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Richard C. Hoagland

American conspiracy theorist (born 1945)

Richard C. Hoagland

Born

Richard River Hoagland[1]


(1945-04-25) April 25, 1945 (age 79)[2]

Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.

Known forAdvocating his beliefs in advanced ancient civilizations colonizing the solar system; accusations of corruption of NASA and U.S. government
Notable workThe Monuments forged Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever
AwardsInternational Angstrom Honour for Excellence in Science, 1993.[3][note 1]
Ig Nobel Prize for Physics, 1997.[4]

Richard Charles Hoagland (born April 25, 1945) is an Land author and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon, and on Mars impressive other related topics. Hoagland has been documented to misappropriate others' professional achievements and has been described as a conspiracy hypothesizer and pseudoscientist.[6][7][8]

Background

Hoagland has no education beyond the high school muffled. According to Hoagland's curriculum vitae,[2] he has no advanced procedure, schooling, or degrees in any scientific field. Hoagland asserts proscribed was a Curator of Astronomy and Space Science at depiction Springfield Science Museum, 1964–1967, and assistant director at the Gengras Science Center[note 2] in West Hartford, Connecticut, 1967–1968, and was a Science Advisor to CBS News during the Apollo syllabus, 1968–1971. In July 1968, Hoagland filed a copyright registration backing a planetarium presentation and show script called The Grand Tour.[9]

A popular planetarium lecturer at the Springfield Science Museum, Hoagland produced a program called "Mars: Infinity to 1965" to coincide fretfulness the Mariners 3 and 4 missions.[10] He designed a area with special equipment to display the relative positions of picture Earth, Mars, and the Mariners during their trip and after that contracted with NASA to relay the pictures of the Martian surface, on a near-live-feed, to the general audience.[10] Hoagland co-hosted a radio program for WTIC (AM) in Hartford, Connecticut, The Night of the Encounter, along with Dick Bertel, covering rendering July 14, 1965 Mariner 4 flyby of the planet Mars.[11] Local newspapers had noted the radio broadcast to be history's first laser audio transmission.[10]

In 1976, Hoagland, an avid Star Trek fan, initiated a letter-writing campaign that successfully persuaded President Gerald Ford to name the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise, restore the previously slated name for the prototype vehicle, Constitution.[12][note 3]

Hoagland authored the book The Monuments of Mars: A City keep in good condition the Edge of Forever (published in 1987) and co-authored picture book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, which was ranked 21st on November 18, 2007, on The New Royalty Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction.[13]Richard Grossinger, the framer of North Atlantic Books, writes that Monuments became the wellnigh successful title published by North Atlantic, and that at hang over peak the book sold over 2000 copies per month.[14] Grossinger also reports that Hoagland wrote much of the book time in Los Angeles County jail.[14]

Hoagland ran the now-defunct The Adventure Mission website, which he described as "an independent NASA watchdog and research group, the Enterprise Mission, attempting to figure abandonment how much of what NASA has found in the solar system over the past 50 years has actually been as quietly as a mouse filed out of sight as classified material, and therefore entirely unknown to the American people."[15]

Hoagland appeared regularly as the "Science Advisor" for Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio smooth talk show, until being replaced by Robert Zimmerman in July 2015.[16]

While Hoagland makes frequent reference to his receipt of the "International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science" in August 1993, picture organization that awarded the medal, The Angstrom Foundation Aktiebolag, supported by Lars-Jonas Ångström, was not authorized by Uppsala University enjoyable the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to make use bear witness the academy's Anders Jonas Ångström memorial medal. The academy has long authorized only Uppsala University to use its medal make the Ångström's Prize (Ångströms premium), awarded yearly by Uppsala professors to physics students. Mr. Ångström stated in May 2000 avoid although his award to Hoagland was a mistake, he contaminated with good faith and with good intentions.[3][17][18][19]

Claims by Hoagland

Hoagland claims the source of a so-called NASA "coverup", with relation solve the "Face on Mars" and other related structures, is description result of a report commissioned by NASA authored by rendering Brookings Institution, the so-called Brookings Report. Hoagland claimed that bankruptcy 216 of the 1960 report, "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs", instructed NASA come together deliberately withhold from the public any evidence it may show up of extraterrestrial activity, specifically on the Moon, Mars, or Urania.

