Richard C. Hoagland warns of a "titanic gargantuan" solar plasma ejection on April 6, 2001, near the sun’s equator at 19.5° latitude, curving toward Earth with arrival on April 10, threatening satellites worth billions—though he insists no harm will reach humans or animals. NASA allegedly suppressed knowledge, using a fuel cell issue to justify Space Shuttle Columbia’s early return as a cover-up, while Mir’s water tanks and shielding suggest advanced radiation protection. Hoagland calls Time magazine’s "scientific illiteracy" claim libelous, citing NASA sources and a National Press Club event, and insists his hyperdimensional physics model—linking solar activity to planetary orbits—proves government secrecy. The episode hints at deeper conspiracies beyond mere solar events, blending fringe science with unproven claims of suppression. [Automatically generated summary]
Yes, the bad news is maybe several billion dollars worth of satellites could be damaged or made into useless junk.
The good news is there's no danger to human beings or animals or pets or whatever, and there could be a rather spectacular light show in the northern skies when this stuff hits the magnetosphere of the Earth and creates the aurora borealis.
For people who don't know anything about solar physics or hyperdimensional physics or any physics, I'm going to try to make this as painless as possible.
It's almost a million miles in diameter, 800 and some thousand miles across.
It's very bright, and we are less than 100 million miles from the surface, 93 million miles.
We orbit in a period of one year.
It's roughly a circular orbit.
Our orbit varies by a couple of million miles, but basically we go around the Sun at the same distance all year long, give or take, a couple of percentage points.
The Sun is not a quiet star.
It has activity, both inside and ultimately on the surface.
And regardless of what model you look to to explain why the Sun shines, the standard model is that it's a huge, contained, thermonuclear, raging furnace, like a hydrogen bomb, and that the gravity holds it together.
In fact, our data suggests that it could be a lot different than the standard model, but let's go with the standard model for a minute.
In this standard model, the sun has been consuming hydrogen for billions of years, 5 billion plus years, which is a long time.
That's 5 billion orbits of this planet we live on.
One year being one orbit.
It will last for at least another 5 billion years.
So this is a very natural, normal thing in the immense, enormous history of this star that we are tethered to, called the Sun, on which all our life is totally, and I mean totally dependent.
In the last 50 years, astronomers, of which I count myself one, because that's my background, this is really kind of, you know, old home for me because I, you know, eat this stuff up and that's how I got into this field.
This is what I used to do before I got into aliens and ruins and ET artifacts and all that stuff.
The sun is not a constant star.
It is what would be technically termed a variable star, meaning that its output goes up and down by a little bit.
Now, it was several hundred years ago when this was first noticed, shortly after Galileo discovered there were sunspots, other astronomers coming after him noticed that there was sunspot activity which was quasi-regular.
That the sun was not blemish-free as the church had been teaching, but in fact there were spots in heaven.
There were spots on the sun, and you could actually use them to measure how fast the sun rotated.
The spots at the equator go around in about 27 days.
The spots at about 30 or 40 degrees latitude, north and south, go around in a much slower period, relatively speaking.
So the sun, right away, from looking at these ancient observations, hundreds of years old, turned out not to be a solid structure.
Because obviously a solid structure could not twist so that the poles were going around slower than the equator.
We were looking, it turned out, from these observations with early telescopes, at a gaseous surface.
Now we know that gaseous surface, which is half a million miles from the center, at about 6,000 degrees centigrade, or probably 10,000, 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit, is basically what transmits the energy across space to us created in the center of the sun by unknown reactions, presumably fusion in the mainstream model and in a more interesting fashion in our own model.
These spots that we see on the surface that astronomers have been looking at now for hundreds and hundreds of years, then about 200 or 300 years after the telescope was invented, someone realized that they were regular, that they came and went in a period.
They appeared to come and go in a period of about 11 or 12 years.
The spottedness increases, comes to a peak, and then fades away.
And you can actually draw almost a sine curve where the curve goes up and down, up and down in a very regular fashion, except it isn't absolutely regular, and that's the detail we don't need to get into tonight.
Then in the early 1900s, when people like Hale established observatories out west, the Palomar Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, whatever, they invented devices to actually measure the magnetic fields of the sun by remote sensing.
And Hale discovered that the sunspots waxed and waned, you know, grew and receded in frequency in the same period as the magnetic field of the sun Changed, except it was half the period.
