19.5 degrees above the impact site in Mare Cognitum.
“At that same moment, at the impact site of Ranger 7 *in three days*, Orion’s belt star Alnitak was exactly 19.5° above the impact site in Mare Cognitum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160562-160705 observation first hand
397
Richard C. Hoagland considers the celestial alignments observed at the Ranger 7 launch and impact unlikely to be simply coincidental, given NASA's ritual pattern and the agency's mission-planning capabilities.
“Given what we know about the NASA ritual pattern and the Agency’s capabilities with mission planning, this hardly seems a simply coincidental series of alignments.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160715-160867 opinion first hand
398
Richard C. Hoagland and his research team excluded the constellation Taurus, associated with the Egyptian deity Set, brother of Osiris, from their ritual alignment model because it had not appeared in any of the alignment checks performed.
“We chose to exclude the constellation Taurus, which is associated with the evil god Set, brother of Osiris, since it had not shown up in any of the alignment checks done to that point.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:160880-161058 administrative first hand
399
Set is intertwined in the Egyptian mythological story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, but appeared to have little significance in the NASA ritual system as decoded by Richard C. Hoagland's team.
“Even though Set is intertwined in the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, he seemed to have little significance in the NASA system, at least as far as we had decoded it to this point.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:161065-161239 opinion first hand
400
The Ritual Alignment Model developed by Richard C. Hoagland's team identifies the Sun, Mars, the Moon, and the Earth (when observed from another world's surface) as the ritual celestial objects searched for in the sky, excluding occasional additions.
“Except for the occasional addition of Mars or the Moon, or even the Earth (if we are observing from the surface of another world), these five celestial bodies are the sum total of the ritual objects that we would search the sky for.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:161262-161490 administrative first hand
401
Richard C. Hoagland's team considered alignments at various ceremonial locations other than a primary landing site, occurring simultaneously with or substituting for the primary event, to be significant to NASA's ritual pattern.
“we also had some evidence that alignments at various other ceremonial locations -simultaneous with (and, in restricted cases, substitutions for) the Primary Event—were significant to NASA as well.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:161653-161844 opinion first hand
402
The Apollo 8 Lunar Orbit Insertion celestial star match occurred over the Apollo 11 landing site because fundamental celestial mechanics determined where on the far side of the Moon the Service Propulsion System engine on Apollo 8 had to fire to decelerate the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
“For instance, Apollo 8’s lunar orbit insertion “match” had been over the Apollo 11 landing site, since fundamental celestial mechanics determined “where” on the Farside of the Moon the SPS engine on Apollo 8 *had* to fire, to successfully decelerate the spacecraft into lunar orbit”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:161851-162127 observation first hand
403
NASA originally landed Surveyor 3 on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum on 1967-04-20, which was Adolf Hitler's birthday.
“NASA had originally landed Surveyor 3 there on April 20, 1967 (remember, Hitler’s birthday).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:162311-162393 observation first hand
404
As Surveyor 3 soft-landed on the Moon at four minutes after midnight Greenwich Mean Time, the Moon was rising through 33 degrees directly over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which was controlling the mission.
“As it soft-landed on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum at four minutes after midnight GMT, the Moon itself was rising through 33° directly over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back in Pasadena—which was, of course, controlling the entire Mission.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:162404-162638 observation first hand
405
The Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 landing site showed an exact alignment of Orion on the lunar horizon precisely as President John F. Kennedy called for sending a man to the Moon in May 1961, before any spacecraft had actually touched down there.
“With the discovery that this Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 site was, somehow, seen as “sacred” long *before* any spacecraft actually touched down—as gauged by the stunningly exact alignment of Orion on its lunar horizon, precisely as President Kennedy called for “sending a man to the Moon” in May of 1961”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:162648-162940 observation first hand
406
Richard C. Hoagland's research team reconstructed a set of ritual temple locations comprising the Giza Plateau on Earth, the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 lunar landing sites, the Viking 1 Mars landing site, the Mars Pathfinder landing site, and Cydonia.
“After considerable discussion, we agreed on our own “reconstruction” of the following “ritual temple” locations: The Giza Plateau on Earth (for obvious reasons); the Apollo 11 (because it was the location of the first manned landing) and Apollo 12 (because of the landing on Hitler’s birthday and “the Kennedy Connection”) lunar landing sites; Viking 1 (because it was the first NASA landing on the planet Mars); the Pathfinder landing sites (because of the 19.5 x 33º location); and, of course, Cydonia (because of the Face and City Complex).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:163118-163653 administrative first hand
407
Viking 1 was the first NASA landing on the planet Mars.
“Viking 1 (because it was the first NASA landing on the planet Mars)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:163463-163525 observation first hand
408
Richard C. Hoagland's ritual alignment model includes five key celestial elevation positions relative to the horizon: the horizon itself (zero point), 19.5 degrees above and below the horizon, and 33 degrees above and below the horizon.
“They are the horizon (the zero point); 19.5° above and below the horizon; and 33° above and below the horizon. Five simple positions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:164039-164162 administrative first hand
409
Richard C. Hoagland's team included star positions below the horizon in their model because the ancient Egyptians were skilled enough astronomers to track stellar motions even when out of sight below the horizon, and NASA with its astronomy software could track the same motions.
“We included star positions below the horizon because we know that the ancient Egyptians were good enough astronomers to track the stellar motions even when they were out of sight below the horizon, and NASA with its astronomy software certainly could track these same motions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:164174-164442 opinion first hand
410
In terms of stellar elevation, Richard C. Hoagland calculates that 95 percent (355 out of 360 degrees) is off limits for an alignment hit at any one moment in his ritual model.
“So effectively, in terms of stellar elevation, 95%—or 355 out of 360º—is off limits for a “hit” at any one moment.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:164557-164664 measurement first hand
411
In terms of lateral sky movement, Richard C. Hoagland calculates that 99 percent of the sky (358 out of 360 degrees of right ascension) is out of play for an alignment hit in his ritual model.
“In terms of lateral movements across the sky, fully 99% percent of the sky (358 out of 360º of Right Ascension) is also out of play.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:164672-164799 measurement first hand
412
In ancient Egyptian stellar religion, the horizon represented a netherworld between literal dimensions, separating the world of men from the world of the gods.
“the horizon represented a sort of netherworld *between literal dimensions* to the Egyptians—the “world of men” ... and the “world of the gods.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:165107-165244 opinion first hand
413
In Egyptian cosmology, the meridian marked an object's traverse from east to west in a nocturnal rising and setting, symbolising the daily birth and death of the Sun.
“The meridian in Egyptian cosmology marked an object’s traverse from east to west in a nocturnal rising and setting, symbolizing the daily birth and death of the sun.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:165251-165412 opinion first hand
414
Richard C. Hoagland considers the 19.5-degree and 33-degree celestial positions to represent the hyperdimensional message of Cydonia.
“The 19.5º and 33º positions are representative of the “hyperdimensional message” of Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:165418-165502 opinion first hand
415
On the eastern lunar horizon at the Tranquility Base landing site, 33 minutes after touchdown, Sirius (identified by Richard C. Hoagland with the deity Isis) stood precisely 19.5 degrees above the lunar horizon.
“Fig. 5-6 - Lunar horizon, Tranquility Base -- thirty-three minutes after touchdown. Sirius/Isis is precisely 19.5º above lunar horizon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:166434-166561 observation first hand
416
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspected the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had soft-landed in virtually the same location as the Apollo 12 lunar module, more than two years earlier, on Adolf Hitler's birthday.
“Fig. 5-7 - Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspects the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had soft landed in virtually the same location as Apollo 12 (note Lunar Module on Surveyor crater rim), but more than two years earlier - on *Adolf Hitler’s birthday* (NASA).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:166580-166831 observation second hand
417
At the Apollo 12 landing site, the sky pattern at the moment of Apollo 11 touchdown, approximately 1,370 kilometres due east, showed Orion's Belt on the eastern horizon, which Richard C. Hoagland considers an extremely significant alignment in the ancient Egyptian stellar religion signifying resurrection.
“Fig. 5-8 - Apollo 12 landing site sky pattern at Apollo 11 touchdown, ~850 miles due east. Orion’s belt on the eastern horizon is an extremely significant alignment in the ancient Egyptian stellar religion - unmistakably signifying “resurrection.” But … of *what*? (Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:166848-167114 opinion first hand
418
The Apollo 8 Lunar Orbit Insertion occurred on 1968-12-24, exactly as Orion's Belt rose on the eastern lunar horizon over the future Apollo 11 landing site.
“Fig. 5-10 - Apollo 8 Lunar Orbit Insertion, December 24, 1968 - exactly as Orion’s Belt rose on the eastern lunar horizon over the *future* Apollo 11 landing site.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:167237-167395 observation first hand
419
At Apollo 12 touchdown on 1969-11-19, Orion's Belt stood 19.5 degrees above the western lunar horizon, which Richard C. Hoagland interprets as a mathematical coding for dimensional transition.
“Fig. 5-11 - Apollo 12 landing site sky pattern at Apollo 12 touchdown, November 19, 1969. Orion’s Belt stands 19.5 degrees above the Western lunar horizon - a mathematical coding for “dimensional transition.” (Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:167511-167721 opinion first hand
420
Cydonia is located at approximately 41 degrees north by 9 degrees west on Mars.
“Fig. 5-12 - Sky pattern over Cydonia (Face on Mars, 41° N x 9° W) at Viking 1 Orbiter acquisition of first “Face on Mars” image, 35A72 - July 25, 1976.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:167741-167887 measurement first hand
421
At the moment the Viking 1 Orbiter acquired the first Face on Mars image, frame 35A72, on 1976-07-25, Orion's Belt stood at 19.5 degrees above the southwest horizon over Cydonia, which Richard C. Hoagland interprets as a redundant mathematical code for dimensional transition.
“Orion’s Belt stands at 19.5 degrees about southwest horizon, a redundant mathematical code for “dimensional transition” (Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:167893-168014 opinion first hand
422
President John F. Kennedy addressed a Joint Session of Congress on 1961-05-25, formally announcing Project Apollo.
“Fig. 5-13 - President John F. Kennedy addresses a Joint Session of Congress, May 25, 1961 (inset) -- formally announcing Project Apollo.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168034-168163 observation first hand
423
Richard C. Hoagland considers the timing of Kennedy's 1961-05-25 Project Apollo announcement, coinciding with Orion's belt stars rising on the eastern lunar horizon at both the future Surveyor 3 site (landed 1967-04-20, Hitler's birthday) and the future Apollo 12 revisit site (1969-11-19), to be symbolic of resurrection, foreshadowing an unknown outcome.
“The announcement is timed as Orion’s (Osiris’) Belt stars rise precisely on the eastern lunar horizon, both at the future Surveyor 3 landing site (April 20, 1967 - Hitler’s birthday) and the *future* site of Apollo 12’s revisit (November 19, 1969). Disturbingly -- in a Space Agency filled with newly-imported Nazi scientists and engineers, the symbolism is again one of “resurrection.” Foreshadowing... what? (Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168171-168582 opinion first hand
424
NASA was filled with newly-imported Nazi scientists and engineers.
“in a Space Agency filled with newly-imported Nazi scientists and engineers”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168436-168501 opinion first hand
425
Most sources crop the official Apollo 11 crew portrait to disguise Buzz Aldrin's prominent display of his Masonic signet ring.
“Fig. 5-14 - Official Apollo 11 crew portrait. Most sources crop this image to disguise Aldrin’s prominent display of his Masonic signet ring. (NASA)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168602-168745 opinion first hand
426
Buzz Aldrin wore his Masonic ring in the Lunar Module Eagle shortly after its landing on the Moon.
“Fig. 5-15 - Aldrin in the Lunar Module just a few moments after the landing of “Eagle.” Note that he is once again wearing his Masonic ring on this occasion.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168761-168909 observation first hand
427
Buzz Aldrin took a Masonic flag with him to the Moon, given to him by Luther A. Smith, the Sovereign Grand Commander.
“Fig. 5-16 - Aldrin with Luther A. Smith, the Sovereign Grand Commander, and the Masonic flag he took with him to the Moon (The New Age Magazine).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:168929-169064 observation second hand
428
L. Ron Hubbard was Jack Parsons' partner in the so-called Babalon Working, during a period when Hubbard was serving in naval intelligence during World War II.
“Fig. 5-19 - L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons “magical” partner in the so-called “Babalon Working,” during his service in naval intelligence in World War II.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:169229-169373 observation first hand
429
A liquid fuel rocket test took place at Arroyo Seco on 1936-10-31, involving key members of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology team, including Jack Parsons.
“Fig. 5-21 -Liquid fuel rocket test in Arroyo Seca, October 31, 1936 (L), with key members of the GALCIT team—including Parsons (lower right frame)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:169460-169600 observation first hand
430
Richard C. Hoagland speculated that the hidden Egyptian motif of the Apollo programme patch might be a literal acknowledgment that in the Apollo missions, Osiris' children were returning to their rightful place among the stars.
“So Hoagland asked himself: what if the reason for the hidden Egyptian motif of the Apollo patch wasn’t merely “homage” to a long forgotten myth, but a literal acknowledgment that in Apollo Osiris’ children were returning to their rightful place among the stars?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:16956-17213 opinion first hand
431
Jet Propulsion Laboratory re-creates the 1936 Arroyo Seco rocket test as a nativity scene every Halloween, marking it as the birth of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“(R) the “nativity scene” re-creation of the Arroyo Seca test, every Halloween at JPL ---marked as “the birth of JPL.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:169609-169720 observation first hand
432
During one of his lengthy magical workings, Jack Parsons had a dream in which he saw the same hyperdimensional symbology that Richard C. Hoagland would later discover on the Moon and Mars.
“Fig. 5-23 - During one of his lengthy “magikal workings,” Parsons had a dream -- in which he saw the same “hyperdimensional symbology” that Hoagland would later discover on the Moon and Mars (Enterprise Mission)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:169811-170014 observation second hand
433
An official photograph exists of the 1939 briefing and rocket demonstration for Adolf Hitler by Wernher von Braun's amateur rocket team, which led directly to von Braun being personally offered a commission in the SS by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler and to the V-2 programme at Peenemunde.
“Fig. 5-24 -Official photograph of the 1939 briefing and rocket demonstration for Adolf Hitler (front row, center) by Von Braun’s (inset) “amateur” rocket team - which led directly to Von Braun being personally offered a commission in the S.S. by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, and the V-2 Program at Peenemunde (National Archive)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:170033-170354 observation second hand
434
The only known photograph of SS Major Wernher von Braun in his black SS uniform shows him directly behind Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, taken at von Braun's induction ceremony into the SS.
“Fig. 5-25 - The only known photograph of SS Major Wernher Von Braun in his black SS uniform, directly behind Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. Taken at Von Braun’s induction ceremony into the SS. (Source: National Archives)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:170373-170584 observation second hand
435
Wernher von Braun and fellow Project Paperclip scientists spent off-duty time in El Paso, Texas, near White Sands Missile Range, in 1945.
“Fig. 5-26 - Wernher Von Braun and fellow “Project Paperclip” scientists spend off-duty time in El Paso, Texas -- from nearby “White Sands Missile Range,” in 1945.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:170604-170761 observation first hand
436
A screen capture from the Von Braun/Disney production Man in Space shows an alien base on the far side of the Moon at 33 degrees.
“Fig. 5-27 - Screen capture from Von Braun\Disney production “Man in Space,” showing an *alien base* on the farside of the Moon “at 33 degrees ….””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:170870-171004 observation first hand
437
Walt Disney was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason.
“The fact that Walt Disney was also a 33° Scottish Rite Freemason was, of course, purely coincidental. (Disney)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:171016-171119 observation first hand
438
At White Sands Missile Range, the only launch pad was numbered Launch Pad 33, and at Cape Canaveral the singular airstrip was named Runway 33.
“Fig. 5-31 - Map of White Sands Missile Range, where the only launch pad was numbered “Launch Pad 33,” just as the singular airstrip at Cape Canaveral was named “Runway 33.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:171621-171789 observation first hand
439
Buzz Aldrin took the official flag of the Supreme Council 33 degrees, Southern Jurisdiction, bearing the double-headed eagle of the Scottish Rite, with him to the Moon aboard the Lunar Module Eagle.
“Fig. 5-32 - Official flag of the Supreme Council 33º, Southern Jurisdiction - taken by Buzz Aldrin to the Moon on Eagle, bearing the official double-headed Eagle of the Scottish Rite (Hoagland).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:171804-171988 observation first hand
440
At the unmanned Surveyor 3 lunar landing on 1967-04-20, Hitler's birthday, the belt stars of Orion, associated with the Egyptian god of resurrection Osiris, were 39 degrees below the southeast rising horizon, a value that is twice 19.5 degrees.
“Fig. 5-34 - Sky over unmanned Surveyor 3 (inset) lunar landing site, at touchdown, April 20, 1967, Hitler’s birthday. Note Belt stars of Orion (Osiris), “Ancient Egyptian god of resurrection,” 39 degrees below SE (rising) horizon. 39 degrees is TWICE 19.5.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:172298-172552 observation first hand
441
The Apollo 16 lunar module named Orion landed on the Moon on 1972-04-20, Adolf Hitler's birthday.
“Fig. 5-35 - Alignments at the landing of Apollo 16 lunar module “Orion” on April 20th, 1972 (Adolf Hitler’s birthday).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:172657-172765 observation first hand
442
A bizarre angular mechanism nicknamed the hydrant was observed some distance from the Mars Pathfinder lander.
“Fig. 5-38 - Three views of the “hydrant,” a bizarre angular mechanism some distance from the Lander (NPA A)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:173065-173170 observation second hand
443
A pyramid-shaped object was observed from the Sojourner rover several days after the Mars Pathfinder landing.
“Fig. 5-39 - Pyramid-shaped object seen from Sojourner Rover - days after landing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:173183-173256 observation first hand
444
Richard C. Hoagland considers there to be evidence of deliberate cover-up of possible Martian artefacts on the official Mars Pathfinder NASA website.
“Fig. 5-40 - Evidence of *deliberate* cover-up of possible Martian artifacts—on official Mars Pathfinder NASA website . (JPL)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:173275-173395 opinion first hand
445
An enhancement of the South Twin Peak at the Mars Pathfinder landing site shows anomalous terracing on the face of the peak.
“Fig. 5-41 - Enhancement of South “Twin Peak” at Pathfinder landing site, showing anomalous “terracing” on the face of the Peak.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:173410-173532 observation first hand
446
A super-resolution enhancement confirmed terracing on the South Peak at the Mars Pathfinder landing site and revealed a formation resembling a sphinx at the edge of the debris field.
“Fig. 5-42 - Super resolution enhancement confirming “terracing” on South Peak and strange “Sphinx” at edge of debris field.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:173548-173665 observation first hand
447
Richard C. Hoagland found that the Apollo 15 Lunar Module was named "Falcon," seemingly a reference to the United States Air Force Academy mascot, since Mission Commander David Scott was a graduate of the Academy.
“He noted, for instance, that the Apollo 15 Lunar Module had been named “Falcon”, seemingly a reference to the Air Force Academy mascot. Since Mission Commander David Scott was a graduate of the Academy, the name made sense”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:17833-18050 observation first hand
448
Richard C. Hoagland found that the Falcon, name of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module, was also associated with Horus, the avenging son of Osiris, in Egyptian religion.
“but as he studied up on Egyptian religion, Hoagland quickly found that the Falcon was also associated with Horus, the avenging son of Osiris.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:18056-18190 observation first hand
449
The Apollo 16 Lunar Module was openly named "Orion," which Richard C. Hoagland considers an obvious reference to Osiris.
“The Apollo 16 LEM had been openly named “Orion,” an obvious reference to Osiris.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:18321-18394 opinion first hand
450
Buzz Aldrin's communion ceremony was taken from Webster Presbyterian Church rituals in Houston, which had in turn borrowed it from the Catholic communion ceremony.
“Hoagland next discovered that Aldrin's ceremony (which was taken from Webster Presbyterian Church rituals, in Houston, which, in turn, "borrowed" it from the much older Catholic communion ceremony)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:20625-20814 observation first hand
451
Richard C. Hoagland believes Buzz Aldrin's communion ceremony had its real roots in ancient Egypt as an offering to Osiris.
“in fact, had its real roots in ancient Egypt—as an offering to Osiris (naturally).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:20825-20898 opinion first hand
452
Richard C. Hoagland found that 1969-07-20, the date of the Apollo 11 landing, was a sacred date in ancient Egypt.
“he discovered that the date of the Apollo 11 landing—and this mysterious offering to Osiris—was a sacred one in ancient Egypt.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:20921-21045 opinion first hand
453
Richard C. Hoagland questions whether it was purely coincidence that Project Osiris, carrying the veiled banner of Orion/Osiris/Asar on its patch, could land on the Moon on a sacred date in the Egyptian calendar and mark the event with a ceremony paying homage to Osiris.
“So, what were the chances that "Project Osiris," carrying the veiled banner of Orion/Osiris/Asar on its patch, could land on another world on such a sacred date in the Egyptian year, only to then mark the event with a thinly-disguised ancient ceremony that paid homage to the chief Egyptian god himself, Osiris … all purely by coincidence?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:24576-24904 opinion first hand
454
Richard C. Hoagland argues that at an altitude of about 15 kilometres above the lunar surface, the only thing Apollo 10's crew could have been "down among" while passing through Sinus Medii toward Mare Smythii was his theorised miles-high glass domes.
“given where Stafford and Cernan were at that moment, passing through Sinus Medii and heading on toward Mare Smythii, the only thing they could have been "down among"—at 50,000 feet—would be Hoagland's theorized miles high glass domes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:27667-27895 opinion first hand
455
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that Apollo 10 was prevented from carrying out a lunar landing it was capable of because it was not the ceremonially correct "time" yet, rather than for a canonical mission-planning reason.
“It finally occurred to Hoagland that there had to be a "hidden reason"—a ceremonial reason quite likely—why Apollo 10 was prevented from carrying out the Mission it was so capable of accomplishing, and thus achieving Kennedy's goal with plenty of margin for error if something went wrong.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:29264-29548 opinion first hand
456
Richard C. Hoagland speculated that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin may have been pre-selected for the Apollo 11 mission for the same reasons he believed applied to Alan Shepard and America's first manned sub-orbital flight in 1961.
“or maybe (as he found out with Alan Shepard and America's first manned sub-orbital flight, back in 1961 …) the men themselves—Armstrong and Aldrin—had, for some reason, been pre-selected.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:29667-29846 opinion first hand
457
Reasoning that the ancient Egyptian religion was a stellar one, Richard C. Hoagland purchased astronomy software and began examining the stellar alignments at the time of the lunar landings.
“Recognizing that the ancient Egyptian religion was a stellar one, and reasoning that the stars themselves may have had a role to play in this odd series of "coincidences," Hoagland purchased some astronomy software and started to look back in time to the lunar landings.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:29899-30160 observation first hand
458
When Richard C. Hoagland entered the date, time and coordinates of the Apollo 11 lunar landing into his astronomy software, Sirius was hovering almost due east over the landing site, nearly 20 degrees above the lunar horizon.
“When he first plugged in the date, time and coordinates of the lunar landing, he found some curious stellar alignments that almost fit... Instead, he found that Sirius was hovering almost due east over the landing site, nearly 20° above the lunar horizon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:30247-30479 observation first hand
459
Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston used transcripts from the Apollo 11 mission logs to reconstruct the post-landing lockdown procedures Aldrin and Armstrong went through, determining that Aldrin's communion ceremony took place precisely thirty-three minutes after touchdown on the lunar surface.
“Using transcripts from the Apollo 11 mission logs, he and Johnston painstakingly reconstructed the post-landing lockdown procedures that Aldrin and Armstrong had gone through on that historic day. In doing so, they determined that the ceremony took place precisely thirty-three minutes after touchdown on the lunar surface.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:30886-31203 observation first hand
460
When Richard C. Hoagland entered the time thirty-three minutes after the Apollo 11 touchdown into his astronomy software, Sirius was calculated to be hovering over the landing site at precisely 19.5 degrees above the lunar horizon.
“When he plugged that time into his astronomy software, he got quite a shock: Sirius was hovering over the Apollo 11 landing site at precisely 19.5° above the lunar horizon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:31213-31381 observation first hand
461
Richard C. Hoagland believes Buzz Aldrin's communion ceremony to Osiris was carefully planned for the precise moment when Sirius, representing Isis, was at 19.5 degrees elevation above the Apollo 11 landing site.
“There was now no question in his mind that Aldrin's "communion ceremony" to Osiris was carefully planned for this precise moment and location on the Moon: with Osiris' wife, Isis, his unique savior and consort, looking down as Sirius from her exact "19.5°" elevation in observation of the "sacred moment"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:31413-31714 opinion first hand
462
Richard C. Hoagland argues that Sirius being at 19.5 degrees, rather than on the horizon or meridian as the ancient Egyptian stellar religion would call for, implies that NASA was fully aware in 1969 of the significance of Cydonia's "tetrahedral geometry" more than half a decade before the first images of Mars's Cydonia region were taken.
“It suggested that as far back as 1969, NASA was fully aware of the significance of the Cydonia "tetrahedral geometry"—and perhaps the physics behind it—even though this was more than half a decade before the first images of that crucial Martian region would be taken.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:31920-32185 opinion first hand
463
The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for Sirius is an equilateral triangle, which Richard C. Hoagland considers the 2D representation of the 3D tetrahedron.
“A further clue was found in the hieroglyphic symbol for Sirius: an equilateral triangle, the very 2D representation of the 3D tetrahedron”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:32192-32320 opinion first hand
464
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Apollo Program patch to have symbolically and secretly paid homage to Orion/Asar/Osiris.
“All flying under an official NASA Program patch that symbolically—secretly—paid homage to "Orion/Asar/Osiris" ….”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:32629-32731 opinion first hand
465
Richard C. Hoagland found that Orion's middle belt star, Alnilam, was on the east-southeast horizon and rising, only twelve arc minutes below the zero horizon at the time of the Apollo 11 landing, and closer still to zero as Aldrin's Osiris ceremony commenced a thousand miles to the east.
“Orion's middle belt star, Alnilam, was on the east-southeast horizon, and rising; it was a hairs breadth away at the Apollo 11 Landing (only twelve arc minutes below the zero horizon), even closer to dead band "zero" (~three arc minutes) as Aldrin's "Osiris" ceremony, a thousand miles to the east, commenced”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:33432-33731 opinion first hand
466
Richard C. Hoagland found that Alnilam was exactly on the horizon as Aldrin's Osiris ceremony concluded.
“And dead-on as it concluded.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:33754-33774 opinion first hand
467
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the alignment of Orion's belt star Alnilam on the horizon during Buzz Aldrin's ceremony as a re-enactment of the ancient legend of Osiris's resurrection at the hand of his consort Isis, played out simultaneously at Tranquility Base and the Apollo 12 landing site.
“Literally, the ceremony seemed to mark a re-enactment of the ancient legend of Osiris' resurrection at the hand of his consort Isis—with the stars simultaneously playing out the scene at what would become the two most sacred "temples" of Man's first lunar explorations.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:34012-34272 opinion first hand
468
Richard C. Hoagland consulted Marv Czarnik, a twenty-five-year NASA veteran who had previously confirmed his lunar artifact findings before the 1996 press conference in Washington DC, about whether star positions had significance in Apollo mission planning.
“Curious as to the validity of his observations and understanding their astonishing implications for the Apollo Program as a whole, Hoagland consulted Marv Czarnik, the twenty-five-year NASA veteran who had confirmed his lunar artifact findings before the 1996 DC press conference. Hoagland now asked Czarnik if "the positions of the stars" were of "any great significance in mission planning?"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:35471-35855 testimony first hand
469
Richard C. Hoagland reports that Marvin Czarnik confirmed the Orion/Osiris symbolic star alignments at two different Apollo landing sites over a thousand miles apart must have had the highest mission planning priority, over all other publicly stated goals of the Apollo Landing Program, including political goals, mission science, geological sampling, and crew safety.
“In order to pull these "non-functional" star alignments off—and, simultaneously, at two different landing sites over a thousand miles apart—Czarnik confirmed the Orion/Osiris symbolism must have had the highest mission planning priority, over all other publicly stated goals of the Apollo Landing Program. They would have to be given top priority over all other objectives, be they political, general mission science, specific lunar geological sampling and even crew safety.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:36122-36599 testimony second hand
470
Richard C. Hoagland argues that if Neil Armstrong had landed at the original intended Apollo 11 landing site, the stars would not have been positioned correctly for Buzz Aldrin's communion ceremony thirty-three minutes after landing.
“Interestingly, if Armstrong had managed to set down at the original intended landing site, then the stars would not have been right for Aldrin's little "Osiris ceremony" thirty-three minutes after landing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:39479-39678 opinion first hand
471
Richard C. Hoagland argues that Tranquility Base was the one and only place along almost the entire visible equator of the Moon within the pre-determined Apollo Landing Zone where Sirius would be hovering at 19.5 degrees thirty-three minutes after landing.
“The place they eventually did land—"Tranquility Base," as it would forever become known—was the one and only place in the entire pre-determined "Apollo Landing Zone," stretching along almost the entire visible equator of the Moon—where Sirius would be hovering at 19.5º … thirty-three minutes”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:39687-39972 opinion first hand
472
After Farouk El-Baz joined Bellcomm, Inc., the company became responsible for selecting the landing sites for the Apollo Program.
“after El-Baz came aboard, Bellcom's job description underwent a significant change; they were now suddenly in charge of selecting the actual landing sites for the Apollo Program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:40953-41123 observation first hand
473
Richard C. Hoagland considers Farouk El-Baz to have been the most powerful single individual in the American space program.
“In short—he was *the most powerful single individual* in the American space program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:42006-42082 opinion first hand
474
Richard C. Hoagland became convinced that Farouk El-Baz was the person responsible for manipulating Apollo landing site selections after examining El-Baz's family background and scientific objections raised to some of his landing site selections.
“only after examining El-Baz's fascinating family background, and the severe scientific objections raised to some of El-Baz' "curious selections," did Hoagland become convinced that he was, indeed, the "trigger man" for the strange events of July 20, 1969 and after.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:42261-42520 opinion first hand
475
Farouk El-Baz's father was an expert in Egyptian religions, including the stellar religions of the ancients.
“it turned out that El-Baz's father was an expert in *Egyptian religions—*including the stellar religions of the ancients.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:42807-42919 administrative first hand
476
The astronauts El-Baz trained called him "The King," which is literally "Pharaoh" in the ancient Egyptian language.
“El-Baz himself was called "The King" by the astronauts he trained—literally "Pharaoh" in the ancient Egyptian tongue”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:42930-43040 observation first hand
477
Farouk El-Baz came from an Egyptian family with political influence, which was a factor in his acceptance into the Apollo program over objections from Richard Nixon's brother, a senior geologist at Bellcomm.
“He also came from a very influential Egyptian family politically (which was how he came to be accepted into the program over the severe *objections* of Richard Nixon's own brother—who was a senior geologist at Bellcom).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:43160-43370 observation first hand
478
Richard C. Hoagland personally witnessed the historic events of Apollo 8 first-hand.
“Hoagland had personally witnessed the historic events of Apollo 8 first-hand.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:44075-44147 testimony first hand
479
Richard C. Hoagland watched a CBS Control Room monitor feed in New York during Apollo 8 and saw Frank Borman read from the Book of Genesis live while orbiting the Moon.
“to a monitor-rich CBS Control Room in New York, where he saw Frank Borman read from Genesis live while orbiting the Moon with the cratered lunar landscape literally rolling by outside the window”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:44243-44431 testimony first hand
480
Richard C. Hoagland calculated that from the position of Tranquility Base, the Orion's Belt star Mintaka would have been dead on the horizon at the moment Apollo 8 fired its Service Propulsion System engine to decelerate into lunar orbit on the Moon's far side on 1968-12-24.
“Had he been standing at Tranquility Base, right where Armstrong would set the Lunar Module "Eagle" down just seven months later, he'd have seen the Orion's Belt star Mintaka *dead on the horizon* [Fig. 5-10], hovering in the netherworld between life and death—at the very moment that Apollo 8 fired its lone SPS engine, and decelerated into lunar orbit on the Farside of the Moon, that December 24th in 1968 on Christmas Eve.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:45314-45735 observation first hand
481
Richard C. Hoagland calculated that the Orion's Belt star Mintaka hovered at 19.5 degrees above Oceanus Procellarum at the time of the Apollo 12 landing.
“Once again, he found a *major* alignment above the landing site: Orion's belt star "Mintaka," hovering right at 19.5° … over Oceanus Procellarum [Fig. 5-11].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:45890-46044 observation first hand
482
Richard C. Hoagland calculated that at the moment Viking 1 captured the first image of the Face on Mars, the Orion's Belt star Alnitak stood at 19.5 degrees.
“There, at *19.5º*—precisely where he suspected it *had* to be—was another of Orion's belt stars, in this case "Alnitak."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:46862-46973 observation first hand
483
Richard C. Hoagland considers the odds against the pattern of stellar alignments he found at Apollo and Mars mission events occurring by chance to be in the trillions to one.
“the odds against all this happening by chance were literally "*trillions* to one"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:47265-47342 opinion first hand
484
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) must have known about the Face on Mars before the first Viking image of it was taken.
“then NASA *must have known about the Face even before the first Viking image had been taken.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:47349-47435 opinion first hand
485
Richard C. Hoagland states that the Face on Mars and other monuments at Cydonia are located at 41 degrees North by 9 degrees West.
“the Face, and rest of the monuments at Cydonia were there—at 41°N x 9° W”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:47952-48023 measurement first hand
486
Richard C. Hoagland analysed Kennedy's joint session of Congress speech on 1961-05-25 to look for stellar alignments over future Apollo lunar landing sites.
“he decided to go back to the very beginnings: Kennedy's historic, joint session of Congress, May 25, 1961—where the President issued his ringing call for placing "a man on the moon, *before* this decade is out, and returning him safely to the earth …."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:48838-49081 observation first hand
487
Richard C. Hoagland determined from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Congressional records that John F. Kennedy moved to the Apollo announcement section of his 1961-05-25 speech at approximately 12:50pm local daylight time in Washington DC.
“From NASA and Congressional records, Hoagland ultimately determined that the President had moved to his "Apollo announcement" section of the speech at about 12:50 p.m., local daylight time in Washington DC.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:49092-49295 observation second hand
488
Richard C. Hoagland considers the constellation Orion more prominent in the Apollo mission patch description than Apollo himself, questioning why the programme was named Apollo rather than Orion.
“Even this description, full of line after line about “Orion” compared to a single mention of Apollo shows how much more important Orion is to the patch than Apollo. So why call the Program “Apollo” at all?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:4915-5116 opinion first hand
489
Richard C. Hoagland found that at the moment of Kennedy's 1961-05-25 Apollo announcement, the star Mintaka in Orion's Belt was rising precisely on the eastern horizon of the future Surveyor 3/Apollo 12 landing site.
“with Mintaka, the same star in the belt of Orion which would stand 19.5º over the landing site when Apollo 12 actually made it eight *years* in the future … rising *precisely,* now, dead on the eastern horizon of the *future* Surveyor 3/Apollo 12 landing site [Fig. 5-13].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:49593-49861 observation first hand
490
Richard C. Hoagland considers the future Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 landing site, rather than the Apollo 11 landing site, to be the anchor point of the entire lunar ritual network he proposes.
“strongly implied that *this* was the "anchor point" of the entire "lunar ritual network" … *not* the Apollo 11 landing site.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:50268-50387 opinion first hand
491
After the National Press Club press conference, Richard C. Hoagland had a steady source of new lunar NASA imagery to examine from contacts at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
“With the press conference now behind him and a steady source of new lunar NASA imagery to examine from his new “friends” at NSSDC, Hoagland now had time to turn his attention to an entirely new...aspect of his investigation.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:505-745 administrative
492
Tom Van Flandern had stood with Richard C. Hoagland at Mars Observer press conferences in 1992.
“a friend and colleague who had stood with Hoagland on the dais all the way back to the Mars Observer press conferences in 1992.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:52016-52138 observation
493
Richard C. Hoagland regards the Greco-Roman designation of Apollo as ill-fitting for humanity's first venture to another world.
“No matter how you look at it, the Greco-Roman designation of Apollo just doesn’t fit such a noble and risky venture of Man’s first foray to another world.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:5352-5500 opinion first hand
494
Richard C. Hoagland argues that he did not apply his Red Shift alignment technique to thousands or hundreds of events, but to only a small handful of the most significant events in the history of the space program.
“he had not applied his Red Shift technique to "thousands" of events, or even hundreds, but just an historically obvious *handful;* these were among the *most* significant events in the history of the entire space program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:54669-54882 opinion first hand
495
Richard C. Hoagland argues that if Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas were correct, Buzz Aldrin's lunar communion ceremony had no conventional Christian significance but was instead an offering by a Freemason to the ancient Egyptian gods most revered by his Craft.
“If Knight and Lomas were right, then Aldrin's communion ceremony had no conventional Christian significance at all; it was, in fact, a direct offering by a Freemason to "the ancient Egyptian gods" that his Craft most revered.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:59262-59479 opinion first hand
496
With Ken Johnston's help, Richard C. Hoagland discovered that Buzz Aldrin had carried a Masonic apron with him to the Moon on Apollo 11.
“With the help of Johnston, Hoagland discovered that Aldrin had also carried a Masonic apron with him to the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:64196-64304 testimony second hand
497
With Ken Johnston's help, Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston discovered that several more astronauts, including some of the most famous, were Scottish Rite Freemasons.
“With Johnston's help (only a fellow Mason may inquire about the membership of another), we quickly discovered that several more astronauts were Scottish Rite Freemasons, including some of the most famous”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:64898-65095 testimony first hand
498
Vannevar Bush's efforts were a significant factor in some of the German rocket scientists being brought to the United States.
“Bush's efforts were clearly a significant factor in some of the Germans being brought to U.S.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:68144-68235 opinion first hand
499
The differential analyzer developed by Vannevar Bush and Donald Menzel eventually enabled NASA to accomplish some of its occult goals.
“It was this pioneering work with Menzel which eventually—critically—enabled NASA to accomplish some of its "occult" goals.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:68559-68675 opinion first hand
500
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the objective of Vannevar Bush and Donald Menzel's differential analyzer, although not overtly stated, was to develop a computer able to predict the future positions of stars and planets from any point in the solar system centuries ahead.
“Although not overtly stated, Bush and Menzel's objective was to develop a computer that could allow them to predict—and centuries ahead—the future positions of stars and planets from any point in the solar system.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:69576-69785 opinion first hand
501
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the differential analyzer's predictive capability would later allow NASA to accurately predict the appearance of the skies above a specific planetary landing site on a specific date and time, and to stage an astronomically improbable coincidence such as Buzz Aldrin's communion ceremony at Tranquility Base timed with Sirius at exactly 19.5 degrees.
“This would later allow NASA to accurately predict the appearance of the skies above a specific planetary landing site—on a specific date and time... It could also, of course, allow NASA to pull off an astronomically improbable "coincidence" … like Aldrin's fabled "communion ceremony" at Tranquility Base, staged simultaneously with Sirius at "exactly 19.5°."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:69794-70203 opinion first hand
502
The Church of Scientology is still a major influence in Hollywood today.
“which is still a major influence in Hollywood today”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:74421-74467 opinion first hand
503
During preparations for the National Press Club press conference, Richard C. Hoagland reviewed Ken Johnston's collection of first-generation Apollo hand-held photography.
“During the National Press Club preparations, he'd had occasion to go back over Ken Johnston's collection of first generation Apollo hand-held photography.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:863-1005 observation first hand
504
In Jack Parsons' Book of the Anti-Christ, he described a dream in which he saw a vision of the same 2D tetrahedral symbology imprinted on a mysterious tower that Richard C. Hoagland would later discover marking the Sinus Medii ruins on the Moon.
“in Parsons' Book of the Anti-Christ he vividly describes a dream that came to him while he attempted to call forth the Moonchild in the last "Work of the Wand." In it, he saw a startling vision of exactly the same type of 2D "tetrahedral symbology" … imprinted on a mysterious "tower" … that Hoagland would ultimately discover marking the Sinus Medii ruins on the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:87679-88046 testimony second hand
505
Richard C. Hoagland was long interested in the possible connections between the Giza Plateau in Egypt, home of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx, and the Martian pyramids and Face in Cydonia.
“Hoagland had long been interested in the possible connections between the Giza Plateau in Egypt (home of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx) and the Martian Pyramids and Face (termed “The Martian Sphinx” by Russian researcher Vladimir Avinsky) in Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:9031-9277 opinion first hand
506
During Richard C. Hoagland's United Nations presentation in 1992, a possible mathematical and geometric linkage was presented connecting the location of the Giza Plateau in Egypt and the Cydonia site on Mars.
“During his U.N. presentation in 1992, a possible mathematical and geometric linkage was presented, specifically connecting the location of these two distant sites.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:9286-9443 observation first hand
507
Richard C. Hoagland found that the arctangent (0.865) of the D&M Pyramid's geodetic Martian latitude (40.87 degrees north) is the same, within one part in a thousand, as the cosine of the Great Sphinx of Egypt's current latitude on Earth.
“Hoagland had noted that the arctangent (.865) of the “D&M Pyramid” geodetic Martian latitude (40.87 N) is the same (within one part in a thousand) as the cosine of the Sphinx’s current latitude on Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:9450-9647 measurement first hand
508
Richard C. Hoagland found it notable that two base mathematical constants derived from the D&M Pyramid on Mars and the Great Sphinx of Egypt matched despite being on two separate worlds.
“While this may seem a bit tenuous, Hoagland found it curious that two such base mathematical constants could be the same on two such key features—and, on two completely separate worlds.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:9654-9834 opinion first hand
509
Richard C. Hoagland considers the canonical history that Wernher von Braun was pressured by the Third Reich to join Nazi organisations and agonised over the decision to be increasingly unlikely.
“The canonical history is that he was "pressured" by the Third Reich to become involved in many Nazi organizations and that he agonized over the decision, but this actually seems increasingly unlikely.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch12:96651-96842 opinion first hand
510
Richard C. Hoagland responded to the poor quality of the 1998-04-06 raw Cydonia image by saying he was disappointed, since it had been expected to be much better than Viking's raw data but was worse.
“He simply responded that he was disappointed with the quality of the image, since we had all been led to believe that it would be much better than Viking’s raw data, when in fact it was worse.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:12984-13170 opinion first hand
511
On Art Bell's 1998-04-06 show, Richard C. Hoagland explained that the low viewing angle in the Face on Mars image was the best that could be hoped for given the distance of the spacecraft's vertical track from the Face.
“He pointed out that, given the distance the spacecraft’s vertical track was from the Face, such a side-view was the best that could be hoped for.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:18464-18605 opinion first hand
512
Richard C. Hoagland stated it wasn't necessary to have waited as long as they did to take the image, resulting in a view looking back at the Face on Mars from below.
“However, it wasn’t necessary to have waited as long as they had to take the image, resulting in a view looking back at the Face on Mars from “below.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:18610-18744 opinion first hand
513
Richard C. Hoagland stated the low viewing angle showed new secondary facial characteristics such as the nostrils, but could not be used for a realistic symmetry study that a true overhead shot might have provided.
“While this angle did show some new secondary facial characteristics, such as the “nostrils,” it could not be used for a realistic symmetry study that a true overhead shot might have provided.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:18752-18934 opinion first hand
514
Richard C. Hoagland admitted the TJP enhancement of the Face on Mars image should have only taken about thirty minutes to produce.
“Hoagland admitted that the TJP version should have only taken about thirty minutes to produce, and lamented the fact that the MIPL version made it appear that there was no “Face” at all.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:19238-19420 opinion first hand
515
Fred Hoddick was a listener who, acting on Richard C. Hoagland's radio conversation about CCD scan-line idiosyncrasies, discovered that the Mars Orbiter Camera imprinted a unique line-scan fingerprint on every Mars Surveyor photograph.
“The next day, a listener named Fred Hoddick, acting on Hoagland’s conversation about these CCD idiosyncrasies, discovered that the MOC indeed imprinted a unique line-scan fingerprint on every Mars Surveyor photograph.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:21518-21724 observation
516
The raw Cydonia image frame displayed on NASA websites presented only half the spatial data apparently originally imaged by the Mars Orbiter Camera.
“Thus, the raw frame displayed on all the NASA websites only presented half the spatial data apparently originally imaged by the camera.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:22340-22468 opinion first hand
517
The Mars Global Surveyor Cydonia photograph was taken under a morning light aspect, which along with the reduced number of grey levels further distorted the raw image and effectively eliminated meaningful comparisons with the previous Viking data.
“Because of the morning light aspect of this MGS Cydonia photograph, this reduced number of grey levels further distorted the raw Mars Surveyor Cydonia image, effectively eliminating meaningful comparisons with the previous Viking data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:22884-23114 opinion first hand
518
NASA imaged Cydonia with the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft at an oblique angle, as opposed to the Viking mission's overhead frontal view, which further hampered comparison between the two datasets.
“This comparison is further hampered by NASA’s choice of the spacecraft imaging angle—oblique, as opposed to Viking’s overhead frontal view.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:23120-23254 opinion first hand
519
NASA's choice of high-pass filtering as an image-enhancement tool reduced the Mission Image Processing Laboratory (MIPL) version of the Face on Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor data to a black-and-white cartoon-like image.
“Finally, NASA’s choice of imaging enhancement tools for this bland image—high-pass filtering—further reduced the MIPL version of the Face from Mars Surveyor to a black and white “cartoon,””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:23261-23440 opinion first hand
520
Richard C. Hoagland considers Michael Malin's stated downtrack-error explanation for the reduced Cydonia image resolution incorrect, since the actual navigation issue with Mars Global Surveyor was cross-track, not downtrack, and the cross-track error range was too slight to matter for an object as large as the Face on Mars.
“Of course, as we have already discussed, the major navigation problem with MGS was not down track, but *cross track*, and that error range was so slight as to be insignificant in targeting an object as large as the Face”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:23696-23911 opinion first hand
521
The rationale given for extending the Mars Global Surveyor imaging footprint at Cydonia from just under 11 kilometres to approximately 42 kilometres, in order to guarantee re-imaging the Face on Mars, cut the camera's surface resolution in half.
“to extend the downrange “footprint” of the Surveyor’s imaging, from slightly under seven miles to twenty-six miles, in an ostensible effort to guarantee successfully re-imaging the Face (but at the cost of cutting the surface resolution in the camera in half)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:23920-24174 opinion first hand
522
The actual location of the Face on Mars in the image released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was almost dead centre of the downrange footprint and just left of the east/west cross-track line, demonstrating successful navigation targeting by the JPL team.
“the actual location of the Face in the image JPL released was almost dead center of the “downrange” footprint, and just left of the east/west “cross track.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:24276-24426 opinion first hand
523
Richard C. Hoagland questions why, if trading off imaging resolution for a larger photographic footprint was a deliberate pre-Cydonia strategy reached by the entire Mars Global Surveyor project, no one at NASA including Michael Malin said so before the Cydonia imaging attempt, and only offered the explanation after Hoagland caught them at it.
“If “trading off” imaging resolution for a larger photographic footprint was a deliberate pre-Cydonia strategy reached by the entire project, why didn’t anyone at NASA (including Michael Malin) *say so* before the Cydonia attempt? Why did they wait to offer an explanation for this “surprise” only *after* Hoagland caught them at it?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:24570-24899 opinion first hand
524
Richard C. Hoagland argues it is hard to imagine JPL's typing pool mistakenly writing 19200 in place of 9600 pixels and 82.94 kilometres in place of 41.5 kilometres, since if the original transmitted imaging resolution from Michael Malin's camera was 2048 pixels across and was subsequently downsized on Earth to 1024, the corresponding down-track dimension would have been precisely 19200 pixels, matching the original NASA caption and consistent with the image being missing 400 percent of its expected resolution.
“Somehow, it’s hard to imagine anyone typing “19200” in place of “9600,” 82.94 km for 41.5 km—even in a government contracted typing pool at JPL—but if the original transmitted imaging resolution from Dr. Malin’s camera was 2048 pixels across, subsequently downsized on Earth to 1024, then the corresponding down track dimension would have been precisely 19200 pixels—exactly what the original NASA caption read, exactly consistent with Hoagland’s discovery that the image was somehow missing 400 percent of its expected resolution.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:25277-25797 opinion first hand
525
Richard C. Hoagland considers Michael Malin's analysis comparing grey levels between the Mars Orbiter Camera and Viking images to be wrong.
“There is only one small problem with Dr. Malin’s analysis—he’s wrong.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:26284-26347 opinion first hand
526
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the supposedly raw Mars Global Surveyor Cydonia image was in fact a second-generation copy filled with noise and devoid of crucial detail.
“In the end, we were forced to conclude that the supposedly raw image was a second-generation copy filled with noise and devoid of crucial detail”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:26728-26866 opinion first hand
527
In producing the Catbox enhancement, NASA, JPL and Malin Space Science Systems reduced the resolution of the original 2048 x 19200 image strip of the Face on Mars to 1024 x 9600 some time after the image was acquired.
“Reduced the resolution of the original 2048 x 19200 image strip to 1024 x 9600, some time after acquisition of the image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:30167-30282 opinion first hand
528
In producing the Catbox enhancement of the Face on Mars, NASA, JPL and Malin Space Science Systems removed almost 85% of the tonal variations by using high-pass and low-pass filters on the raw data.
“Removed almost 85% of the tonal variations by using high-pass and low-pass filters on the “raw” data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:30293-30389 opinion first hand
529
In producing the Catbox enhancement of the Face on Mars, NASA, JPL and Malin Space Science Systems applied another high-pass filter after initial processing.
“After initial processing, applied another high-pass filter”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:30399-30451 opinion first hand
530
In producing the Catbox enhancement of the Face on Mars, NASA, JPL and Malin Space Science Systems applied a noise filter to induce more noise into the image than had already been created by the previous processes.
“Applied a noise filter to induce more noise into the image than had already been created by the previous processes”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:30463-30568 opinion first hand
531
In producing the Catbox enhancement of the Face on Mars, NASA, JPL and Malin Space Science Systems used an emboss filter to delete visual elevation cues and induce false visual cues into the image.
“Used an emboss filter to delete visual elevation cues and induce false visual cues into the image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:30583-30675 opinion first hand
532
The new Face on Mars image confirmed a brow ridge on both sides of the Face, roughly symmetrical, consistent with earlier independent investigations.
“There was indeed a “brow ridge,” apparently on both sides and roughly symmetrical.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:31613-31683 observation first hand
533
The beveled platform upon which the Face on Mars rests was confirmed to be close to 98% symmetrical, a condition considered almost unheard of in any natural formation.
“The beveled “platform” upon which the Face rested could also be confirmed as being close to 98% symmetrical, a condition that was almost unheard of in any natural formation.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:31696-31859 measurement first hand
534
The new Face on Mars image showed what appeared to be a curled lower lip and fairly unmistakable nostrils in the nose, positioned where nostrils would be expected.
“Beyond that, there seemed to be a curled lower lip, and fairly unmistakable “nostrils” in the nose, right where they should be if they were indeed intended to represent nostrils.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:31870-32039 observation first hand
535
The new Face on Mars image showed a hint of a pupil in the eye socket.
“There was also a hint of a pupil in the eye socket.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:32049-32093 observation first hand
536
Richard C. Hoagland's conclusion was that with the source data so hopelessly compromised, little could be decided about the new Catbox-era Face on Mars image.
“The authors’ own conclusion was that with the source data so hopelessly compromised, there was little that could be decided about the new image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:34257-34395 opinion first hand
537
Richard C. Hoagland considers that NASA successfully suppressed interest in Cydonia to the point that no major media would touch the subject following the Catbox controversy.
“NASA, regardless of Van Flandern’s protestations, had won this round. They had successfully suppressed interest in Cydonia to the point that no major media would touch the subject for the time being.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:34503-34696 opinion first hand
538
Richard C. Hoagland and his team decided to look at the sky over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), reasoning that JPL controlled the image release and hosted the servers providing the images, in order to use star positions via the Red Shift 2 astronomy software to pinpoint the timing of the second Cydonia image release.
“We decided to first look at the sky over JPL, since that was where the image release was being controlled and where the servers providing the images were almost certain to be located. It didn’t take us long, looking at the stars through Red Shift 2, to pin-point the timing for the image release.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:36344-36632 testimony first hand
539
Richard C. Hoagland argued that Michael Malin should not have the sole power to decide what would be photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor camera.
“He argued that Malin should not have the god-like power to decide what would be photographed,”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:3654-3734 opinion first hand
540
Richard C. Hoagland's team calculated that at 6:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on 1998-04-14, Sirius would be passing through 33 degrees altitude over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, opening a ten-minute window in which the three belt stars of Orion would also pass through 33 degrees altitude.
“At 6:55 p.m. (PDT) on the anointed date, Sirius would be passing through 33º, right over JPL. This moment in turn would open up a “window” in which the three belt stars of Orion would all pass through that 33º altitude over the next ten minutes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:36641-36878 observation first hand
541
Richard C. Hoagland's team decided against publishing their prediction of the Cydonia image release timing publicly, since a public prediction could alert JPL that they were being tracked and allow JPL to delay the release to scuttle the test.
“But we also realized that a public prediction could alter the conditions of the test, by providing a heads up to JPL that we were tracking them. We decided against a published prediction, since that would make it far too easy to delay the image release by a few minutes and scuttle our test.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:36960-37246 testimony first hand
542
Richard C. Hoagland's team e-mailed their prediction that the second Cydonia image would be released at 6:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time to specific researchers and members of the press, including Tom Van Flandern and Art Bell.
“Instead, we decided to e-mail our prediction to specific researchers and members of the press, including Tom Van Flandern and Art Bell. We predicted an image release at 6:55 p.m. PDT, when Sirius was at 33º above the JPL horizon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:37252-37473 testimony first hand
543
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara monitored the main JPL website and its primary mirror site respectively, and at exactly 6:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on 1998-04-14, as predicted, the new Cydonia image link appeared on the JPL main web page.
“As we were watching the JPL websites, with Bara on the main JPL site and Hoagland watching the primary mirror site, we continued to refresh our browsers to insure we got the image at precisely the moment it was posted. Then at 6:55 p.m., exactly as we had predicted, the new image link appeared on the JPL main web page.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:37641-37956 testimony first hand
544
Ten minutes after the second Cydonia image appeared on the JPL main web page, a link to the image appeared at 7:05 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on the JPL mirror site, meaning the image was released twice, once at the opening and once at the close of the predicted alignment window.
“Then, exactly ten minutes after the image had appeared on the JPL main page, a link to the new image appeared at 7:05 p.m. PDT on the JPL mirror site. So they had released the image twice, in effect, once at the opening of the “alignment window” and once at the close.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:38096-38359 observation first hand
545
Richard C. Hoagland states that the second Cydonia image was in fact released at 6:55 p.m. and 7:05 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, not at the later-stated 6:30 p.m., contradicting NASA and JPL's revised timestamp.
“The authors can categorically state that this was not the case. The images were released in just the manner described above, at 6:55 and 7:05 p.m.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:38700-38844 testimony first hand
546
Richard C. Hoagland argued that Michael Malin should be put on record as to whether he had any knowledge about Mars Observer's disappearance or possible secret resurrection.
“and that Malin should be put on record as to whether he had any knowledge about Mars Observer’s disappearance or possible secret resurrection.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:3900-4029 opinion first hand
547
Richard C. Hoagland dubbed a multi-tiered structure extending from the southwest corner of a Cydonia structure the "Castle of Barsoom."
“From its southwest corner, a wall extended that terminated in a multi-tiered structure Hoagland dubbed the “Castle of Barsoom.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:40104-40222 observation first hand
548
A fuzzy fog obscured the southern and western faces of a Cydonia structure in a Mars Global Surveyor image, but this could not be genuine atmospheric fog because the Mars Orbiter Camera imaged well into the infrared and should have effectively cut through any local haze.
“A fuzzy fog oddly obscured the southern and western faces, though “fog” had to be a false description, since the MGS camera went well into the infrared and should have effectively cut any local haze.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:40233-40427 observation first hand
549
The fogged areas of the Cydonia image had unaccountably lost all contrast and detail, which is generally a characteristic of a blended, modified section of a digital image.
“Instead, the fog seemed to be areas of the image that had unaccountably lost all contrast and detail. This is generally a characteristic of a blended, modified section of a digital image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:40433-40615 opinion first hand
550
An examination of the histogram of the fogged Cydonia image areas showed major compression of grayscales.
“An examination of the histogram showed major compression of grayscales in these areas.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:40622-40702 observation first hand
551
Richard C. Hoagland considers the chances of a random pile of rocks forming into a pyramidal shape with at least two obvious profile edges and two tiers sloping upward at 45 and 60 degrees respectively to be "pretty remote."
“as Hoagland put it, were “pretty remote.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:41266-41299 opinion first hand
552
Richard C. Hoagland considers the presence of hexagons on the ground at Cydonia to be especially significant.
“Hoagland considered the presence of hexagons on the ground at Cydonia to be especially significant.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:42102-42189 opinion first hand
553
The hyperdimensional physics model predicts that the behaviour of a spinning sphere, such as a planet, would outwell higher-dimensional energies at the tetrahedral latitude of 19.5 degrees.
“The numbers predicted that the behavior of a spinning sphere, such as a planet, would outwell higher dimensional energies at the key tetrahedral latitude—the now-ubiquitous 19.5º connection.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:42449-42628 opinion first hand
554
A lesser-known aspect of the hyperdimensional physics model predicts that there would be inwelling points in the system, and that these points would be hexagonal.
“A lesser-known aspect of this model was the prediction that there would be inwelling points in the system as well, and that they would be hexagonal.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:42640-42778 opinion first hand
555
Images taken of Saturn and the Sun showed hexagonal rings of clouds around the northern poles of both bodies, moving at high velocity, which Richard C. Hoagland considers confirmation of the hyperdimensional physics model's prediction of hexagonal inwelling points.
“There had been some confirmation of this idea in images taken of Saturn and the sun. Both sets of images showed hexagonal rings of clouds around the northern poles of both bodies, making the turns at high velocity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:42789-42994 observation first hand
556
Richard C. Hoagland considers there to be no known physical phenomena that can account for the hexagonal cloud rings observed around the northern poles of Saturn and the Sun.
“No known physical phenomena could account for this behavior.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:43004-43055 opinion first hand
557
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun considered the arrangement of monuments at Cydonia to be intended to inculcate knowledge of tetrahedral physics in observers.
“if Hoagland and Torun had been right all along in their declaration that the arrangements of the monuments at Cydonia were intended to inculcate knowledge of tetrahedral physics to observers”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:43075-43257 opinion first hand
558
Richard C. Hoagland considers the sequence of NASA's targeted Mars observation releases to appear ritualistic, as if NASA were cycling through the Martian sites one by one.
“Again, this process seemed to be almost ritualistic, as if they were cycling through the Martian temples one by one.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:43589-43701 opinion first hand
559
When the third Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor image was taken, Sirius was directly on the horizon as viewed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), matching the pattern seen in the earlier release ritual, although there were no significant alignments at the Viking or Pathfinder landing sites.
“although there were no significant alignments at any of the landing sites, once again the Cydonia image followed the ritual pattern with Sirius dead on the horizon from the vantage point of JPL when the image was taken.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:43910-44123 observation first hand
560
Richard C. Hoagland considers the first round of new Cydonia imaging to have ended with substantive evidence supporting both the artificiality hypothesis and the Ritual Alignment Model.
“Admittedly, we ended the first round of new Cydonia imaging with some very substantive evidence to support not only the artificiality hypothesis, but our ritual alignment model as well.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:45099-45279 opinion first hand
561
Richard C. Hoagland considers that NASA scored a significant political win in the controversy over Cydonia through what he calls the Catbox fraud.
“Still, NASA had scored a big win in the political battle with the Catbox fraud.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:45285-45359 opinion first hand
562
Richard C. Hoagland considers that NASA deliberately manipulated the Catbox image data, which allowed them to relieve pressure from mainstream media over Cydonia.
“By deliberately manipulating the data, they had managed to relieve the pressure from the mainstream media.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:45366-45466 opinion first hand
563
Richard C. Hoagland considers that, using the Catbox controversy as cover, NASA took its Cydonia studies back under the restrictions of Michael Malin's exclusive rights contract for the following couple of years.
“With the Catbox as cover, they had the perfect opportunity to take their Cydonia studies back under the dark blanket of Malin’s “exclusive rights” contract. For the next couple of years, that’s exactly what they did.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:45473-45685 opinion first hand
564
The hexagon feature next to Mound P at Cydonia, from Richard C. Hoagland's original analysis, is approximately the size of a baseball stadium.
“Fig. 6-8 - The “mound P” hexagon, from Hoagland’s original analysis. Hexagonal object is about the size of a baseball stadium.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:46972-47090 measurement first hand
565
Richard C. Hoagland considers the targeting capability of the Mars Orbiter Camera on Mars Global Surveyor exceptional, with very little built-in error.
“The targeting capability of the MGS camera was exceptional, with very little error built into the system.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:4915-5013 opinion first hand
566
Michael Malin's team developed a targeting software suite that could pre-select a Face-sized target on Mars with ease.
“Malin’s team had devised an excellent targeting software suite that enabled them to pre-select a Face-sized target with ease.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:5021-5141 opinion first hand
567
Richard C. Hoagland states that no one, including himself, had expressed a specific belief that the Face on Mars or any other Cydonia objects were artificial, only that they deserved further study.
“No one, not even Hoagland, had expressed a specific belief that the Face or any of the other objects at Cydonia were artificial. Although we all strongly suspected they might be, we’d merely argued that they deserved further study and should be imaged at every opportunity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:6511-6772 opinion first hand
568
The Clementine camera was superior in all respects to the Malin camera.
“in spite of the fact that the Clementine team’s camera was superior in all respects to Malin’s”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:747-840 opinion first hand
569
Carl Pilcher's promise to re-photograph Cydonia applied only during the science mapping phase of the Mars Global Surveyor mission, while the pre-science mapping orbit would pass over Cydonia every nine days.
“Further, Hoagland noted that Pilcher’s promise was to target Cydonia only during the “science mapping” phase of the mission. This was key, because MGS was about to enter a pre-science mapping orbit that would have it pass over Cydonia every nine days.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:7579-7825 observation first hand
570
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) asked John Brandenberg, an old colleague of Richard C. Hoagland's from the early independent Mars investigations, to present the Clementine camera a second time to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) open bidding process for the Mars Global Surveyor camera contract.
“So NASA asked Dr. John Brandenberg, an old colleague of Hoagland’s from the early independent Mars investigations, to present the camera a second time to JPL’s open bidding process.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch13:843-1016 observation
571
The Society for Planetary SETI Research claimed they were making headway in an effort to get their papers on Cydonia published in either Science (journal) or Nature (journal).
“It was small consolation that SPSR claimed they were making headway in an effort to get their papers on Cydonia published in either Science or Nature.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:10015-10161 testimony second hand
572
Horace Crater's summary misrepresented Richard C. Hoagland's descriptions by referring cryptically to "speculative individuals" who claimed the city objects at Cydonia were pyramids and that City Square was "a major object of concern."
“In addition, Crater misrepresented Hoagland’s descriptions by cryptically referring to “speculative individuals” who claimed the city objects were pyramids and that the City Square was “a major object of concern.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:1014-1218 opinion first hand
573
Richard C. Hoagland decided he could no longer trust the members of the Society for Planetary SETI Research after the dispute over the D&M Pyramid symbols.
“As a result of this fiasco, he decided he could no longer trust the members of SPSR.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:10171-10250 opinion first hand
574
Richard C. Hoagland considers the official metric/imperial measurement error explanation for the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter to be a suspicious and convenient cover, bearing the earmarks of what he terms another National Aeronautics and Space Administration ritual killing.
“Still, this very suspicious and convenient “error” had all the usual earmarks of another NASA ritual killing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:12207-12308 opinion first hand
575
Richard C. Hoagland proposed the arcology (architectural ecology) model of Cydonia in the early 1990s.
“Hoagland had proposed the arcology (architectural ecology) model back in the early 1990s”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:1229-1312 administrative
576
City Square in Cydonia was one of numerous objects cited by Richard C. Hoagland in his geometric relationship model of Cydonia.
“the City Square was but one of numerous objects cited by him in the geometric relationship model of Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:1323-1423 administrative
577
Richard C. Hoagland calculates that the conversion factor from pounds of thrust (imperial) to newtons (metric) is 4.44 newtons per pound, meaning that if such a unit error had occurred from the start of the Mars Climate Orbiter mission, the velocity calculations would have been off by approximately 75%.
“The conversion factor from pounds of thrust (imperial) to Newtons (metric) is 4.44 Newtons to the pound. This means that from the beginning of the mission, the velocity calculations should have been off by some 75%!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:13714-13925 opinion first hand
578
Richard C. Hoagland argues that if the metric/imperial navigation error had persisted from the start of the Mars Climate Orbiter mission, the spacecraft should not have been anywhere near Mars by the time of its main orbit insertion burn.
“In fact, by the time of the MOI burn, the spacecraft should not have been anywhere near Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:13971-14059 opinion first hand
579
Richard C. Hoagland, on nationwide radio, had asked for images not of City Square in Cydonia, but of The Fortress, D&M Pyramid, and The Cliff.
“Hoagland—on nationwide radio—had asked for images not of the City Square, but of the Fortress, D&M and the Cliff.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:1470-1577 testimony first hand
580
Richard C. Hoagland observed that Alnilam, the centre belt star of Orion, associated with Osiris, the Egyptian god of death, resurrection and the afterlife, was positioned at a 19.5-degree tetrahedral altitude over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the moment the fatal Mars Climate Orbiter burn was initiated.
“Alnilam, the center belt star of Orion/Osiris, the Egyptian god of death, resurrection and the afterlife was positioned at the ubiquitous 19.5° tetrahedral altitude as the engine was fired.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:14870-15053 opinion first hand
581
Richard C. Hoagland observed that five minutes after the fatal burn, as Mars Climate Orbiter slipped from view behind the occultation of Mars, the star Mintaka had assumed the 19.5-degree ritual position over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“Five minutes later, as MCO slipped from view behind the occultation of Mars itself, Mintaka had assumed the 19.5° ritual position.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:15060-15181 opinion first hand
582
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider it their position that the stellar alignments over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) imply a deliberate, ritual "tetrahedral" act by Michael Malin or JPL, either to destroy Mars Climate Orbiter or to take it "black" for their own purposes.
“It is the authors’ position that this implies a deliberate, ritual “tetrahedral” act on the part of Malin/JPL, either to destroy MCO or to take it “black” for their own purposes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:15578-15747 opinion first hand
583
Michael Malin has claimed that the disappearance of Mars Observer cost him money and prestige, while denying any involvement in its disappearance.
“Malin has often feigned indignance at the notion that he had anything to do with the disappearance of Mars Observer, and has claimed it cost him money and prestige.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:16206-16361 testimony second hand
584
The major features of the city at Cydonia, such as the Main Pyramid and Western Pyramid, were named by architect Robert Fiertek, not by Richard C. Hoagland.
“the major features of the city were given identifiers (Main Pyramid, Western Pyramid) by architect Robert Fiertek, not by Hoagland.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:1684-1806 administrative
585
Richard C. Hoagland considers the medium-resolution Mars Color Imager camera capable of providing images approximately 20% better than those from the Viking missions.
“this “medium” resolution camera was capable of providing images some 20% better than Viking.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:17612-17697 opinion first hand
586
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the multi-spectral, infrared and ultraviolet capability of the Mars Color Imager would have placed the instrument on a par with the highly degraded Face on Mars image released by Malin Space Science Systems in April 1998, and given it significant ground-penetration capability.
“The addition of multi-spectral color, infrared and UV bands would have placed the instrument on a par with the highly degraded Face image released by MSSS in April 1998. Its near infrared capability would have also given the instrument a significant degree of “ground penetration” in the images sent back.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:17705-18005 opinion first hand
587
Richard C. Hoagland suggests that taking Mars Climate Orbiter and its Mars Color Imager camera "black" would have given Michael Malin the opportunity to review what would be revealed by an instrument comparable to the upcoming Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on the Mars Odyssey 2001 mission.
“taking MCO and its medium resolution, full multi-spectral color camera “black” would have given Malin and co. plenty of opportunity to review just what would be revealed by MARCI or a comparable instrument (like the upcoming THEMIS imager on the Mars Odyssey 2001 mission)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:18110-18374 opinion first hand
588
Richard C. Hoagland observed that as with Mars Climate Orbiter, there was a significant stellar alignment over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) fitting his ritual alignment system at the time of the Mars Polar Lander's disappearance, with Regulus, the heart of the lion in Leo, positioned dead on the horizon when the de-orbit burn command was sent.
“As with Mars Climate Orbiter, there was a significant alignment over JPL that fit the ritual system. This time, we saw Regulus, the heart of the lion in Leo, dead on the horizon when the command was sent to MCO to begin the de-orbit burn.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:18577-18810 opinion first hand
589
Richard C. Hoagland notes that Leo represents Horus, and that the Regulus alignment at the Mars Polar Lander de-orbit burn was the first time such an alignment had appeared in his ritual system.
“While Leo represents Horus, this was the first time such an alignment had appeared in the system.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:18816-18906 opinion first hand
590
Richard C. Hoagland considers the appointment of Scott Hubbard as evidence of a possible power struggle between NASA Headquarters and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over control of the Mars programme.
“we began to wonder if we were seeing the playing out of the scenario that Mark Carlotto had referred to after the initial SPSR meeting with Carl Pilcher in November 1998. Was there a growing friction between those at the agency that wanted the ground truth of Mars revealed (NASA headquarters) and those that still wanted to hold onto the idea of a cold, dead Mars (JPL)?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:20766-21132 opinion first hand
591
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Society for Planetary SETI Research report's summary asserting that SPSR's work was the only careful study of the Cydonia images in relation to the Viking data to be a false statement.
“The summary also asserted that “as far as we know, the work done by SPSR scientists constitutes the only careful study of the images in relation to the Viking data...” This flatly specious statement hinged its mendacity on the word “careful.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:2304-2537 opinion first hand
592
Richard C. Hoagland questions why Bobby Inman, a prominent intelligence figure, headed the oversight committee at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that oversaw civilian unmanned exploration of Mars, and considers this connected to the potential national security consequences of the discovery of artificial ruins at Cydonia by the Viking programme a quarter century earlier.
“So what was the nation’s most celebrated spook doing heading an oversight committee at one of its leading private universities and, specifically, a committee overseeing all civilian unmanned exploration of the planet Mars? Could it have anything to do with Viking’s discovery, a quarter of a century before, of a set of artificial ruins at Cydonia and the potential national security consequences of that discovery?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:23281-23686 opinion first hand
593
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider Michael Malin's 2000-04 image release cynically designed to curry favour with congressional critics and reinforce the idea that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was open and honest.
“Clearly, this new image release was cynically designed to curry favor with congressional critics and reinforce the idea that NASA was open and honest.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:26566-26709 opinion first hand
594
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara found that Michael Malin had been privately imaging Cydonia extensively despite there being virtually no public pressure for him to do so.
“Yet here we had found, when push came to shove, that he had been privately imaging the hell out Cydonia, despite the fact there was virtually no public pressure to do so.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:28428-28595 opinion first hand
595
Mark Carlotto continued to refer to the Face on Mars as "highly eroded" in the Society for Planetary SETI Research report despite Richard C. Hoagland's view that it is remarkably well preserved, more so than the Great Sphinx of Egypt.
“Mark Carlotto continued to refer to the Face as “highly eroded” when it is in fact quite remarkably well preserved (far more so than our own earthly Sphinx, for instance)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:3111-3272 opinion first hand
596
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider the newly revealed structure of the Tholus at Cydonia to reinforce their previous Cydonia Geometric Relationship Model, with one edge pointed due north through the Cliff at Cydonia and another aligned with the D&M Pyramid apex.
“This still-discernable structure once again exquisitely reinforced our previous geometric relationship model for the entire Cydonia Complex. One of the edges pointed due north, straight through the Cliff, while another was aligned with the D&M apex.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:31740-31984 opinion first hand
597
On 2000-05-07, Richard C. Hoagland gave a public lecture at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona, and invited Senator John McCain, his wife and his staff to attend.
“Hoagland quickly arranged a public lecture in Senator McCain’s back yard, Scottsdale, Arizona, and invited the senator, his wife and staff to attend.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:32534-32676 administrative first hand
598
As Richard C. Hoagland took the stage at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts around 14:30 on 2000-05-07, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was passing over Cydonia with an ideal chance to take a near-perfect overhead view of the Face on Mars under ideal lighting conditions.
“Ironically, just as Hoagland would take the stage at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts around 2:30, May 7, 2000, MGS would be passing over Cydonia with an ideal chance to take a direct, almost perfect overhead view of the Face under ideal lighting conditions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:32684-32933 observation
599
Mark Carlotto was unwilling to acknowledge the spherical pupil in the western eye socket of the Face on Mars, despite its presence in three confirming images across three separate missions.
“he was even unwilling to acknowledge the spherical pupil in the western eye socket, despite its presence in three confirming images over three separate missions”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:3286-3438 opinion first hand
600
A scan of the ancillary data showed that many of the twenty thousand released images were prepped for the web on 2000-05-07, the same day Richard C. Hoagland made his presentation at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.
“A quick scan of the ancillary data showed that a great many of the images were actually prepped for the web on Sunday, May 7, 2000, literally as Hoagland was making his presentation to the public.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:33188-33377 observation first hand
601
Richard C. Hoagland found an image in an ancient Martian ocean bed that had rifted apart, appearing to show a series of interlocking, reinforced, and still-intact translucent glass-like tubes.
“found by Hoagland, the image is located in an ancient ocean bed which has rifted apart due to some sort of cataclysmic stress, and appears to be nothing less than a series of interlocking, reinforced and still intact translucent, glass-like tubes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:34741-34982 observation first hand
602
In December 2000, after seeing the glass tube images on Richard C. Hoagland's website, Arthur C. Clarke made a fuss about them at an event hosted by Carl Sagan's Planetary Society.
“After seeing the images on Hoagland’s website, Clarke made a fuss about them at an event in December 2000 hosted by Carl Sagan’s Planetary Society.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:36829-36968 administrative
603
David Pieri and others attacked Richard C. Hoagland and his co-authors, implying they had altered the Martian glass tube images.
“thirdly, Dr. David Pieri and others attacked the authors, implying we had altered the images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:38419-38505 opinion first hand
604
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara state that David Pieri's counterclaims that the glass tube images were altered were quickly disproven.
“Their counterclaims were quickly disproven, however.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:38513-38557 opinion first hand
605
Michael Malin was under intense pressure from NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and Senator John McCain but neglected to include a particular image of the Face on Mars in his April 2000 Cydonia data release.
“ntense pressure from Administrator Goldin and Senator McCain, but somehow he had neglected to include this image in his April 2000 Cydonia data dump.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:39987-40124 observation first hand
606
Michael Malin withheld a particular Cydonia image of the Face on Mars for almost a year without issuing a notice that it would be taken.
“By not issuing a notice that the image would be taken and then withholding it for almost a year, Malin was once again in violation of NASA's stated policy on Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:40131-40289 observation first hand
607
Richard C. Hoagland considers Michael Malin's withholding of the Face on Mars image a violation of NASA's stated policy on Cydonia on seven counts, since Michael Malin also released six other Cydonia images taken between March 2000 and January 2001 at the same time.
“In fact, it could be argued that he was in violation on seven counts, since he released six other Cydonia images taken between March 2000 and January 2001 at the same time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:40298-40465 opinion first hand
608
Richard C. Hoagland assessed that, due to noise and a reduced contrast range in the new Mars Global Surveyor image of the Face on Mars, the actual image resolution was approximately five to six metres per pixel, worse than the stated 1.7 metres per pixel.
“Since actual image resolution is a function of both spatial resolution *and* contrast range, the actual image resolution is more like five to six meters per pixel.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:40842-40999 opinion first hand
609
Richard C. Hoagland found evidence of data reduction on the original Face on Mars image which the Society for Planetary SETI Research report failed to mention.
“there was no mention of the data reduction that Hoagland has found on the original Face image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:4098-4186 opinion first hand
610
Richard C. Hoagland assessed that the 1998 Mars Global Surveyor image of the Face on Mars, with a stated resolution of about five metres per pixel, had its actual resolution reduced to around fourteen metres per pixel due to the same noise and contrast problem.
“This same problem on the previous 1998 MGS Face image had the effect of reducing the *actual resolution* to around fourteen meters per pixel, as opposed to the stated resolution of around five meters per pixel.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:41006-41210 opinion first hand
611
A new narrow-swath Mars Global Surveyor image crossing the Face on Mars's forehead and right eye socket confirmed that the eye socket and pupil features seen in the earlier Viking and Mars Global Surveyor images were genuine, including a tear-duct-like shape.
“The most noticeable thing about the new image (a narrow swath cutting across the center forehead region of the Face and down across the right eye socket to the corner of the mouth) is that what appeared to be an actual "eye socket" and "pupil" in the earlier Viking and MGS images are, in fact, just that.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:42090-42391 opinion first hand
612
Around the eye socket of the Face on Mars, the new Mars Global Surveyor image showed a set of regular, geometric shapes resembling a honeycomb cellular structure.
“Around the eye socket was a set of very regular, geometric shapes that appeared to be a sort of honeycomb cellular structure on the Face itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:43493-43630 observation first hand
613
Richard C. Hoagland had predicted in "The Monuments of Mars" that a honeycomb-like architectural structure would be found on the Face on Mars once sufficiently high-resolution imagery became available.
“This very anomalous and decidedly artificial pattern is exactly what Hoagland had predicted (in *Monuments*) we would find on the Face when we eventually got a good enough look.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:43638-43810 opinion first hand
614
Richard C. Hoagland argued that the Face on Mars was not a Mount Rushmore-style re-carving of a natural Martian mesa but a three-dimensional, architectural, high-tech construct.
“He had argued that the Face was not just a Mt. Rushmore-type re-carving of an ancient Martian mesa, but a 3D, architectural, "high-tech" construct.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:43816-43953 opinion first hand
615
Richard C. Hoagland considers that Stanley V. McDaniel flip-flopped on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's motives and conduct regarding the Cydonia question, contradicting his own earlier report and describing the process and principals as "honest."
“Dr. McDaniel had flip-flopped on NASA’s motives and conduct regarding the Cydonia question, contradicting his own earlier report and proclaiming the process and principals “honest.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:4517-4691 opinion first hand
616
In the Apollo 14 landing site panorama, the brightest portions of enhanced geometric lunar structures above the horizon appear 180 degrees opposite the sun, a phenomenon known as backscattering.
“Note that the brightest portions of enhanced, geometric lunar structures above horizon are 180° opposite the sun – a phenomenon known as "backscattering."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:46363-46501 observation first hand
617
Apollo 14 photograph AS14-66-9301, known as "Mitchell Under Glass," shows brilliant specular reflection and apparent three-dimensional cross-beams and slanted buttresses.
“Color Fig. 5 - The now-famous true color "Mitchell Under Glass" Apollo 14 panorama frame AS14-66-9301. Note brilliant specular reflection, supporting three-dimensional cross-beams and slanted buttresses (inset).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:46638-46842 observation first hand
618
Richard C. Hoagland considers the public-relations response following the release of the new Face on Mars image to have been a well-planned and executed political operation consistent with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's previous behaviour on the Cydonia issue, as documented by Stanley V. McDaniel.
“the new report failed to point out the obvious, that the PR spin fest after the release of the new Face image was a well-planned and executed political operation, and was entirely consistent with NASA’s previous behavior on this issue (as documented by McDaniel himself)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:4757-5019 opinion first hand
619
In the colour-corrected version of Apollo 17 photograph AS17-137-20990, the background includes blue and purple rocks and pink hills attributed to refracted sunlight passing through overhead lunar structures.
“Color Fig. 9 - Color-corrected AS17-137-20990. Note colors in background including blue and purple rocks and pink hills due to refracted sunlight including blue and purple rocks and pink hills due to refracted sunlight passing through "prisms" of overhead lunar ruins.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:47953-48215 opinion first hand
620
Stanley V. McDaniel had previously described the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's earlier conduct regarding Cydonia as highly suspicious and "contrary to [its]... stated policy" of full disclosure of discoveries of artificial structures in the solar system.
“After declaring NASA’s earlier conduct to be highly suspicious and even “contrary to [its]... stated policy” in favor of full disclosure of any discoveries of artificial structures in the solar system”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:5029-5223 opinion second hand
621
The infrared images from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) show a thin, curving warm radiating layer arching above the hotter lunar surface along the Moon's limb, which Richard C. Hoagland interprets as evidence of a partially transparent shell over that region of the Moon.
“The thin, curving yellow line along the Moon's limb in this false-color representation (cold and cool surface temperatures are blue and green: higher temperatures appear yellow and red) reveals an inexplicable "warm, radiating layer" arching miles above the hotter lunar surface underneath. Lacking a detectable lunaratmosphere, the only physical explanation for this remarkable IR "layering" above the horizon is some kind of partially transparent shell still extending over this hidden (from Earth) region of the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:50372-50887 opinion first hand
622
Richard C. Hoagland considers such atmospheric-style light scattering flatly impossible on an airless body like the Moon, and regards it as supporting a shattered transparent lunar dome model.
“Such scattering is flatly impossible on an airless body like the Moon.leaving the sshattered transparent lunar dome model as viable explanation for this photographic phenomenon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:51108-51274 opinion first hand
623
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Society for Planetary SETI Research summary, written by Horace Crater, a timid document that barely addressed the anomalies present in the three new Mars Global Surveyor images of Cydonia.
“The summary, as written by Dr. Horace Crater, was a timid document that barely scratched the surface of the anomalies present in the three new MGS images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:553-700 opinion first hand
624
Richard C. Hoagland, reviewing the original Cydonia Face image strip MOC 22003, identified an oddly symmetrical mesa just south of the Face on Mars.
“In going back over the original Cydonia Face strip, MOC 22003, he’d taken a closer look at an oddly symmetrical mesa just south of the Face”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:5885-6020 observation first hand
625
Richard C. Hoagland found what he interpreted as a collapsed, eroded tetrahedral pyramid beneath the southern edge of the mesa south of the Face on Mars.
“just beneath the southern edge of this odd mesa was something else—a seemingly collapsed, eroded tetrahedral pyramid”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:6323-6432 observation first hand
626
Richard C. Hoagland's reconstructed apex of the collapsed pyramid near the Face on Mars lay on a line 19.5 degrees off the central Face-D&M Pyramid line in his geometric relationship model.
“Hoagland also noted that his proposed reconstructed apex lay on a line 19.5º off of the central “Face-D&M” line in the geometric relationship model.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:6728-6870 observation first hand
627
Horace Crater's summary of the Society for Planetary SETI Research report focused almost exclusively on the Face on Mars, mentioning other anomalous features of Cydonia only in passing.
“It focused almost exclusively on the Face, mentioning the other plainly anomalous features of the region only in passing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:708-821 opinion first hand
628
While studying the lower portion of MOC image 22003 covering about a fifth of the northern D&M Pyramid, Richard C. Hoagland identified what he interpreted as Hebrew-Arabic script written on the D&M Pyramid.
“It was writing. Hebrew-Arabic script. On the D&M Pyramid.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:7192-7241 observation first hand
629
Richard C. Hoagland had suspected for months prior to identifying the script that the Catbox image of the Face on Mars was a second-generation fake or a degraded copy.
“He’d been working for months, hoping to find more proof of what he’d suspected from the beginning; that the Catbox image was a second generation fake, or at best a degraded copy.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:7302-7475 opinion first hand
630
Richard C. Hoagland suspected that one of the words he identified in the script on the D&M Pyramid might have been "Barsoom," the name for Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels and also the name of Michael Malin's Malin Space Science Systems website.
“Specific words were difficult to make out, but one of them might have been “Barsoom,” the name for Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels, and also the name of Michael Malin’s MSSS website.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:7536-7715 opinion first hand
631
Before Richard C. Hoagland could act on his discovery of the script on the D&M Pyramid, Tom Van Flandern of the Society for Planetary SETI Research called him and told him that Van Flandern had found the letters first.
“Before he could act on this new data, he got an excited call from SPSR’s Tom Van Flandern. He’d found the letters too—before Hoagland had.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:7725-7859 testimony second hand
632
Richard C. Hoagland wanted to make the discovery of the letters on the D&M Pyramid public, while Tom Van Flandern wanted to hold the letters for future use.
“Hoagland wanted to go public with the information, while Van Flandern wanted to hold the letters for future use.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:7899-8007 testimony first hand
633
Richard C. Hoagland discovered that the official position inside the Society for Planetary SETI Research was that the letter-like symbols on the D&M Pyramid were features embedded on the pyramid itself, rather than symbols placed onto the image at Michael Malin's laboratory or at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“Hoagland discovered that the official position inside SPSR was that these symbols were features embedded on the D&M Pyramid itself. They steadfastly refused to consider the alternative—that someone placed these symbols on the image at Malin’s lab, or even JPL.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:8046-8302 opinion first hand
634
Richard C. Hoagland considers it far more plausible that somebody at Malin Space Science Systems or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) placed the letter-like symbols onto the D&M Pyramid image as a message confirming the image had been altered, rather than the symbols being genuine ancient Martian markings.
“A far more plausible explanation is that somebody at MSSS or JPL simply put the letters there. These letters, which are obviously on the original image on the official NASA site, were put on the D&M, an object of obvious interest to us, as a message. They are clearly meant to confirm that the image has been altered.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:9023-9334 opinion first hand
635
The Society for Planetary SETI Research, through Tom Van Flandern, refused to accept that the symbols on the D&M Pyramid were placed there artificially, maintaining instead that they were genuinely on the pyramid.
“SPSR (through Van Flandern) refused to budge from their ridiculous stance that these symbols were genuinely on the D&M.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:9589-9706 opinion first hand
636
The Society for Planetary SETI Research requested that Richard C. Hoagland not make mention of the letters on the D&M Pyramid because they had found them first, and Hoagland agreed out of respect for their priority.
“since they had found them first, they requested that Hoagland not make mention of them. Out of respect for their priority, he agreed.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch14:9723-9849 testimony first hand
637
When the first Mars Global Surveyor image was released in April 1998, Richard C. Hoagland went on nationwide radio and television reiterating that the Face on Mars was two distinct faces, one of which was feline.
“When the first MGS image was released in April 1998, Hoagland again went on nationwide radio and television, reiterating his position that the Face was *two distinct* Faces, and that one was feline.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:10044-10235 administrative first hand
638
Richard C. Hoagland posted the old and new images pointing out feline characteristics of the Face on Mars on the Enterprise Mission website.
“He even posted the old and new images pointing out feline characteristics of the Face on the *Enterprise Mission* website at the time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:10243-10372 administrative first hand
639
Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten and David Jinks formed the Formal Action Committee on Extraterrestrial Studies (FACETS) as a new public interest lobby seeking more from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“Along with the authors, Gersten and Jinks formed FACETS as a new public interest lobby for those of us that wanted more from NASA and JPL than we had been given to date.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:11288-11452 administrative first hand
640
A private source with connections to the Bush White House told Richard C. Hoagland's team that things had changed behind the scenes at NASA and that there were forces inside the agency wanting a more open policy on Cydonia.
“A private source, with connections to the Bush White House, had informed us that things had changed behind the scenes at NASA, and that there were forces inside that wanted a more open policy on Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:12671-12866 hearsay second hand
641
Edward Weiler claimed that NASA had targeted the Face on Mars specifically on April 8, 2001, and had already released the image along with a stereoscopic 3D version prior to his May 11, 2001 response.
“So Weiler was claiming that not only had NASA responded to our letter by targeting the Face specifically on April 8, 2001, but he was also claiming that they had already released the image (along with a stereoscopic 3D version) some time prior to his response.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:14707-14958 opinion first hand
642
Richard C. Hoagland's team went back to scour all the public NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) websites but could find no such Face on Mars image as Edward Weiler had described.
“Quickly, we went back to scour all the public NASA, JPL and MSSS websites, but could find no such Face image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:15044-15147 observation first hand
643
Tom Van Flandern spent nearly 90 minutes at the April 2001 press conference discussing Cydonia research already familiar to listeners of the Art Bell radio show.
“He spent nearly 90 minutes ... droning on about various aspects of the Cydonia research that anyone who had heard him on the Art Bell show had heard many times before”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:1509-1694 opinion first hand
644
An anonymous Bush administration source, referred to as "Deep Space", told Richard C. Hoagland's team that a new Face on Mars image had indeed been taken and was sending shockwaves through NASA.
“Our Bush administration source (let’s just call him “Deep Space” from here on out) told us that a new Face image had indeed been taken, and it was sending ripples, if not shockwaves, through the agency.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:15731-15926 hearsay second hand
645
There were rumblings of a press conference being scheduled for the day following May 23, 2001, regarding NASA's Face on Mars decision.
“There were even rumblings of a press conference being scheduled for the next day. Instead, all we got was the picture.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:16200-16310 hearsay
646
Richard C. Hoagland considers the May 24, 2001 Face on Mars image to have been improperly ortho-rectified, because features seen along the centreline in the Viking data and the Catbox image were skewed to the western side.
“Further, it seemed to have been improperly ortho-rectified, because features that were seen to be along the centerline in Viking data and the Catbox image were now skewed to the western side.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:17309-17495 opinion first hand
647
Richard C. Hoagland considers the skewing in the May 24, 2001 Face on Mars image to have enhanced the asymmetry of the two sides of the object by stretching the eastern half in proportion to the western side.
“This had the effect of enhancing the asymmetry of the two sides of the object by stretching the eastern half in proportion to the western side.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:17501-17639 opinion first hand
648
Tom Van Flandern had only about three years of active participation in Cydonia issues at the time of the April 2001 press conference.
“Van Flandern himself had only about three years of active participation in the issues of Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:1758-1848 opinion first hand
649
Richard C. Hoagland considers the May 24, 2001 Face on Mars image confirmed the authors' prediction of a half-and-half, human-feline hybrid, and not a clearly symmetrical human face.
“What was clear from the new image was that while the Face had a substantial general symmetry, it was not (just as we predicted) a clearly symmetrical human face. Preliminary symmetries confirmed it to be exactly what the authors had predicted, a half-and-half, human-feline hybrid.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:17717-17991 opinion first hand
650
NASA published an article series titled "Unmasking the Face on Mars" with no byline, coincident with the release of the new Face image, which Richard C. Hoagland considers resorted to gross distortions and outright fallacies.
“Specially prepared “hit pieces” were posted coincident with release of the new image. Titled “Unmasking the Face on Mars” and authored by NASA (there was no byline), the article series resorted to gross distortions and outright fallacies in their attack on the image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:18264-18528 opinion first hand
651
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the April 2001 Van Flandern press conference presentation was built solidly on the work of other researchers, mostly Hoagland, without proper attribution.
“the presentation was built solidly on the work of other researchers (mostly Hoagland)—which, incredibly, for the most part he consistently failed to properly attribute”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:1857-2015 opinion first hand
652
Richard C. Hoagland considers that a scientific approach would have been to simply release the Face on Mars data the day it was acquired and allow scientific debate to take its course, rather than mounting a political strategy.
“A scientific approach would have been to simply release the data the day it was acquired, and allow the scientific debate to take its course. Instead, we were once again treated to a calculated smear campaign obviously aimed directly at the national media.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:18719-18969 opinion first hand
653
The "Unmasking the Face on Mars" article did not include an image of Middle Butte Mesa, making it impossible for readers to assess NASA's integrity in the comparison.
“Of course, the article didn’t contain an image of Middle Butte, making it impossible for anyone to assess NASA’s integrity when”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:19853-19976 opinion first hand
654
The Face on Mars has two parallel straight edges on either side of its base that run straight for hundreds of metres.
“the Face had two parallel straight edges on either side of the base that ran straight for hundreds of meters on either side”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:20383-20502 opinion first hand
655
At the April 2001 press conference, Tom Van Flandern discussed the writing on the D&M Pyramid, reiterating that the markings were Arabic letters on the structure itself.
“he then went on to discuss the writing on the D&M. Once again, he reiterated the absurd notion that these were actually Arabic letters on the structure itself”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:2058-2210 opinion first hand
656
An article by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used a vertically compressed, distorted, and upside-down version of the Face on Mars, generated by a shape-from-shading algorithm.
“NASA used a vertically compressed, grossly distorted and upside-down version of the Face, supposedly generated by a shape-from-shading algorithm”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:20908-21043 observation first hand
657
Parallel features clearly visible in the Viking overhead images of the Face on Mars from 1976 appeared highly divergent in the distorted National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) version of the image.
“It was so badly distorted that parallel features clearly visible in the Viking overhead shots from 1976 ended up highly (and impossibly) divergent”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:21054-21191 opinion first hand
658
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) article linked the distorted shape-from-shading Face image to a three-dimensional colour version of data from the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument to argue that the Face on Mars is just another Martian hill.
“they linked this image to a very impressive-looking 3D color version of separate data from the MGS MOLA (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) instrument—and then used these two images to “prove” that the Face on Mars is just another Martian hill”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:21235-21469 observation first hand
659
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in its Face-on-Mars analysis has a resolution of 150 metres per pixel.
“The MOLA instrument they were relying so much on has a resolution of *150 meters per pixel.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:22024-22109 measurement first hand
660
A resolution of 150 metres per pixel for the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) is six times worse than the resolution of the twenty-five-year-old Viking data used to image the Face on Mars.
“NASA was basing its entire “it’s just a hill” argument on a MOLA “image” that is *six times worse* than the twenty-five-year-old Viking data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:22117-22253 opinion first hand
661
At a resolution of 150 metres per pixel, an object must be about the size of three baseball stadiums to be detectable by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA).
“At that resolution, an object has to be about the size of three baseball stadiums to even show up.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:22259-22354 opinion first hand
662
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) sends out ten pulses of laser light per second that bounce off the Martian surface and are reflected back to the instrument's receiver.
“What the MOLA really does is send out a series of pulses (ten per second) of laser light that “bounce” off the Martian surface and are reflected back to the instrument’s receiver.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:23390-23560 measurement first hand
663
Each single, circular data pixel produced by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on Mars is approximately 160 metres in diameter.
“This results in a single, circular “pixel” (or picture element) of data that is some 160 meters in diameter.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:23570-23669 measurement first hand
664
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft travels at approximately 3.3 kilometres per second.
“Since the spacecraft is traveling at about 3.3 km per second”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:23679-23734 measurement first hand
665
Successive Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data points are approximately 330 metres apart along the Mars Global Surveyor's ground track, leaving gaps of about 170 metres between the 160-metre pixels.
“the next “dot” is some 330 meters down track (since MGS is in a roughly polar orbit), leaving a gap in the image track about 170 meters wide”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:23742-23878 measurement first hand
666
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) has a stated vertical resolution of twenty to thirty centimetres.
“the twenty to thirty centimeter vertical resolution of the instrument”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:24861-24920 measurement first hand
667
An unnamed critic argued that the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument is better than the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) for resolving features on the Martian surface, based on its vertical resolution.
“He even went so far as to suggest that because of that, the MOLA instrument is “better” for resolving features on the Martian surface than the MOC camera.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:24947-25094 hearsay second hand
668
Within a single 160-metre-diameter Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data pixel, the instrument assigns a value based on the average spacecraft altitude above the ground, accurate to within about one metre.
“That average value for the area in question *is* accurate to within about one meter with respect to the distance below the spacecraft, but that’s it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:25888-26034 measurement first hand
669
A 160-metre-diameter Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data pixel is approximately the same diameter as the Tacoma Dome arena near Seattle.
“It is, within about five feet, the diameter of the Tacoma Dome arena near Seattle.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:26186-26260 opinion first hand
670
The Tacoma Dome arena can hold upwards of 23,000 people.
“The Tacoma Dome can hold upwards of 23,000 people”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:26269-26312 measurement first hand
671
A resolution of 160 metres per pixel is a 150 percent difference from the Viking imaging resolution of 50 metres per pixel.
“But remember, 160 meters-per-pixel vs. Viking’s fifty meters-per-pixel, is a *150%* difference.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:26878-26962 measurement first hand
672
The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) has a maximum resolution of 1.5 metres per pixel.
“the MGS camera, at its maximum resolution of 1.5 meters per pixel”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:27634-27694 measurement first hand
673
Each pixel captured by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) is assigned a specific colour value from 256 available shades of grey.
“each of those pixels has a specific color value assigned to it from 256 available shades of gray”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:27867-27959 measurement first hand
674
The Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) claimed to identify a "scorpion", a collapsed structure that Richard C. Hoagland had found in 1998, among the pictographs claimed to be visible on the Martian surface.
“a “scorpion” (actually a collapsed structure found by Hoagland in 1998)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:3012-3078 observation
675
By the time of writing, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) had completed about 10,000 orbits of Mars since beginning its Mapping Phase.
“that had only amounted to about 10,000 orbits since MGS began the Mission Mapping Phase in March 1998”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:30262-30359 measurement first hand
676
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) began its Mapping Phase mission in March 1998.
“since MGS began the Mission Mapping Phase in March 1998”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:30308-30359 administrative first hand
677
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) tracks over the Face on Mars at the Face's latitude of 41 degrees North are spaced approximately 1.3 kilometres apart, closer than the roughly 2.4-kilometre spacing at the Martian equator.
“At the latitude of the Face (41° N), the distance between tracks is somewhat less—probably about 0.80 miles.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:30656-30758 measurement first hand
678
The Face on Mars is approximately 1.9 kilometres wide.
“Since the Face is only about 1.2 miles wide”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:30765-30804 measurement first hand
679
There had been only one direct overhead Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image of the Face on Mars released by Michael Malin before the analysis in question, taken in 2000-06.
“Since there had only been one direct overhead MOC shot of the Face released by Dr. Malin to this point—the one taken in June 2000”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:30923-31048 administrative first hand
680
The first Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image of the Face on Mars was taken in 1998-04, and it was taken off-nadir, meaning the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) was not used for that pass.
“because the first MGS image, taken in April 1998, and the latest one were taken “off nadir,” so MOLA was not used”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:31192-31301 administrative first hand
681
The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image of the Face on Mars taken in 2000-06 did not track accurately across the middle of the Face, but was offset to one side.
“the June 2000 example did not track accurately across *the middle* of the Face, but was offset to one side”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:31327-31429 observation first hand
682
Previous estimates using comparative stereo images and trigonometric shadow-length measurements found the Face on Mars to be about 460 metres high at the tip of its nose.
“Previous estimates, made from reliable methods like comparative stereo images and measuring trigonometric shadow lengths, have shown that the Face is actually some 1,500 feet high at the nose tip.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:32202-32394 measurement first hand
683
Jim Frawley is a contract scientist credited, along with Jim Garvin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with creating the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) image used in the NASA "hit piece" article on the Face on Mars.
“Jim Frawley, the contract scientist who is credited (along with NASA’s Jim Garvin) as having created the “MOLA” image used in the NASA hit piece”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:32622-32761 administrative first hand
684
There were only two Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) passes over the Face on Mars, each consisting of a series of fifteen to twenty data points 160 metres in diameter with no discernible fine detail.
“So, that’s *two* passes: each a series of fifteen to twenty dots, *160 meters* in diameter, with absolutely *no* discernable detail”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:32926-33051 opinion first hand
685
An eyeball feature on the Face on Mars was strikingly visible in both the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image taken in 2000-06 and a second detailed image taken on 2001-04-08.
“the “eyeball” strikingly visible in the June 2000 image and in the April 8, 2001 second detailed image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:33809-33906 observation first hand
686
Richard C. Hoagland considers Jim Garvin to lack either the intelligence or the integrity necessary to carry out his duties as director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars projects.
“Garvin has been shown to be lacking either the intelligence or the integrity necessary to carry out his duties as director of NASA’s Mars projects”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:35558-35696 opinion first hand
687
An unnamed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist said, after the 1998 Catbox release of the Face on Mars image, that the intent was to "scotch this thing for good".
“they were calculatingly designed to “scotch this thing for good,” as one unnamed JPL scientist put it after the 1998 Catbox fiasco”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:35888-36012 hearsay second hand
688
Hoagland's Geometric Relationship Model for Cydonia allows for quantification and testing of the intelligence hypothesis through specific predictions derived from the hyperdimensional physics theory associated with the alignment model.
“Hoagland’s Geometric Relationship Model for Cydonia—with its potential for quantification and testing of the foundations of the “intelligence hypothesis” itself (in the form of specific predictions made by the hyperdimensional physics theory derived from that alignment model)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:38591-38862 opinion first hand
689
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara predicted, based on Mark Carlotto's fractal imaging analysis published in Monuments in 1992, that the eastern half of the Face on Mars is feline while the western half is human.
“our prediction had been about the visual make-up of the eastern half of the Face. It stated boldly that the Face is really *two* faces: One human, one feline.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:40262-40413 opinion first hand
690
Richard C. Hoagland considers it wrong that the eastern (Cliff) half of the Face on Mars is more eroded than the western (City) half.
“In truth, it is simply wrong that the eastern (Cliff) half is more eroded than the western (City) half.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:43142-43240 opinion first hand
691
Richard C. Hoagland considers it wrong that the Cliff side of the Face on Mars is more irregular than the City side.
“It is equally wrong that the Cliff side is also more irregular.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:43246-43299 opinion first hand
692
Richard C. Hoagland considers the new image of the Face on Mars released on 2001-05-24 to show that the eastern half is significantly less eroded than the western half and retains more of the original surface casing.
“In reality, the new image showed that the eastern half is significantly less eroded and appears to have more of the original “casing” on it then the more weathered western half.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:43705-43877 opinion first hand
693
Richard C. Hoagland's preliminary analysis of the single high-resolution image of the Face on Mars released by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 2001-05-24 revealed evidence of structural detail suggesting significant portions of the Face are composed of highly eroded manufactured elements rather than being carved.
“Our own preliminary analysis of the single high-resolution image NASA released May 24 had also revealed provocative evidence of structural detail. In other words, as opposed to being “carved”—like a Martian “Mt. Rushmore”—significant portions of the Face on Mars seem to be composed of highly eroded *manufactured* elements.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:44756-45071 opinion first hand
694
Richard C. Hoagland's preliminary analysis of the high-resolution image of the Face on Mars found what appear to be still-detectable geometric rooms and complex supporting structures exposed on the heavily eroded western platform of the Face.
“There literally appear to be a series of still-detectable geometric *rooms* and complex supporting structures, nakedly exposed on the heavily eroded western platform of the Face.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:45081-45254 observation first hand
695
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara consider the close-up view from the 2001-05-24 Face on Mars image a striking confirmation of the 1992 prediction that the Face would be found to be a highly complex constructed object with repeating arrays of geometric ruins.
“The close-up from the May 24 image is striking confirmation of that major prediction.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:45759-45833 opinion first hand
696
George Haas and William Saunders researched and found innumerable terrestrial examples of split faces among the Maya, in ceremonial masks, monumental architecture, and Mayan glyphs.
“We’ve found (with the invaluable research of George Haas and his colleague William Saunders121) that there are indeed innumerable terrestrial examples of precisely such “split faces” among the Maya—in ceremonial masks, monumental architecture, even in the classic “Mayan glyphs.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:48220-48491 observation second hand
697
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter programs to have been run to support the manned Apollo program rather than independently.
“The simple fact of the matter is that the Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter programs were not run independently of the manned program at NASA, but to support it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:4847-5006 opinion first hand
698
Many of the split-face examples found among Maya artefacts are precise man/animal hybrids, such as the man/jaguar image, similar to Richard C. Hoagland's proposal for the Face on Mars.
“In many cases, these split faces are precise *man/animal hybrids* (like the man/jaguar image)—just as Hoagland long ago proposed for the Face on Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:48500-48645 opinion first hand
699
Richard C. Hoagland considers that a manned Mars program would give the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) more work than it could handle, mapping an area comparable to all of Earth's continents combined.
“In reality, a commitment to a manned Mars program would be the best thing that ever happened to JPL. They’d have more work than they could handle, sending probe after probe to map the Martian surface (as much land area as all the continents of Earth combined) to pave the way for the manned landings”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:5219-5510 opinion first hand
700
The traditional depiction of Mary and Jesus as "Madonna and Child" derives from earlier images of Isis and Horus.
“Indeed, even the traditional depiction of Mary and Jesus as “Madonna and Child” derives from earlier images of Isis and Horus.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:54512-54632 opinion first hand
701
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the Face on Mars monument was intended to represent a "Martian Sphinx", the first Horus.
“Our own conclusion was that this monument was intended to be exactly what it appeared: A “Martian Sphinx”—the first Horus.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:55177-55293 opinion first hand
702
The tangent of the Face on Mars's Cydonia latitude of 41 degrees on Mars is precisely equal to the cosine of the Great Sphinx of Egypt's latitude of 30 degrees at Giza.
“if you want numbers, the tangent of the Face’s Cydonia latitude (41º) on Mars is precisely equal to the *cosine* of the Sphinx’s latitude at Giza (30º).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:55395-55542 measurement first hand
703
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) would do anything to avoid admitting that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was deliberately covering up evidence of artefacts on the surface of Mars.
“It was now obvious to us that the SPSR crowd would do *anything* to avoid admitting the truth—that JPL was deliberately covering up the evidence of artifacts on the surface of Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:5567-5743 opinion first hand
704
Figure 8-1 shows the hominid and feline halves of the Face on Mars as folded-over symmetries from 1976 Viking Cydonia data, originally discovered and presented by Richard C. Hoagland at the United Nations in 1992.
“Fig. 8-1 - “Hominid” (L) and “Feline” (R) halves of the “Face on Mars’” -- folded over symmetries -- from 1976 Viking Cydonia data. Originally discovered and presented by Hoagland at the United Nations, 1992 (JPL/Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:57200-57413 observation first hand
705
Richard C. Hoagland produced the hominid and feline symmetries of the Face on Mars shown in Figure 8-6, done with MGS image E03-00824.
“Fig. 8-6 - “Hominid” and “Feline” symmetries of the Face done with E03-00824. (Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:58361-58440 observation first hand
706
Richard C. Hoagland and his co-authors severed ties with the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) group.
“led the authors to sever all ties to the group”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:6197-6238 administrative first hand
707
Richard C. Hoagland's team printed a scathing review of the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) press briefing on the Enterprise Mission website.
“We printed a scathing review of the press briefing on the Enterprise Mission website”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:6245-6322 administrative first hand
708
Richard C. Hoagland continued to support Tom Van Flandern's work on the Exploded Planet Hypothesis and other areas of agreement even after severing ties with the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) on Cydonia.
“while Hoagland would continue to support Van Flandern’s work on the Exploded Planet Hypothesis and other areas of agreement, we decided to go our own way on Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:6335-6492 administrative first hand
709
Richard C. Hoagland speculated and predicted as far back as 1992, at his United Nations presentation, that the eastern half of the Face on Mars had a feline aspect.
“Hoagland had speculated (and predicted) as far back as 1992 (at the UN) that the eastern half had a *feline* aspect”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:7437-7546 opinion first hand
710
A source inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed to Richard C. Hoagland that the eastern side of the Face on Mars possessed a feline aspect.
“a JPL source had recently confirmed to Hoagland that the eastern side of the Face *did* possess this puzzling “feline” aspect”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:7563-7682 hearsay second hand
711
By the early 1990s, Richard C. Hoagland had concluded that the Face on Mars was significantly asymmetric.
“By the early 1990s, Hoagland had come to the conclusion that the Face was significantly asymmetric.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:7691-7779 opinion first hand
712
Richard C. Hoagland, upon close examination of the original Viking data, decided that the overall features of the Face on Mars would be significantly asymmetric when new imagery of the entire feature was obtained.
“Hoagland decided upon close examination of the original Viking data that the overall features would be significantly asymmetric when new imagery of the entire feature was obtained”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:7889-8060 opinion first hand
713
Richard C. Hoagland began seriously thinking that the asymmetry of the Face on Mars was actually planned.
“Hoagland began seriously thinking that such asymmetry was actually *planned*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:8288-8356 opinion first hand
714
After the acquisition of the 1998 Catbox image, Kynthia Lynne became convinced of Richard C. Hoagland's specific asymmetry theory that the Cliff side of the Face on Mars was intended to represent a lion.
“It was only years later, after the acquisition of the 1998 Catbox image, that Kynthia—working to bring her 3D analog Face sculpture into conformity with the new data—became a convert to Hoagland’s specific asymmetry ideal, that the right-hand (Cliff) side was specifically intended to represent a “lion.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:8581-8879 opinion
715
Richard C. Hoagland did not accept that the original shape of the Face on Mars was symmetrical or necessarily even human.
“Hoagland hadn’t bought that the “original” shape was anything like a symmetric form—and, more importantly, not necessarily even *human*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:9172-9301 opinion first hand
716
Richard C. Hoagland conducted an experiment in which he made two composite faces from mirrored cutouts of photographic blow-ups of the Face on Mars from the Viking data, one mirrored from the western (City) side and one mirrored from the eastern (Cliff) side.
“Hoagland had taken a series of cutouts of large photographic blow-ups of the Face from the Viking data and made himself two faces—one mirrored from the western or “City side,” and one mirrored from the eastern or “Cliff side.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:9363-9583 observation first hand
717
When Richard C. Hoagland put the two City-side halves of the Face on Mars together, they created a distinct, primitive proto-human hominid appearance.
“When the two “city halves” were put together, they created a distinct (if primitive) proto-human form—a clear “hominid” appearance.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:9631-9751 observation first hand
718
When Richard C. Hoagland placed the two Cliff-side halves of the Face on Mars together, they created a markedly feline image.
“When the Cliff side halves were placed together, they created the markedly feline image on the right.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:9763-9858 observation first hand
719
Richard C. Hoagland made a major point of the human/feline hybrid nature of the Face on Mars during his 1992 United Nations presentation.
“Hoagland later made a major point of this during his 1992 UN presentation”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch15:9865-9926 administrative first hand
720
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara were told that their Mars Tidal Model would not be allowed to be presented at established Mars conferences because of their work on Cydonia.
“we were told in no uncertain terms that our theory would not be allowed to be presented because of our work on Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:11357-11468 testimony first hand
721
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara used the terms 'Owls' and 'Roosters', drawn from intelligence-community usage, to describe groups advocating suppression versus revelation of Cydonia-related issues.
“we had taken to calling these two groups the “Owls” and the “Roosters,” two terms used inside the intelligence community to refer to groups that advocate suppression of a given issue vs. revelation of a given issue”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:13954-14163 opinion first hand
722
Jim Garvin encouraged Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara to submit papers to Mars conferences and publications, promising that they would get a fair hearing.
“He also encouraged us to submit papers to the various Mars conferences and publications, promising that they would get a fair hearing”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:16579-16705 testimony second hand
723
An anonymous private source known as Deep Space encouraged Richard C. Hoagland to demand nighttime infrared data of Cydonia.
“He encouraged us to demand nighttime IR data, especially of Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:17335-17395 hearsay second hand
724
About two weeks before the late February Space.com article, a series of images purportedly from Mars appeared on the web, leaked from a company called IEC.
“We’d started to get a hint that “something” was coming about two weeks prior to the late February Space.com piece. A series of images suddenly appeared on the web, purportedly from Mars and leaked from a company called IEC.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:20140-20379 observation first hand
725
The IEC images included colour, infrared and radar imagery of an "Anomaly 502" purported to show Martian ruins just below the surface.
“They included color, infrared and radar imagery of an “Anomaly 502” that was supposed to be of some Martian ruins just below the surface.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:20384-20513 observation first hand
726
Richard C. Hoagland had serious doubts about the legitimacy of the Anomaly 502 image.
“While we immediately had serious doubts about the legitimacy of the image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:20522-20590 opinion first hand
727
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara believed that the infrared capability of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) might allow them to see below the surface of Cydonia using ground-penetrating near-infrared wavelengths.
“The infrared capability of THEMIS might also allow us to see “below the surface” of Cydonia for the first time, using the ground-penetrating capabilities of the near IR wavelengths”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:2076-2246 opinion first hand
728
A density of 1.95 grams per cubic centimetre implies Phobos is almost one third hollow.
“meaning it was almost 1/3 hollow”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:22019-22045 opinion first hand
729
Richard C. Hoagland considers the rectilinear pattern in the Hydraotes Chaos infrared image strongly indicative of a buried cityscape.
“This regular, highly geometric pattern (across an area the size of Los Angeles) is strongly indicative of a cityscape just under the surface.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:23262-23395 opinion first hand
730
The scientific interest in the Phobos 2 anomaly story was largely ignored in the United States.
“And yet, all of this high level interest in this story by scientific heavyweights was virtually ignored in the United States.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:24428-24546 opinion first hand
731
Richard C. Hoagland expected the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would produce an infrared image, most probably taken near Hydraotes Chaos, at its upcoming press conference.
“Based on this, we expected that NASA would produce an IR image, most probably taken of or near Hydroates Chaos at their press conference.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:25169-25295 opinion first hand
732
Dr Philip Christensen presented the new infrared images from Mars Odyssey at the 2002-03-01 press briefing and appeared edgy while doing so.
“Dr. Phillip Christensen, especially, seemed edgy as he presented images from the infrared camera.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:26135-26225 opinion first hand
733
At the 2002-03-01 Mars Odyssey press briefing, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer team, led by Dr William Boynton, presented data supporting Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model.
“We were also pleased to get more confirmation of our tidal model at the press briefing, in the form of Gamma Ray Spectrometer data... the GRS team, led by Dr. William Boynton, gathered some data anyway while the instrument was still in its “parked” position.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:27432-27735 opinion first hand
734
Richard C. Hoagland made a specific prediction more than six months before the 2002-03-01 Mars Odyssey press briefing that Odyssey would find water distributed anomalously on Tharsis and Arabia.
“Because of our specific prediction more than six months previously in our paper, that Odyssey would find exactly this anomalous (beyond our model) water distribution”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:28436-28591 opinion first hand
735
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Gamma Ray Spectrometer water-distribution findings absolute confirmation that his Mars tidal model is correct.
“we could state categorically that these findings constitute absolute, inviolable confirmation that our model is correct”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:28605-28717 opinion first hand
736
Richard C. Hoagland considers the water distribution findings from Mars Odyssey to also confirm the work of Effrain Palermo and Jill England, since the water distribution corresponds to where they found what he describes as water stain images.
“It also proved that the work done by Palermo and England is correct, since the water distribution corresponds precisely where they have found what were now proven water stain images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:28726-28901 opinion first hand
737
Neither William Boynton nor members of the press at the 2002-03-01 press briefing noted that the water distribution on the Tharsis and Arabia bulges was inexplicable under conventional models of Mars evolution.
“What was stunning was that neither Boynton nor any members of the assembled press... made the slightest note of the fact that the water—inexplicably for the established conventional models of Mars evolution—was distributed on two such prominent features of the Martian landscape.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:28910-29248 opinion first hand
738
The Enterprise Mission website posting on the Hydaspis Chaos infrared image generated an unusually large amount of negative comment.
“In fact, few stories over the years generated as much negative comment as our web posting on the new Hydaspsis Chaos IR image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:30313-30433 opinion first hand
739
Critics of the Enterprise Mission's Hydaspis Chaos posting focused on the infrared image rather than on the confirmation of the Mars tidal model that Richard C. Hoagland says the article also contained.
“our critics steadfastly ignored the flat-out confirmation of our Mars tidal model that was included in the piece, and instead preferred to focus on the infrared image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:30478-30640 opinion first hand
740
Critics accused Richard C. Hoagland of immediately claiming the geometric block-like features in the Hydaspis Chaos infrared image were artificial, which he says he had not done.
“In many cases, they accused us of immediately claiming that the geometric block-like features in the IR image were artificial, which we flatly had not done—to that point.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:30945-31109 opinion first hand
741
NASA also failed to provide a visible-light context image of the Hydaspis Chaos region at its initial Mars Odyssey press briefing, despite the THEMIS team having the nighttime infrared image for over a week beforehand and having the resources to find a companion visible image from the Viking archive.
“this critic made no mention of the fact that NASA, at its initial Odyssey press briefing, also failed to provide such an important context image. This, in spite of the fact that the THEMIS folks had their remarkable nighttime IR image for over a week before the press conference, not to mention the budget and staff to easily do a search for such a visible companion image from the Viking archive.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:31451-31840 opinion first hand
742
Richard C. Hoagland characterised the Enterprise Mission's initial Hydaspis Chaos posting as a "preliminary assessment".
“the posting of our initial article, which we clearly characterized as a “preliminary assessment” in any case”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:31987-32091 administrative first hand
743
Richard C. Hoagland found the anomalist community's angry reaction to the Hydaspis Chaos evidence disturbing.
“We found this reaction, from the alleged “anomalist community” to be quite disturbing. They were the ones supposedly most interested in finding proof of extraterrestrial artifacts, but when we confronted them with solid evidence, they reacted angrily.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:32098-32341 opinion first hand
744
Critics of the Hydaspis Chaos posting mistakenly assumed Richard C. Hoagland was expecting to see blatant evidence of artificiality in the broader context visible-light image, when he was not.
“They assumed that we were expecting to see blatant evidence of artificiality in the broader context visible light image. We weren’t.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:32729-32859 opinion first hand
745
In Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model, Mars lost more than half its atmosphere on the day of the destruction of its parent planet, "Planet V".
“That first day she lost better than half her atmosphere, experienced floods of Biblical proportions, was bombarded with literally miles of Planet V’s debris, and lost her ability to sustain higher forms of life.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:34315-34521 opinion first hand
746
In Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model, Mars was bombarded with debris from the destruction of Planet V and lost its ability to sustain higher forms of life on the same day.
“was bombarded with literally miles of Planet V’s debris, and lost her ability to sustain higher forms of life”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:34416-34521 opinion first hand
747
In Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model, virtually all remaining water on Mars was frozen in place as surface or subsurface water ice, or sublimated to the poles, within a few months or weeks of Planet V's destruction.
“Within a few months, if not weeks, virtually all of the remaining water on Mars was either frozen in place as surface or subsurface water ice, or sublimated to the poles.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:34528-34692 opinion first hand
748
Richard C. Hoagland considers frost wedging an unlikely explanation for the geometric formations in the Hydaspis Chaos region, because frost wedging on Earth takes decades while his Mars tidal model holds that Mars' remaining water froze within weeks to months of the loss of Planet V.
“Since frost wedging would have taken decades to accomplish its erosive process, it seems unlikely that it can be attributed to what we see here.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:34755-34894 opinion first hand
749
In Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model, Hydaspis Chaos was a dumping ground for huge volumes of water released when Mars' prior gravitational orbital lock with Planet V was suddenly severed.
“In our take on this remarkable region, Hydaspis Chaos was a “dumping ground” for some of the huge volumes of water that were released from the sudden severing of Mars’ prior gravitational relationship (orbital lock) with Planet V.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:36624-36852 opinion first hand
750
Richard C. Hoagland's Mars tidal model assumes the Hydaspis Chaos area imaged by Mars Odyssey and Viking is covered by a relatively insulating layer of hardened mud to a depth of at least several kilometres.
“Well, our model assumes that the area Odyssey and Viking imaged is covered now with a (relatively insulating) “hard mud” to a significant depth (at least several kilometers).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:38118-38281 opinion first hand
751
Richard C. Hoagland found an odd-looking streak on Mars Orbiter Camera image SP2-33806 in Michael Malin's online image libraries.
“the authors shared a discussion about an image found by Hoagland in the vast image libraries that Malin had put on the internet. Hoagland was at first perplexed by the odd looking streak he had found on MOC image SP2-33806”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:3892-4109 observation first hand
752
Nighttime infrared images of Hydaspis Chaos show each crater rim with a dull IR signature, suggesting a much softer, more insulating material than bare rock.
“The IR signature of each crater rim seems curiously dull—as if the thermal emission was coming from something with a much softer, far more insulating nature than bare rock”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:40208-40375 observation first hand
753
Richard C. Hoagland's model holds that Hydaspis Chaos is a deep flood plain of overlying mud and sediments, with ancient bedrock buried far below the surface.
“these completely unexpected IR crater signatures neatly reinforce our model—that this region is in fact a deep flood plain of overlying mud and sediments, with the ancient bedrock now buried miles below the surface”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:40599-40806 opinion first hand
754
Richard C. Hoagland attributes the origin of the Hydaspis Chaos flood scenario to a cataclysm that tore Mars from its parent planet, Planet V, roughly sixty-five million years ago.
“this whole area (and the other “Chaos” regions?) is one massive mud flow from the ancient cataclysm that rent Mars from its mother planet about sixty-five million years ago from its orbit of Planet V”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:41029-41227 opinion first hand
755
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Hydaspis Chaos mesa walls to be composed of a heat-retentive material arranged in a regular geometric pattern of uniform thickness, extending for hundreds of kilometres around each mesa.
“The latter, then, are simply composed of some much more heat-retentive material arrayed in a stunningly regular, geometric pattern of amazingly uniform thickness—and stretching for literally hundreds of collective miles around each mesa”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:41611-41843 opinion first hand
756
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that the Hydaspis Chaos mesa walls, made of a heat-retentive material, were already in place before the flood cataclysm and were not shaped by the tidal floods that carved the surrounding sediment.
“these Hydaspsis Chaos mesas do not appear themselves to have been shaped and eroded by the vast tidal floods gouging out pre-existing bedrock into intricate geometric forms, but by the tidally-released sediments flowing around and over pre-existing sets of resistant walls composed of a heat-retentive something, walls clearly now already in place *before* the catastrophe itself”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:41856-42229 opinion first hand
757
Richard C. Hoagland argues that no known natural geologic process forms walls with regular uniform thickness and intricate opposing geometric patterns capable of being filled in by massive mud flows, as seen at Hydaspis Chaos.
“What kind of natural geologic process forms such walls—with regular, uniform thickness and intricate (and opposing) geometric patterns—that can be filled in by massive mud flows of the type we now see here? The short answer is: none.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:42278-42506 opinion first hand
758
Richard C. Hoagland uses a hypothetical collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf causing sudden coastal flooding on Earth as an analogy for the kind of cataclysm that could produce Hydaspis Chaos-like geometric mesa patterns.
“If the Earth’s rotational axis suddenly shifted, or if the collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf resulted in massive amounts of water suddenly inundating habitable coastal areas, everything above ground would be swept away almost instantly in the resulting massive floods.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:42704-42962 opinion first hand
759
Richard C. Hoagland uses the Los Angeles basin as a hypothetical example of how flooded and buried building foundations would erode into a geometric mesa pattern resembling the Hydaspis Chaos infrared imagery.
“If this happened in an area the size of say, the Los Angeles basin, then all one would expect to see would be the remnants of these former rising structures, arranged in a hauntingly geometric pattern indicated by their remnant foundations.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:43070-43298 opinion first hand
760
Richard C. Hoagland considers the bright, intensely geometric outlines seen in the Hydaspis Chaos infrared imagery to be the exhumed foundations of former massive artificial structures.
“It was increasingly apparent that these bright, intensely geometric outlines are, in fact, the exhumed foundations of former massive artificial structures—all that remains after the ancient raging floods completely leveled the original structures' towering upper levels.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:44465-44728 opinion first hand
761
Richard C. Hoagland notes that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the Mars Odyssey nighttime infrared image of Hydaspis Chaos exactly thirteen years to the day after Soviet Phobos 2 infrared images of a nearby area were taken.
“NASA was obviously looking for when they took and then released this specific Odyssey IR data as their “first nighttime image,” precisely thirteen years to the day after the Russians took their own provocative Phobos 2 IR images just a stone's throw away from this same area”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:45071-45341 observation first hand
762
Roger Gibbs, the new Mars Odyssey Project Manager, showed the Hydaspis Chaos infrared image at two public lectures, one at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Von Karman Auditorium and the other at Pasadena City College.
“At two subsequent Mars Odyssey public lectures, one held at JPL's Von Karmen Auditorium, the second at Pasadena City College (in Room 333, of course), Dr. Roger Gibbs, the new Odyssey Project Manager, provocatively showed this same baffling IR Odyssey image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:45948-46200 observation first hand
763
Some critics of the Hydaspis Chaos artificiality hypothesis pointed to Mariner 9's 'Inca City' feature as an example of a similar natural geologic feature.
“Some of the critics then raised the similarity to even older and similar geologic anomalies on Mars, like Mariner 9's so-called “Inca City.” They pointedly used the MGS images of “Inca City” in an attempt to dismiss Hydaspsis Chaos as an obviously similar “natural set” of features”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:47243-47516 observation first hand
764
Richard C. Hoagland compares the geometry of Mariner 9's 'Inca City' feature on Mars to the Anasazi structures in Chaco Canyon, USA.
““Inca City” [Fig. 9-5] compares very favorably (in terms of straight geometry) to well-known archeological ruins on Earth, like the Anasazi structures in Chaco Canyon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:47606-47765 opinion first hand
765
On 2002-04-12, Richard C. Hoagland's team received the first Mars Odyssey data covering the Cydonia region of Mars.
“After another month of waiting, on Friday, April 12, 2002, we got the first Mars Odyssey data to cover the Cydonia region of Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:48827-48952 administrative first hand
766
The 2002-04-12 Mars Odyssey Cydonia data release did not include the promised multi-spectral nighttime infrared image of the Face on Mars and surrounding structures.
“Unfortunately, we did not get what we had hoped for (a multi-spectral nighttime infrared image of the Face and surrounding structures).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:48958-49081 observation first hand
767
The 2002-04-12 Mars Odyssey Cydonia data release did not include the promised full-colour five-band image of the Cydonia complex.
“Nor did we get a full-color image of the Cydonia complex in the promised five-band color.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49094-49177 observation first hand
768
The 2002-04-12 Mars Odyssey release included a grayscale image strip from the spacecraft's visible light camera at a resolution of approximately nineteen metres per pixel.
“What we did get was a nice grayscale strip from the spacecraft's visible light camera [Fig. 9-6]. At nineteen meters-per-pixel, the image was substantially better resolution than the fifty meter-per-pixel images we got in the Viking era.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49184-49417 measurement first hand
769
The Viking-era Mars images of Cydonia had a resolution of approximately fifty metres per pixel.
“substantially better resolution than the fifty meter-per-pixel images we got in the Viking era”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49326-49417 measurement first hand
770
The best Mars Global Surveyor images of Cydonia achieved a resolution of approximately four to five metres per pixel, an order of magnitude better than the 2002 Mars Odyssey visible-light strip.
“Still, it is an order of magnitude lower than the four to five meter-per-pixel images we got in the best of circumstances from Mars Global Surveyor.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49422-49561 measurement first hand
771
The D&M Pyramid was almost completely missed in the publicly released Cydonia images from Malin Space Science Systems.
“the D&M, for instance, had been almost completely missed in the publicly released images from Malin Space Science Systems”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49820-49934 observation first hand
772
The 2002 Mars Odyssey visible-light image strip of Cydonia showed the Face on Mars, the D&M Pyramid, and the Fort feature.
“Previously identified objects of interest that were visible in the new Odyssey image strip included the Face, the D&M Pyramid, the Fort... and some surprises.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:49944-50092 observation first hand
773
The 2002 Mars Odyssey image showed the object south of the Face, previously interpreted as a 'dolphin' shape, to be more clearly defined than in previous images, revealing two distinct faceted walls of a tetrahedral structure.
“The first thing we noticed was that the so-called “massive tetrahedral ruin” adjacent to the symmetrical mesa just south of the Face was much more clearly defined than in the previous images... We could now see clearly from directly overhead that there were two distinct faceted walls that once made up this tetrahedral structure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:50104-50296 observation first hand
774
The 'massive tetrahedral ruin' object south of the Face on Mars was first spotted in the original 'Catbox' Mars Global Surveyor image strip.
“This object was first spotted in the infamous Catbox MGS image strip.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:50296-50359 observation first hand
775
The original Mars Global Surveyor 'Catbox' image of the tetrahedral ruin south of the Face on Mars was taken at 45 degrees off-nadir, distorting the shape of the ruined pyramid.
“Part of the illusion was the extreme forced perspective of that original MGS image—taken 45° off-nadir—which effectively distorted the shape of the ruined pyramid.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:50576-50731 observation first hand
776
The tetrahedral ruin object south of the Face on Mars lies at exactly 19.5 degrees off the base symmetry axis of the D&M Pyramid, an axis that passes between the eyes of the Face on Mars.
“The object lies just south of the suspiciously symmetrical mesa and—conveniently—lies at exactly 19.5° off the base symmetry axis of the D&M. This same axis passes right between the eyes of the Face.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:50878-51072 measurement first hand
777
The 2002 Mars Odyssey image confirmed the projected five-sided symmetry of the D&M Pyramid, showing four clearly defined faceted sides meeting at a central apex, as originally observed by Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun on the 1989 Viking data.
“This projected five-sided symmetry not only held up extremely well in the new image [Fig. 9-7] (note especially the four clearly defined faceted sides to the pentagonal pyramid meeting at a central apex—exactly as observed by Hoagland and Torun on the original Viking data in 1989)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:51911-52190 observation first hand
778
The 2002 Mars Odyssey image verified the existence of a 'fifth buttress' to the northeast of the D&M Pyramid, completing the pentagonal form.
“We also (despite deep shadow) could verify the existence of a “fifth buttress” to the northeast—the final piece needed to complete the pentagonal form and reconstruct the object's original, undamaged shape.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:52297-52497 observation first hand
779
The fifth buttress of the D&M Pyramid, verified in the 2002 Mars Odyssey image, matched the length predicted by Erol Torun's 1988 geometric reconstruction of the object.
“The buttress seemed to be pretty much the same length as the other visible buttresses... and verified the predicted geometric form proposed by Torun in 1988 perfectly.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:52504-52591 observation first hand
780
The southeastern buttress of the D&M Pyramid is mostly buried under debris flow from the object's mild structural collapse.
“the southeastern buttress is mostly buried under debris flow from the mild collapse the object has endured”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:52591-52690 observation first hand
781
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara considered the freshness and darkness of the water in MOC image SP2-33806 to indicate the flow had happened only hours or moments before Mars Global Surveyor captured the image.
“it must have been a very gentle flow, and it must have happened only hours or even *moments* before MGS snapped this image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:5334-5451 opinion
782
Mark Carlotto's earlier three-dimensional shape-from-shading analysis of the D&M Pyramid indicated that the feature near the crater might be a horizontal entrance point, either from a projectile or as an architectural entrance.
“it seems to substantiate earlier 3D shape-from-shading work done by Mark Carlotto that indicated it might actually be a horizontal “entrance point,” either from a projectile or as an actual architectural entrance.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:53343-53548 opinion second hand
783
The new 2002 Mars Odyssey image, at approximately nineteen metres per pixel, revealed new structural details of the D&M Pyramid's southern buttresses.
“the new image—at nineteen meters per pixel resolution—revealed new structural details of both southern “buttresses” that further reinforce the idea that these are essential architectural elements of a massive artificial edifice”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:53572-53792 observation first hand
784
The D&M Pyramid is approximately 2.4 kilometres high and bilaterally symmetric with a pentagonal shape, with debris piles at each of its five corners.
“none of these geologic experts seem to have noticed that the mass-wasting has put piles of debris precisely at the five *corners* of a 1.5 mile high, bilaterally symmetric, *pentagonal* Pyramid”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:54081-54267 measurement first hand
785
Richard C. Hoagland's model holds that the piles at the corners of the D&M Pyramid are actually reinforcing buttresses with a specific architectural and mathematical function.
“our model is that these are actually reinforcing “buttresses” that have a specific architectural and mathematical function.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:54276-54390 opinion first hand
786
The southwest buttress of the D&M Pyramid appears in the 2002 Mars Odyssey image to have two rectangular openings, possibly doors, at its base.
“the southwest buttress even seems to have two rectangular openings (doors?) in the base”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:54572-54655 observation first hand
787
The 2002 Mars Odyssey image revealed that the D&M Pyramid rests atop a large rise or platform comparable to the Giza Plateau on Earth, not resolvable in the earlier Viking data.
“The other major discovery from the new image was that the entire structure could now be seen to be placed atop a huge rise (or platform) much like the Giza Plateau on Earth—and this newly discovered platform, which was not resolvable in the Viking data, seemed to have a geometry all its own.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:54812-55100 observation first hand
788
When rotated, the 2002 Mars Odyssey image reveals two distinct, partially buried edges to the platform beneath the D&M Pyramid, meeting at an apex point aligned with the pyramid's southeast buttress.
“we can see that there are two distinct but partially buried edges to the plateau that the D&M rests on. These two edges, not visible in the original Viking data, meet in an apex point that is exactly aligned with the SE buttress on the opposite side of the structure”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:55190-55447 observation first hand
789
Richard C. Hoagland concludes the D&M Pyramid rests on a two-dimensional, seven-sided platform upon which the three-dimensional five-sided 'Rosetta Stone' structure was constructed, and that the object has a second, four-sided line of symmetry.
“the pyramid rests on a 2D, seven-sided platform (or base) upon which the massive 3D five-side “Rosetta Stone” structure was constructed. It also revealed an additional, second alternative line of symmetry for the object, which conversely produced a second, bi-laterally symmetrical four-sided geometric figure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:55555-55858 opinion first hand
790
When the seven-sided platform and five-sided pyramid shapes of the D&M Pyramid were superimposed, they generated an internal angle of 19.5 degrees.
“When these two shapes (the seven-sided platform and the five-sided pyramid) were superimposed upon each other, they once again reinforced the quintessentially tetrahedral message of Cydonia [Fig. 9-8]. Indeed, one of the new internal angles generated by the new figure is none other than the ubiquitous 19.5°.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:55867-56174 measurement first hand
791
Richard C. Hoagland considers the 19.5-degree angle found in the superimposed D&M Pyramid geometry to validate Erol Torun's original reconstruction and analysis of the object as well as the hyperdimensional physics model.
“Not only did this new data flatly validate the original Torun reconstruction and analysis of this enigmatic object, but it also demonstrated the correctness of the geometric relationship model derived from it (as if the numerous successful predictions of the hyperdimensional physics model hadn't already done so).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:56178-56488 opinion first hand
792
The 2002 Mars Odyssey image showed that the April 2001 Mars Global Surveyor image of the Face on Mars had been poorly ortho-rectified, since the Face platform appeared narrower from Odyssey's more direct overhead perspective.
“First, the Odyssey image confirmed that the MGS April 2001 image had been poorly ortho-rectified, as the Face platform was much narrower (from Odyssey's more direct overhead perspective) than it was on the Surveyor image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:56658-56873 observation first hand
793
In the 2002 Mars Odyssey image, the 'nostrils' feature on the Face on Mars, visible in the original Catbox image but nearly invisible in the April 2001 image, reappeared.
“Also, the “nostrils” from the Catbox image had returned after being nearly invisible on the April image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:56880-56978 observation first hand
794
In the 2002 Mars Odyssey image, the 'lion'-side eye-socket of the Face on Mars appeared better aligned with the opposite eye socket.
“the “lion”-side eye-socket appeared to be better aligned with the opposite socket”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:56989-57064 observation first hand
795
The caption accompanying the 2002 Mars Odyssey Cydonia image release, posted on the Arizona State University Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) web page, compared the Face on Mars to Camelback Mountain in Arizona and the 'Sleeping Beauty' rock formation near Ludlow, California.
“They then compare the Face to Arizona's Camelback Mountain (shades of NASA's previously failed “Middle Butte Mesa” comparison), and “Sleeping Beauty” near Ludlow, California, among several other places.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:57846-58041 observation first hand
796
Richard C. Hoagland notes that Camelback Mountain and the Sleeping Beauty rock formation only resemble their namesakes as profiles viewed from the ground, unlike the Face on Mars, which is designed to be seen from overhead.
“They naturally fail to mention that all of these locations only take on the visages they are famous for *as profiles from the ground*. This is... completely unlike the Face, which is designed to be seen from overhead.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:58049-58310 opinion first hand
797
The 2002 Mars Odyssey caption attributed the Face on Mars's appearance to wind-based erosion combined with a 'pasting' process.
“They finally attempted—not very well—to claim that the Face's appearance is the result of wind-based erosion, or a combination of Aeolian processes and a bizarre “pasting” process that they didn't even attempt to explain thoroughly.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:58645-58866 observation first hand
798
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that the erosion explanation for the Face on Mars is a variation of a 'differential erosion' argument that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had previously floated and discarded.
“This is just a variation of a discarded “differential erosion” argument that NASA had floated several years before.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:58878-58986 opinion first hand
799
Richard C. Hoagland states that the Cydonia region shows a variety of mesas whose apparent wind-shaping direction would need to change at precise angles of 85.3 degrees and 69.4 degrees around the apex of the D&M Pyramid.
“How exactly did the Martian wind decide to change directions, at very precise 85.3º and 69.4º angles, just around the apex of the D&M every few thousand years to sculpt the precisely mathematical Cydonia Rosetta Stone and Pentagonal D&M shape?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:59474-59711 opinion first hand
800
Richard C. Hoagland began an exchange of ideas with Effrain Palermo, an amateur researcher who had collected an enormous amount of data on the Martian water seeps.
“Hoagland then began an exchange of ideas with Effrain Palermo, one of the brightest of the amateur researchers. Under his mentoring Palermo had collected an enormous amount of data on the seeps”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:7446-7634 administrative first hand
801
At Richard C. Hoagland's suggestion, Effrain Palermo and Jill England systematically mapped the locations of Martian water seep images relative to Mars surface coordinates to look for a global distribution pattern.
“At Hoagland’s suggestion Palermo and his research partner, Jill England, then proceeded to systematically map the locations of these “seep” images relative to Mars surface coordinates, to see if there was a global pattern to their distribution”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:7641-7872 administrative first hand
802
Richard C. Hoagland was the first to realise that the Tharsis Rise and Arabia Terra bulges on Mars represented anti-podal tidal bulges.
“It was Hoagland who first realized the significance of this distribution. “I’ve got it,” he said in a phone conversation between the authors. “They’re anti-podal bulges, Mike. Tidal bulges.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch16:9049-9231 opinion first hand
803
The Internet Archive ceased tracking changes to the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Arizona State University image release pages within a few months of Richard C. Hoagland's investigation obtaining Wayback Machine data on the Cydonia infrared image page.
“Within a few months of our obtaining the Wayback Machine data on the Cydonia IR page, the Internet Archive ceased tracking changes to any of the THEMIS ASU image release pages.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:100144-100314 observation first hand
804
Richard C. Hoagland states that ceasing Wayback Machine tracking of a website's changes can only be done at the request of the website owner, who in the case of the THEMIS Arizona State University image pages would have been Noel Gorelick.
“This can only be done at the request of the website owner, who in this case would have been Noel Gorelick.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:100321-100418 opinion first hand
805
Richard C. Hoagland was uncertain whether Philip Christensen was a friend or an enemy of his independent Cydonia investigation.
“We're still not certain whether Christensen is a friend or an enemy of our independent investigation.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:100776-100863 opinion first hand
806
Philip Christensen provided data that Richard C. Hoagland considers proves his Cydonia thesis beyond any reasonable doubt.
“On the one hand he has given us the data to prove our thesis beyond any reasonable doubt.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:100878-100961 opinion first hand
807
Richard C. Hoagland considers that Philip Christensen participated at least tacitly in an attempt to discredit his investigation publicly by spreading false information and data to the public.
“On the other hand, he has participated (at least tacitly) in an attempt to discredit our investigation publicly by spreading false information and data to the public.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:100968-101127 opinion first hand
808
Richard C. Hoagland obtained a new five-band colour image of the Face on Mars, which he considers perhaps the most significant piece of data received in the entire history of his Cydonia investigation.
“we did have the new five-band color image of the Face, and that would prove to be perhaps the most significant piece of data we have received in the entire history of the investigation.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:101335-101506 opinion first hand
809
Richard C. Hoagland noted the Fort tunnel feature at Cydonia's similarity to the Glass Tunnels of Mars he found several hundred kilometres west of Cydonia two years previously, which excited Arthur C. Clarke in 2001.
“It was first noted by us because of its similarity to the Glass Tunnels Hoagland found several hundred miles west of Cydonia two years previously, and that got Arthur C. Clarke so excited in 2001”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:10136-10327 opinion first hand
810
Richard C. Hoagland's team considered the linear Fort tunnel feature at Cydonia consistent with their model that the Glass Tunnels of Mars were part of a subterranean transport system.
“we said at the time that this “linear Fort feature” was consistent with our model that the Glass Tunnels were some kind of subterranean transport system.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:10333-10479 opinion first hand
811
The exposed portion of the Fort tunnel at Cydonia is visible in Viking mission data from over twenty years before 2002, and runs out from underneath the Fort at a roughly 60-degree angle to the Face-side wall.
“The exposed portion of the “Fort tunnel” is clearly visible even in the Viking data from over twenty years ago, and runs out from underneath the Fort at a roughly 60° angle to the Face-side wall.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:10487-10677 observation first hand
812
In visible-light images, the Fort tunnel at Cydonia runs for only a few hundred metres before disappearing beneath the Cydonian sands.
“However, in the visible images, the tunnel runs for only a few hundred feet before it disappears beneath the Cydonian sands.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:10683-10801 measurement first hand
813
In more recent black-and-white visible-light Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images from Mars Global Surveyor, a close-up view of the Fort tunnel at Cydonia revealed a distinct rib cross-structure similar to other Martian tunnels Richard C. Hoagland's team had previously found.
“In the more recent B&W visible light MOC images we have received from MGS (Mars Global Surveyor), the close-up view of the tunnel revealed that it has a distinct *rib cross-structure*—strikingly similar to the other Martian “tunnels” we had found”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:10809-11050 observation first hand
814
An anonymous private source with connections to the Bush White House and NASA, known as "Deep Space", warned Richard C. Hoagland's team that after viewing the initial data from Cydonia, "the lawyers" had taken over inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“Deep Space had also issued a disquieting warning: After viewing the initial data from Cydonia, “the lawyers” had taken over inside JPL.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:1104-1235 hearsay second hand
815
On the Cydonia visible-light/infrared composite images, a new transport tunnel was found emerging from the base of a building Richard C. Hoagland's team called the "train station" in downtown Cydonia, running into the mesa just south of the Face on Mars.
“One new transport tunnel emerges from the base of a building we are now calling the “train station” in downtown Cydonia and runs straight into the “mesa” just south of the Face.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:11220-11392 observation first hand
816
The new transport tunnel at Cydonia intersects the mesa south of the Face on Mars at the exact lateral centre of that structure.
“In fact, it intersects the “mesa” at the exact lateral center of that massive above-ground structure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:11398-11489 observation first hand
817
The end of the new transport tunnel at Cydonia terminates at the base of the "train station" directly in front of a series of open archways in that building.
“Close examination of the other end of the tube shows that the tunnel terminates at the base of the “train station” directly in front of a series of striking *open archways* in that building.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:11500-11681 observation first hand
818
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) enhancements of Cydonia showed that the tunnel running out from the Fort is a coherent, tubular feature that runs for many kilometres beneath the Martian desert and across the Cydonia plain into the buried "Cydonia city".
“The THEMIS image allows us to see that the tunnel running out from the Fort is not just a simple depression in the landscape, but a coherent, tubular feature that runs for many miles beneath the Martian desert and across the Cydonia plain into the heart of the buried “Cydonia city.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:11795-12072 observation first hand
819
Richard C. Hoagland's team observed massive structural cross-members running at 90 degrees to the Fort tunnel at Cydonia at various points, as well as along its companion tunnel leading to the mesa south of the Face on Mars.
“There are also clear structural cross-members—massive in scale—that run 90° to the tunnel at various points along its traverse, as well as its companion tunnel leading to the “mesa” south of the Face.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:12079-12274 observation first hand
820
Richard C. Hoagland's team considered the fact that the Cydonia tunnels can be seen continuing below the ground to be clear evidence that they are not natural formations of any kind.
“The simple fact that the tunnels can be seen to continue *below* the ground, is clear evidence that they are not natural formations of any kind.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:12391-12531 opinion first hand
821
In the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) composite image, Richard C. Hoagland's team identified a prominent architectural structure they named "The Temple".
“And there were the other, even more unimaginable wonders on this THEMIS image, the most prominent being a stunning, overwhelmingly architectural structure we called “The Temple””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:12538-12708 observation first hand
822
The Temple at Cydonia shows individual cells in its roof and what appear to be decorative buttresses around the multi-storey structure.
“You can clearly see [Fig. 10-1], without even straining your eyes, the individual cells in the roof and what appear to be *decorative buttresses* all around this multi-story structure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:12730-12904 observation first hand
823
The Temple at Cydonia is located just east, on the Face side, of the Fort, and appears to be in nearly pristine condition apart from an apparently missing roof.
“This object, just east (to the “Face side”) of the Fort, is an architectural marvel—clearly a structure of significance and, with the exception of its apparently missing roof, in nearly pristine condition.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:12915-13110 observation first hand
824
The Temple at Cydonia occupies an area the size of an entire city block.
“It is also enormous, taking up an area the size of an entire city block all by itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:13121-13200 measurement first hand
825
Richard C. Hoagland's team detected numerous other apparent buildings of various types scattered across the Cydonia composite image.
“We quickly detected numerous other completely obvious buildings of various types scattered all across the image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:13208-13314 observation first hand
826
Longwave infrared imagers have a limited ability to penetrate underground by detecting surface hot spots conducting heat upward from below, but typically cannot show the level of detail Richard C. Hoagland's team observed in the Cydonia images.
“Longwave infrared imagers have a limited ability to penetrate underground by detecting surface “hot spots” conducting heat upward from below, but they typically cannot show the kind of detail we were seeing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:13947-14147 opinion first hand
827
Richard C. Hoagland's team hypothesised that they were remotely sensing the buried Cydonia city through a layer of fine dust essentially transparent to Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) wavebands, probably covering a thicker layer of infrared-transparent ice.
“The one possibility was that we were remotely sensing our “city” through a layer of fluffy, micron-sized dust essentially transparent to the THEMIS wavebands; probably covering another thicker layer of protective and also infrared transparent material, namely ice.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:14155-14415 opinion first hand
828
Richard C. Hoagland's team became aware that the original Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) daytime infrared image of Cydonia posted on the official website may have been altered.
“Just as we were ready to “go to press,” we suddenly became aware that the original THEMIS daytime IR image of Cydonia posted on the website may have been altered.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:14545-14699 opinion first hand
829
Holger Isenberg was unable to duplicate the key Cydonia image-processing results obtained by Keith Laney and Richard C. Hoagland.
“The first hints came when Holger Isenberg (remember, the other imaging associate working from Germany), was unable to duplicate our key results.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:14709-14845 observation second hand
830
Richard C. Hoagland's team discovered that Holger Isenberg was using the PNG version of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image of Cydonia, rather than the full-size TIFF version the rest of the team used, but this did not account for the entire discrepancy in results.
“We eventually discovered that Holger was using the PNG version of the THEMIS image, as opposed to the full size TIFF that the rest of us were working with—but that did not account for the entire discrepancy that we were seeing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:15342-15562 observation first hand
831
Richard C. Hoagland's team believed the objects found in the Cydonia composite images were large enough and far enough beyond the noise level of the image that Holger Isenberg should have seen them clearly even in a compressed web image file format, but instead his processed images showed a distinct lack of information.
“Beyond that, the objects that we were finding were so big, so far beyond the noise level of the image and so easy to bring out (once the compositing of the IR bands had been done properly), that even with a compressed web image file format, Holger should have seen these objects literally jump out at him. Instead, there seemed to be a distinct lack of information in the images he was processing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:15685-16071 opinion first hand
832
On 2002-08-22, Richard C. Hoagland's team withdrew from their original plan to publicly post the infrared Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) data and preliminary analysis, in order to recheck their data's fundamental integrity and lineage.
“This, in turn, led to us withdrawing from our original plan to post the infrared Cydonia THEMIS data and our preliminary analysis on August 22, 2002—while we rechecked our data’s fundamental integrity and lineage.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:17541-17747 administrative first hand
833
Richard C. Hoagland's team decided to publicly appear satisfied with Philip Christensen's e-mail response, while privately their concern deepened.
“At this point, we made a conscious decision to pretend in public that we were more than satisfied with this response. The truth was, it only deepened our concern.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:18929-19083 opinion first hand
834
Richard C. Hoagland considered Philip Christensen's e-mail to contain a misstatement, arguing that Noel Gorelick had implied more than once that he might have altered the Cydonia THEMIS data, rather than simply questioning how the data had been treated.
“Not only does Christensen’s e-mail make a blatant misstatement—Gorelick certainly *did* imply he might have altered the data (and more than once), and was not simply “questioning how you have treated the data.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:19092-19296 opinion first hand
835
Richard C. Hoagland found Philip Christensen's e-mail suspicious for its inordinate interest in Richard C. Hoagland's team's methods and processes, given that Christensen's own THEMIS team had provided nothing to the public about what they had done to the Cydonia data.
“The most disquieting part of the e-mail was Christensen’s inordinate interest in our “methods and processes.” Why was he so interested in what *we* had done to the data, when he himself and his own team had provided *nothing* to the public (which, Gorelick’s assertions to the contrary, owns the data) about what *they* might have done to it?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:19510-19849 opinion first hand
836
The THEMIS team had not provided any description of how the Cydonia infrared data had been handled, treated, or possibly enhanced before its release.
“The THEMIS team hadn’t provided any description as to how the data had been handled, treated or possibly “enhanced.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:19853-19960 opinion first hand
837
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) did not provide any indication of image filters applied, a handling paper trail, or ancillary spacecraft geometry and lighting data for the released Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia images.
“’t provided the slightest hint of what filters may have been applied, a paper trail of who had handled it, or even the most rudimentary ancillary data (spacecraft geometry, lighting, etc.) for any of the released Odyssey images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:19981-20203 opinion first hand
838
Holger Isenberg was not obtaining the same image-processing results as Keith Laney from the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia infrared data.
“The one thing that kept coming out was that Holger Isenberg just did not seem to be getting the same results as Keith Laney.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:20580-20698 observation first hand
839
On 2002-07-24, the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image was released as a series of nine grayscale image strips lined up side-by-side on a black background canvas, rather than the full five-band colour, fully processed multispectral image that had been expected.
“When the image was finally released, on July 24, 2002,129 we had to admit to disappointment. Instead of the full five-band color, fully processed multispectral image we had expected, we instead got a series of nine grayscale image strips, lined up side-by-side on a black background canvas.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:2087-2370 observation first hand
840
The Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image officially posted on the THEMIS website on 2002-07-24 is, in Richard C. Hoagland's assessment, a highly modified, highly degraded image of unknown origin, effectively a fake, while Keith Laney's version is a genuine or near-genuine THEMIS infrared image.
“Our conclusion is that the image Keith had obtained was a genuine—or at least close to genuine—Mars Odyssey 2001 THEMIS IR image. What was officially posted on the THEMIS website on July 24, 2002 (and remains there to this day) when the vast majority of interested parties downloaded it, is a highly-modified, highly-degraded image of unknown origin. In other words, a highly diluted fake.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:23558-23942 opinion first hand
841
Richard C. Hoagland's team chose to stay out of the image-processing phase of the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) investigation and instead used two outside volunteers, Holger Isenberg and Keith Laney, for image processing.
“As a deliberate choice, the authors decided early on to stay completely out of the “processing phase” of this investigation. We instead elected to utilize the skills of two outside volunteers in image processing—who freely offered invaluable technical assistance: Holger Isenberg and Keith Laney.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:2436-2726 administrative first hand
842
Richard C. Hoagland and his colleagues held off publishing their findings on Thursday, 2002-08-29, and instead released the source data side by side for evaluation.
“we elected to hold off publishing on Thursday night, August 29, 2002, and instead simply put the source data out side by side so that it could be evaluated.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:24548-24694 administrative first hand
843
Holger Isenberg is a graduate engineer for Applied Computer Science at Dortmund University and a Unix System and Network Administrator at a German software company.
“Holger is a graduate engineer for Applied Computer Science at Dortmund University, as well as a Unix System and Network Administrator at a German software company.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:2983-3138 administrative first hand
844
The JPL document on THEMIS thermal accuracy was removed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website after Richard C. Hoagland's team had downloaded it.
“According to a JPL document (which was subsequently removed from the JPL website after we downloaded it)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:30380-30484 observation first hand
845
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data from Mars Global Surveyor was, in NASA's use, fraudulently applied in 2001 in a failed attempt to debunk the Face on Mars.
“comes, from of all places, the very instrument on another spacecraft (MGS) that was fraudulently used by NASA in a failed attempt to debunk the Face back in 2001.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:31411-31570 opinion first hand
846
Keith Laney is a digital imaging and software applications specialist and a Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image processor for the NASA-Ames' MOC MER2003 Landing Sites Project.
“Keith Laney is a digital imaging and software applications specialist and MOC image processor for the NASA-Ames’ MOC MER2003 Landing Sites Project.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:3147-3286 administrative first hand
847
Richard C. Hoagland's analysis of a single Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) pass over the Face on Mars found that most of the ground truth at Cydonia lies below the mean datum of the visible plain, in some areas many hundreds of metres below, with no corresponding visible troughs or geologic features to account for the anomaly.
“When we looked at the altitude scan, we could see that the majority of the ground truth at Cydonia seems to lie below the mean datum of the visible plain (in some areas many thousands of feet below). In addition, there are no corresponding visible troughs or geologic features to account for this anomalous penetration”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:32192-32503 observation first hand
848
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia city pattern a virtual twin for the discovery made by a similar thermal infrared scanner aboard the Soviet Phobos 2 spacecraft in 1989.
“this THEMIS Cydonia city pattern is a virtual twin for the discovery made by a similar thermal IR scanner aboard Russia’s Phobos 2 spacecraft in 1989.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:33359-33504 opinion first hand
849
Richard C. Hoagland's team decided that Keith Laney and Holger Isenberg should aim to accomplish the same processing tasks while working as separately from each other as practical, to help establish reproducibility for credibility in scientific circles.
“Since the other key factor in gaining credibility in scientific circles is reproducibility, we also decided that Keith and Holgershould aim at accomplishing the same tasks, but work as separately from each other as was practical.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:3379-3598 administrative first hand
850
Richard C. Hoagland had a discussion with Jim Garvin, described as the head scientist of NASA's ongoing Mars programmes, prior to the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia data release.
“based on Hoagland’s discussion with NASA’s Dr. James Garvin—the head scientist of NASA’s ongoing Mars programs—to avoid the usual “cloak and dagger” nonsense”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:34695-34844 administrative first hand
851
Noel Gorelick (referred to as Bamf) and Dan Smythe both appeared on the Enterprise Mission bulletin board system within about a month of the release of the Cydonia infrared data, with Smythe surfacing only after the image was released.
“we had to go back to the two main players in this little psycho-drama, Bamf and Dan Smythe. Both showed up in the Enterprise BBS within about a month of the release of the Cydonia IR data (Smythe only surfaced after the image was released).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:37321-37551 observation first hand
852
Steve Saunders, described as Chief Project Scientist for the Mars Odyssey mission, gave Richard C. Hoagland's team advance notice that the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia data was going to be released the week of 2002-07-26.
“Once we had a heads-up from Stephen Saunders, the Chief Project Scientist for the Mars Odyssey Mission, that this data was going to be released the week of July 26”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:38311-38473 administrative second hand
853
The original Hydaspis Chaos nighttime infrared data had been released exactly thirteen years to the day after the Phobos 2 image of the same region was taken.
“Since the original nighttime IR data had been released of Hydaspis Chaos exactly thirteen years to the day after the taking of the Phobos 2 image of the same region”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:38594-38752 observation first hand
854
Richard C. Hoagland expected NASA to release the new Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia infrared data on 2002-07-25, the thirty-first anniversary of the Viking 1 image frame 35A72, based on a recurring ritual pattern he attributes to NASA.
“they would have to release the new THEMIS Cydonia IR data on Thursday, July 25, 2002, the thirty-first anniversary of the taking of 35A72—the famous first Face image. No other date fit the pattern.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:39587-39778 opinion first hand
855
NASA released the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Cydonia image in the early afternoon of 2002-07-24, breaking the pattern Richard C. Hoagland's team had predicted for 2002-07-25.
“Imagine our surprise when, for the first time in memory, they broke the pattern and released the image in the early afternoon of July 24, 2002, not on the twenty-fifth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:39788-39950 observation first hand
856
Keith Laney was almost certainly Noel Gorelick and Philip Christensen's number one candidate to receive the "real" infrared (IR) data.
“Keith Laney, almost certainly their number one candidate to receive the “real” IR data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:40319-40401 opinion first hand
857
Keith Laney looked at the public THEMIS Cydonia release, said "it sucks," and did not bother to download it.
“took a quick look at the public release, blurted out “it sucks” and didn’t even bother to download it”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:40407-40506 observation first hand
858
Keith Laney downloaded the THEMIS Cydonia image that Enterprise Mission considered the "real" data on 2002-07-25 at 22:27 EDT.
“Keith went *back* to the THEMIS website and downloaded the image we now *know* is the “real” data, on July 25, 2002 at 10:27 p.m. EDT”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:40692-40822 observation first hand
859
Noel Gorelick and Dan Smythe badgered Keith Laney into returning to the THEMIS website and downloading the "real" Cydonia image.
“Smythe and Bamf *badgered* Keith into going to the site and downloading the image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:40879-40955 observation first hand
860
Keith Laney found that the cropped and rotated "real" THEMIS Cydonia image strips measured 1947 pixels by 333 pixels.
“the image strips are *1947 pixels* by *333 pixels,* down and across”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:41392-41453 measurement second hand
861
Richard C. Hoagland interpreted the 1947-by-333-pixel dimensions of the "real" THEMIS Cydonia image strips as a ritual numerological hint from Noel Gorelick.
“We took this as yet another hint from Bamf that this was the true Cydonia data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:41518-41592 opinion first hand
862
Noel Gorelick provided private e-mail assistance to Keith Laney and Holger Isenberg to help them process the "real" THEMIS Cydonia data.
“Bamf proceeded to provide enough assistance to Keith (and Holger, among others) to enable Laney to eventually figure out how to properly process the data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:41783-41932 observation first hand
863
Two new visitors to the Enterprise Mission bulletin board, using the names "Bamf" and "Dan Smythe", began posting responses to Keith Laney and others who had publicly criticised the quality of the newly released Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image.
“Because of this highly visible position, Keith (and a few others who had also publicly criticized the quality of the new image) then began to get a series of interesting “responses” in the Enterprise BBS and in private chats. These responses came from two new visitors to our site: “Bamf,” and one “Dan Smythe.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:4196-4500 observation first hand
864
Richard C. Hoagland considers Noel Gorelick's two public statements about the calibration and the composition of the Face on Mars to be both wrong and mutually contradictory.
“Not only are both these statements *wrong,* but they are also flat out contradictory.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:42521-42592 opinion first hand
865
Calibration of infrared (IR) image data identifies which colours relate to which materials, assuming the materials in the image are already known.
“All calibration ultimately does is identify *which* colors relate to *which* materials—assuming you know what materials you are dealing with”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:42833-42969 opinion first hand
866
Richard C. Hoagland considers Noel Gorelick's claim to know the composition of the Face on Mars nonsensical because Gorelick had also claimed to be working with uncalibrated data.
“for Gorelick to presume he knows what the Face is made of, when by his own claim he is working with uncalibrated data, was and is nonsense.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:43474-43605 opinion first hand
867
As of the time of writing, nobody knows what the structures referred to as "Cydonia City" are composed of.
“nobody knows what “Cydonia City” is composed of”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:43801-43846 opinion first hand
868
Keith Laney has a cable modem internet connection with a static IP address.
“Keith Laney has a cable modem connection to the Internet. What that means is that he has a “static” IP address.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:44734-44837 observation first hand
869
"Bamf" began posting on the Enterprise Mission bulletin board about a month before the release of the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image, while "Dan Smythe" appeared simultaneously with its release.
“The former had begun posting about a month before the image release; the latter appeared simultaneously with its release.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:4509-4622 observation first hand
870
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that Noel Gorelick, who ran the THEMIS website, redirected Keith Laney's static IP address to a duplicate website containing the "real" Cydonia data instead of the official THEMIS page.
“Gorelick (Bamf) who ran the THEMIS website could then redirect him, *and only him,* to a *duplicate website* that looked exactly like the official THEMIS page, but which instead contained the “real” data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:45414-45613 opinion first hand
871
The technique of redirecting a specific user to a counterfeit server or webpage, with or without their knowledge, is known among computer specialists as "Bamfing".
“this exact process—the act of redirecting someone to a counterfeit server or webpage, with or without their knowledge—has a specific name amongst the world’s computer geeks... it’s called, simply: *Bamfing.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:45786-45953 opinion first hand
872
Richard C. Hoagland describes Noel Gorelick as a world-class member of the techno-savvy computer community.
“Noel Gorelick is undeniably a world-class member”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:46004-46046 opinion first hand
873
Richard C. Hoagland believes Noel Gorelick spent months on the Enterprise Mission bulletin board system seeking out the right person to leak the crucial THEMIS Cydonia infrared data to.
“what Gorelick was doing all along in his months-long stay on our BBS was apparently seeking out just the right person to leak this crucial IR data to”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:46096-46243 opinion first hand
874
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that Noel Gorelick and Philip Christensen may have been pressured by a powerful outside "Owl" element to participate in a fraud regarding the Cydonia THEMIS data.
“it could be that both men were pressured, put upon by a powerful outside “Owl” element, to participate in this fraud. Unfortunately, we tend to think that this latter scenario is the more probable”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:46623-46811 opinion first hand
875
An anonymous private source with connections to the Bush White House and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), known to Richard C. Hoagland as "Deep Space," told him weeks before the THEMIS Cydonia release that lawyers were running everything inside NASA in response to Hoagland's own political and legal initiatives.
“Deep Space, our inside source (who, in turn, is fronting for a host of other sources), told us weeks before that “the lawyers are running everything at this point” inside NASA”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:46854-47025 hearsay second hand
876
Richard C. Hoagland considers Alan Boyle one of the few truly curious reporters covering the story.
“Alan Boyle is one of the few truly curious reporters out there”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:47428-47485 opinion first hand
877
Members of the anomalist community who saw Keith Laney's THEMIS Cydonia images accused Richard C. Hoagland and Keith Laney of having faked the "real" data.
“many of these supposedly curious souls were accusing us of having faked the “real” data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:47824-47907 observation first hand
878
Holger Isenberg ceased all attempts to process the THEMIS Cydonia data once he learned there were two competing datasets.
“Once he heard that there were two sets of data... he ceased all attempts to process the data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:48128-48227 observation first hand
879
Holger Isenberg accused Keith Laney of creating fake images and accused Richard C. Hoagland of lying about how Keith Laney obtained the raw THEMIS Cydonia data.
“he then turned on us and accused Keith of creating “fake” images and Hoagland of “lying” about how Keith had obtained the raw data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:48550-48676 testimony second hand
880
Noel Gorelick privately fed Holger Isenberg the idea, in a private chat on the Enterprise Mission bulletin board system, that the "real" THEMIS Cydonia data was scanned from printed fake Photoshop images.
“an idea we later learned he was fed by Gorelick in a private chat on our BBS”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:49032-49105 hearsay second hand
881
Richard C. Hoagland's team was suspicious of both "Bamf" and "Dan Smythe" from the outset.
“We were, from the get-go, more than a tad suspicious of both Bamf and Smythe”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:4910-4980 opinion first hand
882
Holger Isenberg broke off all contact with Richard C. Hoagland and Keith Laney after being confronted with the NASA/UNIX file format evidence.
“When we pointed out to Holger... he broke off all contact with us.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:49111-49146 observation first hand
883
There is no version of Adobe Photoshop for the UNIX operating system.
“there is no Photoshop for UNIX version”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:49290-49321 observation first hand
884
The place-name "Cydonia" derives from a Greek root meaning "enlightenment".
““Cydonia” derives from a Greek root meaning “enlightenment””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:49464-49508 opinion first hand
885
Art Bell had difficulty believing that Keith Laney's THEMIS Cydonia images could not have been faked.
“Art was having a hard time grasping the idea that the images Keith was getting *couldn’t* be faked.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:49705-49798 observation first hand
886
The bulletin board user "Bamf" was identified as Noel Gorelick, who claimed in his online Enterprise Mission bulletin board profile to be the manager of Arizona State University's Mars Computation Center.
“that suspicion only deepened when we discovered that “Bamf” was in fact none other than Noel Gorelick—who claimed (in his on-line Enterprise BBS profile) to be the manager of Arizona State University’s Mars Computation Center.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:4992-5211 administrative first hand
887
Keith Laney processed nine different individual THEMIS Cydonia infrared images, each from a different infrared filter wavelength and from the motion of the spacecraft.
“Keith was essentially working with *nine different individual images*, each slightly different than the next due to the fact that they each came from a different IR filter wavelength, and from the motion of the spacecraft.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:50051-50262 observation first hand
888
Keith Laney cropped, rotated to vertical, and hand-aligned the nine THEMIS Cydonia image strips, combining them two at a time into layered frames.
“Keith then cropped the nine images out, rotated them to “vertical,” and hand-aligned and assembled them into single frames, one layer on top of the other, two at a time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:50274-50438 observation first hand
889
Combining the nine THEMIS Cydonia image strips two at a time produced a total of seventy-two possible wavelength filter combinations.
“This makes eight possible layer combinations for every individual image strip, adding up to a total of seventy-two different possible wavelength filter combinations.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:50617-50769 measurement first hand
890
Keith Laney applied colour-ratioing to the combined THEMIS Cydonia images, assigning colour values and weights to individual elements in the image.
“he “color-ratioed” the combined images, assigning a color value (and weight) to individual elements in the image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:50789-50896 observation first hand
891
Without calibration data, colour-ratioed infrared image processing can only show whether one pixel's material is the same as its neighbours, not identify what the material actually is.
“without calibration, i.e. knowing what the materials are in a given image... all you can do is assign a color value to a material. It tells you nothing about what that material is, just whether it is the same as other pixels around it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:51034-51287 opinion first hand
892
Keith Laney used a decorrelation-stretch tool on the THEMIS Cydonia images to exaggerate, rather than create, the colour, material, and heat signature differences in the colour-ratioed images.
“Next, Keith used a decorrelation-stretch tool on the images. This is a critical tool that exaggerates (not creates) the color/material/heat signature differences in the color-ratioed images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:51428-51611 observation first hand
893
Keith Laney added a luminance layer of the visual image as the final step in processing the THEMIS Cydonia data.
“Then, as a last step, he added the luminance layer of the visual image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:51619-51684 observation first hand
894
Richard C. Hoagland argues it was impossible for Philip Christensen to have painted fake buildings onto the nine THEMIS Cydonia images and predicted how Keith Laney would combine layers, colour ratios, decorrelation-stretch settings, and image alignment.
“there is no way that Christensen, et al., could have possibly painted “fake” buildings on each of the nine images and guess how he’d combine each layer... It’s just flatly impossible.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:51702-51848 opinion first hand
895
Amateur anomaly hunters accused Keith Laney of having created the block and building shapes seen in the THEMIS Cydonia images himself.
“Keith endured a series of attacks from various amateur anomaly hunters who claimed it was he that “created” the blocks and buildings on the images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:52193-52333 observation first hand
896
Some critics argued that nobody knew for certain that "Bamf" was really Noel Gorelick, and suggested he might have led Keith Laney into creating artefacts through his imaging suggestions.
“they argued that nobody “knew for sure” that “Bamf” was really Noel Gorelick... and that he might have led Keith into creating artifacts with the imaging suggestions he’d made.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:52350-52580 opinion
897
Keith Laney briefed Art Bell in detail and showed him a comparison between the earlier Phobos 2 infrared image and the new THEMIS Cydonia data.
“It was arranged for Keith to brief Art in more detail, and show him a comparison between the earlier Phobos 2 IR image and the new Cydonia data”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:52638-52777 observation first hand
898
Mike Bara found Noel Gorelick's contact information in the Arizona State University phone directory and called him on the afternoon of 2002-09-06.
“one of the authors (Bara) called him... It took no time at all to find Noel Gorelick in the ASU phone directory. Bara called him the afternoon of September 6, 2002.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:52892-53050 observation first hand
899
On 2002-08-29, Mark Carlotto of the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) published his own analysis of the THEMIS Cydonia multispectral image.
“Shortly before we published our revelation of the existence of two THEMIS Cydonia IR images, on August 29, 2002, SPSR’s Dr. Mark Carlotto put out his own analysis of the Cydonia multispectral image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:53730-53922 administrative first hand
900
"Bamf" and "Dan Smythe" privately provided Keith Laney, Holger Isenberg, and others an informal tutorial in infrared image processing, despite being publicly critical of the Enterprise Mission website.
“While from the beginning publicly acerbic and disparaging of the very reason for the existence of the Enterprise Mission website, privately “Bamf” and Smythe provided Keith and Holger, and anyone else with the smarts to work with the new image, a virtual on-line “how-to” tutorial in infrared image processing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:5396-5695 observation first hand
901
Mark Carlotto's analysis of the THEMIS Cydonia multispectral image incorrectly referred to the infrared image file by the wrong file name, "E0201847.gif," rather than the correct name "20020724A".
“the IR image is referred to as “E0201847.gif,” which is the wrong file name for the multispectral Cydonia image, “20020724A””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:54067-54204 observation first hand
902
Richard C. Hoagland considered Mark Carlotto's THEMIS Cydonia analysis to contain numerous misspellings and other mistakes, giving the project an air of haste and sloppiness compared to Carlotto's usual standards.
“there were numerous misspellings and other obvious mistakes—which gave the whole project an air of haste and sloppiness. It did not seem to be up to Carlotto’s usual thorough standards”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:54230-54405 opinion first hand
903
Mark Carlotto compared the Mars Odyssey THEMIS data to terrestrial Landsat images, which Richard C. Hoagland considers a very inaccurate comparison.
“Carlotto started out by comparing the Odyssey Martian THEMIS data to terrestrial Landsat images, a very inaccurate comparison to say the least.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:54587-54724 opinion first hand
904
Landsat is a 1970s-era technology that produces primarily surface reflectance data in the visible region of the spectrum.
“Landsat is a 1970s-era technology that produces primarily surface reflectance data in the visible region of the spectrum”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:54731-54843 opinion first hand
905
THEMIS concentrates on extracting data primarily from intrinsic thermal infrared emissions from surfaces and objects, unlike Landsat which has virtually no ground-penetration capability.
“as compared to THEMIS, which concentrates on extracting data primarily from intrinsic thermal infrared emissions from surfaces and objects. Landsat, in contrast to THEMIS, has virtually no “ground penetration” capabilities at all.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:54853-55079 opinion first hand
906
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) instrument, a relatively new Earth-orbiting instrument launched in 1999, a far better comparison to THEMIS due to its similar near-infrared capabilities.
“A far better comparison would have been made to a relatively new Earth orbiting instrument (1999) called ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection), which has very similar near-infrared capabilities to THEMIS.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:55084-55303 opinion first hand
907
Richard C. Hoagland argues that Mark Carlotto could not validly conclude the composition of the region around the Face on Mars because calibration data for either version of the Cydonia infrared data had not yet been released.
“Carlotto surely must have known that he could make no such conclusions, since the calibration data for either the official version or the “real” version of the Cydonia IR data had yet to be released.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:55507-55697 opinion first hand
908
Mark Carlotto failed to perform a decorrelation-stretch on the Cydonia data, a step Richard C. Hoagland considers crucial for separating thermal data from composition information.
“He also failed to perform a decorrelation-stretch, a step that is crucial for separating the thermal data from the composition information in the image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:55707-55853 opinion first hand
909
Mark Carlotto's comparison of the "real" and "official" THEMIS Cydonia datasets used only a single unnamed band from each, without a full composite, colour ratios, or decorrelation-stretch enhancement.
“Carlotto had taken only a single unnamed band from the “real” data, and compared it to a single unnamed band from the “official” version. He had not done a full composite of the “real” image bands, not done any color ratios, nor performed a decorrelation-stretch”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:56694-56949 opinion first hand
910
THEMIS thermal infrared Cydonia data has a resolution of approximately 100 metres per pixel.
“even at around 100 meters per pixel”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:57548-57578 measurement first hand
911
Richard C. Hoagland believed from the outset that Keith Laney's blurrier 2002-07-25 THEMIS Cydonia infrared image was the genuine data, while the higher-resolution 2002-07-24 "official" image was the doctored version.
“Laney’s July 25 “blurry” Cydonia IR image was the “real deal,” and the July 24, apparently much higher resolution “official” image was, in fact, the “doctored” version.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:57687-57847 opinion first hand
912
Mark Carlotto is a world-class imaging expert and Department of Defense (DOD) contractor on classified imaging analyses.
“Dr. Carlotto, a world-class imaging expert, and DOD contractor on a host of classified imaging analyses”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:59043-59138 administrative first hand
913
On the night of 2002-09-03, the authors and Keith Laney discussed Mark Carlotto's THEMIS Cydonia analysis article and concluded that Carlotto had erred badly.
“The authors and Keith Laney conferenced about Carlotto’s article on the night of September 3. The general consensus was that Carlotto had effectively “polished a turd””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:59503-59665 opinion first hand
914
Richard C. Hoagland refused to accept that Mark Carlotto was as incompetent as his THEMIS Cydonia analysis made him seem, and defended Carlotto's skills and professionalism.
“Hoagland, however, refused to buy into the notion that Carlotto was as incompetent as his analysis made it seem. He staunchly defended Carlotto’s skills and professionalism”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:59804-59961 opinion first hand
915
Mike Bara e-mailed Mark Carlotto informing him he had made several errors in his article and advising him to withdraw it until Hoagland and Bara published their own analysis.
“Bara subsequently e-mailed Carlotto, informing him he’d made several errors in his article, and advising him to pull it, at least until we published our own analysis.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:60456-60613 testimony first hand
916
Mark Carlotto's paper on the THEMIS Cydonia image was peer reviewed by Horace Crater, a statistical analyst with no known working experience in thermal infrared imaging.
“that his paper had been peer reviewed (by Dr. Horace Crater, a statistical analyst who has no working experience we are aware of with thermal IR)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:60784-60926 opinion first hand
917
On 2002-09-04, Mark Carlotto and Richard C. Hoagland had a telephone conversation after Carlotto obtained Hoagland's phone number from Mike Bara.
“Carlotto e-mailed Bara back, got Hoagland’s phone number, and the two men had a chat on September 4.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:61062-61160 administrative
918
During the 2002-09-04 conversation, Mark Carlotto was concerned that his previously published paper would be made obsolete by Hoagland and Bara's article.
“According to Hoagland, what Carlotto seemed most concerned about was that his previously published paper would be made obsolete by our article.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:61164-61299 testimony first hand
919
Mark Carlotto agreed to take the 'real' Cydonia THEMIS image and perform the composite, colour-ratio and decorrelation-stretch steps on it, and report the results to Richard C. Hoagland by phone or e-mail.
“Carlotto agreed to take the “real” image, perform all of the proper steps (composite, color ratios and decorrelation-stretch) on it, and either call or e-mail Hoagland with his results.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:61437-61615 testimony first hand
920
Mark Carlotto never reported back the analysis results he had agreed to perform on the 'real' Cydonia THEMIS image.
“That never happened.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:61624-61635 testimony first hand
921
Instead of the agreed multispectral analysis, Mark Carlotto subjected the official ASU version of the Cydonia THEMIS image to a series of contrast and blur filters in an attempt to show that the Laney image was a degraded version of the official one.
“Carlotto decided instead to take the “official” version of the Cydonia THEMIS image and subject it to a series of contrast and blur filters in an apparent attempt to “prove” that the Laney image was generated by degrading the official one.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:61999-62234 opinion first hand
922
Mark Carlotto used only a single band image, not a composite, for his comparison test of the Cydonia THEMIS data.
“He did this by taking only a single band image, not a composite”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:62239-62293 opinion first hand
923
Real multispectral and thermal infrared data does change from band to band as an expected characteristic, not distortion.
“Real multispectral data (and certainly thermal IR data) *does* change from band to band.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:62849-62932 opinion first hand
924
The band-to-band shifts in certain edges of large features on the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) images occur because the various bands are not all captured at exactly the same time, due to spacecraft position changes as the different filtered CCDs record the imaging data in rapid-fire sequence.
“There are significant shifts in the spacecraft’s position as different filtered CCDs in the THEMIS camera record (in a rapid-fire sequence) of the actual imaging data for all the bands.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:63394-63573 opinion first hand
925
Keith Laney successfully corrected the minute geometric shifts between Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) bands, which Mark Carlotto failed to do.
“Of course, had he simply read the camera specs, he would have known this, and physically corrected (as Laney has successfully) for the minute geometric shifts.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:63675-63827 opinion first hand
926
At Richard C. Hoagland's and Mike Bara's request, Keith Laney produced an image similar to the section Mark Carlotto had analysed, but with the various bands properly aligned geometrically, taking about five minutes to do so.
“Keith Laney, at our request, produced an image similar to the section that Carlotto had done, only with the various bands properly aligned geometrically. It took him all of five minutes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:64041-64220 testimony first hand
927
Keith Laney ran the two competing Cydonia THEMIS images side by side through the ENVI 3.5 image-enhancement tool to compare which dataset was degraded.
“would be to run the two images *side by side* through a quality enhancement tool, like ENVI 3.5 as Keith had done.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:64361-64470 testimony first hand
928
Mark Carlotto parroted the position of Philip Christensen of Arizona State University in declaring that the Laney Cydonia data was degraded.
“In effect, Carlotto had simply parroted the position of Dr. Phillip Christensen of ASU by declaring that the Laney data is “degraded,””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:66727-66852 opinion first hand
929
Using Mark Carlotto's own fractal-analysis methodology on a single band of Keith Laney's 'real' infrared image strip compared against Carlotto's fractal analysis of Viking frames 35A72 and 70A13 revealed that the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) blocks Carlotto now attributed to enhancement or filtering artifacts were visible in his own twelve-year-old work and matched the blocks on the Laney image one for one.
“Not only are the THEMIS blocks—which Carlotto now flatly claims are “enhancement” or “filtering” artifacts—clearly visible on *his own work* from twelve years ago, but they match up very precisely with the blocks on the Laney image, *literarily one for one*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:67844-68097 observation first hand
930
Hoagland and Bara challenged Mark Carlotto, as they had in 2002, to produce and publish the composite, colour-ratio and decorrelation-stretch results from the multispectral analysis he had promised Richard C. Hoagland he would perform on the leaked Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) image.
“We simply challenge him again in this volume—as we did in 2002—to produce and *publish* the composites, color ratios and decorrelation-stretch results from the appropriate multi-spectral analysis he promised Richard Hoagland he would do on the “leaked” THEMIS image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:69205-69466 testimony first hand
931
The original Arizona State University graphic for the 2002-07-24 daytime infrared release listed band nine's centre wavelength as 12.58 microns, while the 2002-10-31 comparison graphic cited the same band as 12.57 microns.
“Band nine of the July 24 daytime IR is listed on the original ASU graphic as being “12.58 microns”; but on the October 31 comparison, it’s cited as “12.57 microns.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:71559-71714 observation first hand
932
In the 2002-07-24 original Cydonia infrared image, the image footprint cuts off two mesas at the top of the scanned strip, whereas the 2002-10-31 version of the same image shows significantly more surface detail captured northeast of those mesas.
“In the July 24 original, the image “footprint” cuts off two mesas at the top of the scanned strip; in the October 31 “version” of the same image, there is clearly significantly more surface detail captured northeast of those mesas.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:72111-72336 observation first hand
933
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Arizona State University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had maintained for months that there was only one version of the 2002-07-24 Cydonia infrared image, before the 2002-10-31 release revealed two demonstrably different footprints.
“Two verifiably different image “footprints,” for what had been categorically maintained by NASA, ASU and JPL for months as only one July 24 image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:72343-72483 opinion first hand
934
The 2002-10-31 release, designated THEMIS image number 20021031A, appeared too 'noisy' for a Martian summer image.
“THEMIS image number 20021031A? First of all, just looking at the image, something was clearly wrong: the data itself is just too “noisy” for a Martian summer image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:73096-73254 observation first hand
935
Richard C. Hoagland suggested a "luminance layering" noise-averaging technique, long used in astronomical photography, to eliminate the noise pattern in the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared images.
“Hoagland (who was following this unique exchange between Bamf and Laney via e-mail) decided to suggest a radically different process for eliminating this peculiar noise, a well-known technique for “noise averaging” used for decades in astronomical photography—called “luminance layering.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:7334-7612 observation first hand
936
The noise level of the nighttime Cydonia infrared image released 2002-10-31 was comparable to that of nighttime infrared image 101180002, which was taken during Martian winter in the northern hemisphere on 2002-03-21.
“the noise level of this new nighttime Cydonia IR is comparable to that image (101180002) which was taken in the dead of Martian winter in the northern hemisphere, March 21, 2002.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:73341-73514 observation first hand
937
Hoagland and Bara's working theory was that the nighttime Cydonia infrared image released on 2002-10-31 was actually taken much earlier in the Mars Odyssey mission, when it was colder at Cydonia, and was released after their 2002-10-20 article to placate them, with the acquisition date falsely labelled as 2002-10-24.
“After the publication of our latest article on October 20, 2002 Bamf (and those managing his actions on the THEMIS team) hurriedly put out something on nighttime Cydonia IR just to shut us up. So he reached into the THEMIS “hidden Cydonia drawer” and pulled out an older, “colder” (and partially sanitized) “new” image, which he then simply labeled as one taken on October 24, 2002. At least, that was our working theory.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:74080-74494 opinion first hand
938
Cydonia is located at approximately 41 degrees north latitude on Mars.
“Because we know the latitude of Cydonia (about 41º N)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:74531-74582 measurement first hand
939
The axial tilt of Mars is approximately 25 degrees.
“the tilt of Mars on its own axis (about 25º)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:74590-74630 measurement first hand
940
Using an analog orbital computer created by Bob Zubrin, Hoagland and Bara compared the orbits of Mars and Earth to graphically convert between Earth dates/seasons and their Martian equivalents.
“Using a newly created “analog orbital computer,” courtesy of Dr. Bob Zubrin, we were able to compare the two planetary orbits and graphically convert from any date and season here on Earth to its equivalent on Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:75883-76093 administrative first hand
941
Mars Odyssey arrived in Mars orbit on 2001-10-24, just after the Martian winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
“we could confirm that Odyssey arrived in Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, just *after* the Martian winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:76121-76251 measurement first hand
942
Richard C. Hoagland proposed adding the earlier Mars Odyssey visible-light image of Cydonia, released 2002-04-12, to the three-colour infrared composites Keith Laney was creating from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) release.
“Hoagland outlined adding the earlier Odyssey visible light image (released April 12, 2002) to the stunning three-color IR composites Keith was creating from the latest THEMIS release.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:7623-7798 observation first hand
943
Advancing the Mars Odyssey orbit-insertion date twelve Earth months, to 2002-10-24, would place the claimed nighttime Cydonia infrared image acquisition just after the Martian summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.
“By then advancing the dates to correspond to Bamf’s claim that the new nighttime IR Cydonia image was taken on that one-year anniversary—precisely twelve Earth months later, October 24, 2002—we could see that the new image would have been taken over Mars just after the Martian *summer* solstice in the northern hemisphere.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:76264-76576 measurement first hand
944
Noel Gorelick arranged both the day and night Cydonia THEMIS images at the same but opposite symbolic angle of about 7 degrees relative to the Martian equator in his graphic.
“Because he arranged both images—day and night—at the same but opposite symbolic angle to the Martian equator in his graphic (about 7º)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:76589-76720 opinion first hand
945
At Cydonia there is a roughly rectangular mesa called 'the island', located several miles due east of the Face on Mars, with a flat surface area of several square miles standing a few hundred feet above the surrounding plain.
“Apart from the Face, there is another distinctive feature at Cydonia, “the island.” It’s a roughly rectangular mesa, several miles due east of the Face, with a flat surface area of several square miles—standing a few hundred feet above the surrounding plane.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:77921-78173 observation first hand
946
Keith Laney independently decided, at about the same time as Richard C. Hoagland, to add the visible light image of Cydonia to the colour-stretched infrared data.
“Laney, remarkably, had at about the same time independently decided to do the same thing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:7807-7890 observation first hand
947
The 'island' mesa at Cydonia has two western, relatively steep vertical cliffs facing northwest and southwest, roughly in the directions of the summer and winter solstice sunset points.
“Its two western, relatively steep vertical cliffs face northwest and southwest roughly in the directions of the summer and winter solstice sunset points”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:78180-78326 observation first hand
948
In the daytime thermal image of the 'island' mesa at Cydonia, the afternoon sun comes from the southwest, casting distinct cold shadows off the mesa's northeastern cliff.
“Examination of the “daytime thermal image” [Fig. 10-4, left] clearly shows the afternoon sun coming from the southwest, casting distinct cold shadows off the mesa’s northeastern cliff.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:78347-78525 observation first hand
949
Solar geometry analysis indicated the 2002-07-24 Cydonia daytime infrared image was actually taken approximately halfway between the northern Martian hemisphere winter solstice and the Martian spring equinox, corresponding to January 2002 on Earth, not 5 May.
“one can confidently state from this solar geometry (mathematically extrapolated to the sunset point), that the July 24 image had to have been taken approximately halfway between the northern Martian hemisphere winter solstice (just before Mars Odyssey arrived, October 24) and the Martian spring equinox. In other words, on Earth, sometime in *January 2002… not* May 5.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:79075-79443 measurement first hand
950
An anonymous private source with connections to the Bush White House and NASA, known to Richard C. Hoagland's investigation as "Deep Space", informed Richard C. Hoagland's team that the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument had taken both daytime and nighttime infrared (IR) images of Cydonia and that they needed to push for release of them.
“Deep Space informed us that the THEMIS instrument had taken both daytime and nighttime IR images, and that we needed to push for release of them.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:800-940 hearsay second hand
951
Richard C. Hoagland argues that January 2002 would have been the ideal time to acquire an image of Cydonia because orbit-adjustment "trims" during the Mars Odyssey mission could have allowed the region to be quietly imaged early, even before the formal mapping mission and unwanted press attention began.
“January 2002 would have been the perfect time to take the image. While adjusting the orbit of the spacecraft for the main science mission, some "trims" could be included that would allow Cydonia to be quietly imaged very early in the mission.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:80001-80235 opinion first hand
952
In the nighttime Cydonia infrared image, the brightest thermally glowing cliffs face west, toward the setting sun, because that direction receives the last input of solar energy before the onset of the frigid Martian night.
“the brightest "thermally glowing" cliffs are once again facing west, toward the setting sun. This critical geometry is simply due to that being the last input of solar energy to these exposed rocks, before the onset of the frigid Martian night.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:80581-80821 observation first hand
953
In the nighttime Cydonia infrared image, the most heated portion of the Face on Mars's cliffs is the southwestern section, with only a small portion of the northwestern-facing cliff also heated.
“the most heated portion of "the island's" cliffs in this nighttime shot is the southwestern section and only a very small portion (that previously described "outcropping") of the northwestern-facing cliff.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:80883-81082 observation first hand
954
If the nighttime Cydonia infrared image had actually been acquired near the northern Martian summer solstice on 2002-10-24, the entire northwestern cliff of the Face on Mars would have been directly heated by the setting sun and brilliantly glowing after sunset, which it is not.
“If the sun were anywhere near the northern Martian summer solstice October 24, 2002, when this image was acquired, this entire northwestern cliff would have been directly heated by the setting sun and brilliantly glowing after sunset. And it is not.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:81090-81335 opinion first hand
955
THEMIS nighttime infrared image 20021031A of Cydonia could not have been acquired on 2002-10-24, and based on solstice geometry was instead taken around the same time as the 2002-07-24 daytime infrared image release, sometime in January 2002.
“THEMIS image 20021031A—the nighttime IR image of Cydonia—could not have been acquired on October 24, 2002. The only time, according to this solstice geometry (lower green arrow) in the entire Odyssey mission this Cydonia image could have been taken, was in the same timeframe as the July 24 daytime IR image release, sometime in January 2002.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:81438-81780 opinion first hand
956
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that what he and Keith Laney, and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) team, had believed was "noise" in the Cydonia images might actually be the signal.
“It suddenly struck Hoagland that what he and Laney (not to mention the THEMIS team itself) thought was “noise” in the Cydonia images might really be *the signal*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:8152-8306 opinion first hand
957
THEMIS nighttime infrared image I01180002 was taken during the shortest period of Martian daylight, on one of the coldest and longest nights around the northern winter solstice, about 160 kilometres east of Cydonia.
“This image was taken during the shortest period of Martian daylight, and on one of the coldest, longest nights around the northern winter solstice, and only about a hundred miles east of Cydonia itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:82219-82416 observation first hand
958
The coldest reading of -56 degrees Celsius in the nighttime March 21 winter image near Cydonia was only 6 degrees Celsius colder than the coldest daytime temperature of -50 degrees Celsius in the July 24 image.
“The coldest reading (-56º C) in the nighttime March 21 winter image was only 6º colder than the coldest daytime temperature (-50º C) in the "July 24" image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:83129-83281 measurement first hand
959
Richard C. Hoagland urged Keith Laney to try to amplify the noise pattern in his ongoing ENVI processing of the raw Cydonia data, rather than continue trying to remove it.
“Working on this radical assumption, Hoagland switched gears and quietly urged Laney to start trying to amplify the pattern in his on-going ENVI processing of the raw data, rather than continue efforts to remove it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:8315-8526 observation first hand
960
The lowest surface temperature of -90 degrees Celsius reported in the nighttime October 24 Cydonia image, ostensibly taken near the summer solstice, was 46 degrees Celsius colder than the coldest winter temperature recorded in the March 21 image.
“the lowest surface temperature in the nighttime "October 24 image" (-90º C), taken near the summer solstice, was 46º colder than the coldest winter temperature on that March 21 image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:83291-83472 measurement first hand
961
The highest temperature of -75 degrees Celsius recorded in the nighttime October 24 Cydonia image, reportedly taken at the height of Martian summer, was 35 degrees Celsius colder than the peak nighttime winter temperature of -40 degrees Celsius measured in the nearby March 21 winter nighttime image.
“the highest temperature recorded in that new nighttime Cydonia image (-75º C)—again, reportedly taken at the height of the Martian summer—was 35º C colder than the peak nighttime winter temperature (-40º C), measured in that nearby March 21 winter nighttime image”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:83482-83746 measurement first hand
962
Richard C. Hoagland considers the discrepancy between the reportedly summer nighttime Cydonia temperatures and the much colder dead-of-winter readings taken nearby to indicate that Noel Gorelick, and possibly the entire THEMIS team under Philip Christensen, misrepresented when the nighttime Cydonia image was taken.
“Unless they're not really "summer" nighttime readings at all, because Bamf (if not the entire THEMIS team behind him, from Christensen on down) just blatantly lied to us… again.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:83929-84103 opinion first hand
963
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the new Cydonia thermal data had been deliberately withheld, likely because it contained corroborative information supporting the intelligence hypothesis about the Face on Mars.
“Having satisfied ourselves that this new Cydonia data had been deliberately withheld, probably because it contained some critical new corroborative information on the "intelligence hypothesis"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:84287-84468 opinion first hand
964
In the newest NASA/JPL/Arizona State University release, the Face on Mars almost completely disappears when comparing the daytime infrared image from July 24 with the nighttime October 31 counterpart.
“The most striking "Cydonia anomaly" in the newest NASA/JPL/ASU release is the almost complete "disappearance" of the Face. In a side-by-side presentation, the Face—as seen in the July 24 daytime IR image (left), compared with its nighttime "October 31" counterpart (right), is almost completely missing”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:84783-85078 observation first hand
965
Richard C. Hoagland began his own experiments using the composited visible-light/infrared "decorrelated" versions of the Cydonia images that Keith Laney had already completed.
“At the same time, taking the composited VIS/IR “decorrelated” versions Laney had already completed, Hoagland began a few experiments of his own.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:8531-8671 observation first hand
966
The nighttime close-up THEMIS image of the Face on Mars is of noticeably lower quality and resolution than its daytime counterpart, which Richard C. Hoagland attributes to the image having actually been taken much earlier than Noel Gorelick indicated, at the coldest period of northern Martian winter around January 2002.
“why is the nighttime close-up of the Face, compared to its daytime counterpart, of such obvious lower quality and resolution? Part of the reason, we now know, is due to the fact that the image was taken much earlier than Bamf let on in his extensive BBS conversations. This image was taken literally at the coldest period of northern Martian winter—some time in January 2002.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:85854-86228 opinion first hand
967
The official caption for the nighttime Cydonia image reports frigid ground temperatures of -90 degrees Celsius to -75 degrees Celsius, which Richard C. Hoagland states confirms the image was taken during the coldest period of northern Martian winter.
“The frigid ground temperatures reported in its official caption, -90º C to -75º C, quietly confirm this, even if we didn't have the seasonal lighting geometry to cinch it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:86234-86402 measurement first hand
968
Richard C. Hoagland concluded, upon examining the pixel details of the nighttime Cydonia infrared image, that someone had deliberately added noise to obscure certain geometric patterns recorded in the image.
“when we examined the pixel details of this nighttime Cydonia IR image, it was also obvious that "someone" carefully "added" a significant amount of noise in an obvious effort to obscure certain geometric patterns that were recorded.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:86767-86990 opinion first hand
969
In Keith Laney's averaged version of the daytime and nighttime THEMIS Cydonia images, the Face on Mars is revealed to be a perfectly rectangular "box" shape with extensive internal rectilinear geometry.
“The Face is revealed in the nighttime IR to be a perfectly rectangular "box," with lots of internal rectilinear geometry inside.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:88053-88174 opinion first hand
970
A symmetrical extension appears below the "chin" of the Face on Mars in the nighttime infrared image but does not appear in the daytime image, which Richard C. Hoagland interprets as evidence of a warm underground structure leaking heat through overlying sand and dust.
“One intriguing feature that appears in the nighttime version, but does not appear in the daytime image, is the "symmetrical extension" below the "chin." Clearly, something close to the surface, but underground, is warm enough in the nighttime IR to allow its heat to "leak" up through the overlying layers of sand and dust and reveal its symmetrical presence underground.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:88388-88750 opinion first hand
971
By increasing the image saturation of the composite visible-light/infrared image of Cydonia, Richard C. Hoagland revealed what had appeared to be an annoying block pattern to be a detailed cityscape of structures beneath the surface.
“By simply increasing the image saturation of the composite VIS/IR image, what had been an annoying and mystifying block pattern was suddenly revealed by Hoagland to be a stunning, highly detailed *city,* silently sleeping for untold ages beneath the timeless sands of Mars”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:8840-9108 observation first hand
972
The brightest, warmest sections of the Face on Mars in the nighttime infrared image are the left eyebrow ridge and the nose, consistent with retaining the most heat from being exposed longest to the setting sun.
“The brightest (warmest) sections of the Face are clearly those highest on the feature—the left "eyebrow ridge" and the "nose"—consistent with their retaining the most heat from being exposed the longest to the last rays of the setting sun.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:88765-89000 observation first hand
973
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that the Face on Mars might be composed of manufactured, conducting materials, possibly a porous or honeycombed metal, which would explain how it quickly dissipates daytime heat after sunset.
“This requirement would be satisfied if the composition were some kind of "conducting material" like a metal, and if this material was significantly porous (perhaps "honeycombed," thus allowing very efficient night air cooling) to boot.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:90325-90555 opinion first hand
974
Other mesas at Cydonia, located according to the hyperdimensional geometry Richard C. Hoagland says is coded there, also appear to exhibit anomalous nighttime thermal properties inconsistent with erosively resistant natural rock outcroppings.
“Close-ups of other "average mesas" on this landscape—some of which are, like the Face, located precisely according to the unique "hyperdimensional geometry" that's overwhelmingly "coded" here—also seem to be exhibiting "anomalous" thermal properties.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:90769-91008 opinion first hand
975
Keith Laney was leaked an image on 2002-07-25 that appeared to combine a high quality daytime infrared image overlaid on a nighttime image, and Laney's multi-band version of the NASA July 25 image showed the D&M Pyramid with an unusually transparent aspect.
“Is this why the image Keith Laney was leaked on July 25, 2002 bears an eerie resemblance, as if it was a combination of a high quality daytime IR overlaid on another nighttime image? Is this why the D&M in Laney's multi-band version of the NASA July 25 image has this astonishing "transparent aspect,"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:91423-91717 opinion first hand
976
Richard C. Hoagland's team considered the Cydonia cityscape pattern to be real because it did not follow the scan lines of the imager but instead ran true north and south, as terrestrial cities most often do.
“For one thing, the pattern did not follow the scan lines of the imager, but rather true Cydonia north and south—exactly as terrestrial cities most often do.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:9186-9339 opinion first hand
977
Richard C. Hoagland interprets Noel Gorelick's remark about being able to produce a nine-band nighttime Cydonia image as implying that THEMIS had in fact acquired all nine infrared bands of nighttime data across Cydonia, beyond the single band Gorelick published.
“Did he really mean to publicly imply that THEMIS has acquired all nine bands of nighttime infrared across Cydonia—in addition to the one he'd deigned to publish? His statement cannot really be interpreted in any other way.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:92724-92944 opinion first hand
978
Richard C. Hoagland's team identified a variety of individual structures in the Cydonia infrared composite image that did not conform to the north/south grid pattern.
“In addition, there were a wide variety of individual “structures” which did not conform to this north/south grid at all.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:9343-9459 observation first hand
979
Richard C. Hoagland argues that acquiring a full nine-band nighttime infrared image of Cydonia, a region repeatedly termed "scientifically uninteresting" by the THEMIS team, corroborates the clandestine nature of the Mars Odyssey mission's focus on Cydonia.
“acquiring a full nine-band nighttime IR—of a region that has repeatedly been termed "scientifically uninteresting" by the entire THEMIS team—can only be additional corroboration of the clandestine nature of the Odyssey mission from the beginning.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:93663-93899 opinion first hand
980
Art Bell returned to broadcasting after an announced retirement, and worked with Richard C. Hoagland to apply public pressure for the release of the Cydonia Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) data.
“Art Bell had returned from his abrupt “retirement,” and in concert with him Hoagland used the airwaves to apply public pressure to release the data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:946-1089 observation first hand
981
Richard C. Hoagland's team concluded the structures they found in the Cydonia composite image were not noise because they showed clear evidence of architectural intent and organisation in both layout and design.
“We were completely confident that these structures are not noise, since they show, in both layout and design, clear evidence of architectural intent and organization”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:9464-9617 opinion first hand
982
Richard C. Hoagland considers the 1996 switch to environmentally friendly external tank insulating foam to have made a Columbia-like disaster only a matter of time for NASA.
“Once that decision was taken, it was only a matter of time before a Columbia-like disaster would befall the agency.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:95119-95227 opinion first hand
983
Even the smallest structures identified in the Cydonia composite image were at least ten times above the noise threshold of the visible-light/infrared composites, in both resolution and intensity.
“even the smallest structures were at least an order of magnitude (ten times) above the very low noise threshold of these superb VIS/IR composites, both in terms of resolution as well as intensity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:9634-9821 measurement first hand
984
Philip Christensen stated he had no idea how the "artificial stuff" had appeared on the images that Keith Laney had processed, without characterising Laney's version as an outright fake.
“He also went on to state that he had no idea how the "artificial stuff" had gotten on the images that Keith Laney had processed. At no time did he say that the Laney version of the image was an outright fake, nor did he accuse Hoagland, Laney or Bara of creating false data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:98200-98469 testimony first hand
985
Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine search tool on the URL of the daytime Cydonia infrared image, Richard C. Hoagland's team found that the Arizona State University THEMIS website page, managed by Noel Gorelick, had originally been posted on 2002-07-24 and was subsequently altered in the early morning hours of 2002-07-26.
“Using a search engine called the "Wayback Machine," we had been able to plug in the URL of the daytime Cydonia infrared image. It had shown that, contrary to Christensen's previous e-mail statements and contrary to his latest public statements, the ASU website containing the image created and managed by Christensen's lieutenant Noel Gorelick had been originally posted on July 24, 2002, and had subsequently been altered in the early morning hours of July 26, 2002”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:99144-99609 observation first hand
986
In the Cydonia composite image, a previously identified feature known as the "tunnel" running out of the Fort could be seen continuing across the Cydonia plain underneath the soil.
“Previously identified features, like the “tunnel” running out of the Fort, could now be seen to continue out across the Cydonia plain, literally *under the soil*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch17:9972-10128 observation first hand
987
Richard C. Hoagland considers the anomalous reflectivity of the Face on Mars seen in pre-dawn imagery to reinforce earlier findings from a nighttime infrared image in which the Face nearly disappeared except for a box-like, geometric under-structure.
“The reflectivity also powerfully reinforces the earlier findings of the nighttime infrared image, in which the Face seemed to all but disappear except for a box-like, geometric under-structure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:10630-10813 opinion first hand
988
Richard C. Hoagland argues that if the Face on Mars were constructed of glass-like or metallic panels rather than being an eroded rocky outcrop, it would not retain heat at all through the night, and its anomalous surface reflectivity confirms its equally anomalous lack of heat retention seen in the nighttime infrared imagery.
“For if the Face was actually constructed of glasslike or metallic panels, rather than being an “eroded rocky outcrop,” it would not retain heat at all through the night. Its anomalous reflectivity in this image is confirmation of its equally anomalous lack of heat retention in the nighttime IR.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:10824-11116 opinion first hand
989
Fig. 11-1 is an enhanced, grayscale close-up image created by Keith Laney and Richard C. Hoagland.
“The image shown in Fig. 11-1 is an enhanced, grayscale close-up created by Keith Laney and Richard C. Hoagland”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:113-211 administrative first hand
990
Richard C. Hoagland suspects that Philip Christensen arranged the pre-dawn lighting geometry for image V0 3814003 because he expected to see something different and unique.
“Our suspicion was that he arranged this particular lighting because he expected to see something different and unique”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:11303-11414 opinion first hand
991
A Mars Surveyor image of the Face on Mars, compared to the Odyssey view, shows hints of a similar rectilinear structure on the surface at opposite lighting and higher resolution, suggesting the brilliant reflecting elements seen in the Odyssey twenty-metre colour version may be larger-scale, more massive interior structures captured beneath the visible light features seen in the Mars Global Surveyor five-metre view.
“This key similarity—but at two totally different scales—suggests that the brilliant reflecting elements seen in the Odyssey twenty-meter color version may in fact be larger scale, more massive interior structures, captured underneath the visible light features seen in the MGS five-meter view.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:12150-12438 opinion first hand
992
Richard C. Hoagland argues that the overall effect in the Odyssey view of the Face on Mars would have been identical to an internal lighting system, producing an imaging effect almost like an x-ray, making the internal architectural structure of the Face visible for the first time.
“The overall effect in this Odyssey view would have been identical to an internal lighting system, producing an imaging effect almost like an x-ray, making the internal architectural structure of the Face on Mars visible for the first time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:12922-13156 opinion first hand
993
Richard C. Hoagland considers that Philip Christensen's motivation for imaging the Face on Mars under pre-dawn conditions was political, specifically a desire to obtain results before the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission could do so.
“we were forced to look to the political arena for a reason he might have wanted to “get there first.” After a little searching, the reason became obvious—ESA’s Mars Express.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:13314-13479 opinion first hand
994
Richard C. Hoagland hoped that data from the Mars Express mission would be more honest than what NASA had provided over the years, since the mission was run outside NASA's influence.
“Given that the mission was going to be run outside of the influence of NASA, we had some hope that we might get good data from it. At least we hoped that it would be more honest than what NASA had provided over the years—and in color.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:14235-14463 opinion first hand
995
Richard C. Hoagland considers that from the beginning of NASA's Mars explorations, the agency's difficulty producing correct colour images was not a technical problem but a political one.
“As we had gathered data over the years, it became obvious that this was not a technical problem, but a *political* one. For some reason, NASA had an aversion to showing the world the “true colors of Mars.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:14676-14875 opinion first hand
996
Richard C. Hoagland was present at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the summer of 1976, covering the Viking story for millions of readers of a major magazine and a couple of broadcast television networks.
“Hoagland was also present, covering the extraordinary Viking story for millions of readers of a major magazine and a couple of broadcast television networks.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:15862-16010 administrative first hand
997
Richard C. Hoagland was present at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the afternoon of 1976-07-20, and recalls a similar shock when the initial "Arizona, Mars" image flashed on JPL monitors was suddenly transformed into a red-toned Martian scene.
“Hoagland had been at JPL that same afternoon, and vividly remembers a similar shock when the “Arizona, Mars” image initially flashed on the JPL monitors was suddenly transformed into a Martian “Red Light District.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:18946-19150 testimony first hand
998
Richard C. Hoagland regrets not asking more questions about the 1976 Viking colour monitor changes at the time, reasoning that in 1976 he and others simply trusted NASA.
“He now kicks himself for not asking many more questions. But, as he would later put it, “it was 1976—and we all *trusted* NASA back then.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:19161-19293 opinion first hand
999
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover landing sites, Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, were squarely in the path of outflow channels predicted by the Mars Tidal Model's tidal oceans.
“It did not escape our notice that both of these sites were squarely in the path of outflow channels from our predicted Mars tidal oceans.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:29765-29895 opinion first hand
1000
NASA sent out surrogates, including astronomer Phil Plait who ran a debunking website called Bad Astronomy, to respond to the Mars colour controversy.
“NASA did not respond directly to the new controversy, but instead sent out a number of surrogates, including a Dr. Phil Plait, an astronomer who had a debunking website called “Bad Astronomy.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:30827-31008 opinion first hand
1001
Contrary to Phil Plait's claims, the difficulty in Mars Exploration Rover colour imaging was not that colours were assigned to infrared band filters alone, but that NASA used the wrong filters for each of the red, green and blue channels, making correction almost impossible without knowing how to compensate for the deliberate misallocation.
“What makes the process difficult was not that colors are assigned to IR band filters alone, but the fact that NASA used the *wrong* filters for each of the RGB channels, making it almost impossible to correct for. In fact, if you didn’t know how to correct for the deliberate misallocation, you could never get close to the true color of a scene at a given moment.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:31703-32060 opinion first hand
1002
Keith Laney was able to produce colour images of Mars using his calibration correction that were far more accurate and logical than the images released by NASA.
“Keith *did* know how to make this correction, and he was able to produce color images of Mars that are far more accurate and logical than what NASA has released”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:32081-32234 opinion first hand
1003
No colour Pancam image from either the Spirit or Opportunity landing sites on NASA's official website looks like anything other than a Technicolor-red sky.
“as you go to the official website, there isn’t one color Pancam image from either landing site that looks like anything other than the silly “Technicolor red” skies Plait so readily defends”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:32666-32848 opinion first hand
1004
NASA has released Pancam colour images of test scenes taken on Earth, using the same filters as the Mars press-release images, in which the red balance was correctly rendered and looked entirely normal.
“We found a number of Pancam color images taken on Earth using the same filters as on the color press release images coming from Mars. Miraculously, NASA was somehow able to get the red balance corrected so that the pictures look entirely normal.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:33524-33762 opinion first hand
1005
In the Laney-Hoagland rendition of image V0 3814003, after lowering brightness levels, some surface details can be seen beneath the glare on the Face on Mars.
“In the Laney-Hoagland rendition (right), after considerable effort to lower brightness levels, some surface details can just be seen beneath the glare.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:3369-3514 observation first hand
1006
The Spirit and Opportunity rover airbags, shown as orange-red in Mars landing site images, are actually a fairly bright off-white colour.
“we found that the Spirit and Opportunity airbags, far from being the orange-red color in the landing site images, are actually a fairly bright off-white.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:34405-34552 opinion first hand
1007
NASA/JPL altered images of the Mars Exploration Rover airbag tests, distorting the bag colour to look reddish as in the Technicolor red press release images.
“NASA/JPL even *altered* images of the rover airbag tests, distorting the bag color to look as they do in the Technicolor Red polluted press release images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:35086-35234 opinion first hand
1008
A Snap-On tool box visible in the background of a fake-colour Mars Exploration Rover airbag image from the press release gallery shows all its normally silver pieces with a distinct reddish-orange tint, at odds with the box's actual factory colouring.
“In the background of the fake-color air bag image (from the press release gallery of the MER website) is a Snap-On® tool box... you’ll see that all of the normally silver pieces on the box have a distinct reddish-orange tint to them. This is completely at odds with the way the boxes are painted when they leave the Snap-On® factory.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:35273-35683 observation first hand
1009
There is at least one NASA press release image of the American flag logo with the colour correctly rendered close to Keith Laney's results, but without any view of the sky.
“There is at least one press release version of the American flag logo ([USA-Flag-A7R1.jpg]) with the color correctly rendered and very close to Laney’s results, but without any view of the sky.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:37655-37870 observation first hand
1010
Following a provocative statement about possible algae on Mars, the colour of the official Mars Express Gusev Crater colour image on the German Space Agency (DLR) website was recalibrated.
“Remarkably, right after this extremely leading, extremely provocative statement, the color of the official Mars Express Gusev image on the German Space Agency website was curiously “recalibrated,””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:40540-40722 observation first hand
1011
The caption on the official European Space Agency (ESA) site carrying the Gusev "green" image was altered to add the line "Note the green coloring is an effect of image processing."
“while simultaneously the caption on the official ESA site carrying the Gusev “green” image was also altered—with a key line added: “Note the green coloring is an effect of image processing…””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:40740-40918 observation first hand
1012
The Mars Express image itself remained unchanged on the European Space Agency (ESA) site even though a recalibrated version of the same image had replaced the original on the official German website.
“However, inexplicably, the image on the site remained unchanged. Given that a “recalibrated” version of this same image had just replaced the original on the official German website, this is completely baffling.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:40932-41134 observation first hand
1013
The image processing performed on Odyssey image V0 3814003 consisted only of decreasing brightness and applying a 3x pixel over-sampling to smooth jagged edges, with no other filters or enhancement techniques used.
“these spectacular results were achieved by merely decreasing the brightness of Odyssey image V0 3814003, and then applying a 3X pixel over sampling (to smooth out “jaggies”). No other filters or enhancement techniques have been used.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:4139-4368 administrative first hand
1014
On the enlarged revised Mars Express image, the wispy streaks in Gusev Crater remained green in colour, appearing as a darker bluish-green with some purple, even after the official recalibration attempt on the German website.
“on enlargement of the revised Mars Express image, the wispy streaks were *still* green—albeit a darker bluish-green, with maybe some purple thrown in.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:41819-41967 observation first hand
1015
In the new colour image, the dark streaks in Gusev Crater emanate directly from the dark crater floors.
“strikingly obvious in the new color image, the “streaks” emanated directly from the dark crater floors.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:42008-42104 observation first hand
1016
Richard C. Hoagland considers the imaging comparison to show that Martian winds preferentially remove dark material from the floors of Gusev Crater's craters and deposit it on the plains between them as wispy, blue-green, purple streaks.
“In fact, the imaging comparison revealed the opposite. The Martian winds are preferentially removing something dark from the floors of the even darker craters, and depositing it on the plains *between* these craters—as the wispy, blue-green, purple streaks”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:42455-42706 opinion first hand
1017
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that a highly concentrated brine solution lies just under the surface rocks and dust beneath major sections of the Gusev Crater floor.
“Suppose that a highly concentrated *brine solution* lies just under the surface rocks and dust, beneath major sections of this ancient crater floor?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:43902-44044 opinion first hand
1018
Richard C. Hoagland considers Gusev Crater to have once been an ancient crater lake.
“After all, this was supposed to be an ancient crater lake at one time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:44051-44116 opinion first hand
1019
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that the "magic carpet" feature at the Spirit landing site is the first image of a genuine mud puddle on the planet Mars, caused by Spirit's airbags dragging across a wet, sticky surface created by seasonally melted subsurface brine.
“Spirit lands… the airbags drag across this partially wet, very sticky surface, and—viola!—Spirit captures the first image of a genuine “mud puddle” on the planet Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:44386-44548 opinion first hand
1020
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that algae mats within Gusev Crater's craters grow in the Martian spring and summer and that their spores, carried by winds out of the craters, form the long sinuous streaks observed across the intercrater surfaces from orbit.
“one could easily speculate that the algae mats within some craters grow in the Martian spring and summer, and ultimately reproduce. Their spores are then carried by the winds out of the craters to form the long, sinuous streaks across the intercrater surfaces observed from orbit.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:45502-45776 opinion first hand
1021
Richard C. Hoagland believes the unstated reason Gusev Crater was targeted as a landing site for a Mars Exploration Rover was for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to check first-hand whether the dark streaks were simple plant life.
“It was obvious that this was indeed the unstated reason why Gusev had been targeted for one of the Rovers. NASA wanted to check first-hand on the dark streaks and find out if they were indeed simple plant life.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:46040-46245 opinion first hand
1022
Richard C. Hoagland believes the Mars Express team, after publishing the bright green image of Gusev Crater, received criticism from the Rover team through back channels and issued a corrected version of the data without withdrawing the original bright green version.
“They probably got a lot of static from the Rover team through the back channels (remember, NASA was already embroiled in a bit of a color controversy over the Spirit surface images), so they issued a “corrected” version of the data, but *never withdrew their initial bright green version.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:46371-46651 opinion first hand
1023
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the European Space Agency (ESA) takes a fairly neutral stance on hot political issues, providing honest data even without a press release declaring Cydonia artificial.
“To us, this confirmed that ESA was going to take a fairly neutral stance on hot political issues. It might mean that we would never get a press release calling Cydonia artificial, but we would get honest data, at least.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:46662-46876 opinion first hand
1024
Richard C. Hoagland considers the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) not committed to disseminating truth.
“NASA, however, was not so committed to disseminating truth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:46883-46936 opinion first hand
1025
One of Opportunity's microscopic close-up images of El Capitan revealed what appeared to be a Martian fossil.
“One of those images revealed an amazing sight: An apparent Martian *fossil*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:47945-48013 observation first hand
1026
A close-up enlargement of the apparent Martian fossil in the El Capitan microscopic image revealed apparently snapped-off body geometry, at least five visible cylindrical segments, and other fossil-like features in the surrounding rock, resembling hallmarks of a former living organism.
“A close-up enlargement revealed apparently snapped-off body geometry, at least five visible cylindrical segments, and a hint of other fossil-like features buried in the surrounding rock itself—all classic hallmarks of a former *living* organism.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:48035-48271 observation first hand
1027
A combined map of the two Mars Exploration Rover landing sites and the Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer's orbital determination of water abundance in the upper one metre of Martian soil shows the rovers exploring the shallows of two proposed equatorial Martian tidal oceans.
“If you look at a combined map of where JPL landed its two rovers and the Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer orbital determination of water abundance in the upper one meter of Martian soil, a glance will suffice to show the rovers are indeed exploring none other than the shallows of our two proposed equatorial Martian tidal oceans, almost as if that had been planned.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:50673-51029 opinion first hand
1028
After discovering the apparent Martian fossil in the El Capitan microscopic image, the rover team used the grinder known as the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) and ground the object into powder instead of calling a press conference or briefing the President.
“They immediately took the grinder (technically called the “Rock Abrasion Tool”—RAT), and *ground it into powder*. Instead of moving the grinder a couple inches to the left or right, they simply bored down on the fossil, totally obliterating it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:51581-51822 observation first hand
1029
By this brightness-reduction technique, the Face on Mars is estimated to reflect straight up approximately 99.9% of the surface illumination falling on it, compared to the surrounding ground's average reflectivity of about 20%.
“the Face via this technique turns out to be reflecting—straight up—an amazing 99.9% of the surface illumination falling on it, compared to the ground’s average of about 20%!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:5391-5560 measurement first hand
1030
Richard C. Hoagland questions how Geoffrey A. Landis, a Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover (MER) NASA scientist, appeared to anticipate the fossil discovery four years before the Opportunity mission landed, and why he did not raise an objection to its destruction.
“How did Landis—a Pathfinder and MER Rover Mission NASA scientist—somehow *know,* four years before the Opportunity mission even landed? And why didn’t he, or anyone else on the Lander science team, say anything about it, or even raise an objection to its destruction?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:54039-54294 opinion first hand
1031
Richard C. Hoagland states that Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic religious icon functionally equivalent to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the goddess of life.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic religious icon, functionally equivalent to the Egyptian *Isis*, the goddess of *life*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:54473-54595 opinion first hand
1032
After naming the apparent Martian fossil "Guadalupe" after a goddess of life, the rover team destroyed it by grinding it with the Rock Abrasion Tool.
“Yet after discovering a fossil that could confirm the existence of complex life on Mars sometime in the past, and even naming it after a “goddess of life,” they destroyed it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:54602-54773 opinion first hand
1033
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that the eastern side of the Face on Mars must be acting like a set of coherent, artificial mirrors, since no rocky surface can have this degree of right-angle natural reflectivity.
“Since no rocky surface can *possibly* have this degree of right-angle, natural reflectivity, the Face’s eastern side *must* be acting like a set of coherent, artificial *mirrors*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:5565-5735 opinion first hand
1034
Mars Pathfinder detected that the water table of the Martian atmosphere is conducive to liquid water on the planet's surface today, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“discovered that the water table of the atmosphere is conducive to liquid water on the planet’s surface today (Pathfinder)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:55907-56017 opinion first hand
1035
Spirit detected evidence of a muddy-briny surface in the bottom of a shallow crater at Gusev Crater, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“detected evidence of a muddy-briny surface in the bottom of a shallow crater (Spirit)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:56030-56108 opinion first hand
1036
Mars Express detected visual evidence of algae and spores from orbit, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“detected visual evidence of algae and spores from orbit (Mars Express)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:56117-56179 opinion first hand
1037
Mars Express detected large amounts of probably organically produced methane in the Martian atmosphere, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“detected large amounts of (probably) organically produced methane in the atmosphere (Mars Express)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:56189-56279 opinion first hand
1038
Opportunity found an unmistakable fossil analogue to a form of life that once flourished on Earth, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“found an unmistakable fossil analog to a form of life that once flourished on Earth (Opportunity)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:56293-56378 opinion first hand
1039
Figure 11-1 in Dark Mission is a composite image made from a May 2001 Mars Global Surveyor black-and-white image and a July 2003 Mars Odyssey five-band colour image, showing anomalously bright, geometrically aligned structural elements on the eastern side of the Face on Mars, credited to Arizona State University, Keith Laney, and Richard C. Hoagland.
“Fig. 11-1 - Composite image made from May 2001 MGS B&W image, and July 2003 Mars Odyssey 2001 five-band color image. Note anomalously bright, geometrically aligned, *structural* elements on eastern side (R) (ASU/Laney/Hoagland)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:57232-57450 observation second hand
1040
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that a manufactured, highly directional glass and metal surface on the Face on Mars, with aligned reflecting elements despite the curving underlying structure, could redirect horizon sky glow coherently and vertically to produce the observed optical phenomena in Odyssey's visual camera.
“we were inexorably forced to conclude that only some kind of manufactured, highly “directional” glass and metal surface on the Face—whereby the angles of all the surviving reflecting elements, despite the curving underlying structure, are aligned—could redirect the horizon sky glow coherently, vertically, at such a specific angle, and thus produce these startling optical phenomenon seen in Odyssey’s VIS camera.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:5776-6183 opinion first hand
1041
The multi-coloured, prismatic appearance of the 3D panels on the Face on Mars raises the possibility of semi-transparent, glass-like refractions in the material making up the structure.
“the multi-colored, “prismatic” appearance of these striking 3D “panels” raises the serious possibility of semi-transparent, glass-like refractions in this material—from whatever is making up this structure”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:6201-6397 opinion first hand
1042
Richard C. Hoagland predicted that the Face on Mars was a specifically constructed and completely artificial edifice.
“This, in turn, is totally consistent with Hoagland’s predictions that the Face was a specifically constructed and completely artificial edifice.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:6408-6544 opinion first hand
1043
Richard C. Hoagland considers major portions of the Face on Mars to be composed of a collection of polygonal objects, similar to modern 3D computer models, with countless exposed elements of internal geometric structure now showing through erosion.
“In other words, that major portions of the Face were composed of a collection of polygonal objects, much like modern 3D computer models are made up of thousands of polygons, now showing (through erosion) countless exposed elements of their internal geometric structure.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:6923-7182 opinion first hand
1044
Richard C. Hoagland argues that an estimated brightness of over 99% for the eastern side of the Face on Mars rules out any natural high-albedo, lambertian scattering surface caused by snow or ice, whether water or frozen carbon dioxide, as an explanation for the overexposed eastern half of the Face.
“Since we’ve now quantitatively estimated the eastern side brightness of the Face at over *99%*, this effectively rules out any natural high albedo, lambert-type (all-direction) scattering surfaces caused by snow or ice (whether water or frozen CO2) as an explanation for the severely overexposed Face’s eastern half.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:7650-7961 opinion first hand
1045
The protected eastern half of the Face on Mars's surface, as captured by Mars Odyssey in an instant of precise pre-dawn illumination geometry, produced mirror-like reflections bounced approximately 400 kilometres straight up before the sun had risen over the Cydonia horizon.
“is capable of producing mirror-like reflections, bounced 250 miles straight up, even *before* the sun had actually risen over the Cydonia horizon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:8420-8558 opinion first hand
1046
Richard C. Hoagland considers it highly unlikely that the nighttime Cydonia infrared image was actually taken on 2002-10-24.
“As we have established in a previous section, it is highly unlikely that the nighttime image was actually taken on that date.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:852-972 opinion first hand
1047
The brightness difference between the Face on Mars and the neighbouring mesa in image V0 3814003 is not due to differences in height, since pre-dawn sky illumination comes from a large area of sky several degrees above the point where the sun will rise and is essentially the same for both features regardless of their intrinsic height.
“this dramatic brightness difference is not because of any major differences in height... Thus, the sky illumination of both features in V0 3814003—regardless of their intrinsic height—is essentially the same.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch18:9260-9472 opinion first hand
1048
Richard C. Hoagland believes it was the White House that recommended him for the Crossfire appearance on 1989-07-20.
“On the first question, the answer seems obvious—the White House.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:10144-10202 opinion first hand
1049
At the time of the proposed 1989-07-20 Crossfire appearance, Richard C. Hoagland was in Yosemite National Park in Northern California, too far from a television studio for the appearance to happen.
“Hoagland, at that moment, was in the middle of Yosemite National Park in Northern California—about as far from a television studio as you can get in North America. The proposed CNN Mars Crossfire for that evening simply couldn't happen for reasons of practical logistics.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:10612-10875 observation first hand
1050
Richard C. Hoagland was invited to make a presentation at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center a few months after the 1989-07-20 Space Exploration Initiative announcement.
“A few months later Hoagland was invited to make his presentation at NASA/Lewis.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:11272-11345 administrative
1051
On 1990-03-20, when introducing Richard C. Hoagland for his presentation at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center, Director John Klineberg told the assembled NASA workers that it was Hoagland's work that had inspired the Space Exploration Initiative.
“when Dr. John Klineberg, Director of NASA/Lewis, introduced Hoagland for his presentation at that facility on March 20, 1990, Klineberg told the assembled NASA workers that it was Hoagland's work that had inspired the SEI”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:11402-11620 testimony second hand
1052
John Klineberg said that Richard C. Hoagland is the man who managed to convince the President to state that a return to Mars is one of the nation's goals.
“"Richard Hoagland is [also] the man who managed to convince the President to state that a return to Mars is one of our goals..."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:11627-11745 testimony second hand
1053
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it lost the entire video recording of John Klineberg's introductory statement about Richard C. Hoagland, despite it being broadcast via closed-circuit television throughout the roughly 4,000-hectare National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center Auditorium facility.
“Strangely, even though these comments were made in front of literally thousands of NASA scientists and engineers in the main NASA/Lewis Auditorium, and simultaneously broadcast via closed-circuit television throughout the rest of the ~4000-acre NASA facility, NASA said it somehow subsequently lost the entire video recording of Klineberg's introductory statement.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:11759-12116 administrative second hand
1054
Mark Dwane, a friend of Richard C. Hoagland whose father worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center, was in the audience at the 1990-03-20 presentation with an audio cassette tape recorder and captured John Klineberg's entire introduction.
“a friend of Hoagland's, Mark Dwane (whose father worked for NASA-Lewis), was in the audience with an audio cassette tape recorder, and captured Klineberg's entire "official" introduction.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:12565-12739 observation second hand
1055
Shortly before his public introductory remarks, John Klineberg told Richard C. Hoagland and several other attendees in a private meeting in the Director's office that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was under intense scrutiny from the United States Congress because of the Space Exploration Initiative.
“Only minutes before his public statement, Klineberg had informed Hoagland and several other attendees in a private meeting in the Director's office that NASA was "under intense scrutiny from Congress, because of SEI."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:12972-13184 testimony second hand
1056
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Crossfire invitation, the Klineberg statement quoting the President, and the 1989 White House Mars Exploration Program poster as three separate lines of evidence that George Herbert Walker Bush was familiar with and inspired by Hoagland's work.
“It was clear to us that these three separate lines of evidence—the Crossfire invitation, the Klineberg statement quoting the President and the Program poster—all pointed to Bush 41 being not only familiar with Hoagland's work, but inspired by it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:15233-15480 opinion first hand
1057
Richard C. Hoagland considers the name Orion interchangeable with the god Osiris in the Egyptian tradition.
“We have a new manned Moon-Mars program, named "Orion"—which we have previously established is interchangeable with the god "Osiris" in the Egyptian tradition.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:17215-17363 opinion first hand
1058
The name Project Orion first appeared in the press on 2006-07-20, a recurring National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 'ritual date' marking the heliacal rising of Sirius/Isis in the ancient Egyptian stellar calendar.
“The name of this new program appeared in the press for the first time on July 20, a recurring NASA "ritual date" which marks the heliacal rising of Sirius/Isis in the ancient Egyptian stellar calendar”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:17635-17827 opinion first hand
1059
Richard C. Hoagland examined George W. Bush's initial January 2004 announcement speech at NASA Headquarters looking for clues suggesting bigger considerations than political legacy were driving the new space programme.
“We went back to the President's initial January 2004 announcement speech at NASA headquarters. There, we found clues that got us thinking there were bigger—much bigger—considerations, than mere concern for political legacy, driving "Project Constellation."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:21166-21407 opinion first hand
1060
Richard C. Hoagland considers Gene Cernan's non-reaction to George W. Bush's acknowledgement rude and inappropriate etiquette given that Cernan was invited at NASA and the White House's behest.
“Frankly, this reaction, or lack thereof, stunned us. Not only was it rude of Cernan, it was totally inappropriate etiquette, given that he was invited (presumably) at NASA and the White House's behest.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:23466-23661 opinion first hand
1061
Richard C. Hoagland suspects that Gene Cernan's silent protest at the 2004 announcement stemmed from something more than a political disagreement with George W. Bush, possibly connected to the Apollo 17 mission and Cernan's role in it.
“We began to suspect that there was something more to Cernan's silent protest than a mere political disagreement with President Bush. Perhaps there was something more, something about the Apollo 17 Mission … and Cernan's role in it at work here.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:24166-24405 opinion first hand
1062
Richard C. Hoagland considers Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong more logical choices than Gene Cernan to represent the Apollo past at the 2004 announcement, since they had participated in similar NASA events, were better known to the public, and had delivered generous and memorable remarks.
“Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong would seem much more logical choices, since they had already participated in numerous NASA events like this one, were far better known to the general public than Cernan, and had always delivered generous and memorable remarks.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:24528-24789 opinion first hand
1063
Richard C. Hoagland considers astronauts' artwork and public statements, including Alan Bean's artwork, silent confirmations of a lunar dome thesis proposed by Hoagland.
“Beyond the silent confirmations of our Lunar dome thesis in Alan Bean's artwork, they seemed to be, at times, speaking out in the only way they could, through subtle "messages" and actions”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:25936-26118 opinion first hand
1064
Richard C. Hoagland considers John Glenn's 2001 Frasier appearance to have all the earmarks of a straightforward "Brookings" revelation.
“In fact, this bizarre appearance has all the earmarks of a straightforward "Brookings" revelation.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:27570-27657 opinion first hand
1065
Richard C. Hoagland considers John Glenn's 2001 Frasier remarks a scathing indictment of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and its integrity regardless of the forum in which they were spoken.
“Regardless of where they were spoken, Glenn's words are a scathing indictment of NASA and its integrity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:28164-28258 opinion first hand
1066
Richard C. Hoagland found a deliberately faked photograph in the middle of Alan Shepard's own account of his journey to the Moon in the photographic section of Moon Shot.
“It's when you begin to examine the *photographic* section of their joint authorship, "Moon Shot," that the real problems begin. There, right in the middle of Shepard's own account of his amazing against-all-odds personal journey to the Moon… … Is a *deliberately* faked record of the trip [Fig. 12-4].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:35488-35787 opinion first hand
1067
Richard C. Hoagland determined the golf shot image in Moon Shot was not a frame grab from the television camera because of the television image's poor quality compared to the photograph.
“So, is this a "frame grab" from *that* camera? It was quickly obvious that was not the case. Besides the terrible quality of the TV images—which, obviously, can in no way compare to the B&W "photograph" in *Moon Shot*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:37022-37234 opinion first hand
1068
Richard C. Hoagland found that in the faked golf shot photograph in Moon Shot, the flag pointed the opposite direction and Alan Shepard's body position differed from the real event.
“we noted, among other things, that the flag was pointing the opposite direction in the photo, Shepard's body position was different”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:37241-37363 observation first hand
1069
Richard C. Hoagland found that the image of Edgar Mitchell in the faked golf shot photograph in Moon Shot was cut out and reversed from a real Hasselblad frame, AS14-66-9301, known as the "Mitchell under glass" photo.
“the image of Ed Mitchell in the golf shot fake is simply cut out (and reversed) from a *real* Hasselblad frame, AS14-66-9301, the now-infamous "Mitchell under glass" photo [Fig. 12-5].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:37374-37555 observation first hand
1070
Keith Laney and Steve Troy, associates of Richard C. Hoagland, had been studying Apollo 17 data for some time.
“two of our associates, Keith Laney and Steve Troy, had been looking at Apollo 17 data for some time.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:42084-42179 administrative first hand
1071
In 1998, Richard C. Hoagland's original assessment of the Apollo 17 mission found the landing site's location to be extremely dangerous.
“The first thing that struck Hoagland in his original assessment of the Apollo 17 Mission, back in 1998, was the incredibly dangerous look of the landing site.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:42542-42695 opinion first hand
1072
Richard C. Hoagland, after looking at the Apollo 17 landing site images from Lunar Orbiter, wondered what could be so significant about the site that NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) would attempt such a hazardous landing.
“In originally looking at the Apollo 17 landing site images from Lunar Orbiter, Hoagland began to wonder: what could possibly be so significant about this site that NASA would attempt such a hair-raising landing?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:43675-43878 opinion first hand
1073
Enhancements done by Keith Laney and Richard C. Hoagland of the Apollo 17 landing site orbital images show boxy-looking patterns on the faces of virtually all the hills and mountains in the landing vicinity.
“recent enhancements done by Laney and Hoagland of the Apollo landing site orbital images show "boxy-looking patterns" on the faces of virtually *all* the "hills" and" mountains" in the landing vicinity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:49001-49194 observation first hand
1074
New enhancements by Richard C. Hoagland show that the still-standing sidewalls of the vented South Massif appear to overhang the empty space inside, as if supported by some internal truss structure.
“New enhancements done by Hoagland show that the still-standing sidewalls of the "vented" massif are actually *overhanging the empty space inside—* as if they were supported by some internal truss structure that is still holding them up!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:49464-49697 opinion first hand
1075
Richard C. Hoagland considers there to be a curious lack of material inside the walls of the South Massif's vent hole, suggesting the mountain may have been a hollowed arcology-like structure.
“In fact, in looking at the "vent hole," there is a curious lack of material inside the walls of this formerly hexagonal mountain. It is almost as if the mountain was a hollowed arcology-like structure all along—but if this were truly once a whole mountain (or arcology), where did all this "missing material" go?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:49702-50011 opinion first hand
1076
Richard C. Hoagland considers Jack Schmitt's debriefing explanation of the lineations on the South Massif to be a use of the trick-of-light-and-shadow argument to explain away the anomalous nature of the massif.
“Pretty clearly here, Schmitt is using the old "trick of light and shadow" argument to explain away the totally anomalous nature of the South Massif.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:54146-54287 opinion first hand
1077
Richard C. Hoagland considers the fact that the lineations on the massifs begin specifically at the base of the massif to imply that the Lincoln Scarp and the South Massif are not of the same origin.
“This implies that the scarp and the South Massif are not of the same origin, since the "lineations" they keep talking about begin specifically at the base of the massif.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:55029-55191 opinion first hand
1078
Richard C. Hoagland considers Jack Schmitt's inability to explain the lineations to stem from the fact that such geologic layering is almost always associated with sedimentary deposition caused by standing water or, less commonly, successive lava flows.
“Schmitt's inability to explain them stems from the fact that such "geologic layering" is almost always associated with sedimentary deposition, caused by standing water (the other, more infrequent cause is "successive lava flows" …).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:55399-55621 opinion first hand
1079
Richard C. Hoagland considers geological explanations for the lineations on the massifs untenable since no water has ever flowed or pooled on the Moon, and the lineations were literally thousands of feet above the presumed lava valley floor.
“Since no water has ever flowed (let alone pooled!) on the Moon, and the lineations on the massifs were literally *thousands* of feet above the (presumed) lava Valley floor, such geological explanations were totally untenable.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:55632-55847 opinion first hand
1080
Richard C. Hoagland considers the only viable alternative explanation for the layering on the massifs to be that it is a surface manifestation of heavily eroded, repeating, artificial three-dimensional cell-like constructions, exposed and re-eroded by continual meteorite bombardment.
“The only viable alternative is that this mysterious "layering"—repeatedly seen (and photographed) by the Apollo 17 crew—is only a surface manifestation of some kind of now heavily eroded, repeating, artificial, *3-D* "cell-like" *constructions.* It is these former highly geometric rooms which are constantly being exposed (and then eroded back …) by an incessant meteorite bombardment of these massive lunar "mountains"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:55859-56269 opinion first hand
1081
The television picture from the rover at Nansen showed little to nothing, only a view looking back toward the light mantle avalanche runoff.
“Unfortunately, when we did get the television picture, it showed us little to nothing. They had parked the rover on the shelf above the entrance to the South Massif, and all we had was a view looking back toward the light mantle avalanche runoff”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:57647-57886 observation first hand
1082
Richard C. Hoagland considers the published Apollo 17 image sequences of the Nansen crater area not a full 360-degree pan, since the entrance down into Nansen crater does not appear in any published sequence.
“Published images do not seem to be a full 360º pan, because if they were, the entrance down into Nansen would be visible. In fact, it's nowhere on the published sequences of this area.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:60455-60634 opinion first hand
1083
Richard C. Hoagland believes the astronauts at Apollo 17 would have had time between their off-camera period and the traverse to Station 3 to descend from the rise and photograph the interior of Nansen crater.
“The reality, however, is that between their off-camera time and the traverse to Station 3, the astronauts would have had plenty of time to descend from the rise and examine and photograph the interior of Nansen.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:62338-62542 opinion first hand
1084
Richard C. Hoagland observed that some of Gene Cernan's photographs of Shorty crater show "strange objects" that do not resemble the fractured volcanic rocks expected around a major impact crater, instead resembling broken metallic machinery and shattered glass.
“in some of Cernan's previous Shorty images "strange objects" can be seen which do not resemble the fractured, volcanic rocks that would be expected in and around a major impact crater. Instead, they look like large chunks of broken, metallic machinery and shattered glass.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:66756-67023 opinion first hand
1085
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara both independently identified a large object in the Shorty crater debris that resembled a mangled pump mechanism or engine housing, which they nicknamed "the turkey" for its fan-tail configuration and dark beak.
“In jointly examining Hoagland's enhancements, both authors independently noticed one very large, definitely strange-looking artifact—that strongly resembled a somewhat mangled "pump mechanism" or "engine housing." Nicknamed "the turkey" (because of its obvious "fan tail" configuration at one end, and dark "beak" at the other)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:67591-67912 opinion first hand
1086
While studying the object nicknamed "the turkey" at Shorty crater, Richard C. Hoagland spotted a further unusual artifact lying some distance beyond it on the crater floor.
“It was while carefully studying this bizarre, apparently blatant piece of lunar junk that Hoagland spotted an even more unusual artifact, obviously lying some distance beyond it on the crater floor”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:68135-68327 observation first hand
1087
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the unusual artifact he spotted on the Shorty crater floor appeared to be a human head.
“Even as he suddenly realized what he was seeing, he couldn't bring himself to admit what it appeared to be …. A human head! In a crater – On the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:68347-68500 opinion first hand
1088
Richard C. Hoagland reasoned the Shorty crater "head" object could not possibly be a genuine human skull, since fossilised bone could not survive the impact energies that produced the crater's debris field.
“After recovering from his initial shock he swiftly surmised that it couldn't possibly be a human skull... Something as fragile as fossilized bone could not possibly survive the energies of such an impact.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:68535-68691 opinion first hand
1089
The Space Exploration Initiative was the first major policy initiative of George Herbert Walker Bush's presidency.
“In fact, it was the first major policy initiative of his Presidency.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:6861-6920 opinion first hand
1090
By comparing context panoramas with the close-up image, Richard C. Hoagland determined that the Data's Head object at Shorty crater was approximately the same size as a human head.
“In looking at the context panoramas from which the close-up was taken, Hoagland was able to confirm that the head was approximately the same size as a human's”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:70536-70693 measurement first hand
1091
Richard C. Hoagland believes that substantial areas in the vicinity of the Apollo 17 lunar module landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley were artificial but now in ruins.
“there was plenty of evidence all around these two obviously awe-inspired astronauts, that substantial areas in the vicinity of the Lander were artificial … but now in ruins.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:72619-72788 opinion first hand
1092
In the autumn of 2005, Richard C. Hoagland took to watching late-night NASA Television.
“Hoagland took to watching late-night NASA TV in the fall of 2005.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:74354-74414 administrative first hand
1093
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara interpreted the October 2005 Hubble image release as a signal from inside NASA that Taurus-Littrow would likely be the first site NASA returned to on the Moon.
“We took all this as a gigantic "pay attention" signal from inside NASA. We felt they were strongly hinting that when we eventually went back to the Moon, Taurus-Littrow would, in fact, likely be the first place (for some reason …) to which they would return.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:75715-75966 opinion first hand
1094
Late at night shortly after the release of the new Hubble image of the Apollo 17 landing site, Richard C. Hoagland watched a NASA Television broadcast of a press interview with Jim Garvin about the new images.
“Late at night, shortly after the release of the new Hubble image of the Apollo 17 landing site, Hoagland was watching a NASA TV broadcast of a press interview with Garvin on the new images.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:76273-76455 observation first hand
1095
During the Jim Garvin NASA Television interview, NASA showed old footage of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity to Steno Crater, in which Richard C. Hoagland saw the criss-cross patterns visible on the orbital photography of Taurus-Littrow.
“NASA showed some old footage of the first Apollo 17 EVA to Steno Crater. In this footage, Hoagland saw for the first time what the "ground truth" at Taurus-Littrow really revealed. There, in the distance beyond the astronauts, Hoagland could see the astonishingly clear criss-cross patterns that were visible on the orbital photography.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:76534-76859 observation first hand
1096
Richard C. Hoagland assessed that the film images shown in the 2005 NASA Television broadcast were of far higher quality than either the original still-frame photography or the original television transmissions from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
“These film images were orders of magnitude better than either the still-frame photography or the original TV transmissions from 1972. Clearly, NASA was in possession of far better versions of the EVA films than had ever been broadcast.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:76872-77097 opinion first hand
1097
By spring 2006 all signs pointed to Northrop Grumman and Boeing winning the initial Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) contract.
“As the spring of 2006 bloomed, all signs pointed to Northrop-Grumman-Boeing getting the initial contract.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:80349-80445 observation first hand
1098
Richard C. Hoagland considers it odd that NASA named its new space boosters Ares, since NASA traditionally used Greek rather than Roman mythology in its naming conventions and Ares/Mars is associated with war.
“Given that NASA had always tended to use the Greek (rather than Roman) mythology in its naming conventions, the association seemed odd. Did NASA really intend to name their new space boosters after a god of war?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:82093-82300 opinion first hand
1099
Richard C. Hoagland had correctly predicted for weeks before the announcement that Lockheed Martin would be awarded the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle program.
“the final shock came in late August, when NASA surprisingly announced (well, not that surprisingly; Hoagland had correctly been predicting *for weeks* what was going to take place, which his co-author *steadfastly* refused to believe …) that *Lockheed* had been awarded the Orion “Apollo on steroids” CEV Program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:86161-86466 opinion first hand
1100
Richard C. Hoagland considers the circular shape of Lockheed Martin's Orion solar panels to eerily resemble the look and placement of the belt stars in the constellation Orion.
“unless, of course, you quietly noticed the eerie resemblance of the Lockheed “Orion” panels to the look and placement of the actual “belt stars” in the constellation of *Orion*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:86806-86976 opinion first hand
1101
Richard C. Hoagland considers the official production art renderings of the proposed Orion spacecraft to depict the capsule orbiting above rectilinear lunar ruins resembling Hoagland's "Los Angeles" region east of Ukert at Sinus Medii.
“The Orion capsule was shown orbiting above rectilinear lunar ruins—features that eerily just happened to resemble Hoagland’s “Los Angeles” region, east of Ukert, at Sinus Medii!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:87516-87687 opinion first hand
1102
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Lunar Surface Access Module depicted in NASA's Orion artwork to reference the Taurus-Littrow Valley, with broken and twisted machinery shown spread around the lander's feet.
“the LSAM was depicted on a lunar surface that obviously references the memorable Taurus-Littrow Valley—with bits of obviously *broken and twisted machinery* literally spread out all around the Lander’s feet”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:87699-87901 opinion first hand
1103
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Apollo 17 South Massif formation to show a hexagonal shape with a collapsed backside indicating six-sided geometry.
“Fig. 12-6 - Side-by-side crops of Apollo 17 landing site. Hexagonal “South Massif” is near the center. Note collapsed backside of the massif and implications of six-sided geometry.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:89459-89630 opinion first hand
1104
The Apollo 17 landing site was located as close to a latitude of 19.5 degrees North as the astronauts could get, within driving and walking distance of the hexagonal formation called South Massif amid the mountains of Taurus-Littrow.
“Fig. 12-7 - Apollo 17 landing site—as close to NASA’s “magic latitude” of 19.5 degrees N. as astronauts could get, within driving/walking distance of anomalous, hexagonal “mountain” called “South Massif”—amid rugged additional “mountains” of Taurus-Littrow”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:89774-90023 opinion first hand
1105
Richard C. Hoagland considers a slant-angle Apollo 17 panoramic camera image of South Massif to show a geometric, cell-like internal structure and parallel raised three-dimensional patterns on its north face, suggesting the interior is hollow and partly filled with debris from a catastrophic internal collapse, supporting a "ruined lunar arcology" model.
“Fig. 12-8 - Slant-angle Apollo 17 Panoramic Camera image of “South Massif,” looking North. Note geometric, cell-like pattern of internal structure, and parallel, raised 3D patterns on north face. Interior of “mountain” appears to be hollow, and partially filled with debris from catastrophic internal collapse. Strong evidence supporting “ruined lunar arcology model””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:90060-90421 opinion first hand
1106
Richard C. Hoagland considers an example of geologic layering visible in an Apollo 16 photograph, similar to the Apollo 17 landing site, to bear a remarkable resemblance to heavily-eroded, artificial honeycomb construction.
“Fig. 12-10 - Striking example of “geologic layering” (on a waterless Moon…) from Apollo 16—similar to Apollo 17 landing site, bearing a remarkable resemblance to heavily-eroded, artificial “honeycomb” construction”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:90545-90746 opinion first hand
1107
No publicly released Apollo orbital or surface imagery of Taurus-Littrow exists showing the shadowed interior of the Nansen crater.
“No publicly released Apollo views exist of the shadowed interior of Nansen -- in any orbital or surface Taurus-Littrow imagery”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:90998-91117 observation first hand
1108
A piece of mechanical debris was found inside Shorty Crater.
“Fig. 12-13 - A piece of mechanical debris from inside Shorty crater.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:91341-91402 observation first hand
1109
Shorty Crater is approximately 90 metres wide, and mechanical debris and the feature nicknamed "Data's head" are visible on its floor.
“Fig. 12-14 - Context shot, showing previously mentioned mechanical debris (bottom, left) and (above it) “Data’s head”—on the floor of ~300-foot-wide Shorty crater.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:91420-91576 measurement first hand
1110
Richard C. Hoagland considers the "iris-type" eyes visible in a two-frame composite image of "Data's head" on the floor of Shorty Crater to be strikingly similar to mechanical camera apertures, evidence of an artificial life form.
“Fig. 12-16 -Two-frame composite of “Data’s head”—to improve “signal-tonoise” image detail. Note “iris-type” eyes (strikingly similar to mechanical camera apertures)—evidence of an artificial “life form””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:91837-92034 opinion first hand
1111
Richard C. Hoagland compares "Data's head", the Shorty Crater anomaly, to the fictional android C-3PO, noting an eerie similarity of the eyes.
“Fig. 12-17 - Comparison of “Data’s Head” with another extremely popular “artificial life form”—C-3PO. Note eerie similarity of the eyes ….”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:92115-92246 opinion first hand
1112
Richard C. Hoagland considers a comparison of Apollo 17 lunar surface footage from the original 1972 NASA transmission and a 2005 rebroadcast to show distinct "honeycombing" on a small background feature known on NASA maps as Mons Vitruvius, visible in the enhanced 2005 version of the original broadcast.
“Fig. 12-18 - Apollo 17 lunar surface footage from original 1972 NASA transmission (L), and 2005 rebroadcast (R). Note distinct “honeycombing” on small background “arcology” (feature known on NASA maps as “Mons Vitruvius”), in 2005—in “enhanced” version of original broadcast”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:92302-92567 opinion first hand
1113
A Hasselblad photographic image of the Mons Vitruvius formation, taken by Apollo 17 astronauts from the Lunar Rover, shows a reflective geometric "waffle" surface pattern and fuzzy detail on top, which Richard C. Hoagland considers indicative of designed, eroding glass.
“Fig. 12-19 - - Hasselblad photographic (film) image of Mons Vitruvius arcology, taken by Apollo 17 astronauts from Lunar Rover. Note reflective geometric “waffle” surface pattern on arcology, and “fuzzy” detail on top - both indicative of designed, eroding glass.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:92613-92870 opinion first hand
1114
George Herbert Walker Bush overtly stated on at least one occasion that the work of Richard C. Hoagland and the Mars Mission was a primary impetus behind his Space Exploration Initiative programme.
“the first President Bush overtly stated on at least one occasion his view that the work of Richard C. Hoagland (and the then-"Mars Mission") was a primary impetus behind his SEI program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:9378-9557 testimony second hand
1115
On 1989-07-20, the day of George Herbert Walker Bush's Space Exploration Initiative announcement, Cable News Network (CNN) called Richard C. Hoagland for an interview.
“In fact, on the very day of Bush's announcement (July 20, 1989) of his dramatic new thirty-year plan, CNN called Hoagland for an interview.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:9566-9695 administrative
1116
The producers of the political programme Crossfire specifically wanted Richard C. Hoagland, of all possible Mars experts, to present the case for Mars following George Herbert Walker Bush's surprise announcement.
“The producers of the political program Crossfire specifically wanted Hoagland, of all the possible NASA Mars experts they could have called upon, to present "the case for Mars," following the President's surprise announcement on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum earlier that day.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch19:9706-9997 administrative
1117
Richard C. Hoagland believes Farouk El-Baz, Kenneth S. Kleinknecht and Wernher von Braun would have breathed a sigh of relief when the Apollo 11 images of Neil Armstrong came back ghostly, dark and low in contrast.
“Fahrouk El Baz, Ken Kleinknecht and Wernher Von Braun must have breathed a huge sigh of relief when the images of Armstrong came back ghostly, dark, and full of contrast.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:10027-10188 opinion first hand
1118
Richard C. Hoagland states that, according to its official Charter, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is not a civilian research institution but a defense agency of the United States.
“Remember, according to the official Charter NASA is *not* a civilian research institution, but “a *defense agency* of the United States [emphasis added] …”).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:1042-1188 opinion second hand
1119
Richard C. Hoagland argues that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) choosing to send an unproven, poor-quality black-and-white camera to the Moon on Apollo 11, despite the existence of superior colour technology, is consistent with concern inside the agency about how much viewers would be able to see.
“Despite the existence of a vastly superior color technology, NASA chose to send an unproven and very poor quality black and white camera to the Moon on Apollo 11. This is exactly the behavior you would expect if the powerful cabal inside the agency was concerned about how much viewers would be able to see.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:10920-11223 opinion first hand
1120
Richard C. Hoagland states that the same National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that ordered Ken Johnston to destroy the only remaining four sets of early-generation negatives and prints of the hand-held Apollo photography also removed the Apollo Slow Scan TeleVision tapes from the National Archives for permanent retention in its own facility, then lost them.
“Instead, all we know for certain is that the same agency that ordered Ken Johnston to destroy the only remaining four sets of early generation negatives and prints of the hand held Apollo photography also removed these tapes from the National Archives for “permanent retention” in their own facility. And then promptly “lost” them.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:11817-12144 opinion first hand
1121
Richard C. Hoagland doubts that the original Apollo 11 Slow Scan TeleVision tapes will ever be found.
“We doubt, quite honestly, that they will ever be found.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:12151-12200 opinion first hand
1122
The large volume of newly released Apollo image data, including material posted on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ) website, made possible new Enterprise Mission analyses starting with a one-to-one calibration of the validity of the entire image database.
“This immense amount of data, suddenly “dumped” on the web [on such sites as the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ)], abruptly made possible *Enterprise* analyses never before practical—starting with a one-to-one “calibration” of the validity of the entire database.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:12724-12981 opinion first hand
1123
Richard C. Hoagland compared new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center scans to Ken Johnston's original 30-year-old Houston data, preserved in Johnston's private archive, in order to quantitatively test the newly-released images against the pristine originals.
“By comparing the new NASA “JSC” scans to Ken Johnston’s original, 30-year-old Houston data, stored safely away in his private archive for all those years, I realized we could *quantitatively* test the information contained in the newly-released images, by directly comparing them to the pristine details present on Ken’s originally-preserved images ….”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:12992-13334 testimony first hand
1124
When two versions of Apollo 14 photograph AS14-66-9301 ("Mitchell Under Glass") were compared side by side, much of the "geometric sky detail" seen on Ken Johnston's original 1971-era Apollo 14 C-print was still visible on the 2006 Apollo Lunar Surface Journal scan.
“When the two versions of AS14-66-9301 (“Mitchell Under Glass” …) were compared side-by-side, it was obvious that much of the amazing “geometric sky detail” seen on Johnston’s original 1971-era Apollo 14 “C-print,” was *still* visible on the 2006 ALSJ scan.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:13398-13649 observation first hand
1125
Richard C. Hoagland states that he and Mike Bara, as authors and investigators, lack the power of subpoena, legal discovery, or the ability to compel witnesses to testify under oath.
“As authors and investigators, we do not have the power of the subpoena, the legal process of “discovery” or the simple ability to have witnesses testify *under oath*—all crucial tools in confronting a government-wide cover-up of such a sweeping, overwhelming magnitude and implication.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:1348-1621 opinion first hand
1126
Ken Johnston's 30-year-old print of Apollo 14 photograph AS14-66-9301 was much closer to the original National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) data acquired on the Moon than the newer Apollo Lunar Surface Journal web scan.
“However, *differences* were also very obvious … with Ken’s 30-year-old print showing, by far, that it was MUCH closer (as it should have been) to the original NASA data acquired on the Moon than the new Apollo Lunar Surface Journal “web scans.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:13655-13892 observation first hand
1127
Richard C. Hoagland searched the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal archive for a second Apollo 14 image that might independently capture the same "shattered dome geometry" seen at the Apollo 14 landing site.
“I decided to press on with a search for a *second* Apollo 14 ALSJ Archive image, one that might have independently captured the same crucial “shattered dome geometry” at the Apollo 14 landing site.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:14214-14406 testimony first hand
1128
Apollo 14 photograph AS14-66-9279, taken by Alan Shepard while standing on the east side of the Lunar Module, contains major elements of the same scattered-light geometry seen on Ken Johnston's version of photograph AS14-66-9301.
“ALSJ Archive frame AS14-66-9279 [Fig. E-3])—a photograph Alan Shepard took while standing on the east side of the LM—contains major elements of *the same scattered light geometry* as seen on Ken’s version of “9301” (where Shepard was standing to the west when he took that amazing photograph).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:14434-14715 observation first hand
1129
Richard C. Hoagland found four independent Hasselblad scans in the newly-released Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Apollo 14 archive that show the same general "towering glass geometry" visible on Ken Johnston's original print.
“In fact, after going through the entire newly-released ALSJ Archive for Apollo 14, I ultimately found *four* independent Hasselblad scans—all showing the same general “towering glass geometry” visible on Ken Johnston’s original print.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:15059-15287 observation first hand
1130
Richard C. Hoagland states that scientific evidence has been leaked to him and Mike Bara quietly out of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by a number of the agency's former employees over the years.
“But, we *do* have evidence—extraordinary *scientific* evidence—which has been leaked to us quietly out of NASA by a few of its truly patriotic former employees over the years.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:1635-1804 testimony first hand
1131
Apollo 15 photograph AS15-88-12013, taken looking back at the Moon after Trans-Earth Injection, provides evidence, in Richard C. Hoagland's interpretation, that much of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere was domed over, based on diffuse sunlight scattering off remnants of glass-like domes.
“Taken “looking back” as Apollo 15 was rapidly climbing away from the Moon, this image provides startling evidence that much of the Moon’s Earth-facing hemisphere was/is *“domed over”* ... as determined by the scattering of *diffuse* sunlight being reflected off remnants of the surviving “glass-like domes.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:16814-17115 opinion first hand
1132
In Apollo 15 photograph AS15-88-12013, the domes appear as a ghostly, bluish, cloud-like semi-circle following the curving lunar limb, fading with altitude and resembling Earth's bluish airglow limb, though the Moon has no atmosphere.
“These domes are visible in this amazing image as a ghostly, bluish, cloud-like semi-circle faithfully following the curving lunar limb (see also Color Fig. 16). This intense backscattering quickly fades with altitude—like a “meteor-bombarded ‘prairie fire’” – eventually blending into the expected black background of space *tens of miles* above the lunar surface. It looks, for all the world, exactly like the Earth’s bluish “airglow limb.” Except the Moon, as we all know, has no atmosphere.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:17123-17605 opinion first hand
1133
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Apollo 15 whole-Moon observation of light scattering combined with close-up photographs of similar geometric glass "rebar" structures photographed over Sinus Medii by the crew of Apollo 10 to provide two independent confirmations of the same anomalous light-scattering phenomenon.
“Combining this key Apollo 15 observation of the whole Moon with close-ups of this same phenomenon photographed from close-in lunar orbit (the stunning geometric glass “rebar” photographed over Sinus Medii by the crew of Apollo 10—see Color Figs. 2 and 3) provides two, completely *independent* confirmations of this *same* anomalous light scattering phenomenon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:17651-18001 opinion first hand
1134
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the independent Apollo 15 and Apollo 10 observations as showing diffuse light scattering created by trillions of surviving fragments from miles-high, glass-like lunar domes.
“The only reasonable interpretation of these independent Apollo observations is that both missions were, in fact, photographing the diffuse light-scattering created by *trillions* of surviving fragments from miles-high, glass-like *lunar domes*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:18014-18251 opinion first hand
1135
Steve Troy is described by Richard C. Hoagland as a long-time friend and colleague in the Enterprise Mission investigation and as its analog photographic expert.
“The story begins with our long-time friend and colleague in this *Enterprise* investigation, Steve Troy. As noted earlier, Steve is our “analog” photographic expert”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:18442-18600 administrative first hand
1136
Richard C. Hoagland became curious about the source of the high-quality National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lunar images that Steve Troy's Italian correspondent had located.
“After looking at the site, I was curious about the *source* for the high-quality NASA lunar images Steve’s friend had somehow located.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:19830-19956 testimony first hand
1137
SpaceArchive.net is an Italian website hosting downloadable contact sheets of NASA mission images, arranged by specific NASA missions.
“The “SpaceArchive” site was not only professional and well-organized (with downloadable pages of “contact sheets,” arranged by specific NASA missions)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:20144-20285 observation first hand
1138
Richard C. Hoagland considers the NASA lunar images he found on SpaceArchive.net among the best low-generation NASA lunar images he had ever seen, second only to the Ken Johnston Collection.
“it seemed to contain some truly remarkable *low-generation* NASA lunar images... In fact—the best I’d *ever* seen, outside of Ken Johnston’s 30-year-old private NASA stash.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:20295-20460 opinion first hand
1139
A photograph Richard C. Hoagland downloaded from SpaceArchive.net shows what he describes as a "glass landscape" arching over the Taurus-Littrow valley, the Apollo 17 landing site.
“One such image, after downloading [Fig. E-5], revealed a *stunning portrait* of the REAL “glass landscape” arching over Taurus-Littrow, the Apollo 17 landing site.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:20468-20626 opinion first hand
1140
Richard C. Hoagland says the analysis in Dark Mission is based on official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) data that has been deliberately hidden and deliberately corrupted.
“It is, however, an honest effort—based on official NASA data—but data which has been (as you have repeatedly seen throughout this book) both deliberately hidden … and deliberately corrupted.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:212-392 opinion first hand
1141
Apollo 17 photograph AS17-136-20767 shows a "prairie fire effect" along the crest of Mons Vitruvius, which Richard C. Hoagland interprets as light scattering from the surviving shards of a shattered glass structure.
“This astonishing close-up [Fig. E-7], from frame AS17-136-20767, confirms several extraordinary additional details of “lunar dome construction”... starting with the “prairie fire effect” seen along the left-hand crest... of the massive “mountain” that dominates the view (the “mountain” is “Mons Vitruvius”—according to NASA...)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:21234-21611 opinion first hand
1142
Richard C. Hoagland considers the successful descent and return of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger through the sky above the Taurus-Littrow valley as confirmation that any surviving glass-dome material there was extremely sparse.
“this one image is now total confirmation of the cumulative “optical depth effect” of literally *tens of miles* of an extremely sparse, now almost totally obliterated (otherwise, the Lunar Module *Challenger* couldn’t have gotten down through it safely to the surface … and returned to orbit!), former full-blown *lunar glass dome*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:23075-23400 opinion first hand
1143
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that images described as coming directly from original Johnson Space Center film on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website did not in fact come from that original film.
“That the *other* recently scanned and released Apollo images, on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website (and others)—stated as “coming directly from original JSC film” did *not*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:27615-27790 opinion first hand
1144
In April 2007, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera acquired the first high-resolution image of the Face on Mars.
“Another *major*, late development was the sudden acquisition of the first, long-awaited MRO image of the Face on Mars... As we were closing out the book, NASA finally, quietly, acquired and released from HiRISE the first truly spy-camera quality, ultra-high-resolution image of the Face”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:28357-28603 observation first hand
1145
The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a telescope mirror approximately 50 centimetres wide.
“HiRISE—with a 19.5-inch-wide telescope mirror (I kid you not!), and CCD camera capable of acquiring images over 20,000 pixels wide”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:28784-28910 measurement first hand
1146
The HiRISE camera's CCD is capable of acquiring images over 20,000 pixels wide.
“and CCD camera capable of acquiring images over 20,000 pixels wide”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:28848-28910 measurement first hand
1147
Richard C. Hoagland considers HiRISE the largest and most powerful imaging system ever sent to Mars.
“represents by far the largest and most powerful imaging system ever sent to Mars.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:28915-28991 opinion first hand
1148
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Face on Mars has a resolution of slightly less than 28 centimetres per pixel.
“At slightly less than “11 *inches* per pixel” (compared to previous “high-resolution” images of some ~4 *feet* per pixel) the MRO Face image represents, by far, the best *ever* taken”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:29179-29356 measurement first hand
1149
Previous high-resolution images of the Face on Mars had a resolution of approximately 1.2 metres per pixel.
“compared to previous “high-resolution” images of some ~4 *feet* per pixel”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:29226-29294 measurement first hand
1150
Richard C. Hoagland coined the term "the Gigi Factor," referencing the 1958 film Gigi, to describe the problem of interpretive distance in evaluating imagery.
“there is the persistent problem that I have dubbed in previous years “the Gigi Factor” (from the classic 1950’s film by the same name, in which Maurice Chevalier plaintively asks in song “have I been *standing up too close … or back too far?*”)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:29616-29853 administrative first hand
1151
NASA's Mars Surveyor spacecraft produced the first new imaging of the Face on Mars in 1998.
“after the original first “new” imaging of the Face, by NASA’s *Mars Surveyor* spacecraft in 1998, we at *Enterprise* immediately realized...”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:30394-30523 observation first hand
1152
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Face on Mars has a resolution of about 30 centimetres per pixel and a file size exceeding 300 megabytes.
“With a resolution per pixel of about *a foot* (!), and a file size of over 300 megabytes, the resolution is finally good enough to detect these critical, small-scale *architectural* elements from orbit!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:31472-31668 measurement first hand
1153
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began routine science operations in September 2006.
“Soon after the spacecraft began routine science operations (in September, 2006) MRO was commanded to take an image of one of NASA’s unmanned “stars” still operating on the Martian surface, the *Opportunity* Mars Rover”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:32013-32225 observation first hand
1154
In September 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera photographed the Opportunity rover, which was perched on the edge of a Martian impact crater approximately 800 metres wide in the Meridiani region, from a circular orbit approximately 290 kilometres overhead.
“MRO was commanded to take an image of one of NASA’s unmanned “stars” still operating on the Martian surface, the *Opportunity* Mars Rover—perched on the edge of a half-mile-wide Martian impact crater in the “Meridianii” region of the planet. From its circular orbit of about 180 statute miles straight overhead, the MRO ~19.5-inch HiRISE telescope/camera combination looked down”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:32093-32467 observation first hand
1155
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Opportunity rover showed the rover's wheel tracks in the Martian sand, each approximately 13 centimetres wide.
“not only were the ~5-inch Rover *wheel tracks* in the sand easily visible from orbit (!)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:32626-32705 measurement first hand
1156
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Opportunity rover also showed the shadow of the rover's camera mast, which is approximately 7.6 centimetres wide and 0.9 metres high.
“the *shadow* of the 3-inch-wide, 3-foot-high camera mast [Fig. E-11]—stretching out across the Martian Meridianni desert in the late afternoon sun—was *also* clearly visible … from 180 miles!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:32716-32901 measurement first hand
1157
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Brookings Report to have had a demonstrable hold over NASA, instilling fear in NASA scientists and engineers about openly discussing evidence of extraterrestrial artifacts found on other planets in the solar system.
“Given the demonstrable hold “Brookings” has had on the “honest side” of NASA for so long, the relentless way the *dishonest* side has used this aging 1950’s sociological Study to repeatedly justify its continuing *censorship*... to instill an almost palpable *fear* in those scientists and engineers who might be moved to openly discuss what NASA’s really found in the way of “ET artifacts” on other planets”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:33270-33697 opinion first hand
1158
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Face on Mars is not up to the technical standard of other MRO images, showing significant random noise and rhythmic banded patterns.
“This NASA image is NOT up to the technical standards of previous MRO images of Mars... the MRO “Face” image possesses a significant amount of what imaging scientists call “noise”—both as “random noise” across the entire image, and in the form of *rhythmic, banded patterns*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:34326-34658 opinion first hand
1159
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that portions of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image of the Face on Mars show signs of tampering with a "blurtool," a device used to obscure detail in a digital CCD image.
“There are portions of this image, on the Face itself and on nearby formations, which show the tell-tale signs of image tampering with a “blurtool,” a device used to obscure detail in a digital CCD image such as this one.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:34996-35212 opinion first hand
1160
Richard C. Hoagland concludes that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image reveals remnants of artificial ruins visible across the Face on Mars.
“despite this handicap, there are now clearly-defined remnants of *artificial constructions*—ruins!—*easily visible all across this extraordinary object*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:35225-35370 opinion first hand
1161
Richard C. Hoagland compares ruins he identifies near the "chin" area of the Face on Mars to ancient Anasazi ruins in the American Southwest.
“Sand and debris-filled, *geometric* “cavities”—strikingly similar to ancient Anasazi ruins in the American Southwest [Fig. E-15].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:37584-37709 opinion first hand
1162
Richard C. Hoagland identifies a geometric structure on the forehead of the Face on Mars approximately 244 metres long, which he describes as a multi-storied ruin.
“Captured in this region of the MRO Face image, this geometric structure is a ~ 800-foot-long, *multi-storied ruin*—now almost totally obliterated by time and erosion.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:38390-38548 opinion first hand
1163
Richard C. Hoagland compares a ruined structure on the forehead of the Face on Mars to Iranian hilltop forts.
“A similar-scaled set of “Iranian hilltop forts” [Fig. E-17] reveal comparable manmade ruined structures here on Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:39066-39178 opinion first hand
1164
Richard C. Hoagland identifies a rectangular collapsed section at the base of the eastern platform of the Face on Mars, measuring approximately 300 metres long, several hundred metres wide, and several hundred metres deep.
“what we are seeing is a “small,” strikingly rectangular *collapsed* section of the Martian surface at the base of the much larger “Face platform”—an in-fallen section, measuring approximately 1000 feet long by several hundred feet wide … and several *hundred* feet deep.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:39569-39834 opinion first hand
1165
Richard C. Hoagland considers a series of enlarged images captured from the full-resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image to show obviously high-tech, collapsed three-dimensional structures located on the eroded "bottom lip" of the Face on Mars.
“the most amazing of these enlarged “snapshots” I’ve been able to capture from the full resolution MRO image: a series of obviously high-tech, obviously collapsed entire 3-D *structures* … located on the “chin” of the Face—specifically, on the now highly eroded “bottom lip””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:40646-40915 opinion first hand
1166
Richard C. Hoagland has proposed for over fifteen years that the Face on Mars is a massive assemblage of ancient, high-tech buildings, a literal "headquarters."
“We have been proposing for over 15 years that the Face is, in fact, just such a massive assemblage of ancient, high-tech *buildings—*a literal “headquarters.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:42954-43098 opinion first hand
1167
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's first image of the Face on Mars, together with the examples he presented, to totally support the view that the Face is an assemblage of ancient high-tech buildings.
“MRO’s stunning first image of The Face on Mars—and the multiple examples we’ve presented and discussed in this brief analysis of that first image—now *totally* support that view.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:43113-43286 opinion first hand
1168
Richard C. Hoagland has investigated Cydonia for more than 20 years.
“After more than 20 years of investigating Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:43593-43635 administrative first hand
1169
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met his proposed archaeological tests for the Face on Mars with apathy and at times heavy official opposition.
“after proposing test after scientific test for “archaeology,” to essentially “deaf ears” in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and even (at times) not just apathy but against heavy *official opposition* from this same Agency”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:43644-43879 opinion first hand
1170
Richard C. Hoagland considers the first Mars Global Surveyor image of the Face on Mars in 1998 to have been manipulated by NASA.
“even outright NASA-manipulated data (certainly, the first *MGS* Face image in 1998)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:44013-44091 opinion first hand
1171
Richard C. Hoagland presented at the United Nations in 1992 the same characterisation of the Face on Mars that he considers the 2007 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image to have confirmed.
“turns out to be *exactly* what we said it was at the United Nations in 1992.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:44097-44168 administrative first hand
1172
C-3PO, discovered by Richard C. Hoagland's Enterprise Mission investigation, was found lying at the bottom of Shorty Crater on the Moon.
“The most serendipitous *Enterprise* discovery in all our years, of course, is “C-3PO,” lying at the bottom of “Shorty Crater” on the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:44599-44732 observation first hand
1173
Richard C. Hoagland considers the discovery of C-3PO at Shorty Crater on the Moon to change everything about the investigation, more than any other aspect of his long investigation.
“His discovery, more than any other aspect of this long investigation, changes *everything.*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:44738-44817 opinion first hand
1174
Richard C. Hoagland believes that if C-3PO is a genuine thinking robot endowed with artificial intelligence, it represents an entirely new way of looking at an unknown, vanished civilisation that left wonders abandoned across the Moon and the solar system.
“If he is a genuine thinking *robot*, endowed with bona fide “artificial intelligence” (AI), he represents an entirely new way of looking at this unknown, now-vanished brilliant civilization … which left countless wonders abandoned, not only across the Moon, but *all across the solar system*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:44831-45115 opinion first hand
1175
Richard C. Hoagland believes that the discovery of C-3PO, rather than economics or lack of public interest in the Moon, was quite likely the real reason the Apollo program was suddenly and unceremoniously terminated.
“This discovery, not “economics,” or “lack of interest in the Moon” by the American people during the end of the Apollo Program, in our opinion was quite likely *the real reason* why the entire Program was so suddenly and so unceremoniously terminated.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:45426-45666 opinion first hand
1176
Richard C. Hoagland considers that C-3PO's presence on the Moon indicates that Man may have been preceded in the solar system by a vast integrated population of other intelligences.
“His stunning presence on the Moon compellingly indicates that “Man” may have been preceded in this solar system, in addition to his own ancestors, by a vast integrated *population* of “other intelligences.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:45755-45947 opinion first hand
1177
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that NASA's real "Dark Mission" was to find and bring to Earth a functioning member of an ancient artificial-intelligence population so that insiders could interrogate it about the secrets of the universe.
“What if this was NASA’s *real* “Dark Mission” all along … to find and bring to Earth a functioning member of this projected AI population—a robot that the in-crowd could ultimately interrogate about the literal “secrets of the Universe” … *firsthand?*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:46101-46341 opinion first hand
1178
Richard C. Hoagland considers NASA's original assertions that the Face on Mars was just a trick of light and shadow to be fallacious.
“We have shown that their original assertions about the Face and Cydonia—that it was just a trick of light and shadow—are fallacious.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:46602-46723 opinion first hand
1179
Richard C. Hoagland considers NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to have acted duplicitously with the Catbox image and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared data regarding the Face on Mars.
“We have demonstrated their duplicitous behavior with the Catbox image and the THEMIS infrared data.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:46735-46829 opinion first hand
1180
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that NASA ground a possible Martian fossil to dust rather than study it openly.
“They’ve even gone as far as grinding a possible fossil to dust rather than study it openly.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:47001-47085 opinion first hand
1181
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that there is an Orion-Osiris Egyptian connection to both the Apollo program and the new space initiative.
“We have further shown that there is an undeniable “Orion-Osiris” Egyptian connection to both the Apollo program and our new space initiative.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:47230-47360 opinion first hand
1182
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that all major power brokers inside NASA at the time of the Apollo program had connections to one of three secretive societies, each holding reverence for the Egyptian gods Isis, Osiris and Horus.
“We have shown that all of the major power brokers inside NASA at the time of the Apollo program had connections to one of three secretive societies. And each of these societies has as its core faith a reverence for the same three ancient Egyptian gods; Isis, Osiris and Horus.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:47372-47642 opinion first hand
1183
Richard C. Hoagland asserts that key moments in NASA's exploration of the solar system have been planned around stellar rituals paying homage to ancient Egyptian gods.
“We have shown, over and over again, that key moments in NASA’s exploration of the solar system have been planned around “stellar rituals” that pay homage to these long forgotten “gods” of ancient Egypt.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:47649-47845 opinion first hand
1184
Richard C. Hoagland states that the Brookings Report alone is insufficient to explain the alleged artifacts cover-up or the occult naming rituals and stellar alignments he attributes to NASA.
“The Brookings report alone seems insufficient to explain the artifacts cover-up and even less adequate to explain the occult naming rituals and curious affinity for stellar alignments.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:47931-48104 opinion first hand
1185
Richard C. Hoagland raises the question of whether Apollo was John F. Kennedy's ultimate "deep black mission," undertaken at the start of his administration, and whether his knowledge of it was the real reason for his assassination.
“If this *was* Apollo’s ultimate “deep black mission”—a Mission that John F. Kennedy was somehow convinced to undertake at the beginnings of his Administration—is this also, as we’ve asked earlier, the *real* reason for his murder?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:48820-49043 opinion first hand
1186
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that John F. Kennedy's decision to propose sharing the lunar programme with the Soviet Union, negotiated with Nikita Khrushchev, may have led to his assassination.
“Did those protracted, behind-the-scenes negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev in the end, get him killed?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:49269-49365 opinion first hand
1187
Richard C. Hoagland believes that humanity's solar system is surrounded by the remains of a vast, ancient extraterrestrial civilisation of humans genetically related to modern humans, spread across more than one world.
“the Human Race lives in a solar system *surrounded* by a vast array of “silent, ancient ghosts” … countless extinct “extraterrestrial humans,” just like ourselves—in fact, *our own* “great, great, great, great, great, great … ancestors”—who once lived … and built … and walked amid what are still the almost incomprehensible remains of an awesome *extraterrestrial civilization*, spread across more than one adjoining world.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:49781-50199 opinion first hand
1188
Richard C. Hoagland interprets Neil Armstrong's "one small step" statement as a coded acknowledgement, to a hidden audience, that the human race is a genetically related subset of a vastly larger, more ancient and more knowledgeable "Mankind."
“What Armstrong was actually acknowledging—to a “hidden audience” *in code* that night—as he, representing “Man,” stepped onto the lunar surface for perhaps the first time in tens of thousands of years … was that the human race (“Man”) is only a *subset* of a vastly larger, vastly more ancient, vastly more knowledgeable, but *genetically related “Mankind.”*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:50665-51013 opinion first hand
1189
Richard C. Hoagland asks whether Neil Armstrong's remarks at the 25th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11, urging young people to remove a "protective layer of truth," referred to a clandestine reason behind Apollo's creation and naming.
“Was this the “protective layer of truth” that Armstrong implored the young people of America to remove at the 25 th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:51386-51536 opinion first hand
1190
An unnamed intelligence source told Richard C. Hoagland that "the lie is different at every level" regarding NASA.
“as one of our intelligence sources admitted about NASA some years ago: “The lie is different at every level.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:51571-51677 hearsay second hand
1191
Ken Johnston's early-generation version of Apollo 14 photograph AS14-66-9301 shows more detail of glassy ruins than the current version held in NASA archives, with much detail lost in the 35 years since Johnston obtained his print.
“Comparison of Ken Johnston’s version of AS14-66-9301 and current version from NASA archives. The glassy ruins still persist, but much of the detail has been lost in the intervening 35 years since Johnston obtained his early generation version.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:51903-52138 observation first hand
1192
An enhancement of an Apollo 17 photograph from the Taurus-Littrow landing site shows towering glass structures with meteor damage and a collapsed "spar" resting on Mons Vitruvius.
“Enhancement of Apollo 17 photograph from Taurus Littrow landing site showing towering glass structures complete with meteor damage and a collapsed “spar” resting on Mons Vitruvius.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:52437-52607 observation first hand
1193
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery shows a visible shadow of the mast on the Opportunity rover, with rover tracks visible in the orbital image measuring less than approximately 13 centimetres across.
“Artists rendition of mast on Opportunity rover and visible shadow recorded by MRO. Rover tracks visible in orbital image are less than 5 inches across.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:53074-53218 measurement first hand
1194
Richard C. Hoagland bases his conclusions in part on first-person testimonies from ex-NASA employees and Apollo astronauts whom he says personally witnessed the deception described in Dark Mission.
“combined with the first-person testimonies of a small handful of human beings who have personally witnessed this remarkable deception (a few ex-NASA employees and the Apollo astronauts)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:564-738 opinion first hand
1195
Richard C. Hoagland argues that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was sending its astronauts to the Moon on an archaeological reconnaissance mission to find the lost power of the gods, in the form of instrumentalities left on the lunar surface from past eons.
“Remember, if our thesis is correct, NASA was sending its astronauts to the Moon on an archeological reconnaissance mission, looking to find the lost power of the gods that may have been left lying around the lunar surface in the form of instrumentalities from eons past.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:5680-5945 opinion first hand
1196
Richard C. Hoagland considers the ex-NASA employee and Apollo astronaut witnesses to have been demonstrably compromised, either through deliberately altered memories or through continuing allegiance to the security oaths they signed when they joined National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
“As noted earlier, the latter have been demonstrably compromised—either by having their own memories deliberately altered after seeing first-hand the wonders we have laid out here—or, from their own continuing, misguided “allegiance” to the security oaths they signed when they joined NASA.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:752-1036 opinion first hand
1197
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara describe the overall picture presented in Dark Mission as imperfect.
“The big picture that Mike Bara and I have tried to paint in the preceding pages is imperfect, at best. We know that.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch20:98-205 opinion first hand
1198
Mike Bara considers Richard C. Hoagland the smartest man he has ever known.
“my friend, mentor and co-author Mr. Hoagland, the smartest man I have ever known”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch21:2033-2108 opinion first hand
1199
Richard C. Hoagland lives with his girlfriend of more than 10 years, Robin Falkov, in a house in suburban Albuquerque.
“As I can personally attest, my co-author lives with his girlfriend of more than 10 years, Dr. Robin Falkov, in a comfortable house in suburban Albuquerque.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:1089-1232 testimony first hand
1200
Larry King fondly remembered Richard C. Hoagland as a "great guest" from his appearance on King's Cable News Network (CNN) show in the early 1990s.
“Despite having direct talks with Larry King himself, who fondly remembered Richard as a “great guest” from his appearance on King’s CNN show in the early 1990’s”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:1638-1798 opinion second hand
1201
Richard C. Hoagland considers the premise that L. Ron Hubbard was an Office of Naval Intelligence informant sent to infiltrate and destabilise the Ordo Templi Orientis and Federation of American Scientists a plausible one, after reviewing documentation supplied by the Church of Scientology.
“After seeing the documentation supplied to me by the Church of Scientology, I find the premise a plausible one.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:22842-22949 opinion first hand
1202
L. Ron Hubbard had an intelligence background.
“Hubbard had an intelligence background”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:22954-22982 administrative first hand
1203
L. Ron Hubbard attended one of the first university courses on nuclear physics ever taught in the United States.
“he did attend one of the first university courses on nuclear physics ever taught in the United States”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:23088-23183 administrative first hand
1204
Richard C. Hoagland now holds that the weight of the evidence supports the Church of Scientology's version of events regarding L. Ron Hubbard's role at the Ordo Templi Orientis temple in Pasadena over the less flattering alternative account.
“I will admit that I now hold that the weight of the evidence supports the Scientologist's version of events over the less flattering one.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:23597-23730 opinion first hand
1205
Russian media outlets showed tremendous enthusiasm for Dark Mission (ebook) after the National Press Club press conference, Washington DC, October 2007.
“it was something of a surprise when the Russian media displayed a tremendous enthusiasm for Dark Mission, especially right after Richard and Ken Johnston’s press conference at Washington DC’s National Press Club in October, 2007.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:3522-3748 observation first hand
1206
Various Russian media outlets travelled from Moscow to interview Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston on several occasions.
“Various Russian media outlets interviewed Richard and Ken on several occasions, flying out from Moscow to conduct extensive interviews.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:3754-3878 observation first hand
1207
One of Richard C. Hoagland's long-time intelligence sources bought over 70 copies of Dark Mission (ebook) to give to colleagues in the American intelligence, military and space communities and to contacts in the Russian government.
“This independently echoes one of Richard’s long-time intel sources who admitted he’d bought over 70 copies of Dark Mission to give to colleagues in the American intelligence, military and space communities along with his contacts in the Russian government.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:4129-4377 hearsay second hand
1208
The Space Review published personal attacks against Richard C. Hoagland.
“personal attacks made against my co-author Richard C. Hoagland by an aerospace industry website known as The Space Review.com”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:462-585 administrative first hand
1209
This stellar alignment finding led Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara to create the Ritual Alignment Model, which asserts that NASA has planned major mission objectives around the positions of stars and planets over landing sites and events.
“This finding eventually led us to create the Ritual Alignment Model, which asserts that NASA has planned major mission objectives around the positions of the stars and planets over various landing sites and events.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:5901-6108 opinion first hand
1210
In Dark Mission (ebook), Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara presumed the communion ceremony took place exactly 33 minutes after the landing of Eagle on the lunar surface, during an odd one-minute-long communications break.
“In Dark Mission, we had presumed that this ceremony took place exactly 33 minutes after the landing of Eagle on the lunar surface, during an odd one-minute long com break at that point in the mission.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:6410-6606 opinion first hand
1211
Regulus is the only star in the constellation Leo that Mike Bara and Richard C. Hoagland recognise as significant in the Ritual Alignment Model.
“Furthermore, Regulus is the only star in the constellation of Leo which we recognize as significant in the Alignment Model.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch5:9515-9632 opinion first hand
1212
Richard C. Hoagland told AD that the Enterprise Mission could not compromise the scientific process simply to satisfy an individual's claim of ownership over public information.
“I explained in my final communication with AD that Enterprise could not compromise the scientific process simply to satisfy the claim of ownership of public information by an individual.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:11221-11398 testimony first hand
1213
Richard C. Hoagland recognised that the images sent by AD resembled Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) images, the only current NASA mission capable of producing such high-resolution planetary photography.
“After examining the images for hours on end I realized that they looked familiar. They looked in fact just like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) images. This was the only current NASA mission that could produce such startling, high-resolution planetary photography”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:12083-12337 observation first hand
1214
Richard C. Hoagland compared a Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image of the Hellas Basin floor to an aerial photograph of New York's Ground Zero, noting both areas exhibit almost identical geometric characteristics and patterns of structural collapse.
“A composite version combines this amazing NASA image (remember, of the surface of Mars) with an aerial photograph taken here on Earth, of a location that's now all-too-familiar... New York's Ground Zero... each set of independent architecture... impossibly share almost identical geometric characteristics, not the least being that they both exhibit virtually identical patterns of total structural collapse”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:1260-1724 observation first hand
1215
Ron Gerbron, a long-time colleague of Richard C. Hoagland, emailed Hoagland from Los Angeles with a link to the official Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE camera site.
“A long-time colleague in this quest—Ron Gerbron—emailed me from LA, sending me the link to the official MRO HiRise camera site. Bingo!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:14093-14221 testimony second hand
1216
Ron Gerbron had previously saved the same Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image on his own computer months earlier while having a nagging feeling that something important could be on it.
“Ron remembered also saving the same image in his own computer after downloading it months earlier while having the nagging feeling that "something important could be on this ...." Ron's instinct had been right.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:14229-14433 testimony second hand
1217
The number of individually recognisable buildings on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image PSP_008427_1380 is in the millions, within an area of approximately four square miles.
“The number of individually recognizable "buildings" on PSP_008427_1380 is in the millions. In those approximately 4 square miles”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:14702-14827 measurement first hand
1218
Richard C. Hoagland considers that Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image PSP_008427_1380 shows the open and eroding remains of a highly geometric, multi-layered, multi-levelled ancient Martian arcology.
“It appears that MRO has successively "reconned" nothing less than the open and eroding remains of a highly geometric, multi-layered, multi-leveled, ancient Martian arcology.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:15017-15181 opinion first hand
1219
Richard C. Hoagland found an exact match on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image PSP_008427_1380 for the architecture seen in AD's e-mailed close-up images.
“I soon was able to come up with an exact match for the architecture seen on AD's e-mailed close-ups. On just one tiny section of the overall HiRISE image (PSP_008427_1380) I found the same startlingly geometric objects.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:15342-15555 observation first hand
1220
The official NASA-HiRISE caption for MRO image PSP_008427_1380 states that it shows fall in the southern hemisphere of Mars, in the Hellas Basin, where small boulders cast long shadows caused by wind erosion, and that condensing carbon dioxide frost appears as bright blue patches.
“It is now fall in the southern hemisphere and in the giant impact crater known as Hellas basin small boulders cast long shadows. The long shadows emphasize small scale topographic features. Wind erosion is responsible for much of the morphology in this region. Frost is condensing, and shows up as bright blue patches in this false color image. This is seasonal carbon dioxide frost.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:15854-16231 hearsay second hand
1221
Richard C. Hoagland regards the official NASA-HiRISE caption's explanation of MRO image PSP_008427_1380 as failing to mention the anomalous architecture covering the image or offer a theory for the repeating geometric pattern, calling the caption's explanation "hogwash".
“Hogwash... It is interesting that in the whole of the caption that comes with PSP_008427_1380, not one mention is made of the completely anomalous architecture that literally covers it from one end to the other. Nor does it really offer even a cursory theory as to what natural process could have created the repeating geometric pattern.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:16476-16806 opinion first hand
1222
Richard C. Hoagland suspects that NASA was aware of the anomalous content of MRO image PSP_008427_1380 and was waiting for someone outside the agency to bring it up, similar to the blacked-out photographs in the NASA Apollo catalogues.
“This deliberate dismissal of the extraordinary contents of this image, similar to the blacked out photographs in the NASA Apollo catalogs (see Chapter Four), led me to suspect that our friendly neighborhood space agency was quite aware of what was on this image, and was simply waiting for someone outside the agency to bring it up.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:16872-17201 opinion first hand
1223
Richard C. Hoagland believes the existence of the MRO image PSP_008427_1380 was part of a carefully calculated strategy by someone waiting for official proof of architectural constructions on Mars, comparing this to Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement that in politics nothing occurs by accident.
“This led me to conclude that the mere existence of this extraordinary NASA image had to be part of a carefully-calculated strategy by "someone" waiting for official proof of architectural constructions on the planet Mars. As FDR once said, "In politics, nothing occurs 'by accident.'"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:17206-17479 opinion first hand
1224
Richard C. Hoagland believes AD's urgent email, which contained just enough information to allow tracking down the official NASA source of the images, may have been a deliberate set-up to encourage discovery of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) proof of the Intelligence Hypothesis pre-positioned by someone inside the official MRO archive.
“The more I looked at the remarkable timing of AD's "urgent" email—which contained just enough information to allow us to track down the official NASA source of these extraordinary Martian city images—the more I began to believe that the whole thing might have been a set-up all along. A set-up to encourage us to go find the high-resolution MRO proof of the Intelligence Hypothesis carefully pre-positioned by someone in the official MRO archive.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:17647-18085 opinion first hand
1225
In 2003, Nick Hoffman, an Australian geologist at the University of Melbourne, discovered and mapped anomalous hotspots in infrared images of Hellas Basin taken by the Mars Odyssey THEMIS instrument.
“Secondly, in 2003 an Australian geologist, Dr. Nick Hoffman of University of Melbourne, discovered and mapped some very anomalous "hotspots" in the infrared images taken by the Mars Odyssey THEMIS instrument.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:18850-19047 observation second hand
1226
The Hellas Basin image contains detailed structures resembling I-beams and girders similar to those seen at terrestrial construction sites or demolition aftermaths.
“Detailed, specific structures looking identical to I-beams and girders seen in any terrestrial construction site or demolition aftermath here on Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:1898-2043 observation first hand
1227
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that the anomalous hotspots detected on the floor of Hellas Basin could result from thermal venting activity that might provide heat and low levels of energy to a potential settlement.
“This could be a result of thermal venting activity (which would provide heat and low levels of energy to any potential settlement) and possibly implied something more - did these hotspots mean that perhaps the lights were still on down on the floor of Hellas?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:19060-19312 opinion first hand
1228
Richard C. Hoagland and the Independent Mars Investigation began looking at the first Viking images of Cydonia in 1983.
“ever since the Independent Mars Investigation in 1983, when we began looking at those first enigmatic Viking images of Cydonia and wondered”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:195-328 observation first hand
1229
According to Richard C. Hoagland's and the Enterprise Mission's Mars Tidal Model, after earlier planetary catastrophes devastated Mars, survivors of Mars' civilisation could only remain alive by seeking locations where ambient air pressure was significantly above the radically lowered Martian global average.
“In our model, after the earlier planetary catastrophes had overtaken Mars and totally devastated the planet, the few survivors of Mars' once vast civilization would only have been able to stay alive in the post-catastrophe era by seeking a location where the ambient air pressure was significantly above the (now radically lowering) Martian global average.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:19609-19957 opinion first hand
1230
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter close-up imagery of the floor of Hellas Basin shows well-preserved layered Martian ruins interpreted by Richard C. Hoagland as evidence of a last stand by indigenous Martians against the disappearance of the Martian atmosphere.
“the fascinatingly well-preserved nature of the layered Martian ruins on the floor of Hellas, seen in these MRO close-ups, argued compellingly for their literally representing the indigenous Martians’ last stand against the final disappearance of Mars’ dwindling atmosphere.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:20168-20430 opinion first hand
1231
Richard C. Hoagland considers space to have been the sole monopoly of governments for over 50 years, restricting commercial access.
“For over 50 years space has been the sole monopoly of governments.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:21550-21604 opinion first hand
1232
Richard C. Hoagland considers the continuing lack of low-cost private access to space to have been deliberately planned rather than a result of market forces.
“The continuing inability of the private sector to gain its own low-cost access to space, even to “look around,” has, in hindsight, not been so much a casualty of the marketplace, it’s obviously been carefully planned.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:22074-22283 opinion first hand
1233
Within the Hellas Basin Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image area, millions of highly-complex, highly-organised, multiple-scale geometric rectangles, squares and cubes are arranged in multiple morphologically different geometric layers.
“Within that area, arranged in multiple and morphologically different geometric layers are literally millions of highly-complex, highly-organized, "multiple-scale" geometric rectangles, squares and cubes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:2214-2413 observation first hand
1234
The Space Shuttle system had taken 14 lives as of the time of writing.
“an overdesigned and obsolescent Space Shuttle system that has taken 14 lives in the cause of doing pretty much nothing.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:22730-22841 measurement first hand
1235
Because of launch delays, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission would take place entirely during Barack Obama's presidency rather than George W. Bush's.
“due to those delays, the LRO Mission would take place totally on Barack Obama’s watch.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:24206-24286 administrative first hand
1236
Richard C. Hoagland considers such overwhelmingly regular geometry as seen in the Hellas Basin Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image to be creatable only by intelligence, an argument he has made since The Monuments of Mars was published in 1987.
“Such overwhelmingly regular geometry can only be created, as we've been arguing for decades (at least since The Monuments of Mars was published in 1987) by intelligence.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:2430-2589 opinion first hand
1237
Richard C. Hoagland had predicted years before the launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that the spacecraft would ultimately image redundant, familiar structural geometry if his theses about Mars were correct.
“This MRO image, out of any I'd seen in almost two years, contained precisely the redundant, eerily familiar structural geometry I had predicted (years before its launch) that MRO ultimately had to image, if our theses were correct.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:2605-2831 opinion first hand
1238
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to have been conceived, like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's imaging of Hellas Basin, with the covert objective of photographing extraterrestrial cities on the Moon.
“so LRO may have been conceived with exactly the same clandestine ET mission in mind: To photograph- with unprecedented resolution- the shining crystalline cities of the Moon.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:27745-27914 opinion first hand
1239
Richard C. Hoagland suspected that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission's agenda was a continuation of an existing cover-up of NASA's previous lunar and solar system missions.
“My worst case scenario was that, as with all of NASA’s previous missions to the Moon (if not the entire solar system), the LRO agenda was simply a continuation of the existing cover-up. Sadly, as I dug deeper into the LRO mission, my suspicion was confirmed.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:28090-28338 opinion first hand
1240
The Enterprise Mission relied on medium-resolution polar mosaics assembled from images taken by Galileo during its Earth swing-by in the early 1990s on its way to Jupiter.
“we were dependent upon some medium resolution polar mosaics put together from NASA’s Galileo swing-by of the Earth (on its way to Jupiter) in the early 1990s.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:31590-31742 administrative first hand
1241
Shortly before the publishing deadline for the updated version of Dark Mission, the Enterprise Mission received an urgent e-mail with an attachment claiming to contain undeniable evidence of an extraterrestrial civilisation and huge buildings, sourced from official and public satellite images.
“It was within a few days of the publishing deadline for this updated version of Dark Mission that Enterprise received an urgent e-mail... this e-mail came with a lengthy attachment containing (or so it claimed): "... the evidence (satellites images from official and public source) undeniable of an Extraterrestrial Civilization, their huge buildings (dozens km. square) and more"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:3166-3634 hearsay second hand
1242
Richard C. Hoagland found that none of the officially published lunar polar imagery, including from Clementine, had sufficient resolution posted on the web to reveal anything beyond what was already known.
“I soon realized that none of the official published imagery - not even from Clementine -- had sufficient resolution to show anything more than we already knew. At least from those versions posted on the Web.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:32338-32543 observation first hand
1243
Richard C. Hoagland found in Paolo Lazzarotti's online gallery a lunar close-up image, taken with a modest telescope and off-the-shelf CCD digital camera, showing a suspiciously geometric pattern.
“I saw amazingly detailed lunar close-up images, all taken with a relatively modest telescope and an off-the-shelf CCD digital camera and imaging software. I was stunned by a spectacular polar lunar panorama, which, to my surprise, also presented a suspiciously geometric pattern in the middle of this lunar landscape.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:33172-33479 observation first hand
1244
Alan Friedman photographed a panorama of the Philolaus, Anaxagoras and Epigenes region of the Moon that Richard C. Hoagland found to contain the same geometric features seen in Paolo Lazzarotti's image.
“On Friedman’s website I located a different (but complementary) panorama to the Lazzarotti pan and immediately confirmed that it, indeed, contained the same set of geometric features seen in the previous image I’d examined.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:36587-36801 observation first hand
1245
About a dozen satellite images were packaged as graphics inside a multipage document file included in the e-mail attachment sent to the Enterprise Mission, each containing thousands of individual geometric objects arranged in redundant geometric patterns.
“About a dozen satellite images were packaged as graphics inside a multipage document file included in the e-mail attachment, each image containing thousands of individual and suspicious-looking geometric objects arranged in equally-obvious (if larger) redundant geometric patterns.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:3704-3976 observation first hand
1246
Richard C. Hoagland considers the artificial geometries seen in the Lazzarotti and Friedman lunar images to be real.
“The artificial geometries were real..”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:37809-37840 opinion first hand
1247
Wes Higgins photographed the Philolaus, Anaxagoras and Epigenes region of the Moon, showing the same geometric features at the best resolution yet seen.
“also produced spectacular close-up lunar webcam images, including of the “Philolaus, Anaxagoras and Epigenes region,” the critical area photographed by Lazzarotti and Friedman. And there, on Higgins’ close-up - were the same highly geometric ruins, and with the best resolution yet.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:38105-38383 observation first hand
1248
Richard C. Hoagland examined the limited data posted on the official National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) website after the lunar swing-by and focused on one infrared thermal image taken after the spacecraft's closest lunar approach.
“Scanning the limited amount of data (consisting of precisely three graphics, one of which was an animation) posted on the official NASA-LCROSS website after the fly-by yesterday, my attention was abruptly focused on the one “IR thermal image” NASA had posted -(taken after the spacecraft passed the point of “closest lunar approach” in the pre-dawn on the East Coast.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:41064-41425 observation first hand
1249
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image was taken by the spacecraft's Mid-Infrared Camera and presented in false colour, with blue representing the coldest lunar surface temperatures and red the warmest.
“This LCROSS thermal IR image, taken by the spacecraft’s “Mid-Infrared Camera,” was presented in standard false colors—with “blue” representing the coldest temperatures on the Moon’s surface and “red” the warmest.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:41537-41741 observation first hand
1250
In the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image, the cold surface area appeared farthest from the sub-solar point and the red (warmest) area was centred under where the Sun would be high overhead.
“At first glance, everything looked normal—the cold surface was farthest from the sub-solar point (where the Sun would be directly overhead), and the “red” area was nicely centered under where the Sun would be high overhead.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:41750-41964 observation first hand
1251
Richard C. Hoagland observed a thin, curving yellow line in the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image, separating the red lunar surface below from the deep violet background of outer space above.
“The problem was the thin, curving yellow line separating the red surface below from the deep violet (coldest) background of outer space, above.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:41975-42112 observation first hand
1252
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the curving yellow line following the Moon's curvature above the hotter red lunar surface in the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image as evidence that something with a lower radiating temperature was suspended above the Moon's surface.
“the presence of that “curving yellow line” following the curvature of the Moon, but miles above the hotter red lunar surface was a dead giveaway that something was suspended over that red part, the actual Moon’s surface, and was made visible on this NASA IR scan because its radiating temperature was significantly lower than the actual surface”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:42387-42724 opinion first hand
1253
AD, the anonymous Italian lawyer email correspondent, identified himself as an Italian lawyer from Bari, Italy, claiming to possess evidence of an extraterrestrial civilisation via official satellite images.
“I'm an italian Lawyer, and I have evidences (proof) of Extraterrestrial Civilization hidden at the world and now exposed... I'm not a liar in looks for of crazy publicity or visionary, but a Lawyer of Bari (Italy).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:4253-4423 hearsay second hand
1254
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image to have recorded heat radiation emitted from the remnants of ancient lunar domes still arching over part of the Moon's surface.
“this LCROSS IR image had recorded the heat radiation being emitted from the remnants of ancient lunar domes still arching over this part of the Moon’s surface. There is no other plausible scientific explanation for that color-coded image.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:42799-43031 opinion first hand
1255
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) infrared image to be startling confirmation of an optical Apollo 15 photograph published in the first edition of Dark Mission, showing an optical halo around the full Moon with the Sun directly behind the Apollo 15 spacecraft.
“It was also startling confirmation of an optical Apollo 15 photograph we had published in the first edition of this volume; the one (Figure 16 - color section) where there is an optical halo seen going completely around the full Moon (with the Sun directly behind the Apollo 15 spacecraft).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:43039-43318 opinion first hand
1256
Richard C. Hoagland notes that critics could rationalise the Apollo 15 optical halo image as scattering on the spacecraft window glass because it was recorded in reflected light, unlike the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) infrared image.
“But that had been in reflected light, and critics could always rationalize it away as scattering on the spacecraft window glass or some other equally trivial explanation. But with this IR image, the physics are totally different.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:43331-43550 opinion first hand
1257
Richard C. Hoagland considers that because the Moon has no atmosphere, the object suggested by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) thermal infrared image had to be an ancient lunar dome, with no other physical explanation possible.
“Since the moon has no atmosphere, it had to be an ancient lunar dome. No other physical explanation is possible.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:44081-44184 opinion first hand
1258
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) first swing-by of the Moon to have provided new and compelling evidence in favour of the ancient lunar dome hypothesis.
“Thus, LCROSS, on its first swing-by of the Moon, had provided new and compelling evidence in favor of the “ancient lunar dome hypothesis.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:44195-44321 opinion first hand
1259
A Russian correspondent said she had first learned about Dark Mission from a Russian space manager and engineer.
“Or like the Russian correspondent who revealed that she had first learned about *Dark Mission* from a Russian space manager and engineer”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:44380-44508 hearsay second hand
1260
One day after the original posting, the infrared image on the official Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website was changed to a closely-cropped version that excluded the thin, curving yellow line.
“Then, one day after the original posting, the IR image posted on the LCROSS official NASA website abruptly changed to a closely-cropped version, which deliberately excluded the “thin, curving yellow line.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:44974-45173 observation first hand
1261
Richard C. Hoagland believes someone senior within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recognised what the thin yellow line in the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) infrared image represented and attempted to stem the leak by cropping the image.
“Someone higher up in NASA (belatedly …) had obviously *also* realized what that “thin yellow line” actually represented ... and had tried (somewhat clumsily) to “stem the leak!””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:45190-45361 opinion first hand
1262
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that Wernher von Braun may have discovered a private, parallel space program by stumbling upon it at the dawn of the space age.
“it may well be that one of the major players in the saga of *Dark Mission*, Dr. Wernher von Braun himself, only discovered this private space program by stumbling upon it at the dawn of space age.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:46027-46219 opinion first hand
1263
Richard C. Hoagland speculates that Wernher von Braun may not have known he was not at the top of the technological food chain until discovering that hyperdimensional physics theory was real and that he and his National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) co-workers had been excluded from exploiting its benefits.
“It could well be that von Braun never even knew he wasn’t at the top of the technological food chain until this seminal moment in time, when he *must* have discovered the theory that we now call Hyperdimensional physics was very real, and that he and his NASA co-workers had been carefully excluded from exploiting its potential benefits.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:46224-46553 opinion first hand
1264
AD told Richard C. Hoagland that a client had entrusted him with the disclosure of the material and bound him to professional confidentiality and total anonymity.
“This person has entrusted me in order to disclose this that he has found and he has bound to most absolute professional reserve and the total anonymity to me.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:6095-6250 hearsay second hand
1265
Richard C. Hoagland examined AD's e-mailed images and concluded they unmistakably showed buildings on Mars.
“I looked at "AD's" images again. Unmistakably: buildings on Mars.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:7092-7154 opinion first hand
1266
Richard C. Hoagland considers that NASA photographs of Mars, especially of Cydonia, have gotten progressively fuzzier over the decades despite improving spacecraft technology, which he regards as an imaging cover-up.
“For decades, we have received successive generations of increasingly better and better technical images of Mars, from better and better spacecraft, but of increasingly fuzzier and fuzzier patterns... the NASA photographs - beyond a certain point - haven't been getting continually better, they've been getting worse. Especially, curiously, those taken of Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:7170-7539 opinion first hand
1267
A close-up image from a larger official Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image shows features resembling the crumbling remains of a set of modern apartment buildings, on the floor of the Hellas Basin.
“This close-up, taken from a much larger official NASA image shows what for all the world looks exactly like the crumbling remains of a set of modern apartment buildings. It was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft in May, 2008... This particular image is of the floor of the immense Hellas Basin”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:733-1123 observation first hand
1268
Robin Falkov, Richard C. Hoagland's significant other, reacted to seeing the Hellas Basin image by exclaiming that the objects were buildings.
“When I showed them to Robin Falkov, both my significant other and severest critic, she had an immediate and memorable reaction: "Those are buildings!"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:8514-8655 testimony first hand
1269
Robin Falkov is Richard C. Hoagland's significant other and severest critic.
“Robin Falkov, both my significant other and severest critic”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:8536-8589 administrative first hand
1270
Richard C. Hoagland wrote back to AD explaining that AD had presented insufficient material to instigate a true scientific inquiry, including not stating which planet the images depicted or what mission or camera had taken them.
“I wrote back to "AD," explaining why he presented insufficient material to instigate any true scientific inquiry. For starters, he hadn't even told us which planet these "buildings" were on, much less what mission or camera had taken them.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:8843-9077 testimony first hand
1271
AD told Richard C. Hoagland that he could not yet provide details identifying which planet, mission, or camera the images came from, and that his client needed assurances before full disclosure due to fear of losing his job, money, or worse.
“I can't give THOSE informations. Not yet... My client need some "Insurances" before the complete discosure of this ephocal news. He could loose his job, money ... or worse. He fear for his job, his economic future, for his family and ... his life.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:9165-9485 hearsay second hand
1272
AD asked Richard C. Hoagland to give the story the right spin to the international media, calling it the news of the millennium.
“You, as an international well known and stimate specialist on this stuff, could give the right spin to the International Media news... This is THE NEWS of the millennium”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch6:9804-9993 hearsay second hand
1273
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara divide the architects of the NASA Brookings cover-up into three groups they call the Magicians, the Masons and the Nazis.
“For the purposes of this volume, we shall call them the "Magicians," the "Masons" and the "Nazis"—and deal with each group separately.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:11177-11300 opinion first hand
1274
Richard C. Hoagland interprets the letter "A" for "Apollo" on the official Apollo Program mission patch as a stand-in for "Asar", the Egyptian designation for Osiris.
“it becomes elemental to match the "A" (for "Apollo") as an actual stand-in for "Asar"—the Egyptian designation for "Osiris."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:12958-13074 opinion first hand
1275
Richard C. Hoagland identifies the background stellar constellation depicted on the Apollo Program mission patch as Orion.
“because "Asar/Osiris" is none other than the familiar Greek constellation of "Orion"—which is, of course, the background stellar constellation on the patch itself.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:13184-13340 opinion first hand
1276
Richard C. Hoagland believes the successful completion of Apollo's secret mission and agenda, rather than Congressional budget cuts, was the real reason for the abrupt end of America's Moon missions.
“it was this successful completion of Apollo's secret mission and agenda, and not Congressional budget cuts, which was the real reason for this abrupt cessation of America's historic journeys to the Moon”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:15036-15235 opinion first hand
1277
Richard C. Hoagland was a NASA consultant to the Goddard Spaceflight Center in the post-Apollo era.
“I was indeed a NASA consultant to the Goddard Spaceflight Center in the post-Apollo era”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:176-260 administrative first hand
1278
Richard C. Hoagland worked with Dr. Margaret Mead in later years at the Hayden Planetarium in New York.
“Dr. Margaret Mead, whom I had the privilege of actually working with in later years, at New York's Hayden Planetarium”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:17676-17782 administrative first hand
1279
Richard C. Hoagland considers the airing of Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On the Moon? on 2001-02-15 to have removed the last weak link in NASA's ongoing, 40-year chain of overlapping cover-ups.
“With this program, Fox removed the last weak link in NASA's ongoing, 40-year-old chain of overlapping cover-ups.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:21443-21551 opinion first hand
1280
Richard C. Hoagland considers the Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory to have been carefully constructed as professional disinformation intended as a distraction from the real lunar conspiracy that was beginning to unravel as early as 1996.
“It is our assertion that not only was this "Moon hoax" tale carefully constructed as an elegant piece of professional disinformation—as a desperately-required distraction from the real lunar conspiracy documented here, which was beginning to seriously unravel as early as 1996.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:21557-21831 opinion first hand
1281
Richard C. Hoagland states he personally witnessed the true beginnings of the Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory in 1969, within NASA itself, well before the 2001 Fox special.
“For, I can personally testify that I was a first-hand witness to "the Moon hoax" true beginnings far, far earlier than the 2001 Fox Special—back in 1969, and in the heart of NASA itself!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:21837-22016 testimony first hand
1282
During Apollo 11's July 1969 mission, Richard C. Hoagland served as official science advisor to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News Special Events and chief correspondent Walter Cronkite.
“I, of course, had been deeply immersed in all aspects of our CBS coverage of the upcoming Apollo 11 mission for months as official science advisor to CBS News Special Events and chief correspondent Walter Cronkite.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:22174-22379 administrative first hand
1283
For the Apollo 11 flight, Richard C. Hoagland was assigned, at his own request, to the Downey, California facility of North American Rockwell, the prime contractor for the Apollo Command and Service Modules.
“For the actual flight of Apollo 11, I was assigned (at my own request) to the Downey, California facility of the prime contractor for the Apollo Command and Service Modules, North American Rockwell.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:22390-22579 administrative first hand
1284
Richard C. Hoagland oversaw construction and special-effects use of a 'walk-through solar system' built by North American Rockwell technicians for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)'s Apollo 11 coverage in an aircraft hangar.
“I was there to personally oversee construction and special effects use of my pet project for our nonstop CBS coverage of "Lunar Landing Day"—a "walk-through solar system" constructed by North American technicians specifically for myself and CBS in a huge, drafty aircraft hanger.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:22589-22862 testimony first hand
1285
Richard C. Hoagland proposed that Walter Cronkite interview via satellite key engineers, project managers, and special guests connected to Apollo 11 within the walk-through solar system exhibit.
“It was in this miniature, recreated version of the solar system that I had successfully proposed that Walter Cronkite interview via satellite key engineers, project managers and "special guests"... to comment on the historic legacy of the Apollo 11 flight.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:22870-23089 testimony first hand
1286
Richard C. Hoagland brought Robert A. Heinlein before the cameras to speak with Walter Cronkite about the significance of Apollo 11.
“One luminary I was proud to bring before the cameras, to chat with Walter in New York regarding the extraordinary nature of events occurring that historic night, was Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American science fiction.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:23244-23459 testimony first hand
1287
Robert A. Heinlein co-wrote the screenplay for Destination Moon, one of the first technically accurate film depictions of a lunar journey.
“Decades earlier, Bob had co-written the screenplay for Destination Moon, one of the first technically accurate film depictions of the lunar journey then unfolding on live television before a billion people all over planet Earth.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:23468-23692 administrative first hand
1288
Richard C. Hoagland considers Robert A. Heinlein to have almost single-handedly inspired the workforce for the entire American space programme through his pioneering juvenile science fiction novels introducing realistic space travel concepts.
“As the successful author of a pioneering series of "juvenile" SF novels that, for the first time, introduced realistic space travel and engineering concepts to an entire generation of future NASA scientists and engineers, Robert Heinlein had, almost single handedly, "inspired the workforce" for the entire space program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:23699-24014 opinion first hand
1289
Robert A. Heinlein predicted, while touring the walk-through solar system exhibit on 1969-07-20, that the date would be known as 'the Beginning of the True History of Mankind'.
“watching Bob Heinlein stroll through "the solar system," emphatically predicting to Walter and literally the world, via satellite, that "henceforth, this night—July 20, 1969—will be known as 'the Beginning of the True History of Mankind.'"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:24084-24313 testimony first hand
1290
The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the South Pacific three days after departing lunar orbit.
“arriving at JPL right after the three Apollo 11 astronauts blasted home toward Earth and "splashdown" in the South Pacific, three days later.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:24810-24945 testimony first hand
1291
During the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, NASA also conducted a fly-by of two unmanned Mariner spacecraft past Mars, only the second such Mars fly-by mission in NASA's history.
“The reason was that NASA had another mission underway during "the Epic Journey of Apollo 11"—a fly-by of two unmanned Mariner spacecraft past Mars, for only the second time in NASA's history.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:24953-25136 testimony first hand
1292
Richard C. Hoagland's small CBS Special Events Unit in Los Angeles was responsible for covering all of NASA's West Coast space activities during that period.
“With only one "CBS Special Events Unit" in California, to cover all of NASA's space activities on the West Coast in those years, it was up to our small group in Los Angeles... to overlap our continuing coverage of Apollo 11...”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:25146-25360 testimony first hand
1293
Mariner 6 was scheduled to fly past Mars on 1969-07-31, recording television images, conducting spectral scans, and taking remote atmospheric measurements.
“Mariner 6 was to cruise past Mars on July 31—recording television images, making spectral scans, conducting remote atmospheric measurements, etc.—just ten days after "Columbia" left lunar orbit, heading for the Pacific Ocean.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:25625-25844 administrative first hand
1294
Richard C. Hoagland arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the afternoon of 1969-07-22 to prepare for coverage of the Mariner 6 fly-by, his first in-person tour covering a live mission, at the age of 23.
“Our arrival at JPL on the afternoon of July 22, in preparation for this Mariner 6 fly-by was heady stuff for a 23-year-old network science consultant, as this was my first "in-person" tour to cover an actual live mission.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:25852-26065 testimony first hand
1295
Bob Wussler, the Executive Producer, put Richard C. Hoagland on the air across the entire Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television network to explain the upcoming Mariner fly-by to the nation.
“One morning our Executive Producer, Bob Wussler, suddenly decided to put me on the air across the entire CBS television network to explain the upcoming Mariner fly-by to the nation!”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:26240-26416 testimony first hand
1296
Richard C. Hoagland's first professional network television appearance was his commentary for a NASA mission flying by Mars.
“How could one ever forget their first professional network television appearance—and their first official network commentary for a NASA mission flying by Mars, no less?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:26425-26588 testimony first hand
1297
Richard C. Hoagland was Science Advisor to Walter Cronkite and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News, Special Events, advising CBS on the science of the NASA missions to the Moon and Mars during the Apollo Program.
“Science Advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News, Special Events, advising CBS on the science of the NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, during the Apollo Program”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:269-423 administrative first hand
1298
Close to a thousand print reporters, television correspondents, technicians, VIPs, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) staff attempted to register for limited seating in the Von Karman Auditorium ahead of the Mariner 6 Mars flyby coverage.
“Close to a thousand print reporters, television correspondents, technicians, special VIPs, as well as half the staff at JPL itself, were all attempting to register for the limited seating in the (relatively) small Von Karman Auditorium...”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:26930-27155 testimony first hand
1299
Explorer 1 was placed in orbit by an Army/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team one January night in 1958.
“...ever since Explorer 1 had been placed in orbit by an Army/JPL team one January night in 1958.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:27252-27340 administrative first hand
1300
Richard C. Hoagland observed that the unidentified man distributing material in the Von Karman Auditorium was accompanied by Frank Bristow, the head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) press office.
“As he got closer, I suddenly realized he was accompanied by a more conventionally dressed representative from JPL itself... the second figure was, in fact, none other than the head of the JPL press office, Frank Bristow.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:28199-28448 observation first hand
1301
Frank Bristow, head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) press office, personally escorted the unidentified man into the press room, where reporters including Walter Sullivan of the New York Times, Frank Pearlman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Bergmann of American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and Bill Stout of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) were introduced to him.
“There, in an office where space correspondents, like Walter Sullivan (New York Times), Frank Pearlman (San Francisco Chronicle), Jules Bergmann (ABC), and Bill Stout (our local guy from CBS) hung out... a handful of reporters were now being introduced, again by Bristow, to "great coat guy."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:28796-29148 observation first hand
1302
At the time the broadsheet was distributed on 1969-07-22, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins had already walked on the Moon and were still roughly halfway between Earth and the Moon, two days from splashdown in the South Pacific.
“The three Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, two of whom had just successfully walked on "the frigging Moon," and wouldn't splash down in the South Pacific Ocean for two more days, were still halfway between Earth and the "Sea of Tranquility."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:29717-29979 testimony first hand
1303
Richard C. Hoagland discarded the mimeographed broadsheet handed out at the Von Karman Auditorium but kept the shiny flag in his notebook.
“I did what I saw the other veterans do: I casually threw the two pages in the trash and tucked the shiny flag into my notebook. But the seed had been planted.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:30374-30524 testimony first hand
1304
Richard C. Hoagland considers the 1969 distribution of the Moon-hoax broadsheet at the Von Karman Auditorium to have been an official operation by Frank Bristow to seed the story among national reporters, using the accompanying shiny flag as a mnemonic device.
“This was an official "Op"—Bristow's job was to make sure that all the national reporters covering NASA at least saw what was handed out that afternoon, complete with shiny flag to act as a mnemonic device to trigger the memory of what was in the pamphlet long after it was history.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:30746-31019 opinion first hand
1305
Richard C. Hoagland considers the 1969 Von Karman Auditorium broadsheet distribution to have been intended by NASA to become a naturally-reproducing meme, deliberately infecting American culture with the story that the Moon landing was faked.
“which is exactly what NASA apparently intended to plant at JPL that afternoon. To deliberately "infect" the American culture with the story that "the Moon landing was all a fake!"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:31390-31563 opinion first hand
1306
Richard C. Hoagland considers Fox Television's 2001 Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On the Moon? special to have activated a 30-year-old conspiracy-theory meme, functioning as an inoculation against those who would later question what NASA really found during its Apollo missions to the Moon.
“Fox, the "fair and balanced" network, activated the meme in 2001—with the Did We Land on the Moon? special... An officially concocted "inoculation" against troublemakers who would one day place before many of those same national reporters a set of embarrassing official Apollo photographs, asking the crucial question: "What did NASA really find during its Apollo missions to the Moon?"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:31720-32203 opinion first hand
1307
Richard C. Hoagland runs the Enterprise Mission, an independent National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) watchdog and research group.
“I currently run an independent NASA watchdog and research group, the Enterprise Mission”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:432-512 administrative first hand
1308
Richard C. Hoagland believes NASA's entire lunar exploration programme, culminating in the Apollo Program, was conceived as a kind of alien reconnaissance followed by an alien artefacts retrieval programme.
“it is also our opinion that NASA's entire lunar exploration program—culminating with the incredibly successful manned Apollo Project—was carefully conceived, from the beginning, as a kind of "alien reconnaissance" followed by an "alien artifacts retrieval" program.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch7:9153-9410 opinion first hand
1309
Richard C. Hoagland was the first to realise that detailed features of the Face on Mars would be ultimately meaningless if the Face turned out to be an isolated landform with no surrounding evidence of a civilisation that could have constructed it.
“Hoagland was the first to realize that all of this detail was ultimately meaningless if it turned out that the Face was an isolated landform.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:10819-10951 opinion first hand
1310
Richard C. Hoagland named the cluster of pyramidal mountains near the Face on Mars "The City" and the massive pyramidal mountain the "D&M Pyramid", the latter in honour of Vince Dipietro and Greg Molenaar.
“Hoagland dubbed this cluster of mountains the “City,” and the massive pyramidal mountain the “D&M Pyramid” [Fig. 1-3], in honor of Dipietro and Molenaar.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:11591-11735 administrative first hand
1311
Although the Face on Mars made newspaper headlines worldwide the day after its discovery, no journalist including Richard C. Hoagland took it seriously at the time, accepting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s explanation that disconfirming photos had been taken later the same Martian day.
“Although the Face made newspaper headlines all over the world the next day, no journalist, including Richard C. Hoagland, took it seriously. They all accepted NASA’s explanation that there were disconfirming photos taken later that same Martian day.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:1377-1622 observation
1312
While helping Mark Carlotto publish papers, Carl Sagan simultaneously attacked the Cydonia issue publicly in a disinformation piece in Parade magazine.
“Oddly, at the same time he was doing this, Sagan was attacking the whole issue publicly with an infamous disinformation piece in *Parade* magazine.17”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:14041-14188 opinion first hand
1313
Early in the Cydonia investigations, Richard C. Hoagland proposed that there might be a broader, contextual relationship between the various landforms identified as anomalous at Cydonia.
“Early on in the Cydonia investigations, Hoagland had proposed that there might be a broader, contextual relationship between the various landforms identified as anomalous.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:17797-17958 opinion first hand
1314
Richard C. Hoagland noted that the three northward edges of the pentagonal D&M Pyramid seemed to point to other key features of the Cydonia complex.
“He noticed, for instance, that the three Northward edges of the pentagonal D&M seemed to point to other key features of the complex.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:18276-18400 observation first hand
1315
Using orthographically rectified images provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Rand Corporation, Richard C. Hoagland drew lines from the faceted edges of the D&M Pyramid across the images of Cydonia, finding one edge passed through the centre of the City Square, another between the eyes of the Face on Mars, and another across the apex of the Tholus.
“Using orthographically rectified images provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Rand Corporation, he drew lines defined by these faceted edges across the images of Cydonia. One edge passed right through the center of the City Square, the next right between the eyes of the Face, and the next straight across the apex of the Tholus.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:18409-18740 observation first hand
1316
Richard C. Hoagland noted several mounds in and around The City at Cydonia that were consistent in size, approximately the scale of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and shape, and appeared to form a perfect equilateral triangle.
“He also noted several “mounds” in and around the City. They were consistent in terms of size (about the scale of the Great Pyramid at Giza) and shape, and also seemed to form a perfect equilateral triangle [Fig. 1-5].”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:18748-18962 observation first hand
1317
Richard C. Hoagland has often been accused of "circular reasoning", of drawing lines on photos of Cydonia until they hit something and then declaring that object a "monument".
“Hoagland has often been accused of “circular reasoning,” of just drawing lines on the photos until they “hit” something and then declaring that object to be a “monument.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:19049-19209 opinion second hand
1318
Richard C. Hoagland used only measurement techniques that had been previously established by archaeologists in their surveys of ancient ruins when analysing the geometric relationships at Cydonia.
“Hoagland carefully used only techniques that had been previously established by archeologists in their surveys of ancient ruins.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:19661-19783 administrative first hand
1319
Drawing on the model of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) analysis, Richard C. Hoagland decided that any intended message at Cydonia would almost certainly have been inscribed more than once.
“Taking a page out of the SETI manual, Hoagland decided that any intended message would almost certainly have been inscribed more than once.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:19791-19925 opinion first hand
1320
A significant mathematical relationship in Richard C. Hoagland's alignment model had to occur redundantly to be distinguished from random noise.
“So a cornerstone of the whole process was that any "significant" mathematical relationship must occur redundantly.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:20188-20290 opinion first hand
1321
Richard C. Hoagland rejected any object from his alignment model that was not anomalous in some other way, even if it stood at a significant location.
“He also made certain not to include any object that was not significant in some other way to the model. If an object was not anomalous in any way, but stood at a significant location in the alignment model, it was rejected.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:20303-20517 administrative first hand
1322
Richard C. Hoagland found that the centre of City Square at Cydonia lies along a direct line marked by the northwest facet of the D&M Pyramid.
“the fact that the center of the City Square was later found by Hoagland to lie along a direct line marked by the northwest facet of the D&M was only significant because of these previous observations.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:20938-21125 observation first hand
1323
Richard C. Hoagland argued that a reductionist method of isolating data points without reference to the greater context could not be valid for investigating Cydonia, since there would likely have been intent in the mind of any Martian architect just as in earthly monumental architecture.
“Hoagland argued that this isolationist approach could not be valid in an investigation such as this one, since there would likely have been some form of *intent* in the mind of any "Martian architect," just as there was in any earthly monumental architecture.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:21534-21780 opinion first hand
1324
In 1988, Richard C. Hoagland was approached by Erol Torun, a cartographer and satellite imagery interpreter for the Defense Mapping Agency.
“In 1988, Hoagland was approached by Erol Torun, a cartographer and satellite imagery interpreter for the Defense Mapping Agency.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:24276-24397 administrative
1325
After reading The Monuments of Mars, Erol Torun wrote to Richard C. Hoagland expressing surprise that his initial assumptions were not supported by his subsequent analysis.
“After reading *Monuments*, he had written Hoagland expressing his surprise that his initial assumptions about the subject were not supported by his subsequent analysis.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:24817-24976 testimony first hand
1326
Erol Torun wrote to Richard C. Hoagland that he had a good background in geomorphology and knew of no mechanism to explain the formation of the D&M Pyramid.
“"I have a good background in geomorphology and know of no mechanism to explain its formation," he wrote Hoagland.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:25067-25170 opinion first hand
1327
Erol Torun came to the Mars investigation as a sceptic, relatively certain he would find the geomorphic interpretations and early contextual alignments cited by Richard C. Hoagland to be false positives.
“Torun had come to the Mars investigation as a skeptic; relatively certain he would find that the geomorphic interpretations and the early contextual alignments cited by Hoagland would turn out to be "false positives" in the search for answers to the riddle of Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:25183-25443 administrative
1328
Richard C. Hoagland found that many of the same angles, ratios and trigonometric functions identified by Erol Torun applied throughout the Cydonia Complex, measured between the apex of the Tholus and the D&M Pyramid, the straight line defined by the Cliff, the centre of City Square, and the apex of the tetrahedral Crater Pyramid.
“Hoagland found that many of the same angles, ratios and trig functions applied *all over the Cydonia Complex*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:27775-27876 observation first hand
1329
Richard C. Hoagland found the same 19.5-degree angle encoded in the broader Cydonia Complex three additional times.
“Hoagland also found the same "19.5º" encoded in the broader Cydonia complex *three more times*.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:28246-28334 observation first hand
1330
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun determined that the 19.5-degree angle related to the geometry of the tetrahedron, the simplest of the five Platonic Solids.
“Searching for the significance of this number, they eventually determined that it related to the geometry of the tetrahedron.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:28342-28455 opinion
1331
Some of the small mounds at Cydonia noted earlier by Richard C. Hoagland had the appearance of tetrahedral pyramids, and the Crater Pyramid, involved in one of the key 19.5-degree measurements, is also clearly tetrahedral.
“Some of the small mounds Hoagland had noted earlier had the look of tetrahedral pyramids, and the Crater Pyramid, which is involved with one of the key 19.5 measurements, is also clearly tetrahedral.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:29307-29494 observation first hand
1332
In 1989, Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun published their results in a paper titled The Message of Cydonia.
“In 1989, Hoagland and Torun proceeded to publish their results in a new paper titled, appropriately, "The Message of Cydonia."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:30071-30188 administrative
1333
Richard C. Hoagland found a long-abandoned line of thought by early physicists, including James Clerk Maxwell, that certain problems in electromagnetics could be solved by imposing higher spatial dimensions into the equations, with energies from these higher dimensions reflected in the lower three-dimensional universe through tetrahedral geometries.
“Hoagland then found that there was a long-abandoned line of thought by some of the masters of early physics, including James Clerk Maxwell, which included the idea that certain problems in electromagnetics could be solved by the imposition of higher spatial dimensions into the equations. The energies coming from these higher dimensions would then be "reflected" in our lower three dimensional universe through tetrahedral geometries.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:30823-31247 opinion first hand
1334
Ralph Greenberg has accused Richard C. Hoagland of lying about his contributions to the idea of life under the oceans of Europa.
“has also made something of a mini-career for himself accusing Hoagland of lying about his contributions to the idea of life under the oceans of Europa.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:32203-32347 opinion first hand
1335
Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems, who controlled the camera for the then-planned Mars Observer and the Mars Global Surveyor, agreed that the measurements made by Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun are not wholly in dispute.
“Dr. Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems (who controlled the camera for the then planned Mars Observer and the current Mars Global Surveyor) took a slightly different tack, agreeing that the measurements made by Hoagland and Torun "are not wholly in dispute"”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:32356-32614 opinion first hand
1336
Michael Malin argued that even if the numbers derived by Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun were correct, it did not necessarily follow that they meant something significant.
“but arguing that even if the numbers were right, it did not necessarily follow that they *meant* something significant.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:32625-32732 opinion first hand
1337
Ralph Greenberg claimed that Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun selected the angles they found, implying they were looking for specific relationships before they started.
“Greenberg, who has become pretty much the point man for attacks on the Cydonia Geometric Relationship Model, also claimed that Hoagland and Torun "selected" the angles they found, implying that they were looking for specific relationships before they ever started.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:33388-33646 opinion first hand
1338
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun predicted a storm or disturbance within a few degrees of the tetrahedral 19.5-degree latitude on Neptune.
“They predicted a storm or disturbance within a few degrees of the tetrahedral 19.5º latitude.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:36894-36978 opinion first hand
1339
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun predicted, based on their hyperdimensional physics theory, that the storm disturbance on Neptune would be in the planet's southern hemisphere.
“Based on their further interpretation of the hyperdimensional physics they were developing, they also predicted that this disturbance would be in the southern hemisphere of the planet”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:36988-37165 opinion first hand
1340
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun predicted that Neptune's magnetic dipole polarity would be anchored at the northern pole.
“and that the magnetic dipole polarity of Neptune's magnetic field would be anchored at the Northern Pole.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:37173-37273 opinion first hand
1341
All three of Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun's predictions about Neptune based on the Cydonia geometric alignment model turned out to be correct.
“All three predictions—remember, based on the supposedly "fallacious" numbers derived from a supposedly "meaningless" set of alignments of possible *ruins* on Mars—turned out to be...Absolutely correct.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:37280-37475 opinion first hand
1342
Ralph Greenberg and other reductionists argued that a single prediction, no matter what it is based on, cannot be relied upon as proof of anything, combining Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun's three Neptune predictions into one.
“Greenberg and the reductionists then argued "a single prediction, no matter what it is based on, cannot be relied upon as proof of anything." This tactic, combining the predictions into a single one instead of three, is a common means of dismissing the frequency of Hoagland and Torun's successes.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:37485-37772 opinion first hand
1343
Ralph Greenberg challenged Richard C. Hoagland to a debate on the mathematics of Cydonia, but only on condition that Horace Crater's tetrahedral mound data, which Greenberg acknowledged he could not explain away, be excluded.
“Greenberg at one point challenged Hoagland to a "debate" on the mathematics of Cydonia, but only if he could exclude Crater's tetrahedral mound data, which he acknowledged he could not explain away”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:38816-39009 testimony first hand
1344
Richard C. Hoagland considers that the choice of Utopia Planitia over Cydonia, despite contradicting the stated reasons for rejecting Cydonia, suggests someone at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was nervous about the Face on Mars and wanted Viking kept away from it.
“Nobody thought much of the venue change at the time, but since their new choice for a landing site contradicted their reasons for scuttling Cydonia, it seemed that somebody at JPL was nervous enough about the Face to make sure Viking stayed well away from it.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:3885-4141 opinion first hand
1345
Richard C. Hoagland requested the Face on Mars prints from Vince Dipietro and Greg Molenaar in order to study the S.P.I.T. image enhancement technique they were using, rather than the Face itself, but became intrigued by what he saw.
“Although Hoagland had requested the prints in order to study the image enhancement technique (called S.P.I.T.) being used by Dipietro and Molenaar rather than the Face itself, he was intrigued by what he saw.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:6089-6293 observation first hand
1346
After discussions with Vince Dipietro and Greg Molenaar, Richard C. Hoagland secured funding for the first Independent Mars Investigation under the auspices of the Stanford Research Institute.
“After some discussions with them Hoagland was able to secure funding for the first Independent Mars Investigation under the auspices of the Stanford Research Institute.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:6298-6456 administrative
1347
Richard C. Hoagland determined that investigating whether the Face on Mars was artificial required a research group with a broad cross-section of skills from various hard and soft sciences, since such an artefact would likely be beyond the experience of geologists and planetary scientists alone.
“Working from the idea that if the Face were indeed artificial it would likely be beyond the experience of geologists and planetary scientists, Hoagland determined that the research required a group with a broad cross section of skills from the various “hard” and “soft” sciences.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:6752-7022 opinion first hand
1348
Mark Carlotto joined the second Mars research group organised by Richard C. Hoagland, the Mars Investigation Group, in 1985.
“Dr. Mark Carlotto had been brought in to the second Mars research group organized by Hoagland, the Mars Investigation Group, in 1985.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:9107-9235 administrative
1349
Gerald Soffen, a Viking project scientist, addressed the press including Richard C. Hoagland and said of the Face on Mars image: "Isn't it peculiar what tricks of light and shadow can do...? When we took another picture a few hours later, it all went away; it was just a trick, just the way the light fell on it."
“Soffen introduced the Face image with the statement “Isn’t it peculiar what tricks of light and shadow can do...? When we took another picture a few hours later, it all went away; it was just a trick, just the way the light fell on it.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:957-1189 testimony second hand
1350
Michael Malin made a special effort to debunk the presence of teeth in the Face on Mars Viking data by placing fake images of the "teeth" on his website.
“Dr. Malin apparently realized this as well, because he made a special effort to debunk the presence of teeth in the Viking data by placing fake images of the “teeth” on his website.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:9723-9896 opinion first hand
1351
Michael Malin went out of his way to misrepresent the arguments made by researchers advocating the presence of teeth in the Face on Mars imagery.
“He also went well out of his way to misrepresent the arguments made by the researchers advocating the presence of “Teeth.”15”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch8:9905-10027 opinion first hand
1352
Richard C. Hoagland made a discovery of Nikolai A. Kozyrev's work in 2005.
“without Hoagland’s serendipitous discovery of Kozyrev’s work in 2005”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:100781-100845 administrative first hand
1353
In 1993, the Angstrom Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded Richard C. Hoagland the International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science for his role in rediscovering hyperdimensional physics theory that he considers underlying James Clerk Maxwell's original treatises.
“In 1993, the Angstrom Foundation, in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded the “International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science” to Hoagland for his role in rediscovering the hyperdimensional physics upon which Maxwell’s original treatises were built.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:101286-101527 administrative
1354
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun considered that their observations of the rotating planets and moons matched what would be predicted by higher-dimensional properties of a rotating hypersphere.
“This was exactly what Hoagland and Torun were seeing in their own observations of the rotating planets and moons of the solar system.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:10166-10292 opinion first hand
1355
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun formed a model of the Cydonia artefacts they consider coherent, productive and testable, containing eight specific testable predictions.
“Hoagland and Torun formed a coherent, productive and eminently testable model of the reality of the Cydonia artifacts. This model contains no less than eight specific, testable predictions”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:101866-102045 opinion first hand
1356
Of the eight testable predictions in the Hoagland-Torun model of the Cydonia artefacts, five have been confirmed or supported by initial observations, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“five of which have already been confirmed or have been supported by initial observations”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:102058-102134 opinion first hand
1357
With the exception of the Angstrom Foundation, the political reaction to hyperdimensional physics theory has been silence, according to Richard C. Hoagland.
“Instead, with the exception of the Angstrom Foundation, the political reaction has been stone silence.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:102331-102425 opinion first hand
1358
Richard C. Hoagland was at one time warmly embraced by various National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facilities and programmes.
“Hoagland, who at one time was warmly embraced by various NASA facilities and programs”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:102435-102512 opinion first hand
1359
Richard C. Hoagland found himself at odds with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) institutions once he pressed the issue of tetrahedral mathematics at Cydonia.
“suddenly found himself on the outs with those same institutions when he pressed the issue of the tetrahedral mathematics of Cydonia”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:102522-102646 opinion first hand
1360
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stopped listening to Richard C. Hoagland's ideas once he sought the same scientific status for hyperdimensional physics theory as for any other testable theory.
“It was only when he ventured into the realm of hyperdimensional physics and sought for it the same status as any other testable theory that NASA suddenly decided it would no longer lend an ear to his ideas.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:102753-102954 opinion first hand
1361
In the Hoagland/Torun hyperdimensional physics model, Jupiter's measured variable excess energy output is explained as the direct result of a modulated energy input from higher spatial dimensions.
“Fig. 2-8 - Jupiter’s measured, variable excess energy output -- explainable (in the Hoagland/Torun HD Model) as the direct result of a modulated energy input from higher spatial dimensions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:104585-104763 opinion first hand
1362
The Hoagland-Torun hyperdimensional modification of Einstein-Cartan Torsion theory proposes that the ultimate source of spin-field energy is a rotating hyperspatial gate allowing energy to enter three-dimensional space from higher dimensions.
“the HoaglandTorun Hyperdimensional modification proposes that the ultimate source of this “spin-field energy” is a rotating hyperspatial “gate” - allowing the energy to enter 3-space from higher dimensions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:105487-105682 opinion first hand
1363
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun theorised that 'giant tetrahedrons' inside planets drive the physics of energy upwellings.
“It was as if there really were “giant tetrahedrons” inside the planets, driving the physics of these energy upwellings”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:1133-1241 opinion first hand
1364
Planetary disturbances and energy upwellings across the observed solar system preferentially cluster around 19.5 degrees latitude.
“planetary disturbances and upwellings of energy seemed to preferentially cluster around this key 19.5º latitude”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:193-296 opinion first hand
1365
Richard C. Hoagland considers James Clerk Maxwell's conclusions about a hyperspatial aether to match his own theorised model of a "Martian architect" at Cydonia.
“In other words, the father of modern terrestrial electromagnetic physics had come to the same conclusions as Hoagland’s theorized “Martian architect” at Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:21358-21511 opinion first hand
1366
Richard C. Hoagland interprets James Clerk Maxwell's poetic reference to the "Seal of Solomon in three dimensions" as an overt reference to the circumscribed tetrahedral geometry associated with Cydonia.
“This clear description of the “Seal of Solomon in three dimensions,” is an overt reference to the geometrical and mathematical underpinnings of the infamous “circumscribed tetrahedral geometry” memorialized all over Cydonia.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:21859-22075 opinion first hand
1367
Richard C. Hoagland made new connections between the geometry of Cydonia and the historical treatment of hyperspatial physics, encountering independent researchers including Bruce DePalma, an M.I.T. physicist, and Thomas Bearden, a nuclear engineer and physicist who had worked on the U.S. Army's scalar weapons programmes.
“As Hoagland continued to make new connections of the geometry of Cydonia with the historical treatment of hyperspatial realities, he encountered a number of independent, rogue experimentalists who had been working along these same lines. Foremost among these were Dr. Bruce DePalma, an M.I.T. physicist and researcher, and Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, a nuclear engineer and physicist who had been working on Maxwell’s original model since his days on the U.S. Army’s scalar weapons programs.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:33848-34327 observation first hand
1368
Richard C. Hoagland concluded that the energy effect described by Thomas Bearden's Motionless Electromagnetic Generator was the same hyperdimensional effect Hoagland observed in the heat generation of the outer planets of the solar system.
“Of course, you can’t really get something from nothing, and Hoagland quickly realized that the effect Bearden was describing was the same “hyperdimensional” effect he was seeing in the heat generation of the outer planets.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:36993-37207 opinion first hand
1369
Richard C. Hoagland regards the Quantum Electrodynamics Zero Point Energy of space, currently discussed among Western physicists, as nothing more than James Clerk Maxwell's hyperdimensional physics under another name.
“Described as some sort of exotic quantum effect to make it seem acceptable, this “zero-point energy” is nothing more than Maxwell’s hyperdimensional physics in another guise.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:37547-37715 opinion first hand
1370
Richard C. Hoagland claims that the hyperdimensional energy source he describes is also responsible for the anomalous infrared excesses he has noted in the giant outer planets of the solar system, as well as the radiated energies of stars.
“As we shall show, it is this “new” source of energy—in a far more controlled context—that seems to also be responsible for not only the anomalous infrared excesses Hoagland has noted in the so-called giant outer planets of this solar system, but for the radiated energies of stars themselves.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:38404-38685 opinion first hand
1371
Since the 1970s, Bruce DePalma had been running a series of rotational experiments that Richard C. Hoagland considers to have confirmed much of what Hoagland would theoretically rediscover twenty years later.
“had been running (since the ’70s) a series of groundbreaking “rotational experiments” which remarkably confirmed much of what Hoagland would be theoretically rediscovering twenty years later.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:39035-39220 opinion first hand
1372
Bruce DePalma conducted numerous rotational experiments, including with massive gyroscopes, throughout the 1970s.
“DePalma conducted countless additional rotational experiments, including with massive gyroscopes, throughout the 1970s.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:40215-40328 observation second hand
1373
Bruce DePalma found that gyroscopes, when spun up and simultaneously induced to mechanically precess (wobble on their axis of rotation), could substantially negate the effects of gravity.
“he discovered that gyros, when spun up—and simultaneously—induced to mechanically precess (wobble on their axis of rotation), could also be used to substantially negate the effects of gravity.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:40369-40553 measurement second hand
1374
In one of Bruce DePalma's experiments, a 125-kilogram "force machine" was reduced in weight by approximately 2.7 kilograms, about a 2% loss, when the gyros were switched on.
“a 276-pound “force machine” was reduced in weight by *six pounds*—about a 2% loss—when the gyros were switched on.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:40581-40692 measurement second hand
1375
Bruce DePalma found that massive rotating systems, even when carefully isolated, could induce "anomalous rotational motions" in other gyroscopic setups in other rooms, but only if those setups were also rotating.
“Depalma also discovered that these massive rotating systems, even when carefully isolated, could induce “anomalous rotational motions” in other gyroscopic set ups, even in other rooms … but only if they were *also* rotating.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:40697-40912 observation second hand
1376
Bruce DePalma argued that all rotating objects, including planets and stars, must intrinsically precess.
“DePalma ultimately argued that all rotating objects—including planets and stars—*must intrinsically* precess.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:41045-41146 opinion second hand
1377
Bruce DePalma predicted, based on his empirically derived measurements of rotation, that even apparently isolated spinning objects would precess by virtue of their interaction with other rotating objects.
“Based on DePalma’s empirically-derived measurements of rotation, he predicted that even apparently isolated spinning objects would precess—by virtue of their interaction with other rotating objects.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:41493-41683 opinion second hand
1378
Bruce DePalma proposed that spinning objects draw energy from a non-magnetic, non-gravitational field he termed "the OD field" to explain his "energy accreting" spinning ball experiment.
“They drew energy from some kind of non-magnetic, non-gravitational field (termed “the OD field”…), which he proposed had to exist to explain his perplexing “energy accreting” spinning ball experiment.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:41692-41881 opinion second hand
1379
Unknown to Bruce DePalma, because of Cold War secrecy controls imposed by the Committee for State Security (KGB), the same phenomenon he was observing was being simultaneously observed by Russian researchers, who termed it "a torsion field".
“Ironically, totally unknown to DePalma—because of the Cold War and the KGB’s strict secrecy controls—what he was observing was also being simultaneously observed by his Russian counterparts, and termed “a torsion field”—based on the same *rotational* interactions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:41893-42145 opinion first hand
1380
Bruce DePalma's idea of "isolated precession" has never been experimentally examined under controlled laboratory conditions in any published Western literature, because it required a zero-gravity (force-free) environment to conduct the proper test.
“The idea of “isolated precession”—the logical conclusion of DePalma’s decades of observations of all kinds of anomalous spinning systems—has never been experimentally examined under controlled laboratory conditions (at least, in any published literature in the West …), as DePalma needed a “zero gravity” (force-free) environment to conduct the proper test.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:42160-42512 opinion first hand
1381
Richard C. Hoagland, using his National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) associations and connections, attempted to arrange a test of Bruce DePalma's isolated precession hypothesis at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center's vacuum zero-gravity drop test facility.
“before Hoagland (with his NASA associations and connections) could conclude arrangements for just such test of Bruce’s remarkable hypothesis, to be conducted at NASA-Lewis’s vacuum zero-gravity drop test facility, DePalma suddenly died in 1998.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:42533-42772 administrative first hand
1382
Bruce DePalma died suddenly in 1998, before the planned zero-gravity precession test could be conducted.
“DePalma suddenly died in 1998.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:42747-42772 administrative first hand
1383
Richard C. Hoagland wanted to distinguish his concept of hyperdimensional physics theory from earlier models by requiring it to make testable predictions that could be confirmed or falsified.
“Hoagland wanted to immediately separate his concept of hyperdimensional physics from the earlier models in one distinct way—prediction. Only if his new ideas could be either confirmed or falsified would his modern version of Maxwell’s revolutionary ideas ever gain traction”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:43870-44136 opinion first hand
1384
Richard C. Hoagland settled on four additional key predictions to determine whether Cydonia's "embedded tetrahedral physics" and the resulting hyperdimensional physics theory would be falsifiable.
“Eventually, Hoagland settled on four additional key predictions that would determine if Cydonia’s “embedded tetrahedral physics” and the resulting “hyperdimensional model” would be falsifiable.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:44442-44623 administrative first hand
1385
Richard C. Hoagland's first focus in developing testable predictions was the anomalous heat emissions he and Erol Torun had noted in the outer planets.
“Hoagland’s first focus was on the anomalous heat emissions he and Torun had noted in the outer planets.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:44749-44844 administrative first hand
1386
The infrared excesses of the giant planets correlate closely with one parameter each planet has in common: their total system angular momentum.
“the infrared excesses of the giant planets all seemed to correlate very nicely with *one parameter* each has in common—their total system “angular momentum.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:45732-45879 opinion first hand
1387
In the hyperdimensional physics model, total system angular momentum includes the orbital momentum of an object's gravitationally tethered satellites, such as moons for planets, planets for the sun, or companion stars in binary star systems.
“So, in the hyperdimensional model, one also adds in the orbital momentum of an object’s gravitationally tethered satellites—moons in the case of planets, planets in the case of the sun or companion stars in the case of binary star systems.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:46193-46424 opinion first hand
1388
Richard C. Hoagland considers total system angular momentum to be the key to understanding how things really work in the three-dimensional universe, in contrast to the currently accepted view of field theory and electromagnetic force which treats a planet or star's mass as the most important characteristic dictating astrophysical behaviour.
“In this view, then, the one advocated by Hoagland and derived from his “meaningless” observations of the mathematics of Cydonia, this total system angular momentum was the key to understanding how things really worked in our 3D universe. This is in stark contrast to the currently accepted view of field theory and electromagnetic force, which views a planet or star’s mass as the most important characteristic dictating astrophysical behavior.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:46434-46869 opinion first hand
1389
Jupiter has less than 1% of the total mass of the Solar System but possesses approximately 60% of its total angular momentum.
“Jupiter as it turns out, which has less than 1% of the mass in the solar system, somehow possesses 60% of the angular momentum”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:47291-47409 measurement first hand
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The Sun possesses approximately 99% of the mass of the Solar System but only about 1% of its total angular momentum.
“whereas the sun, which possesses 99% of the mass, has only 1% of the angular momentum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:47419-47496 measurement first hand
1391
Arthur Schuster's name and empirical discovery are completely missing from all National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) literature on planetary magnetism.
“whose very name and empirical discovery is, inexplicably, completely missing from all NASA literature on planetary magnetism”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:48808-48923 opinion first hand
1392
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun plotted contemporary parameters for angular momentum versus observed magnetic dipole moment for all planetary objects visited by spacecraft with magnetometers, and found Schuster's Hypothesis confirmed with the exception of Mars and Uranus.
“Taking Schuster’s 1912 proposal, Hoagland and Torun plotted contemporary parameters for angular momentum versus the observed magnetic dipole moment (for all planetary objects now visited by spacecraft with magnetometers), and found Schuster’s hypothesis confirmed—with the exception of Mars … and Uranus”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:49814-50100 observation first hand
1393
Richard C. Hoagland attributes Mars's exception to Schuster's Hypothesis to its magnetic field having been stripped away in a recent catastrophe.
“with the exception of Mars (which had its magnetic field stripped away in a recent catastrophe, which we will deal with later)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:50078-50198 opinion first hand
1394
Richard C. Hoagland states that dynamo theory has never produced a single correct prediction of any planetary magnetic field, while Schuster's Theorem has been correct in almost every case.
“The truth is, the dynamo theory has never produced a single correct prediction of any planetary magnetic field, and Schuster’s Theorem has been correct in almost every case.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:50235-50403 opinion first hand
1395
Richard C. Hoagland suggests Uranus's near-90-degree axial obliquity implies it may have suffered a significant pole shift in the geologically recent past, which could account for its non-compliance with Schuster's Hypothesis.
“implying that it may have suffered a significant pole shift in the recent past that could account for this discrepancy. If this happened in the geologically recent past, then there would logically follow a period of non-compliance with the theorem.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:51038-51279 opinion first hand
1396
Richard C. Hoagland considers Schuster's Theorem valid in seven out of nine cases among planetary bodies, compared to zero out of nine for dynamo theory.
“clearly, if Schuster’s Theorem is valid in seven out of nine cases and the Dynamo theory is zero for nine, Schuster’s observation would appear to be a far closer fit.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:51640-51802 opinion first hand
1397
Richard C. Hoagland found that the anomalous infrared emissions of the outer planets correlate precisely with each planet's total system angular momentum, the same relationship he observed between angular momentum and magnetic dipole moment.
“When he looked at the relationship between the anomalous infrared emissions and angular momentum, he discovered that it too correlated precisely with each planet’s total system angular momentum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:51976-52161 observation first hand
1398
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that a celestial object's total internal luminosity depends on only one physical parameter: its total system angular momentum, including the object itself plus all satellites, comparing this relationship in significance to Einstein's E=MC2.
“For the “hyperdimensional physics” model, this simple but powerful relationship seems to be the equivalent of E=MC2: a celestial object’s total internal luminosity seems dependent upon only *one* physical parameter: luminosity equals total system angular momentum (object, plus all satellites).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:52790-53072 opinion first hand
1399
When graphing angular momentum against internal energy radiated for the outer planets, Earth and the Sun, all the planets fell as predicted along the correlation line, with the Sun as the only exception.
“In graphing this fairly obvious correlation [Fig. 2-7], everything seemed to line up quite nicely. All the planets fell right where they should along the graph—the only exception was the sun. Somehow, the sun seemed to be missing a substantial quantity of its angular momentum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:53301-53569 observation first hand
1400
Richard C. Hoagland suspects that the theoretical readjustments to quantum theory used to reconcile the observed solar neutrino deficit amount to a kind of "academic cheating", since the adjustments were made after the deficit had already been observationally discovered.
“there is the nagging suspicion on our part that this tinkering with the original neutrino/standard solar model—remember, created *before* the anomalous solar neutrino deficit had been observationally discovered—is a kind of “academic cheating” ….”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:54857-55091 opinion first hand
1401
The Sun contains more than 98% of the mass of the Solar System but less than 2% of its total angular momentum.
“though the sun contains more than 98% of the mass of the solar system, it contains less than 2% of its total angular momentum.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:55531-55648 measurement first hand
1402
Richard C. Hoagland proposed that if the hyperdimensional physics model is correct, adding another large planet beyond Pluto, several hundred times Earth's distance from the Sun, could move the Sun's total angular momentum on the luminosity-versus-angular-momentum graph closer to the line followed by the other planets.
“By adding another big planet (or a couple of smaller ones) *beyond* Pluto (several *hundred* times the Earth’s distance from the sun), the sun’s total angular momentum could move to the right on the graph, until it almost intersects the line (allowing for a percentage, about 30%, of internal energy expected from genuine thermonuclear reactions).”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:56236-56573 opinion first hand
1403
Richard C. Hoagland's first testable prediction of the hyperdimensional physics model was that observatories would eventually find one massive planet in a prograde orbit, or two smaller solar system members in retrograde orbits, beyond the known planets.
“So the first implicit prediction of the hyperdimensional model was that eventually, observatories would find one massive planet in a prograde orbit, or two smaller solar system members in retrograde orbits.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:56801-57000 opinion first hand
1404
Richard C. Hoagland states that the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) object spotted in Orion in 1982 fit his prediction of an undiscovered planet within very tight parameters.
“This object fit Hoagland’s prediction within very tight parameters.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:58482-58539 opinion first hand
1405
No follow-up observations or papers have been published on the 1982 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) object spotted in Orion.
“To date, no follow-up observations or papers have been published on this object”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:58551-58624 observation first hand
1406
In response to inquiries from Richard C. Hoagland, Gerry Neugebauer said the quotes attributed to him in the 1982 Washington Post story were taken out of context, and that he did not know about the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) object or any follow-up.
“in inquiries to Dr. Neugebauer, he stated that the quotes in the story were “taken out of context. I do not know about it nor any follow-up.””
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:58636-58773 testimony first hand
1407
Richard C. Hoagland considers Gerry Neugebauer's denial of knowledge about the 1982 Washington Post Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) story implausible.
“Neugebauer strained credulity with this reply. How many of us would claim they didn’t know anything about a subject for which we had been featured in a *Washington Post* article?”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:58779-58949 opinion first hand
1408
At a distance of approximately 537 astronomical units, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) object spotted in Orion would probably have to be a brown dwarf, a body roughly the size of Jupiter but about 50 times as massive.
“At this distance (about 537 A.U. Astronomical Units), the object would probably have to be a brown dwarf, a body roughly the size of Jupiter but 50 times as massive.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:59249-59406 opinion first hand
1409
Richard C. Hoagland was told that in order to obtain infrared emission figures for the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft, he would have to prove his affiliation with an approved research centre or university.
“Hoagland was told that in order to get the figures for the measurements, he would have to “prove” his affiliation with an “approved” research center or university.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:65775-65927 testimony first hand
1410
Richard C. Hoagland considers the recent collision model incorrect because if it were true Uranus should radiate far more excess heat than Neptune, yet there is virtually no difference between them.
“If the recent collision model was correct, Uranus should be radiating far more than Neptune. In fact, there is virtually no difference.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:6694-6818 opinion first hand
1411
Richard C. Hoagland considers the historical variability of Jupiter's infrared output, from Frank J. Low's early measurements through the Cassini data, consistent with his hyperdimensional physics theory's key prediction.
“clearly the results are anomalous for the conventional models and consistent with Hoagland’s key HD prediction.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:67028-67128 opinion first hand
1412
Richard C. Hoagland considers that if a moon or other large object had recently struck Uranus, it was not responsible for the planet's excess heat emissions.
“If a moon or other large object had recently struck Uranus, it certainly was not responsible for the planet’s excess heat emissions.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:6830-6952 opinion first hand
1413
Richard C. Hoagland presented at the United Nations in 1992 that the Great Red Spot (GRS), a vortex located for over 300 years at 19.5 degrees south latitude on Jupiter, is the classic signature of hyperdimensional physics operating within Jupiter, via the circumscribed tetrahedral geometry of the twenty-seven line problem.
“As Hoagland presented at the U.N. in 1992, the Great Red Spot (GRS)—a mysterious vortex located for over 300 years at that infamous 19.5º S. Latitude, via the circumscribed tetrahedral geometry of the equally infamous twenty-seven line problem is *the* classic “signature” of hyperdimensional physics operating within Jupiter.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:68360-68679 opinion first hand
1414
Richard C. Hoagland began to consider that an external source of energy, possibly the same source fuelling the 19.5-degree planetary upwellings, might explain the anomalous heat output of the outer planets.
“What Hoagland then began to consider was that there might be an *external* source for this anomalous heat output, perhaps the same source that was fueling the 19.5º upwellings”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:6964-7129 opinion first hand
1415
Richard C. Hoagland publicly identified at the United Nations in 1992 that maximum sunspot numbers rise, fall and methodically change latitude during the twenty-two-year solar cycle, peaking every half-cycle of around eleven years at a solar latitude of about 19.5 degrees.
“Has already publicly identified, at the United Nations in 1992, a blatant geometric clue to this entire hyperdimensional solar process: the maximum sunspot numbers... rising, falling and methodically changing latitude, during the course of the familiar twenty-two-year solar cycle—and peaking every half-cycle (around eleven years), at the solar latitude of about 19.5º.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:75849-76297 opinion first hand
1416
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun predicted that pulsars, because of their angular momentum and magnetic properties, should be excellent test beds for hyperdimensional physics theory.
“Hoagland and Torun predicted that pulsars, because of their incredible angular momentum and magnetic properties, should be excellent hyperdimensional physics test beds.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:76414-76577 opinion first hand
1417
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun predicted that the unseen source of B1757-24's excess angular momentum is higher-dimensional energy released by the rapid rotation of the pulsar.
“That unseen source, according to Hoagland and Torun’s prediction, is higher dimensional energy released by the rapid rotation of the pulsar.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:76972-77105 opinion first hand
1418
Richard C. Hoagland found that the idea of modelling forces such as gravity or magnetism geometrically was becoming popular within modern mathematics.
“Hoagland found that the idea that “forces”—like gravity or magnetism—could be modeled geometrically was becoming quite popular within modern mathematics.”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:8119-8260 opinion first hand
1419
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that pulsar B1757-24 has tapped into a previously unknown source of angular momentum that has been trickle-charging the neutron star's spin, extending the pulsar's active life to approximately ten times the observed rate of deceleration.
“The simplest explanation for this "impossibility" is that the star has been able to tap into a previously unknown source of angular momentum, which has been "trickle charging" the spin of the neutron star...at a rate which has extended the pulsar's active life approximately *ten times* the observed "rate" of deceleration”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:83571-83956 opinion second hand
1420
James Clerk Maxwell developed equations in the 1800s that Richard C. Hoagland found seemed to fit the planetary phenomena he and Erol Torun had observed on the outer planets.
“the very father of modern day physics, James Clerk Maxwell, had indeed dabbled in some equations that seemed to fit what he and Torun had observed on the outer planets”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:8365-8526 opinion first hand
1421
Richard C. Hoagland's hyperdimensional physics model predicts that an object initially possessing more angular momentum can tap into an invisible source of energy to maintain that momentum against known three-dimensional transfer mechanisms.
“Such an "unknown source" of energy is precisely predicted by the hyperdimensional model, which says that the more angular momentum an object initially possesses, the more it can "tap" into this invisible source of energy to maintain that momentum against known 3D transfer mechanisms”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:83973-84246 opinion second hand
1422
Richard C. Hoagland proposes that the mechanism maintaining pulsar spin is probably the conversion of a star's precessional energy, which in Bruce DePalma's experiments is not contingent on a nearby gravitating companion, into rotational energy.
“The actual mechanism for maintaining the pulsar's spin is probably the conversion of the star's precessional energy (which, in DePalma's experiments, is *not* contingent on a nearby gravitating companion) into rotational energy”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:84258-84479 opinion second hand
1423
Richard C. Hoagland states there is no other explanation for the extra angular momentum observed in pulsar B1757-24 besides the hyperdimensional model.
“There is, flatly, no other explanation for this "extra" angular momentum in pulsar B1757-24”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:85016-85105 opinion first hand
1424
Richard C. Hoagland and Erol Torun specifically predicted, via the hyperdimensional model, the finding of extra angular momentum in pulsar B1757-24.
“Hoagland and Torun pecifically—predicted *exactly* this sort of finding”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:85291-85355 opinion first hand
1425
The finding regarding pulsar B1757-24 constitutes the fifth specific prediction of Richard C. Hoagland's hyperdimensional physics model, a model based on tetrahedral alignments of the monuments of Mars.
“This now makes five specific predictions of Hoagland's hyperdimensional physics model, a model based on the supposedly meaningless tetrahedral alignments of the monuments of Mars that have been confirmed by empirical observations”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:85364-85581 opinion first hand
1426
Richard C. Hoagland considers pulsar PSR B1828-11 to be on the verge of proving the hyperdimensional model right, via measurements related to Bruce DePalma's still-untested hypothesis regarding free precession.
“There is another "test bed pulsar"—PSR B1828-11—which also seems to be on the verge of proving the hyperdimensional model right, this one via a very different set of measurements: Bruce DePalma's still-to-be-laboratory-tested hypothesis regarding "free precession."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:85596-85850 opinion first hand
1427
Richard C. Hoagland considers PSR B1828-11 potentially the most unambiguous galactic evidence yet of actual hyperdimensional precession.
“That PSR B1828-11 could simply be the most unambiguous Galactic evidence, so far, of actual HD precession”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:88893-88988 opinion first hand
1428
Richard C. Hoagland had been trying to arrange a hyperdimensional physics laboratory test with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Bruce DePalma when DePalma died.
“a stunning astronomical example of exactly the type of laboratory "HD test" Hoagland was trying to arrange with NASA for DePalma ... when DePalma died”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:89017-89163 testimony first hand
1429
When asked the most fundamental rule of hyperdimensional physics, Richard C. Hoagland will often wryly respond "rotation... rotation... rotation."
“When asked the most fundamental rules of Hyperdimensional Physics, Hoagland will often wryly respond: "rotation … rotation … *rotation*."”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:89170-89296 opinion first hand
1430
Richard C. Hoagland found that the Russian research papers he received represented a completely separate database of literally thousands of published scientific papers, all totally consistent with Bruce DePalma's equally baffling 1970s observations of his OD field around rotating masses.
“he suddenly realized that *here was a completely separate database*, with literally thousands of published scientific papers, all *totally consistent* with DePalma's equally baffling 1970s observations of his "OD field" around rotating masses”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:89609-89845 opinion first hand
1431
Jack Kasher, Mark Carlotto, Mike Barra, and Richard Hoagland have raised anomalies or problems with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s ice-debris explanation for the STS-48 UAP incident that Maaneli "Max" Derakhshani has never seen satisfactorily explained by NASA or any NASA scientists or engineers.
“there are anomalies or problems with that explanation that have been made very clear by Dr. Kasher, Dr. Carlotto, Mike Barra, Richard Hoagland. in various places that I've never seen any satisfactory explanation for from NASA or any NASA scientists or engineers.”
What Did Apollo Astronauts Really See on the Moon? | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart 2026-08-10 00:33:28.6-00:33:46.1 opinion first hand
1432
Maaneli "Max" Derakhshani argues that Mark Carlotto, Jack Kasher, and Richard Hoagland have provided ample evidence that the main unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) of interest in the STS-48 UAP incident was at least 160 kilometres or further from Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-48).
“If you can answer that question and you can show that it's at 100 miles or further away from the shuttle, which I would argue that you can. And I think Carlotto, Kasher and Hoagland and others have provided ample evidence to that conclusion.”
What Did Apollo Astronauts Really See on the Moon? | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart 2026-08-10 00:37:07.1-00:37:20.1 opinion first hand

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