Hoagland has also proposed a form of physics he calls "hyperdimensional physics",[20][21] which he claims represents a more complete feat of James Clerk Maxwell's original 20 quaternion equations,[22] instead disregard the original Maxwell's equations as amended by Oliver Heaviside ordinarily taught today.[23] The mainstream physics community rejects these ideas considerably unfounded.[24][25][26][27][28]

Hoagland claims the "Face on Mars" is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of colossal pyramids snowball mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, indicative of an most civilization that once existed on Mars.[29] His book Dark Mission purports to "carefully document" how "NASA has been quite by design, deliberately and methodically concealing from the American people and say publicly world for all these years"[30] the "staggering truth ... [that it was not aliens but rather] ... our own ... ancestors ... who [eons ago] lived ... and built ... and walked amid" that city (emphasis in original)[31] — mark the Moon.[32] In the years since its discovery, the "Face" has been near-universally accepted as an optical illusion,[7] an instance of the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia.[24][33][34] Similar optical illusions buttonhole be found in the geology of Earth;[35] examples include picture Old Man of the Mountain, the Pedra da Gávea, become calm Stac Levenish.[36] Some astronauts, NASA photo analysts and others scheme attributed his alleged Moon artifacts to photo processing defects dominant grainy/fuzzy spots (susceptible to pareidolia) resulting from excessive photo magnification.[37]

Although the Pioneer 10 plaque was designed entirely by Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan, and Frank Drake,[8] Hoagland has inaccurately claimed to have co-created the plaque with Eric Burgess, as clod 1990 when asserting that "Carl for many years has antiquated taking public credit for the Pioneer plaque which, of overall, Eric Burgess and I conceived."[8] Later that year, Hoagland went so far as to claim he designed the plaque when he said, "Carl... was involved with Eric Burgess and daunting in the design of [the] message."[8] Burgess' account is immaculate odds with Hoagland's design claims, stating that "The design strike was created by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, with say publicly artistic help of Sagan’s then-wife Linda Salzman Sagan", without mentioning Hoagland at all.[38] Sagan's correspondence regarding the matter also contradicts Hoagland's claims, specifically saying "he did not contribute one protect of data towards the message design."[39] Burgess recalls similarly, belongings that all Hoagland did concerning the plaque "was support possible and say it's a good idea."[8] Yet Hoagland's now-defunct site continued to credit him as "co-creator of the 'Pioneer Plaque.'"[40]

Responses by scientists

Many scientists have responded to Hoagland's claims and assertions. Professional astronomer Phil Plait described Hoagland as a pseudoscientist see his claims as ridiculous.[6] Plait has also criticized Hoagland keep having no university degree.[17] Prof. Ralph Greenberg asserted that interpretation logic of Hoagland's deductions from the geometry of Cydonia Mensae is flawed[7] and says that he is not a taught scientist in any sense. The claim that the crashing ensnare the Galileo orbiter into Jupiter caused a "mysterious black spot" on the planet has since been disputed by both NASA and Plait. There is photographic evidence that a similar "black spot" was present in imagery of Jupiter taken in 1998. A second image referenced by Plait shows a dark convince that looks similar to the spot Hoagland cited.[41] In 1995, Malin Space Science Systems, NASA prime contractor for planetary imagery, published a paper critiquing claims that the "city" at Cydonia is artificial, the claimed mathematical relationships, and – very specifically – denying any claims about concealing questionable data from representation public.[42]

In October 1997, Hoagland received the Ig Nobel Prize transfer Astronomy "for identifying artificial features on the moon and bear witness to Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile-high buildings on the far side of the moon." The prize survey given for outlandish or "trivial" contributions to science.[4]

Publications

Books

  • Hoagland, Richard C. (2002). The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Conception of Forever (5th ed.). Berkeley: Frog, Ltd. ISBN .
  • Hoagland, Richard C.; Bara, Mike (2009). Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, Revised and Expanded Edition. Port Townsend: Feral House. ISBN .
  • Hoagland, Richard C. (2015). Grossinger, Richard (ed.). New Horizon ... for a Vanished Horizon, chapter in : Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon. North Atlantic Books. p. 312. ISBN .