So the full period is not 11 years, it's 22 years.
So that's now what's called the total sunspot cycle.
Half cycle is 11 years, the full cycle is 22 years for the sun to reverse polarity and go back to the same magnetic field polarity as it was two sunspot cycles earlier.
We're just coming out of the low point in this 11-year wax and wane spottedness cycle.
Now, the spots, it turned out, were not the really important thing.
They were an indicator of much more intrinsic and deep-seated solar variability.
And when we got satellites up, beginning with Skylab and SolarMax and a bunch of others, I mean, the space program has really been doing some important, neat stuff.
It's contributed to our knowledge, our database, and our economic well-being.
It was discovered that, in fact, the so-called solar constant, which is a fiction in astrophysics, it now turns out, astronomers, you know, in the last few hundred years were measuring the amount of light and heat coming from the sun, and they thought that it was constant year after year, day after day, week after week, century after century.
It turns out now, from very accurate measurements conducted in space above the atmosphere, which really kind of screws up delicate observations, that the solar constant is no more constant than a lot of other things we used to think were constant.
And in fact, it waxes and wanes with a total variability of about a tenth of a percent.
Now, that doesn't sound like much, but if you compare the solar output, I mean, you realize how bright it is out in the desert there in Nevada, right?
If you multiply that one kilowatt per square meter at the Earth's distance by the total number of square meters in a sphere englobing the sun at the distance of the Earth from the Sun, imagine a huge sphere, 93 million miles in radius, and the number of square meters or square feet or square miles in that incredibly enormous sphere, right?
And the effects, you know, let me describe the physics of what's going to happen.
Four days ago, Sunday, at 18.22 Greenwich Mean Time, which is 6.22 in the evening in London, on Sunday evening, London time, on the lower right-hand section of the sun's surface at 19.5 degrees.
An explosion, a titanic gargantuan explosion occurred on the surface of the sun and ejected at thousands of miles per second a huge blob of electrified hydrogen gas and electrons called a plasma.
This stuff is so hot that it isn't normal matter.
In other words, it's not the electrons and protons.
The nuclei and the electrons are not coupled to each other.
They are together but separate, like a huge mixer of divorced couples.
If you were above the solar system, you know, in a spaceship, hovering above the north pole of the Sun, which is almost the north pole of the solar system because the Sun is only tilted by seven degrees as a rotating sphere of gas to the plane of the median orbits of all the planets, you would see the Sun rotating majestically every 27 plus a number of odd days, or 27 point something days.
That's at the equator.
If the sun ejects something near the equator, 19 and a half degrees is pretty near the equator.
Right.
Because it's rotating.
The blob of stuff does not fly straight out.
It flies in a curved arc, like the water droplets from a spinning water thingy on the surface.
When that occurs, because it's an electrified blob, all right, it's very rarefied.
I mean, if you were in space and put your gloved hand out, you wouldn't feel a thing.
But electrically, if you were sensitive to electrical currents, electrical fields, if you were a conducting body, like a spinning metallic spacecraft with highly sensitive solid state chips and components and spinning gyros, in other words, a quivering bundle of finely tuned high-tech hardware.
Well, I think the folks in the know know exactly how harmful, and they're not telling us, and that is bad news.
That tells me that they're not being candid.
And the fact that WWV, four days after this event, is not saying a damn thing about it, indicates your government is not playing straight with you.
If you wanted a more definitive example of how folks, when they get news they don't think we can handle, don't tell us the truth, that's a quintessence example.
When I was in radio, I used to do radio when I was in the museum many, many moons ago, the station manager came down to me one day, and I was reading the weather.
So, all right, the fact that they're not saying anything, the fact that John Holloman actually got on and said, we thought you ought to know, I thought was very telling.
NASA is scrambling to put together a press conference for sometime tomorrow, so you know that they're wanting to get on the side of the angels and say, oh, we were up front.
Well, there's nothing mumbo-jumbo or mystical about this.
In terms of the physics that we all know, we know exactly what's going to happen.
You have a huge blob of electrified stuff, which is damaging to sensitive electrical equipment.
And what it's going to do, it's going to hit the Earth's magnetosphere.
Now, the Earth has a magnetic field.
It's like a dipole magnet.
It's got a north and a south pole.
And this dipole magnetic field acts as a shield.
It's kind of like the Enterprise putting up its shield.
They're there all the time.
Back when Van Allen put up the first measurement gadget on Explorer 1 back in 1958 in January, our first satellite in Earth orbit, back when NASA was just an infant, we found that the Earth is surrounded by radiation belts.
Those radiation belts are the product of the trapping and screening and deflection process of the Earth's normal magnetic field from this kind of normal solar activity, which is happening all the time.
What happens is when this electrified stuff interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, a lot of these protons and electrons will be scooped up by the field and trapped into orbit around the Earth, gyrating in the magnetic field of the Earth as it's supposed to happen.
The problem is that the Earth's magnetic field is already loaded with electrified particles in the so-called Van Allen belts, donut-shaped belts, that are the result of loading up the Earth's magnetic field from the normal solar activity.
Normally, coming out from the sun, there is a thing called the solar wind, which moves at about 500 miles per second.
It's an extremely thin.
I mean, we're talking super, super, super, super thin stuff that you couldn't detect except with an incredibly sensitive instrument, all right?
The solar wind is what's causing the blue ion tail to stream out behind Hale Bopp.
It's the interaction with the literal electrified atmosphere of the sun moving outward at an excess of escape velocity, which you can see near the sun during a solar eclipse as that pearly glow around the sun.
Those are electrons in the solar wind, in the million degree plus atmosphere of the sun, leaving, escaping a very dilute, extremely thin atmosphere evaporating off the sun.
Think of it as a kind of a storm in an atmosphere.
That's a good metaphor.
And this storm is going to cross space right when we cross space, so there will be effects.
Now what happens is when it strikes the Earth's magnetic field, it causes the particles in the field that are trapped upstairs to be dislodged.
They have to go somewhere.
Some of them come down the field lines and dump into the planet at the north and south magnetic poles.
When they are zipping down the field lines, they interact with the Earth's atmosphere.
There's an atmosphere in the way.
If we didn't have an atmosphere, you wouldn't see anything.
Of course, we wouldn't be here to see it anyway.
But because there is an atmosphere in a beautiful oval around both magnetic poles, because there's nobody around the south magnetic pole, most of the civilization lives in the northern hemisphere.
We think of the aurora borealis.
There's also a simultaneous aurora austrialis, the southern lights.
All this is, and it was a guy named Sturmer, who was one of my dim, dim ancestors in Sweden many decades ago who first put the physics of this together in scientific papers, the electrified interaction between the Earth's atmosphere and these highly charged particles zipping down the field lines,
basically bumped out of their stable configuration by the impact with this blob of electrified stuff coming from the sun, causes the belts to dump out to a percentage.
And the dumping out occurs at the northern and southern magnetic poles, so if you live near the poles, if you're an Eskimo, it looks incredible.
It doesn't reach the ground.
It completely dissipates in the upper atmosphere, but it creates huge vertical curtains of incredible colors and shifting.
And now this is going to move away from the mainstream into the model that we've been working on for 15 years and the physics and the hyperdimensional model.
I have got up on the portable computer here a copy of Redshift 2, which I went out and got a few days ago, which is the upgrade to the computer program that I've been talking about from Maris Media, Multimedia.
I've got the sun enlarged filling my computer screen for 8.22 GMT on the 6th of April, a few days ago.
And I'm comparing the computer projection of the poles and the lat-longs on the sun with the photographs that I can still frame on the video from John Holliman a few hours ago on my big TV screen, side by side.
And of course, this thing is ejected at 19.5 degrees south latitude.
Now, why is that important?
Because in our model, as opposed to the standard model, the energy of the sun is primarily coming from hyperdimensional physic processes, not from fusion.
And I have said on your show over and over again that the physics is changing.
Like the variability on the sun, it goes up and down in a long period of time.
In the standard model, it would be impossible to really predict accurately when one of these flares was going to occur.
But in the hyperdimensional model...
Well, there have been people already predicting it in the open literature, which I can refer you to, or better yet, I'll put it on our website, www.enterprismission.com, or you can go to Art Bell, and there's a link from his site to our site.
There is an engineer hired 50 years ago by the RCA Communications Corporation.
Well, the problem with RCA was that they were charging people to send radio messages and traffic and telegrams, and they couldn't charge them, their customers, if they couldn't get the message through.
So they hired this engineer whose name escapes me at the moment.
John Nelson, that was his name.
And they said, basically, John, do something.
We need to have a predictability to this.
We need to know when the sun is going to do whatever it does and makes it screws us up.
And we want you to come up with why it's doing what it's doing.
Well, lo and behold, John Nelson worked for several years and he developed an astrological model for solar activity, sunspot activity, flare activity, interference with shortwave radio.
And it is based on the geometry, this beginning to sound familiar, of the motions of the planets around the sun.
And it was John Nelson's data, which we factored in now to our own model, which is exquisitely predictive, which demonstrates overwhelmingly that the solar activity, for inexplicable reasons from the mainstream crowd, is dependent on where the planets are in orbit around the Sun.
Some folks deep inside know about the physics and are using it in the space program.
It's not telling you.
They somehow got wind of in their computer models that a big, huge event was going to happen on the sun before it happened on Saturday.
And they had to come up with a cover story.
And now they can't say, oh, look, boys, we've been able to predict the sun based on hyperdimensional physics because if they did that, a whole bunch of other stuff would fall out of the closet, not the least of which is free energy.
The reason is they know this thing's not going to hit until tomorrow, and they wanted to get as much experiment time in as they could, and they went to the hype of having TV.
You know, they've had some internal housekeeping problems.
They're probably not talking to anybody.
But the Progress rocket docked successfully this afternoon.
They've got enough lithium hydroxide canisters to last them for a couple of months now.
And the reason they're not coming home is because it would be more dangerous to bring them home in that little Soyuz that's attached as a lifeboat than it is to just have them ride it out.
Remember, they're deep under the Earth's magnetic system.
And it's basically a protected part of the center of the ship, of the space station, surrounded by water tanks and other stuff, which absorb protons and electrons.
Well, as Mark Twain used to say about being written out of town on a rail after being tarred and feathered, if it weren't for the honor of the thing, I'd just as soon pass it up.
In an article which I've been telling my audience about, entitled The Man Who Started the Myth, Time magazine wrote about me, wrote about my show.
You know, it's a connection they tried to make to the suicides in Rancho, Santa Fe.
And interestingly, as they wrote about me in their style, it says, other remarkable bell shows, I'm reading from the Time article, have involved such subjects as a 57 Chevy that just fell out of the sky in Long Beach, true, a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they never hit bottom, true, and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the moon and Mars.
Now, I did the interview with a guy from Time.
Your name never came up, and yet you showed up in the article.
Leon Geroff has headed out for this investigation from the beginning.
When I was many years ago, when we started this, I took Dr. David Webb, who was a member of President Reagan's Space Advisory Council, to New York to meet with Walter Cronkite, to brief him, his first briefing in person by me on the Mars investigation.
And that same afternoon, we went across the street to Time Magazine to sit down with Leon Geroth, their science editor, and to brief him on our investigation.
Jaroth subsequently wrote the most incredible hit piece on me in Time Magazine.
This is like 10 years ago, something like that.
That's when I knew that the deck was stacked, when it was not an honest level playing field, that somebody had it in for even asking the wrong questions.
Well, Richard, I've learned something over the past two or three weeks, and it is that the American media, the large media, the networks, Time, the major newspapers, LA Times, New York Times, they have a story the way they want to tell it.
And be damned the facts, the facts don't really matter.
If they want to put a certain spin on a story, they simply, absolutely, without question, do it.
Bell brushes off critics who charge that his uncritical airing of such nonsense only promotes scientific illiteracy and as in the case of Heaven's Gate can actually have harmful consequences.
I'm going to investigate what we can do because the only thing this country respects is legal action anymore.
And what will happen if I can bring some kind of suit is that somebody in the mainstream will start paying attention to the data, to the fact that there is a remarkable data that this government is sitting on.
No, I would do it because I don't like to be called nonsensical.
I'm not nonsensical.
And the scientists that are working with us, four of whom, no, eight of whom, stood up in front of the world press at the National Press Club one year ago, last month, including Sarah McClendon, all right, who I guess you had on your show.
I saw her at today's press conference, and she is 85, I believe, and going strong.
Anyway, she thought we were treated shabbily.
And unless someone makes an issue of it, and I think to bring us in as the hind leg of the dog, when from day one I was saying, be careful, this comet is not what everyone is claiming is something more interesting.
Tom Van Fran and I did your show to provide another serious model for unusual aspects.