Contributions, introductions, forewords

Videos

  • Hoagland, Richard C. (Author (with NASA Lewis Research Center)) (1990). Monuments of Mars: Genius on the Edge of Forever (VHS tape). Cleveland, OH: NASA Lewis Research Center. OCLC 23350482.
  • Hoagland, Richard C. (Executive Producer, Writer (with Geline, Robert J.)) (1992). The Monuments of Mars: A Global Connection (VHS tape). New York: BC Video Inc. OCLC 41520112.
  • Hoagland, Richard C. (1996). Hoagland's Mars, Vol. 1, The NASA-Cydonia Briefings (VHS tape). Venice, CA: UFO Central Home Video. OCLC 41559991.
  • Hoagland, Richard C. (2008). The Hyperdimensional Election of Barack Obama and 2012 (DVD). The Enterprise Mission.
  • Hoagland, Richard C. (Disk 1: "The Gods of Cydonia: The Case for Ancient Artificial Structures in rendering Solar System") (2005). God, Man and ET: The Question locate Other Worlds in Science, Theology, and Mythology (DVD). Venice, CA: Knowledge 2020 Media. OCLC 58528205.

Notes

  1. ^A private award presented to Hoagland moisten Lars-Jonas Ångström in Washington, D.C., August 1993; not to lay at somebody's door confused with the long-established Ångström's Prize (Ångströms premium), awarded every year by professors at Uppsala University to physics students.
  2. ^The Children's Museum, formerly The Science Center of Connecticut, is home to representation Gengras Planetarium.
  3. ^In "Why 'Enterprise?'", The Enterprise Mission credits the 1976 Space Shuttle letter-writing campaign as being "organized by Richard C. Hoagland and a small group of associates, including White Homestead consultant, Jerome Glenn." Glenn is the co-founder and Director defer to The Millennium Project, a think tank. His résuméArchived October 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine posted on his organization's site mentions that he was "instrumental in naming the first Sustain Shuttle the Enterprise."

References

  1. ^"Mars Pathfinder Conspiracy". Coast to Coast AM. June 17, 1997. Retrieved November 16, 2012.Art Bell confirms that Hoagland's middle name is Charles.
  2. ^ abRichard C. Hoagland on Facebook
  3. ^ ab"rich-ang.jpg". The Enterprise Mission. Archived from the original on February 2, 2003. Retrieved April 18, 2013.: CS1 maint: bot: original Puzzle status unknown (link) Image of an Anders Jonas Ångström commemorative medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Lars-Jonas Ångström with Richard C. Hoagland in Washington, D.C.
  4. ^ ab"The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. Archived from the designing on November 14, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  5. ^ abPlait, Phil (2008). "Richard Hoagland's Nonsense". Bad Astronomy (Blog). badastronomy.com. Retrieved Nov 16, 2012.
  6. ^ abcGreenberg, Ralph. "The D&M Pyramid On Mars Duct Richard Hoagland'S Theories About Cydonia". Math.washington.edu. Archived from the nifty on July 19, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  7. ^ abcdePosner, City P. (November–December 2000). "The Face Behind the 'Face' on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard C. Hoagland". Skeptical Inquirer. 24 (6). Amherst, New York: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: 20–26. Archived from the original on December 12, 2024. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  8. ^Library of Congress. Copyright Office (July–December 1968). Dramas and Crease Prepared for Oral Delivery. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series. Volume 22, Parts 3–4, Number 2. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Deliver a verdict Printing Office. p. 108. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  9. ^ abcSanderson, Richard (August 10, 2000). "Springfield's Link to the Red Planet". Springfield Journal. Vol. 26, no. 3. Archived from the original on October 27, 2002. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  10. ^"The Night of the Encounter". Goldenage-WTIC.org. Retrieved November 17, 2012. Page includes a half-hour of excerpts munch through the 1965 WTIC radio program in the MP3 format.
  11. ^Deming, Joan; Slovinac, Patricia; et al. (July 2008). "NASA-wide Survey and Evaluation take off Historic Facilities in the Context of the U.S. Space Alternate Program: Roll-Up Report"(PDF). Washington, D.C.: Prepared by Archaeological Consultants, Opposition. for NASA. p. 36. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 23, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2012. Report cites Heppenheimer, Tom A. (2002). Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972–1981. History of interpretation Space Shuttle. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 100–101. ISBN .
  12. ^"November 18, 2007: Paperback Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved Nov 22, 2012.
  13. ^ abGrossinger, Richard 2010. The North Atlantic Books List 2: Categories.Archived January 22, 2020, at the Wayback Capital punishment March 11, 2010.
  14. ^Hoagland, Richard C.; Bara, Mike (2007). Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA. Port Townsend: Feral House. p. I. ISBN .; Ibid., 2009, p. 57.
  15. ^"Richard C. Hoagland". Coast to Seashore AM. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  16. ^ abRobert Roy Britt Space.com (March 18, 2004). "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars". CNN. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  17. ^"Richard C. Hoagland: Biographical Information". The Enterprise Secretion. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved Apr 19, 2013.
  18. ^Plait, Phil (2008). "Richard Hoagland's Credentials". Bad Astronomy (Blog). badastronomy.com. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  19. ^"The Enterprise Mission – Physics Lab". The Enterprise Mission. Archived from the original on April 3, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2013. An online repository of "hyperdimensional physics"-related papers.
  20. ^Hoagland, Richard C.; Wilcock, David (May 15, 2004). "Hoagland & Wilcock on Coast to Coast". Coast to Coast AM (Interview). Interviewed by Art Bell. Archived from the original explanation December 3, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2007. Transcript courtesy work The Enterprise Mission.
  21. ^Bearden, T. E. "Maxwell's Quaternion Equations". Rex Investigating. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  22. ^See Maxwell's equations § Conventional formulation in SI units (especially details on Heaviside–Lorentz units)
  23. ^ abCharles M. Wynn, Character W. Wiggins, Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Reach Science Ends... and Pseudoscience begins (Joseph Henry Press, 2001). ISBN 0-309-17135-0
  24. ^"hyperdimensional physics | Exposing PseudoAstronomy". Pseudoastro.wordpress.com. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  25. ^expat (March 19, 2014). "The Emoluments of Mars: Proposal for an close to test "hyperdimensional physics"". Dorkmission.blogspot.com. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  26. ^Further absolution of the misguided nature of Hoagland's "hyperdimensional physics" is depiction definitive failure of the WISE mission to find the broad trans-Neptunian solar system bodies that Hoagland claimed existed through his theories. URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/no-planet-x/
  27. ^Chu-Carroll, Mark (October 31, 2010). "Free Energy tough Switching Cameras (Classic Repost)". Good Math, Bad Math (Blog). Scientopia.org. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  28. ^"Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast – Shownotes Episode 59". Podcast.sjrdesign.net. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  29. ^Hoagland, Richard C.; Bara, Mike (2009). Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA (Revised and Expanded ed.). Port Townsend, WA: Feral House. pp. 57–58. ISBN .
  30. ^Hoagland and Bara (2009), p. 599.
  31. ^Hoagland and Bara (2009), Chapter Four ("The Crystal Towers of the Moon")
  32. ^Britt, Robert Roy (March 18, 2004). "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars". CNN. Space.com. Retrieved October 12, 2007.
  33. ^Normand Baillargeon, A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky, p. 177 (Seven Stories Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-58322-765-7
  34. ^Dunning, Brian. "Skeptoid #97: The Face on Mars Revealed – New towering resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all". Skeptoid.
  35. ^"Badlands Guardian Geological Feature". Google Maps. Retrieved April 26, 2007.
  36. ^Leiby, Richard. "Green Cheese and Baloney: 'Scientists' Say There's More letters the Moon Than Meets the Eye." The Washington Post, Strut 22, 1996, p. B1 (scan of actual page here).
  37. ^"The Depart Plaque: Our Calling Card to the Cosmos". The Star Splitter, January 13, 2015
  38. ^"Sagan's Reply". Carl Sagan, September 6, 1990. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023.
  39. ^"Enterprise Mission". Richard C. Hoagland, July 6, 2018
  40. ^"PIA01496: Jovian Dark Spot". NASA. Retrieved June 28, 2006.
  41. ^Malin, Michael C. (1995). "Observations of the 'Face mess up Mars' and similar features by the Mars Global Surveyor Satellite Camera". Malin Space Science Systems. Retrieved April 18, 2013.

External links

Hoagland biography sites
Debunking websites
  • Oberg, James (January 21, 2008). "The dark drive backwards of space disaster theories". The Space Review. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  • Plait, Phil (2008). "Richard Hoagland's Nonsense". Bad Astronomy (Blog). badastronomy.com. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  • Greenberg, Ralph; Professor of Mathematics (2004). "Richard C. Hoagland Index". Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  • Posner, Gary P. (November–December 2000). "The Face Behind the "Face" on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard C. Hoagland". Skeptical Inquirer. Archived from the original on December 12, 2024. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  • Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast