Richard C. Hoagland argues NASA initially validated his 1979 Europa life hypothesis before dismissing it, later debunked by mainstream science despite Ted Koppel’s acknowledgment. He links NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain lockdown to a $9M aircraft disappearance and STS-80’s anomalous objects—violating Newtonian physics—suggesting extraterrestrial or hyperdimensional tech. The 1997 Heaven’s Gate suicides may have been staged, coinciding with satellite anomalies over Phoenix and a "psychological war" to discredit UFO research. Hoagland claims Comet Hale-Bopp’s fragments could reveal remnants of a destroyed planet, altering Earth’s climate and history, while NASA suppressed Hubble observations. Physics may now unlock solutions like free energy, but political deterrence and fear-driven narratives persist, leaving critical questions unanswered. [Automatically generated summary]
He was never part of the establishment science, and he's moved much further from it than he was back in 1979.
Today, he champions the idea that aliens build a rock formation called the face on Mars.
Few scientists want to even be remotely associated with a, in quote, kook, no matter how brilliant his ideas.
Once again, of course, the American press, once they have decided upon the way a story shall be told, are never bothered by anything so trivial as the facts, something I've learned very carefully over the last several weeks.
However, it should be noted that on Nightline some nights ago, Ted Koppel gave Richard C. Hoagland long-deserved credit for having come up first with the theory of what Europa really was all about.
Well, that's really nice because Terry was the first one to appreciate this kook in all his kookiness.
You know, it was very heady stuff because at that point we were very naive.
We really felt that if we found extraordinary things, we could lay out extraordinary tales and stories and follow up with extraordinary evidence and we'd go forward.
And I must say, in seeing Taryn's piece tonight, I was struck by how much we have learned and how saddened we are to now realize that we were living in a fool's paradise.
There are a handful of people somehow in NASA who guide and determine what we get to know on a timetable of when we get to know it, and those who are not in the club are simply not invited to participate.
It is assisted, Richard, by a very, very lazy American press.
In other words, they will take a press release from NASA and treat it as the Holy Grail, and anything that would argue or contend with that is not even dealt with.
I found that out, Richard, over the last several weeks, after all this Heaven's Gate business, the press will decide how it wants to tell a story.
And God help anybody who wants to get in the way of that with a presentation of actual factual material.
They're going to tell it their way, no matter what.
Well, I think you could say that that was the case up until maybe two or three years ago.
And now because of the internet, because of the very interesting competition between the so-called mainstream media and the so-called tabloid press, and how many times have we seen the New York Times laud the National Enquirer for being first on a decent story?
I mean, I remember when I was at CBS, we used the National Enquirer to wipe our shoes.
It was kind of lying there as waste paper every morning.
Things are changing in media land, and I really can see the day when far-out ideas are treated as they should be, which is unproven, but not kooky just because they're far out.
Who was it who used to say the truth is stranger than fiction?
If anyone had told me tonight that we would be conducting this show where we're apparently at DEFCON 4 at Cheyenne Mountain, a $9 million ground-attack aircraft has somehow disappeared for 12-plus days in Colorado.
You know, government officials are nervously looking over their shoulders as we approach the anniversary of Oklahoma City and of Waco, and there are strange things appearing on our satellites in the stratosphere.
If anybody had told me, you know, even two years ago, that we'd be sitting on the radio discussing, you know, the validation by NASA of my theory of alien life 27 years ago, almost 20 years ago, on the radio, around 15 million people, I would have said that that was kind of far out, but that's the lay of the landscape as you and I are having this conversation with America tonight.
Well, every time you introduce me, the one thing that you neglect to mention is that I am head of a multidisciplinary investigation, a team of people who are literally laboring around the country tonight on various projects designed to move us forward, to bring that frontier a little closer to where ordinary folks who don't have the resources to pursue these studies can make a determination whether we're dealing with fact or fantasy.
tonight when a funny thing happened and I had to create this piece which is going to be uploaded to the website in the next, you know, hour or two by Keith.
And nobody is still sure why there was an alert, why there was a lockdown, why ID was suddenly required.
I mean, they really got into a serious condition and they may still be in one there.
And I, you know, just a little old talk show me, I'm thinking Cheyenne Mountain was supposed to withstand, correct me if I'm wrong, a direct nuclear hit of some proportion.
We have our sources at the networks, including CNN, and, you know, we were talking to them yesterday and talking to them today, and they don't buy the story.
But one of the problems that the press has is they're so loathe to venture an opinion or to question authority without a press release.
It's like we have become a media-by-press release.
Unless an official says something, no correspondent will stand up and say, there's something weird going on and no one's telling us the truth.
It came up yesterday during one of the press conferences that kind of eerily remind me of the, you know, tableau we used to have here in Long Island after TWA 800.
where there'd be, you know, officials and spokespersons and authoritative, you know, experts all standing up in front of the press saying absolutely nothing.
We know the snow is deep in Colorado.
We know there's no radar east or west of the mountains.
We know it's hard to get into places.
But you would think after 12, however many days now, 14, 15 days, that the most sophisticated remote sensing instrumentation in the world, on the planet, for which we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars, could find an aircraft even if there's a bit of snow on top of
it, particularly if it went off in a fireball, which, according to the general today at the press conference, triggered the satellite sensors in Earth orbit something like 500, 600 miles up with a marvelous IR signature.
If, just for the sake of conversation, you were going to steal an A-10 and you wished to divert attention for a while, what would stop you from dropping one aircraft your 500 pound bombs would and would that create an ir signature of the sort they saw uh And then the plane, of course, would fly on to some other place.
I'm not saying that has occurred.
I'm just asking if that would be technically feasible.
It would be more like a blip, unless it, you know, set fire to a forest or something.
What I would actually do, you know, and of course we're violently speculating here, is have a bunch of good old boys have a fuel dump and basically just set it on fire, time to coincide with my landing on a road.
Not an airfield, just a road with a tanker truck waiting conveniently.
I mean, this thing is supposed to be able to get in and out of non-existent airfields, and they're looking at airfields.
You know, the lack of imagination by these guys in looking for this is mind-boggling, but then, of course, you have to understand that this is a charade.
The fact that we are being treated to daily press conferences, the fact that all these assets are being set in motion, the fact that the SR-71 is flying and the U-2s are flying out of San Francisco, Mountain View, which is south of San Francisco, is some indication of the seriousness, probably up through the Pentagon and maybe even beyond, with which this little incident is being treated.
And I just have the feeling that what we're seeing at the press conferences out there is really a diversion for a much more concentrated effort.
And in fact, maybe the NORAD alert was designed to get radar linked around the world to see if there was any unusual movement of anything that should not be moving from point A to point B. Boy, I wonder what they're worried about.
Well, given what we are going to talk about as the evening progresses, particularly this STS-80 footage, which we've now gotten our hands on, and the fact that something pretty interesting showed up on a couple of satellite images, which you posted on your website yesterday, and I have Keith put on ours tonight, I would think that, you know, something is up.
And normally when something interesting is going on, they would like to keep us in the dark for as long as possible, particularly if it's serious.
And I just have this feeling that something is up.
There are reports of increased military activity at just about every base that I have an opportunity to talk to somebody near.
Planes, a lot more planes taking off, that sort of thing.
But I mean, they're trying to have it both ways here in the story.
They're saying the tighter security remains in place, but, you know, it was a third-hand kind of warning, and it wasn't credible, and yet they're keeping the thing locked down.
You can actually get on a bus and go to the gate and make an appointment and go and see, you know, what we used to have as the global command center for World War III.
And there are huge screens and computer consoles and, you know, guys in blue and women in blue and all that.
And if they don't want someone to see what's on those screens and what steps are being taken to respond to whatever is on the screens, obviously you want to keep the terrorists out.
But you can't just say, okay, you can't come in.
You have to give a plausible reason why you can't come in.
Well, and maybe someone in your vast audience, we know it's a vast audience, all right?
I have the numbers, will call in who is actually connected To whatever's going on, and without revealing any national secrets, might give us some further information.
Actually, yes, because my strong suspicion is that an awful lot of the Cold War was more hype than real to begin with, having to do with much more interesting agendas.
And again, the deeper you get into this morass of who's telling you the truth and when and how much, the more you become very distrustful of anything you are told.
I remember a film they showed us at school with Jimmy Stewart, the FBI at work or something, and they actually took us out of class to go down and sit in the auditorium and watch this film.
And I thought it was the most amazing thing.
You know, the FBI is your friend because it gets you out of class to go see what they're doing.
Anyway, what NORAD does now is it monitors the world for theater alerts, for the nth country problem.
Let's say Saddam Hussein got his hands on a rocket, a long-range rocket.
He was with Gerald Bull, who actually I knew at one time, on the verge of having a capability using a very ancient technology called a gun.
If he oriented that gun in a certain azimuth in the desert against a hill, he would have been able to lob on a ballistic trajectory a primitive nuclear device from Iraq to New York, where I just happen to be sitting tonight.
So those kinds of threats, you know, the ants country problem are basically what NORAD is looking at now.
You know, when you have an empire collapse the way the former Soviet Union has, and you have a lot of hungry, desperate people who have not been paid in many, many years, some of them, including the military, there is an unavoidable suspicion that some of those people on the fringe might want to pawn a nuclear weapon or two to make some rubles, you know, just to buy bread.
So the problem then, of course, is that whoever has the money, and for many years it was rumored that Gaddafi was offering to anyone fabulous amounts of money for someone who could provide him with a workable nuclear device.
You would have a real problem if a delivery system also should materialize in someone's hands.
So NORAD spends a lot of time looking at that.
It also spends time looking at space.
It is looked literally at impacts around the world.
We now know that there are lots of little, you know, miniature comets, little bits of flotsam and jetsum coming out of space and impacting, some of them with the energy equivalent of several kilotons of explosives, several thousand tons of TNT high in the stratosphere, mostly over the oceans, because that's where most of the surface area of the Earth happens to reside.
There is concern, of course, that one might confuse, in a moment of crisis, some of these natural impacts, which are the equivalent of, as I said, high-energy explosions, with theater-scale nuclear weapons.
So NORAD is monitoring.
And during the recent spate of asteroid scenarios, remember the week or two weeks we were inundated with every possible scenario for the destruction of civilization by comet or asteroid strike all simultaneously?
That, by the way, might bear some discussion later on.
Anyway, in that, it came out that, yeah, the networks, not the networks, you know, commercial media, but the military surveillance reconnaissance networks have been picking up for years impact-generated explosions in the atmosphere from objects falling out of space at, you know, several miles per second.
And then there's the satellite launches from China and from the former Soviet Union and from Japan and from ESSA, which is the European Space Agency.
And I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff that we're not supposed to be aware of.
And then, of course, now I'm going to get labeled a kook again by our friends up north.
There's the real activity in space, namely folks who are here flitting around upstairs, who are not answerable to the president and whoever knows what, and whose signatures and images you can see on this stunning,
literally stunning piece of videotape that we received from sources a few days ago and have been sharing with other members, research members of the Enterprise mission, some of whom are busily doing analyses tonight,
hint, hint, so that by the time I do your show next time, I can provide you with an annotated version of the tape and analyses by members of the aerospace community whose credentials are long and trusted and venerable and unimpeachable.
And so when they say these are spaceships flitting around and they're not ours And they don't know whose they are, someone, and someone's highly placed, will have reason to believe them.
Now, it's got to be speculation because that's all we can do.
But if we assume that it's not the Russians up to no good, and it's not some third world country ready to launch something nasty at us, and we don't buy the explanation of domestic terrorism, then what else can you imagine would cause such a hubbub?
Well, the night of March 10th through March 13th, which was the beginning of a remarkable set of events that we described when I was on your show on the 19th.
I do because I fielded so many of the responses that came in after that, really.
Well, so did we.
Hundreds and hundreds of responses.
And they ranged, by the way, from split down the middle, about 50, 50, I would say.
People who said, yes, you know, I called that number, and I got a back door by hitting the asterisk or Palzine or whatever.
And I got a message to people who went into the store and were apparently taken seriously.
And then I would say there was another half who, when they approached the, you know, the store owner, got a response like, oh, no, here comes another one or something to that effect.
And so it was a great mixed response.
But I was shocked because, frankly, you couldn't see me.
When you came out with this old Navy store business, I was sitting here shaking my head going, oh, Richard, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
And yet, it came back mixed.
And so there I was shaking my head at the responses going, what the hell?
And because Navajo is not exactly a household language in Japan, our codes, unlike the Japanese code and unlike the Enigma code of the Germans, remained unbroken throughout the war.
So I was not surprised that the faxes and the phone calls and other messages coming in were mixed, because I expected that if you're going to bury a secret organization designed to do something interesting under the cover of a regular, normal, everyday clothing outlet, there would be some stores, maybe even most stores, that would be doing exactly that.
Maybe selling clothes.
But there'd be some that would be doing that plus something else.
And what I found really remarkably intriguing was that most of the reports I got back were that the people, the stores approached by folks who let us know, did not know anything about the sale.
There were no shirts marked down from 1950, 19.5 to 1650.
Now, what's interesting is that one report that came in a few hours ago, literally, of someone who went back a couple of times said that the personnel in this one store were all female.
There was no one in the store, and yet they were all communicating with each other over these headsets.
I mean, this is pretty weird.
Now, we had one of our, let's see, how should I say this, fraternity.
Who surveyed one of the major outlets in the Northeast, old Navy store outlets, and reported that in front of this particular outlet, which was in a major U.S. city, on a major thoroughfare at 10 o'clock at night,
a set of communications trucks lowering something like a mile of one-inch fiber optic cable were deployed precisely in front of the old Navy store.
Now, you know, American cities have a lot of stuff under them.
If you were to excavate in 10,000 years, you know, bring an archaeologist from Alpha Centauri and go through American cities, you'd find that they are about as deep as they are high, particularly cities like Boston, New York, and Baltimore and Philadelphia and whatever.
Water mains and electrical supply lines and subways and whatever.
Normally, the conduits for cabling, When you're outfitting a section of a city with new cabling, you go down 10, 20, maybe 30 feet, and then you go horizontally.
And you have to have a facility, a device, to pull the cable along horizontally because it's very heavy and the friction will take over and you can't just lower the cable into a hole.
In this case, this observer who was pretty conversant with these technologies observed that the cable on huge drums was being positioned on a crane so it would fall vertically down through the hole in the street.
And that meant that it was a free fall, not 20, 30, 40 feet, but the length of each of these huge drums.
Now, he also, this individual, was able to secure video using some techniques and image enhancement techniques of the upper floors of this store.
The entire block was this store, including several floors above the lighted outlet where the clothes were being sold.
And behind the shades, behind the slatted shades of the upper floors can be discerned on this enhanced video some very peculiar communications antennae, which are recognizable because you can't cheat the laws of physics.
You know, COACs and waveguides and things like that are kind of recognizable.
So what in the world is an old Navy store being doing, being used as a headquarters for some kind of very ultra-modern communications gear, which requires, among other things, the vertical emplacement of about a mile of high-bandwidth fiber optic cable vertically down a hole in front of the store.
All right, this is something that I've done about four times a year, and I'm going to begin doing it again now to keep you informed on how the program, this program, is going.
I spoke earlier in the day with Mike Elder, who is the operations manager of WLS Radio in Chicago, which, by the way, originally stood for World's Largest Store.
Did you know that?
The mighty WLS 890 in Chicago.
And Mike was overjoyed, as was I, when I heard that our numbers, survey numbers, in Chicago, in one book, in this last book, have, for all categories of 12 years old plus, have doubled.
We have actually doubled the survey numbers in Chicago.
So I want to thank everybody in Chicago and in the surrounding areas.
Actually, when you're talking about WLS, you're talking about 38 states or something.
So they're heard all over the place.
But in Metro Chicago, our numbers doubled in one survey.
The larger markets, as the surveys come out, are reported first.
And so now I want to turn my attention to Andy Ludlam at KABC, who I communicated with earlier in the day.
And the numbers for Los Angeles are in, and they are absolutely staggering.
In my time period, from midnight to 4 in Los Angeles, we have pulled a 13.9 share.
Now, in a city the size of Los Angeles, that is absolutely beyond belief.
And 13.9 as a share for all categories of 12 plus rates among the highest ratings ever achieved By any radio station in Los Angeles.
I presume that my audience can sit there and I actually try to help my guests tell their story.
And the audience can make up their own mind with regard to the credibility of what's being said.
And it's not exactly rocket science.
It's very simple.
And you're right.
I will go from the absolute ridiculous of Mel's hole or Chevrolet's falling down into the middle of Long Beach to something very serious.
And I will do that one night after another after another after another.
I'll vary it around while the rest of talk radio seems absolutely convinced the only formula to success is to march straight behind Rush Nimbaugh and talk about politics for hours on end.
I simply decided there's more to life than that, and that it's not complicated.
Data indicating that this government was not telling us the total truth.
These are the extraterrestrial artifacts, habitation personages, entities, beings, members of the dysfunctional family, whatever you want to call them.
And for many years, for over a decade and a half now, we have been pursuing what I hope is a reasonable scientific study involving a lot of other people in looking at artifacts, first on Mars and on the moon.
And, you know, recently some work we did even before I could say that I was occupied with this full time, that is the Europa, you know, insights, have now borne rather interesting and remarkable fruit.
So we're expanding our search through the solar system.
And about 20 years ago, we were ahead of the pack.
And probably, I can say with some justification, we may be 20 years ahead of them still, which is very depressing because we don't have 20 years for everybody to catch up.
There's a lot of practical things that this knowledge and this investigation should be turned to.
Well, as part of this investigation, part of discovering that NASA has found evidence of structures on other planets, and because of the Brookings report, because of this official study that they themselves commissioned back 19,
you know, I'm sorry, 37 years ago, that they haven't gotten around to leveling with the American people and telling us the truth, we began to strongly suspect that in addition to the science, we had to open a political wing to the investigation.
We had to deal with this as if, in fact, somebody was deliberately not telling us the truth.
And so we've had our feelers out, and we've had sources, and we have cultivated, you know, inside people, and we've had a lot of people now at NASA who are as basically affronted by this contradiction to the charter as we are, provide us with data and leads and sources.
We've had people in the aerospace community who have labored, you know, at no cost to do analyses, to try to corroborate what we have found.
We've had independent researchers, some of whom I'm going to be mentioning by name and their work in the next few weeks, both on our website at Enterprise Mission as well as on your show if you would like to hear about it, who have duplicated and verified and extended our work in terms of the artifacts.
And as we have pursued this science, it has become More and more apparent that there is a parallel hidden political agenda by some to keep the rest of us in the dark regarding these related subjects.
And so I became very interested in who's behind the plot, who's behind the conspiracy.
Oh my god, I've said it, the C word, the dreaded C word.
You know, why do we have the RICO statute?
Because the federal government, in its infinite wisdom, foresaw several years ago that you needed a racketeering statute to basically confront a conspiracy where a whole bunch of people get together and don't tell the outside crowd what's going on and do things that are not good for the society.
Well, we have found that there is a group of people who seem to be trans-governmental, trans-agency, transnational.
They seem to owe allegiance to no one nation, but an ideology, a philosophy, which for want of a better term can be termed a secret society.
There's an awful lot of, you know, leading with your left when you're doing something over on the right.
But somebody, for whatever reason, has made a concerted effort to keep us from knowing that the human race has a much more extraordinary history than most of the textbooks talk about.
And as the space program developed, they made darn sure that the data that came back to Earth first was filtered through key eyes and hands.
And what the American people and the political people and the so-called people in responsible positions at NASA and others got was sanitized information.
I use the comparison with the old man from Uncle TV series, where you would enter the little dry cleaning store and you'd pull the third coat hanger from the left and you'd go down in the secret elevator and there you were with patrol and Mr. whatever his name was, I forget, Napoleon Solo's boss.
It is turning out from reports we got from all over the country and reports you got that we tripped over and we uncovered the tip of an iceberg here that is frankly much richer than I would have imagined because it turned out there were honest old Navy stores that didn't have a darn idea what the heck anybody was talking about.
Well, but it's my intention to let them know we know because what's happening now tonight with NORAD on alert, with aircraft disappearing, with bizarre goings on overhead, with shuttle video that was deliberately leaked to us from Houston by somebody,
again, honest folks who want us to know that we are not being told what's going on, literally over our heads, who are preoccupying our time with tragic diversions like Heaven's Gate.
And as I'm speaking, you know, one of the spokespersons is on MSNBC, even as I'm talking to you now.
You know, an absolutely tragic monopolization of the attention of the middle of the curve, the middle of the American electorate, who are getting their introduction to extraterrestrial phenomenon through the most sickening and distorted prism one can imagine.
That, in fact, I believe, is part of a concerted effort to disinform while important and relevant developments are going on behind the scenes that we are not hearing about because we're much more preoccupied with how Newt Gingrich is going to pay back $300,000.
You know, on the Heavensgate business, my complaint that I've been voicing very loudly for a long time was if you read their suicide note, which the media has not bothered to show, they won't show it, in fact, at least the first half of it, the very first sentence says whether or not Comet Hailbob has a companion is irrelevance.
And further down, it says the marker for what we're going to do or something, I'm paraphrasing now, is the comet itself.
Well, for some reason, the media decided that it was not going to listen to that, Richard, and they wanted to talk about UFOs because that was the hook to the story.
They wanted the UFO angle, and so God help anybody who would get in their way with actual evidence to the contrary.
And they grabbed that UFO thing and they ran with it.
You can say that the mainstream media, all right, are innately quite conservative.
Their job, as some friends of mine on television used to say, is not to investigate.
It is to coronate.
You know, television, most television exists not to break new ground, but to basically celebrate familiar ground.
And the whole UFO phenomenology, extraterrestrial life, if it doesn't come from NASA, Is definitely beyond the edge of the paper for most editors and reporters and the like.
Having said that, you know, one can look at the coverage of the Heavensgate tragedy in one of two ways: a lot of basically preoccupied reporters and editors who see this for what they think it is, who ask no questions,
and who basically take the handouts of the officials and the authorities who are on the case, and who have basically promulgated the standard perception, which is that you had a well-meaning but totally deluded group of individuals who, one afternoon, packed their bags, got all dressed up, and committed suicide because they thought they were going to be beamed aboard a spacecraft hiding behind Hale Bomb.
That's the standard part of the line.
But behind that inertia of normal news conservatism, there is the possibility that there have been some reporters, some editors, some media outlets that have been carefully egging that story forward, have been putting that spin on it for political purposes.
Because for most people who do not spend the amount of time that your audience spends thinking about unusual and definitely different subjects, their first reawakening and reacquaintance with the UFO phenomenon,
the extraterrestrial phenomenology, was through a group of people who had tragically committed an extraordinary act and who had caused great pain and suffering to family and loved ones and friends and all of that.
And it has generally turned off a lot of people who may have been beginning to see things around them, bits and pieces, on shows like Sightings and Strange Universe and other outlets that raise questions that demand honest, thoughtful answers.
And what happens?
The Heaven's Gate tragedy suddenly takes that curiosity and turns it off.
I mean, the idea that people would commit suicide willingly over a several day period and live among their colleagues and friends and family while they are literally decomposing before their eyes is so horrifying.
If one were to write a script for the calculated horror of confrontation with anything hinting of the abnormal or the different or the strange or the questions that need to be raised, one cannot imagine a more difficult or appropriate scenario to turn curiosity off at the source.
That was, I was assured that was impossible that we could lose Richard Hoagland, but we have done that, so I'm going to have to get back in touch with him.
Oh, my.
So it goes.
So I'm going to take another quick break of break on necessity, we'll call it here, and get Richard back on the telephone again.
So stay right where you are to lose with those symptoms.
So call 1-800-249-6060.
Again, 1-800-249-6060.
Well, every time you say something a little sensitive, we get cut off.
Normally, when you find 39 dead people, the first question that the police are supposed to ask is, did these people voluntarily walk off the plank or did they have assistance?
And if they did, you know, how deeply do you probe to find out if, in fact, they were murdered so it would look Like suicide.
Now, the problem with the investigation, as I've been watching it from this coast, is that because these people were kooks, because they believed something that was so outrageous compared to the norms of San Diego, of Rancho, Santa Fe, because it was so out of bounds, immediately the normal procedure to be curious and skeptical and ask hard questions, be it detectives or whatever, seemed to go by the board.
And we heard something from the coroner, who seemed frankly more excited to be on television than he seemed to be interested in solving a problem.
And nowhere did we hear one leading question about how we know for certain these people actually committed suicide, despite the blatant and repeated contradictions to what we thought we saw on television.
And I could go through, I mean, I could spend the entire program going through the contradictions.
That's what I do for a living these days, is look at contradiction between what we are told and what the facts really are.
And if you look at the literature on the website, if you delved into these people through Brad Steiger's book, for instance, you ever read on the show?
You know these people had a consistent philosophical position and some considered perspective in exactly how they were going to transcend their fellow human relationships.
And it had to do with a physical, I repeat, a physical transition.
A la a spacecraft.
All right?
And nothing in their literature, nothing in the 20 years that I've been able to find, nothing in the dialogues or reportage or personal statements and recollections of the various former members, like Dick Jocelyn, who was on Larry King a couple of times, contradict that.
Everyone to a person who was a former member has expressed surprise that these people committed suicide.
And no one has picked up on it.
No one in authority has said, hey, wait a minute, maybe there's a problem here.
You know, because they're kooks, because we've written them off as less, not more than human, less than human, because they have a different belief system.
And, you know, I'm working from the advantage of having a source who called me early on as this thing was unfolding, and who frankly told me that they had been approached 20-some years ago by Doe, who was calling himself Bo at that time, Applegate.
Because this is someone that I know extremely well and have worked with on a source basis for a long time, and they have been found to be extraordinarily reliable in areas that are pretty much at the edge of the paper, I give it a great deal of credence, Art.
But what disturbs me is that officials are not thinking the obvious.
It is so easy to look at that video and see these excited people who had dressed up, who had made their uniforms, who had made little hyperdimensional tetrahedral patches.
You know, well, the purple shrouds are, you know, I'm talking about when these people were alive and sitting there on television in that common room, all right?
Now, most people looking at that video, because these are kooks, of course, think that that's a euphemism for we're all going to go and commit suicide.
Not understanding that these people really did believe they were going to make a transition.
They were leaving this planet.
Now, if I had shown any of these people the video that I'm going to provide to you from shuttle mission number 80 last December, which we will actually go in a studio and put out as a video so that anybody with a VCR can see this, courtesy of your friendly local neighborhood space agency.
We're going to put it on the website with proper annotations and arrows and circles and the appropriate analysis.
If you show me how an ice crystal can suddenly decide to stop in mid-flight, reverse direction, and move off in another direction with no obvious thruster firings and no outside forces perturbing it, among other things, all right, and go back and forth in and out of the airglow layer at the horizon a couple of times and move off at,
you know, station keep with the shuttle, then move off at five miles per second and not get dimmer, all right, I will entertain that explanation.
In fact, if I had shown this video that we have, that we're having analyzed exhaustively, to any of the Heaven's Gate group, there would have been no doubt in their minds they were looking at spacecraft, and if I told them one was going to land at 9.30 in the morning, they'd be there, dressed with their bags packed.
Now, let me just put out a possible scenario.
And again, I'm not attached to any of this.
I'm simply being, I can use this term, a devil's advocate here, okay?
Why do you pack your bag if you're going to be leaving your vehicle?
Why would you possibly need anything of this earthly plane if you were going to a better place with a technology which certainly could do a lot more than, you know, current 20th century terrestrial technology can do, up to and including clothing?
However, when normal people die and they're buried, they're generally put in their finest suits and all the rest of it, sometimes buried with the materialistic articles that they, for some reason or another, want to be buried with.
Well, there could be, and that's what's interesting.
There's such ambiguity, because if, in fact, they were being told that they were going to be picked up and they had a celebratory meal together, as apparently they did, it is trivial if someone wanted to set this group up to make a blatant, political, manipulative, horrifying spectacle to basically slip a Mickey in their food.
Higher Source, which was the web development company side of the operation.
In fact, this group, which was very nomadic and in their 20 years, you know, begged for food and begged for clothes and whatever, suddenly became extremely well financed at the end.
And when you actually looked at their balance sheet, you know, at the website design.
Well, they suddenly moved to San Diego, to one of the wealthiest communities on earth, where their event, their passing, their whatever, would cause the greatest impact.
I mean, if this group of people had done what everyone thinks they did in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico, it would have been a 30-second read on Dan Rather.
The fact that it was done in the middle of one of the wealthiest communities among neighbors who were shocked and horrified and where those things are not supposed to happen.
And again, if one is being suspicious, one would say that that was by design, someone's design.
In fact, when this individual called me and said that the reason that they did not participate 20 years ago in this program is because they had absolute proof that these two individuals were government agents, I got very interested.
Because you see, you don't have to believe they were government agents to believe that they had an agenda.
A lot of people think that the government is doing things that I am rapidly coming to believe are not done by government at all.
That brings us back to secret societies, organizations that have the technology, the funding, the global resources, the long-term agenda to be as efficient as government is thought to be, but in fact is never, all right, that efficient, and yet really has no interface with the normal day-to-day occurrences of government as you and I understand the term.
I just think there are lots of questions here that have never been, never even been addressed, let alone answered.
For instance, did the coroner look for needle tracks?
It would be so simple to inject these people after they were comatose with a deadly dose of what was found in the toxicology reports in their blood.
And because they're kooks, because they're less than human, no one's asking questions.
We don't really want to know.
We just want to get rid of them out of sight, out of mind, unless we're, you know, the media that are using them to hype ratings and to draw out this agony and these terrible family stories of people who can't understand why their loved ones did something so strange and so baffling and so unreal.
This is just another example of how we don't get answers from our media.
We simply get extended Hype and the prevarication of a particular spin.
And in this case, I think we should be asking much harder questions because the political effect of what transpired was to turn off an awful lot of people just as you had really provocative events occurring in the real world of extraterrestrial phenomena, such as the events over Phoenix, which occurred just a few nights earlier.
And one of the reasons I suspect it was a setup is because when I first heard about it, because of the pattern we've discerned in some of our work, vis-a-vis the secret societies, I looked at the latitudes.
I do want to clear that up because it makes it sound as though the old Navy stores are leading some giant conspiracy, and we don't know that to be the fact at all.
What I'm saying is there is a group, an institution, which is trans-institutional, meaning that it has members in interesting places, both government and non-government, corporate and non-corporate, private, whatever.
And in concert, these individuals are pursuing an agenda that is very fixated on extraterrestrial phenomenology, very fixated on our true ancient history, vis-à-vis Egypt.
Would this be fair to say that things were getting too hot, that people were beginning to get too close to possibly the truth, and somebody somewhere, I'm trying to think as you're thinking now, wanted to shut it down, and I think you're saying that they used the Heaven Gate suicides, we'll put that in quotes now, as a means to shut that down.
I'm saying that we should be asking harder questions because look at the political boomerang effect.
There was a very escathing piece written by a reporter for the Washington Post who, before this, was going to write a favorable story on serious extraterrestrial investigations, you know, John Mack and others.
And he wrote a scathing, ironic, you know, bitingly satirical report on poor deluded people who don't know the difference between comets and stars and stuff like that.
In other words, it has made the subject canon fodder once again.
We've been taken almost back to the 1950s in terms of some people's perceptions.
And if you've missed the first two hours, he is suggesting the possibility the Heavensgate suicides were not suicides.
We'll get back to him in a moment.
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Now, back to Richard C. Hoagland.
Richard, welcome back.
You know, you really are right about one thing, and that is that I'm not aware of investigation details that would indicate that there was anything but a suicide.
In other words, there were very few details released.
They seem to conclude quickly and positively and completely that it was a suicide.
And I'll give it back to you in one second, but I want to read the suicide note that came from heavensgate.com.
And I want to discuss this with you a little bit.
It reads as follows.
I quote, Whether Hailbop has a companion or not is irrelevant from our perspective.
However, its arrival is joyously very significant to us at Heaven's Gate.
The joy is that our older member in the evolutionary level above human, the kingdom of heaven, has made it clear to us that Halebop's approach is the marker we've been waiting for.
The time for the arrival of the spacecraft from the level above human to take us home to their world in the literal heavens.
Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion.
Graduation from the human evolutionary level.
We are happily prepared to leave this world and go with T's crew.
If you study the material on this website, you will hopefully understand our joy and what our purpose here on Earth has been.
You may even find your boarding pass to leave with us during this brief window, obviously inviting other suicides.
We are so very thankful that we have been recipients of this opportunity to prepare for membership in their kingdom and to experience their boundless caring and nurturing.
Well, most people can't get on a spaceship tonight.
All right, I can buy a ticket for 747 and go to London.
But because the generals have the car keys to our own rather remarkable vehicles, I can't get access to them.
I know they exist.
I've seen the video.
I know the physics exists, but I can't get to them.
So if I were to discuss leaving the Earth and you didn't know, because of my background and what I've been doing and the investigation and all that we've discovered, you could obviously think that I was off my rocker, that I was planning to do something tragic or preemptory or whatever, when in fact I'm discussing with you a mundane reality that to me is as boring as getting on a 747.
Well, yeah, but the larger overall picture here is important.
If you're suggesting that this alleged suicide was a murder and that this was done to crush further murders, if I'm right.
39 murders.
It was done to crush any further investigation into ufology, into what's present now, and we're about to talk about that, you believe, on and or around our planet.
But Richard, when you read this note, every major media, the major networks, ABC, how they were out here at my house, all of them, I'm not even going to bother ticking them off, the big ones, covered this note.
But you know what, Richard?
In every single case, they ignored the first half of the note, which would lead you away from believing that they believed there was some sort of spaceship behind Hailbob and that it had been planned for 22 years, and only showed the second half of the note and laid it on the whole UFO thing.
So, I mean, there was a carefully orchestrated campaign to lay this on ufology and UFOs in general, and they grabbed onto that like with 100 pounds of pressure, and they weren't going to let go.
No matter the facts, they weren't going to let go.
Because you had put so much on the ground in terms of the discussion around what was or what not hiding behind the comet.
In terms of that on The website, you could interpret that in a somewhat different way.
If I know there are spacecraft, all right, and they're not from here, and that's not a theory, it's not a rumor, I know that because I know there's 747s, all right, it doesn't matter whether there's one behind that cloud or one sitting at LaGuardia or whatever, there will be one along when I am told it will be there.
So I would interpret from their perspective, and I'm again taking them at their word from 20 years of documentation, which my source has provided me some interesting perspectives on.
They really believed, developing over this two-decade period, that there would come a time when physically, you know, those in this class would be physically removed.
It is official footage from the space shuttle mission of Columbia in Earth orbit in December of 1996.
The mission where the astronauts were supposed to take several spacewalks and go outside and basically build mock space station furniture, duplicating some of the tasks that will be undertaken during the construction and assembly of the space station components later in the next couple of years.
Well, it now turns out, in looking at this video, which we have, you know, examined maybe 50, 60 times now, I've been making copies and sending them out, so I've had a lot of chance to look at it.
I can well imagine why NASA didn't want to let their guys go out and play.
Because the activity going on outside that spacecraft by things that are behaving in a stunningly non-Newtonian fashion.
I mean, it's one thing when you see motion pictures of inside the shuttle to see astronauts tossing things back and forth.
And remember Newton's first three laws.
You know, first law, body at motion tends to remain at motion or at rest unless acted upon by an external force, right?
Meaning if I sail a film can across the cabin of the shuttle or the Apollo capsule, it will go until it hits the wall.
It won't stop in midair and decide, oh, I'm going to go this way.
And now, if it's a rocket and it has its own propulsion system, obviously it can maneuver, it can station, keep and all that, but you see a visible effect of rockets.
When you look at this video, when you get to see it, you are going to be mind-boggled.
There are a series of blinking objects at various rates that change their blink rates as they move back and forth across the field of view.
The camera zooms in on some of them and then zooms back.
They maneuver into frame at relatively high speed.
They then decelerate in the frame and hang motionless behind the shuttle at some indeterminate distance while the shuttle is moving in Earth orbit at five miles every second, a phenomenon we call station keeping.
Then the same object decides it's bored with doing this and it literally stops dead in space.
And the way you can tell this is that suddenly it's sharing the motion of the clouds behind the shuttle and it's moving off into the distance as the clouds 200 miles beneath are moving off toward the horizon.
Then it changes direction and drifts off the Earth again back into space as a kind of a twirling doci-dough around a series of other objects that have appeared, you know, both from the Earth and from up in space.
And all the while the astronaut or whoever's controlling the camera is trying to keep these things in the field of view and zooming in and trying to get close-ups and zooming back.
But extensive analyses by myself, Dr. Mark Carlato, and Dr. Jack Casher independently, Kasher in particular, because he had the computer program to really do an extremely thorough tail analysis, have unequivocally demonstrated to any physicist who really wants to look that what you see in that shuttle video footage that was downlinked by Satellite Live that night in September 1991 is not ice crystals.
Brand new mission, 1996, and the behavior of the objects is probably two or three orders of magnitude more bizarre and more blatant and more non-Newtonian and decidedly non-ice crystals.
I mean, if these are ice crystals, they're the most damnedest intelligent ice crystals I've ever seen.
And apparently those folks won one the other night, back in December, when they downlinked this thing on Satellite Live, and it was recorded, like the other was recorded, by people around the country, and they have provided us this video.
We have a system here that locks the line in, and it's literally impossible for it to be hung up on.
So we are losing the connection, and this is the second time around now, and it's beginning to bother me in more ways than one.
But I'll leave that alone and let us just proceed, and I guess not let that bother us.
You've made a very important statement.
You're saying things are flying around out there in space, in the atmosphere, outside the atmosphere, near the shuttle, and you're saying these things are what?
Well, let me start with what I can see in the video and what my colleagues are willing to attest to.
And the reason I'm not mentioning them by name is I don't want to put you guys under a lot of pressure, but I want them to do their work in quiet and peace.
And in a few days, when they've given the analysis, we'll put it on the web.
What we're looking at is obviously intelligently controlled systems, vehicles, whatever, that move across the field of view, hang motionless, station keep with the shuttle for a while, then decide to move in another direction and rendezvous with each other and twinkle.
And there's one portion where, and this is really amazing, and I didn't notice it until I looked at the tape a couple, three or four times.
When you have a chunk of ice in space or debris, it normally is not just sitting there.
Well, my point is that objects in space, not under intelligent or self-control, move in straight lines, and they tumble, and they blink at a constant rate.
In one part of this video, the camera operator, who was presumably at Houston, is really intrigued with this thing which flew into the field of view, station kept for a while, then left at five miles per second without getting dimmer.
How does a little tiny ice particle smaller than your fingernail get obviously 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 miles away from the shuttle and stay the same brightness?
There's a little thing called the 1 over R squared law, the inverse square law.
If I am shining by reflected sunlight and I start out at a certain distance from you, and then I move back to twice that distance, the laws of physics say that I will apparently become one quarter as bright.
Three times farther away, I'm one ninth as bright.
Five times, one twenty-fifth as bright, and so on.
When these objects move away, they maintain constant brightness, even though it's demonstrable, because they're moving with the ground speed of the clouds below the shuttle, that they're getting five miles further away each second.
So we're seeing several laws of physics just casually, rather frivolously, violated by what these things are doing.
And the most interesting and the most hilarious, and that's why I'm really smiling about this, is when the camera operator on the ground through the T-DR satellite remote control sends up the signals to frantically zoom in on one set of objects kind of cavorting at the edge of the atmosphere above the airglow, you can see before he starts to zoom that this object is blinking at a certain rate.
As he zooms in, the blink ray suddenly goes blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.
And when he zooms back out, it goes back to blink, blink, blink.
In other words, whoever it was was waving through the lights.
Now, there's no way that an ice particle can know, A, that you're zooming in on it and change its blink rate, change its tumbling rate.
The fact that whoever is in this vehicle can change the lighting means that it knows it is being photographed and it's semaphoring back.
Now, if I show this tape to the Heaven's Gate folks, there would be no doubt that they'd be packing their bags to get on these things if they were told that's what they were to expect.
The reason I suspect this is because, A, we know there's a physics that makes this possible.
I had a fax earlier tonight asking me if the events taking place over Phoenix, the so-called UFOs that appeared over Phoenix, which, by the way, looked remarkably like these things.
And there were seven of them, and they were in a cometary arc.
And according to some information, they hung over the horizon at 19.5 degrees.
Now, we know from tracking the papers and the studies and whatever that 30, 40 years ago, our guys were looking into this physics In terms of technology, it went underground, it went black, it went secret.
And I would not be at all surprised, in fact, I really believe it's probably deroguer, that after 30 or 40 years under wraps, this technology is now mature, and some of what we're seeing covorting around is our stuff, our guys, our hyperdimensional spacecraft, as I said.
Well, the reason I use the qualifier is because the blink rates are different, the behavior seems to be different, and some of them appear to be being used for target practice.
Things are being exchanged.
There are high-velocity things moving from one vehicle or one blinking light to another, which is kind of interesting.
In fact, it's this kind of interesting stuff that if I were Houston and the guy said, well, you were ready to go outside, Houston, I would have said, over my dead body, are you going outside?
Well, my recollection is when they got back down on the ground, they found a screw or something that was lodged in the mechanism that wouldn't allow them to open the door.
All right, we're not going to get to this yet, but before the top of the hour, I want to mention this.
There is on Richard Hoagland's webpage, which you can reach through mine or go to his directly.
It doesn't matter, something that we are about to discuss.
So you should go up there and begin to take a look right now.
Go to www.artbell.com and go to Richard Hoagland's webpage and go to the top item which says a key to the mystery of comet origins and begin to take a look at that because we're going to start talking about that after the top of the hour.
Just wanted to get that out so they can begin to go up there and take a look, Richard.
Richard, it documents a lot of crap that's going wrong on Earth right now, socially, in the economy, with the weather, with Earth changes, with every single aspect of human endeavor.
It documents things going south at a fast rate and an ever-increasing rate.
And I've got a feeling that what this human race is headed toward, in what I call the quickening, ties in in some way with what's beginning to go on at a faster and faster rate that you've been talking about tonight.
It all ties in somehow.
Now, I'm just a talk show host, and I documented what's going on, I think, quite well in that book.
But I would like to know if you think it ties in to this headlong race.
We're headed toward an event, Richard, of some sort.
We have proposed, based on this 15 years of trying to figure this out, that we are all immersed.
Reality is modulated by a background physics which is variable.
I'll give you one very critical example.
I have had a researcher in the field for the last couple of weeks trying to get to the bottom of a very interesting mystery, which is why, 20-some years ago when we established the atomic clock in Boulder at the National Bureau of Standards, why in the last 24 years have we had to add 20 leap seconds to the atomic clock to keep it in synchronization with the rotation of the Earth?
And when you try to get a serious straight answer from the physicists and the geologists and the geophysicists, nobody involved with this will give you a straight answer.
And it is mind-boggling to Imagine that the Earth has slowed down by 20 seconds in the last 24 years, given that measured rates of slowdown or de-spinning of the Earth are usually measured in milliseconds over thousands of years.
On the other hand, it is equally insane to believe that these incredibly precise atomic clocks, which now are the basis of the GPS system and military aids and the search crews looking for the A-10 and the positioning and guidance of the ICBMs and boaters and hikers and skiers and our entire infrastructure depends on constant atomic time to within seconds in thousands of years.
It's insane to believe that those clocks are all going crazy and have to be readjusted every year.
We're going to add another leap second on June 30th of this year, a few weeks from now.
So what's the answer?
The answer is the physics is changing, and none of the folks in the know have the guts to simply level with all the rest of us because this changing physics in their mind presages, if I can use a bellism, some event.
We have been publishing on this for the last 15 years, and it includes, you know, the books and the monographs and the various videos at NASA and the UN and Ohio State and other places.
And we've assembled them all in our own website, Ship Stores, which can be reached now through your website.
If people go to the top of your website, they'll see a little blurb regarding Enterprise and myself tonight.
From which you can go back to our homepage and start reading this interesting stuff on Hale Bopp that we're going to talk about in the next few minutes.
And to produce high-quality video product from that to provide the information to people out in the hinterlands all across the country tonight, that's not cheap.
So To defray this and to keep this investigation going in the face of some significant political opposition, and we won't mention that any further, but it's obvious that somebody doesn't want people to know this stuff, requires an independent source of funds.
Well, the simplest and most direct way of doing that is to basically let people pay the freight.
If you think this is valuable, you know, buy a book, buy a video, make a gift to somebody, and let them in on what's going on.
If you're new to Richard Hoagland and all that's being said tonight, and you were to try to recommend a good starting point for somebody to order one of your books or tapes, what would you recommend they order?
And I haven't seen the catalog yet, but I understand that they've done a neat job.
Anyway, if you really want to get a feel for how this all started and why, you know, a former Cronkite science advisor and Angstrom Medal winner and all that got into Airy Fairy's extraterrestrial ruins, this gives you the blow-by-blow the pleasure.
If you don't have a lot of time to read, and as an author, you'll make me cry if I hear you don't, but if you don't have a lot of time to read, then I would recommend that if you're brand new to this, you get one of the videos.
So we put one of these on video, the first major briefing where the head of the Lewis Research Center literally told the assembled audience, which was about 1,000 engineers and scientists in the auditorium there in Cleveland, as well as 4,000 around the rest of the center watching on closed circuit television,
all of whom were given an official government ID account number so they could charge their time watching my briefing to their official account.
That is really an overview, not only of the Mars material, but also of the physics.
You'll hear me mention 19.5, an awful lot on Art Bell Show.
That's because it turns out that the ruins at Sidonia on Mars and on the moon have been encoded with a particular recurring, repeating, redundant geometry.
Is that redundant enough?
And that geometry is in turn the code key to a new slash very old physics, it turns out.
A physics which not only allows us to predict the quickening, the rise in physics, the changes in weather, the geology, the bursts coming from the sun, all those interesting things, but also to basically limb out the motive power to allow spaceships like we're seeing in this STS-80 video,
which is not yet available, but will be, will join the PAC pretty soon, to be explained.
All you have to do is call 1-800-864-7991 or log on to our website, enterprisemission.com or our Bell's website, and you'll see the Enterprise logo at the top.
Actually, five sensors, including radar and some others.
I really don't know, but a total of five sensors that saw this thing.
Peter talked to the government employee who had received the images.
He specifically asked him if it was an artifact, could be an artifact, you know, some sort of packet drop or something that would create an artifact.
That employee very strongly suggested no, but now I've received this.
We have received some technical information that explains how an anomaly such as this can appear in both a visible and infrared.
At this point, we believe the likely explanation is a data drop caused by missing header or trailer information in multiple data blocks on a single scan line From the imager instrument.
Now, earlier when I talked to Peter, he had again spoken to this government employee who was standing by his guns.
So we have conflicting information, as we usually do, about whether we've really got something here, anomalous, or whether we've got a simple information drop.
I don't know which it is, but it sure is interesting.
In essence, they've got a good excuse to seal the mountain down.
Now, the only reason you seal a nuclear hardened facility, because as we said at the top of the show hours ago, a terrorist threat is not credible against a place like Cheyenne Mountain.
Although there are some facilities that are outside, not protected.
Well, this sounds, again, as I said a while ago, like a good excuse to keep people out because there's something going on on the screens you don't want unwanted eyes to see.
Now, if there is something hanging in orbit, see, again, if we didn't have this STS-80 video, I would be looking at this very differently and I would not be discussing this as forthrightly and as candidly as I am able to this morning.
But we got the goods.
We have waited all these years for when someone would give us the goods.
Now, you literally can almost see them waving.
When you zoom in on something out the shuttle, and it blinks back at you, changes frequency, and it's not, by the way, and we've eliminated this as a trivial explanation, when you zoom in and out on a scanning TV system, you can get what's called a marae effect.
It's like a beat frequency phenomenon, because the scan is one rhythmic process taking place, and the tumbling or the blinking is another.
So you put the two together, it's a reason, for instance, that wagon wheels on old westerns would go backward on the stagecoaches because of the stroboscopic effect between the shutter and the wheel turning.
Well, I want the audience who's not seen this to get very clearly in mind that when they see this video, which will be provided through Enterprise shortly in the next, hopefully, you know, couple, three weeks, or maybe two weeks at the outside, studio time we have to book and all that.
One quick backtrack, and then away we go on the comet because we've got to get to that.
But I think this is worth reading.
It's from Sherry in Hollywood, California.
Dear Art, I think Mr. Hoagland just might be right about the Heavensgate event.
And if so, one might look for the same secret society to be behind the Courtney Brown fake photo.
It certainly makes more sense to think that Courtney was acting out of fear than out of some strange ethical sense when he refused to reveal the source of the photograph.
That notwithstanding, if we are in a war, and I don't use that term literally, I'm using it metaphorically and psychologically, a war for the hearts and minds and souls of people about reality.
Then, you know, that old saw, all's fair in love and war.
There are casualties in war.
If one side believes it has absolute truth and it's absolutely the guardian of that truth and it will do anything because it's its heaven-sent mandate to keep the truth on track, then what are a few casualties here and there along the way?
In other words, we have ample human experience that when the stakes are high enough, casualties are acknowledged as being acceptable and inevitable.
And again, this is a hypothesis, and I'm raising it because there could be people out there in your very vast And quite alert audience that may have information that they themselves don't realize they have because it's almost like unless someone enunciates it and I've been listening and listening and listening and people have come close but no one has hit it on the head.
So tonight as we were discussing this I said to myself, well Hoagland, do you want to go out on one more limb with that cracking sound you hear behind you?
And then I said, what the hell?
I have determined, and I said on your show before, I'm going to tell the truth wherever it leads.
And the only way I can keep confidence with, you know, this constituency, with people who are following what we're finding out, is to tell them what we know just about when we know it.
Now, there are certain times when we know a little more than I can talk about, and I'm protecting sources like tonight, the analysis of this tape.
And the old Navy thing was a clear example where we took a leap into the unknown and marvelous things came back.
Which, by the way, reminds me, I want to close one loop.
One of the things reported where some people found scrawled in the cement, scratched in the cement of the sidewalk or on the store or in the form of neon projections, there was a common symbol outside of certain old Navy stores, almost like an identification, this is the place.
What I need is for people to either fax me or better yet take photographs of these symbols.
I'm not going to tell you what the symbol was because I want independent confirmation and I don't want to leave the witnesses, all right?
I want you to send the photographs to 122 Dodd, to the Enterprise Mission, look up our website, go into ARTS website, it's 122.Weehawken, New Jersey, 07087, or fax me at 201-271-1703.
And as many people who can provide me independent confirmation that these symbols, in fact, identify the interesting old Navy stores from just the run-of-the-mill old Navy stores, the better.
Now, Comet Halebaugh, there has been a great continuing argument about whether we have got a single large snowball, dirty snowball comet, that's what they call it.
It's what Alan Hale called it on this program.
Or whether, as Tom Van Slanderen has suggested, several or even many orbiting objects that make up what we think is one object.
And the reason that we care, I mean, if it was just because we want to know whether it's one object or a set of objects, I'd be getting a lot of sleep right now, all right?
Well, a lot of hot information on this show this morning.
If you would like a copy of this program, it's going to be a five-hour program, no doubt about that.
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All right.
Now we're going to talk a bit about Hailbob.
And I think the key question is, again, why it would be important whether a comet like Hailbob or other comets would be made up of one single entity, one dirty snowball burning its way across the cosmos, or many orbiting items that appear to be one item.
As I said before the break, because if it's more than one chunk, more than one iceberg, then via the calculable properties of a discipline called celestial mechanics, which is the art form of calculating orbits of celestial objects,
then Flandern has demonstrated compellingly that if it's more than one chunk, that those chunks got together not in a primordial process, but in a catastrophic former planet that blew up in relatively recent solar system history and changed everything.
The so-called quickening, the change in physics, the deterioration of the general solar system environment, a lot of other things that are going to happen to this planet that have happened before on a cyclic pattern in terms of what we've been working on, all of this can be traced now to Van Flandern's so-called missing planet.
And the shrapnel from that gargantuan, humongous, incredible, mind-bending explosion.
If you can imagine an entire world, you know, blazing into incandescence and the pieces, you know, that which is not vaporized, shooting into space in all directions, most of them to escape forever from the solar system.
And a few pieces raining back after millions of years to return as the long-period comets that we see.
You know, I threw a ball into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where.
The things that are coming back, the long-period comets with millions of years periods, if Tom is right, are the returning fragments of a world that was destroyed.
You really think same people do this to each other on a developing planet elsewhere than here?
We now have a possible reason why life on Earth is basically quite strange.
And that's a whole other discussion, which I can't get into right now, but we should probably spend some time discussing it someday when we know a little more.
The other important thing is you have to ask the question, what would cause a planet to blow up?
Well, we had in the last 30 years a bunch of guys, generals, you know, who basically crafted a policy called MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction, where we threatened a counterpart on the other side of the planet, a people with reasonably high technology and cultural values and history and all the human qualities that we have.
We threatened them with annihilation, as well as the rest of the world, just by casual side effect, if they launched a nuclear strike against us.
And it was called a sane policy, but it was called mad, mutual assured destruction.
Now, that's only with H-bombs.
If those same people with the same mentality in the 50s and early 60s, you know, the generals like, and I'm trying to remember Curtis LeMay, who was a quintessential example of a madman out of control, wearing a business suit and smoking cigars, who appeared on a day-to-day basis to be totally sane, but in fact was totally insane.
Because if you read any of his writings and read what he did and the policies that he implemented, he quietly could contemplate the deaths of millions of people just because he wanted to win.
He, when the Cuban Missile Crise was, you know, at its height, at its maximum danger.
Imagine the power to destroy a world in the hands of someone like Curtis LeMay.
And if Tom Van Clander is pursued to his logical conclusion, then the fact that in the nucleus of Hale Bopp there is not one object tonight spinning, but apparently several objects orbiting each other, and we'll get to how we have inferred that in a few minutes, that is telling us that A, the comets are in fact the reigning back fragments of this former shattered world.
I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
And the destruction of that world by the mindset that fueled the Cold War at its height, only with bigger toys and playthings that could destroy whole planets, that has irrevocably changed solar system history for the worse for the last several million years.
But during the crisis, when Kennedy was trying every way to keep from annihilating all of us, LeMay was pushing the envelope and he wanted a war with the Ruskies.
He did everything but push the button.
And that, to me, is evidence of congenital insanity.
Because LeMay at that time, this was now in 1962, all right?
Enough of the in-crowd had seen what this technology was doing to the hyperdimensional physics.
And that's another long discussion.
Remember, it was Curtis LeMay that told Senator Barry Goldwater to take a long walk off a short pier when Goldwater tried to find out as a civilian authority as chairman of the committee.
Yes, well, this man had abrogated himself powers that even presidents are only supposed to hold, and he felt nothing but contempt for the civilian constitutional authority because he felt that generals knew how to fight and win wars better than civilians.
My point is that if you look at his policies, if you look at the carpet bombing, if you look at the saturation bombing, the so-called strategic bombing, which he instigated in World War II, where for the first time mass civilians were simply massacred indiscriminately.
Curtis LeMay and people like him, you know, changed that whole equation, made it thinkable to consider the unthinkable, which included the mass extinction of millions of people in an all-out nuclear exchange to preserve, you know, remember that phrase, better dead than red?
What I'm saying by metaphor is that if you had equipped those people, of which LeMay was only one, there were a lot of others, all right, with the proper tools, they would have given half a chance, blown up the planet to save it.
And it looks like if Anne Flanders data is now to be, you know, followed, that someone did that millions of years ago.
This raises such profound questions, given the existence of demonstrable artifacts on other nearby worlds tonight, on Mars and the moon, and maybe other places.
And again, I'm now talking about this physics we've been working on.
And what happens, you see, is that when, and this is hard to describe without the diagrams, but if you look at the solar system as a system, which at one point prior to this catastrophe, which is of unimaginable consequences and magnitude, was in tune, was an in-tune, harmonious system.
Remember Kepler's phrase, the harmony of the spheres, the music of the spheres?
This was a poetic metaphor for a physics that related all the solar system objects to each other at a level where each interacted like a piece of well-oiled machinery in its place, in its orbit, with its frequency, doing what it was designed to do.
Now you take one of those components out, you blow it up, the rest of the system notices that something's missing.
It's like any well-crafted piece of machinery.
You take a gear out, you take sprockets out, you take the, you know, you detune your carburetor or whatever, and what used to run smoothly runs badly, if at all, or runs downhill, or grinds to a shuddering halt.
In other words, if you gum up the machinery, things don't work.
And removing a major planet in the planetary system, in terms of what we've now reconstructed for this physics, had shattering and overwhelming long-term consequences.
Not only physical, in terms of the geology of other worlds, in terms of axes, planetary axes flipping back and forth, searching for an equilibrium that can't be found, but also a profound effect on psychology,
on extinctions, on appearance of strange organisms, on the disappearance of other organisms, on aberrations of weather and vagaries of geology, all of which rises and falls in a series of short and long-term cycles as the system as a whole is desperately trying to reach a new equilibrium which it can never find.
And I can make some modest predictions based again on hyperdimensional physics as to what might be happening and some specific predictions in Terms of indicators that that which we're predicting is in fact occurring, but in terms of the specifics, an awful lot of it has to do with mindset.
It has to do with how we approach this singularity.
Whether we succumb to what is now called millennial madness, which is another word for fear, or we look with anticipation at the possibilities.
Because remember, this physics makes things possible that have not been possible for a long time.
By its very nature, as it rises, we gain more control.
And that's an unseen aspect which is not being promulgated.
In fact, the fearmongers would like to have you believe things are more out of control when, in fact, because the physics is rising, if you decide you're going to see a different outcome, there will be more control to that which you would like to see occur.
Why do you think it's so important that we reconnect with what Maxwell and those folks 100 years ago were trying to do?
They were trying to invent this physics, reinvent it, rediscover it.
And if something hadn't happened, which I'm beginning to strongly suspect was political, which was a deterrence to keep us from looking in all aspects of this set of possibilities, then we would be 100 years further down the road to gaining an upper hand in how to use this,
how to create appropriate technologies that would utilize it, how to basically understand the changes that are occurring and view them in a different perspective psychologically than fearing change.
You know, this is why I don't totally agree with your saying that everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
I see an awful lot of very positive things that are breaking out.
For one thing, I keep getting faxes from lots of people asking questions who never asked questions before.
It means that we have developed, your tax dollars and mine, a functioning hyperdimensional technology which isn't just used to kill people, which is what the LeMay types would have us believe is the only use for any of this stuff, but it's also free energy.
It's also a way to feed everybody on the planet.
It's a way to provide lighting and housing and all the things that people desperately need to live a halfway decent life.
This technology, this insights, this physics, which we have bought and paid for, and is flitting around in Earth orbit.
Which is what not only me is saying, but a lot of inside NASA folks who have the courage to stand up at a press conference and lay their careers on the line.
More of them coming every day.
If that's true, what else might also be a blind alley?
When I have you on the air and we do a program as we are tonight, I get reactions that vary from, man, this guy is traveling on about nothing or this is boring, to, oh my God, the light bulb went on.
This is the most exciting thing I've Ever heard.
And it seems to depend on how people listen to you.
If they really listen to you, they get it.
If they just sort of casually have the radio on, they don't get it at all.
It doesn't sink in, no light bulbs go on, and they just hear chatter.
And I get a mix, there's no middle ground.
They either seem to not get it or they completely get it.
Have you noticed that in the reaction that you get to people who write to you?
And a lot of people, because we're not used to, in this culture, taking anything seriously, except the Fed or New Kingridge's bank account or, you know, stuff like that, this does sound like it's coming from outer space to most people.
But even so, as I said at the top of the show, you yourself do not often tell your audience when you're being serious as opposed to when you have things on that are just fun and games.
And because we don't have an educational system that's worth anything in terms of discernment, in terms of figuring things out, what most people do is they listen for a familiar authority figure.
The fact that Ted Koppel says nice things about me, that Arthur Clark says nice things about me, that Bob Jastro says nice things about me.
These are people that some people know and everybody knows Koppel.
For a lot of people, it's going to be, oh, Ted Koppel says something nice.
Even though they haven't a clue as to what I'm talking about, it's just that Ted Koppel, an authority figure that they see every night on ABC, you know, acknowledged that I did something 20 years ago before NASA said it's true.
This reminds me of that old joke from my grandmother during the Depression when there wasn't a lot of food, and they were having guests over, and one of the young guys, one of the young kids, was trying to help with sitting up the table, and my grandmother said to him, now, look, there really isn't enough.
So dinner comes and dinner is served, and eventually my grandmother, you know, passes the potatoes around and says, you know, won't you have some more?
We have known Mr. Koppel for some years and his interest in our work has been more than casual behind the scenes.
He's been looking at this.
He told me once that he could not believe that there could be the kind of conspiracy that I am talking about because since he's been in Washington for 25 years, if anything like this had been going on, he would know about it.
You know, this is an extremely interesting position because it implies that just because you're Ted Coppel, you know everything that's going on.
It's a very dangerous position.
In fact, that's how media are manipulated.
By giving them the illusion, you know, that if it's something important, they will be notified.
When he properly acknowledged our priority in terms of the Europa material, I have it on excellent authority, because a friend of mine was there, that when he got into the elevator and was going down to leave that morning in his car, he made the comment to this crowded elevator that a lot of other things that had been revealed to him on the subject matter appeared to be coming true.
And if it's internally consistent and it's testable and you can go out and verify pieces of it, even if you can't verify all of it, then you should look further.
If you can't verify it, if none of it makes sense, then turn the dial.
But to me, I do listen to you, and you do make sense to me.
Sometimes it takes a while to get there, but you make sense to me.
And so that I understand why some of the audience, particularly the newbies, are missing it, because they just don't stick with it long enough to understand the points that you're trying to make.
And to some, getting there seems tedious, but these really are important points, and you can't just leap there, or you're going to really sound like a coop.
You've got to lay the base or it doesn't mean anything.
What I try to do, Art, many times, is to lay an appropriate foundation because I know that 99% of what I'm talking about for most people is like speaking Greek.
They've never heard it before or certainly never heard it in this context.
When I put together the material tonight for the web on Tom Van Flandern's material, La La Hale Bop, I had to put in a lot of background material to bring people who are going to come to this for the first time up on who Van Flandern is,
cometary models, the standard perceptions of the astronomical community, why we now think looking at Hale Bopp, we're seeing very striking, clear, if indirect evidence of these satellite fragments whirling around inside the nucleus.
And we've been trying to get the Hubble people to turn Hubble toward the comet.
The most extraordinary outrage is taking place, and I don't know quite what to do about it, so we might have some thoughts before the end of the evening.
We had been told that because of the constraints of not pointing Hubble toward the sun and the geometry of the comet, vis-a-vis the Earth and all that, that the next opportunity for Hubble to actually get close-ups of the comet will not be until August.
Because of the nearness, you know, roughly one AU astronomical unit away, roughly the Earth's distance to the Sun, and the size, the brightness, and the clarity of the various phenomena, I was very adamant that Tom should be pursuing, inside NASA, all efforts to get observations made of the nucleus with the extraordinary resolving power of this $2 billion instrument we've all paid for in Earth orbit.
When I was at the Hayden Planetarium many years ago, we had a comet come through called Cahotec.
The first of what were termed comets of the century.
I remember the fuss everybody was making at that time.
This was back in the, let's see, early 1970s, all right, 73, 74.
And we had crews going up the Skylab right after the moon missions at that time.
And it was such an extraordinary possibility of surveying a comet from airless space that I remember that the astronauts in Skylab were doing observations and relaying them down to Houston by radio, taking pictures, taking quest stars, using solar instruments to make some observations of Kahotec, which was nowhere near as interesting as this extraordinary thing called Hale-Bop.
Well, the other day when the shuttle astronauts were in the shuttle in orbit, there was not one experiment or one mission directive or one reference by that crew to this comet.
And even more astonishing, we have an instrument up there that was just serviced and upgraded with new instruments, you know, Hubble.
And I found out through sources that Hal Weaver, who is a young astronomer in Baltimore at the Space Telescope Institute, who basically beat his comets with Hubble.
He was the one that directed the incredible Hubble shots of the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter.
Hal Weaver had applied to Dan Golden and the hierarchy at NASA to hide in the shadow of the Earth, which would allow them to point close to the Sun, which would be hidden by the Earth itself, and to get extraordinary close-ups of the intimate, exquisite details with the full resolving power and all the instruments aboard Hubble, and had been turned down.
Tom Van Flandern, at my urging, tried to renew the request and go above lever and get to the people who were actually in charge of the decision, and he was told literally yesterday afternoon that they didn't do it because it would mean too many other observations would have to be postponed, and there was no basic scientific value in it.
Now, this is an outrage because Hubble is the only instrument in existence which could peer from Earth into the heart of this brilliant comet and could discern whether there is one object twirling on its axis or multiple objects.
And as I've laid out in the last few minutes, if there are multiple objects, according to Van Plander and his calculations, it means that these objects, these comets, are formed by an extraordinary event in solar system history, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And the implications for astrophysics, for astronomy, geology, sociology, who we are, what's happened in the solar system, for everything is profound.
Now, I cannot believe, in real conscience, that they're telling Tom the truth.
I think they have taken this data, and it's one of those things that is being kept secret and away from the people who are paying for this mission.
Okay, Richard, at the possible expense of myself going out on a limb again, there are still reports coming in of very anomalous things occurring with regard to Hailbob.
I sent you a couple of faxes, I think, earlier tonight about it.
And because, I suppose, of the big hubbub, they're being buried, they're not being talked about, but there are many anomalous things about Hailbob.
And to imagine that they're not taking their best shot with their best facility to take a look at this and settle this very important argument.
For some reason, they bumped him over, you know, one receptionist to another, and he got to talk to the guy who actually designs the observations.
And he admitted that they've now worked out a procedure whereby they can cheat on this close aiming toward the sun.
So they didn't have to hide in the shadow of the earth as the spacecraft would sail into the shadow and have about five minutes of clear viewing, they can look at hail bop from the day side of the earth, meaning they could have a half an hour or three quarters of an hour observation.
Now, I think this is an outrage, and I'll tell you what I would like to do.
I would like some of those 15 million open-minded people who follow you every night, Art, to pick up their fax machines and to put in a piece of paper and to send it to Dan Golden at NASA headquarters.
I would like NASA to know that the American taxpayer thinks this is an egregious abridgement of the normal procedure whereby science is addressed in this country now, which is at the taxpayers' expense.
At least that's what they're saying they're not doing.
In fact, I don't think anybody in their right mind would let this opportunity go by and not bring all those instruments to bear on extraordinary problems which have incredible implications, even if you discount Dan Flandern totally.
And what I would like to do is have a whole set of facts show up on Dan Golden's carpet because then I can direct media people like Ted Koppel to ask Mr. Golden why, in God's name, aren't you taking some data and see what he says.
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That's how fast it's, and the whole first printing is going to be gone.
Either way, for Richard's materials or my new book, The Quickening, you can call 24 hours a day, 1-800-864-7991.
That's 1-800-864-7991.
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Now, here again, Art Bell.
Good morning, everybody.
Richard C. Hoagland is my guest, and this morning's program has not been, as you can tell, a caller-driven program.
We may get to a few calls here, I don't know.
I've got something that I think Richard is going to very much enjoy in a moment, or maybe not.
It is a fresh Associated Press report.
Maybe he can explain it.
I sure can.
9-6-60-60.
All right.
What I'm going to do is read an Associated Press story, Clear the Wire, at 3.09 a.m., sent to me by Robert, my affiliate at K2MS.
It's entitled, Physicists Theorize Space is Not the Same in All Directions.
Far from a random jumble of galaxies in empty space, two physicists now say the universe may have an ordered structure.
The Kansas and New York scientists say they studied scores of distant galaxies, and they found that radio signals from one part of the heavens acted differently than those from other parts.
Essentially, they say the universe has structure that extends billions of light years across space.
The discovery, should it hold, could have any number of explanations, according to the researchers among them, that the Big Bang that many believe created the universe was not a uniform blast, but in effect bulged out in more than one direction.
Or it could mean there's some physical force that scientists have previously overlooked.
Their theory will be published Monday in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Yeah, well, those events are extremely controversial because it depends on, well, they're just rare and controversial.
We do see in the galaxy, in this spiral pinwheel, about 100,000 light years across, clouds of gas and dust.
The dust is shining by reflected light.
But by and large, the stuff we see in the rest of the universe, if it isn't self-luminous, we don't see it.
About 20 years ago, a young astronomer named Virginia Trimble, I'm sorry, Vera Rubin, not Virginia Trimble, Vera Rubin, was measuring rotations of galaxies using a technique that we don't have to get into.
And she discovered that galaxies are rotating very differently than had been predicted by all previous models.
When you look at the solar system, which is shaped kind of like a very thin disk with the planets all orbiting in one plane, Mercury goes around the Sun every 88 days.
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Pluto goes around in 248 years, and they're about 4 billion miles apart.
In other words, the inner planets are racing around, and the outer planets move very slowly.
This is because of something called Kepler's third law.
Well, astronomers like Dr. Rubin expected that when we look deep into the universe and we're looking at rotations of whole galaxies, that galaxies like solar systems, like our solar system, would revolve with the central part spinning very fast around the center and the outer edges trailing very far behind and moving very slowly.
In fact, what Vera and her colleagues discovered was that galaxies, unlike the solar system, rotate essentially like LP records, like solid objects, even though they're composed of billions and billions of separate stars and a lot of other stuff, right?
Meaning that the outer parts go around in the same period of time that the inner parts go around, which from known laws of physics was impossible.
So using that known law, which was basically Newton's theory of gravitation, there came into being the idea that, well, to account for these anomalous rotations, there had to be more stuff in the galaxy that could be accounted for by the luminous stars.
And they modeled how it was distributed and how much there was and where it was above and below the plane and all that.
Ultimately, it turned out that to account for the rotations of galaxies that are observed all over space now by spectroscopes and big telescopes, including Hubble, 99% of the matter in the universe that accounted for these rotations had to be totally invisible.
Suppose over the enormous distance scales, Tom Van Planer goes into this in his book a bit, over enormous distance scales, gravity does not behave the way it does above the Earth or in the solar system.
But in fact, there are different scaling laws when you get into truly immense distances, thousands of lights as opposed to, you know, a few light hours or a few light seconds.
If that were true, it would mean that the motions that they're seeing of these galaxies are in fact observable or explainable by not invoking that 99% of the universe is composed of matter that has never been seen and can never be seen.
In other words, we're proposing the existence of something based solely on our theory.
And if the theory is wrong, the observational conclusions will be incorrect, and you'll go down the wrong canyon.
So it's interesting that these guys are going to publish a paper which says that if you look in certain directions in space, the signals somehow are different than they are here.
I obviously don't know any of the details.
I need to read the paper.
But what it seems to me to be approaching is the hyperdimensional model, which says that space, the structure of space, the reality of space, the laws of physics themselves are uniquely determined by what's going on in terms of mass rotating in that region of space,
and that all of the space can't be viewed as uniform with the laws the same all over simultaneously from one end of the universe, whatever that means, to the other.
I'm going to wonder what a secret we're talking about.
Steve has been independently researching some of the lunar data, and at a future time, Art, he has some pretty interesting things to lay out, both on our website and maybe in a program with you.
We now have the first generation of SDS-48, which we didn't have when I did the extension of the UN.
So what we're going to do is a composite tape, the analysis, and computer overlays, and this critical assessment by this team of aerospace professionals who literally worked out all the rendezvous equations and have worked with our space hardware for the last 30 years.
And when they say this stuff is doing things that can't be done, people will believe them.
Because they're the guys that got us to and from the moon, among other things, with old-fashioned rockets.
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Whatever we're looking at in this video, it ain't rockets.
Right.
Second question.
I've been a four-page facts to you just a little while ago on some NASA JPL pictures of they were put in there by the director of publications, you know, Mrs. Anderson, who, incidentally, I'm going to send a fax to respectfully request that she and company access your paper.
And they had a picture of low-bate flows with volcanic vents on the moon.
Well, it may be that this so-called planet-wide ocean or satellite-wide ocean that we've been talking about, that I was talking about, may not be planet-wide.
There may actually be pieces of solid stuff sticking up, i.e.
continents, in which case we have an even more eerie analog to Earth in terms of Europa.
And that portends a whole other discussion, which we have no time to get into tonight.
Well, I would be very interested in that video, so if you would send it to me, I'd be glad to take a look.
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How's that?
Well, the sound is great, but I want to tell you one story.
You probably heard about real TV.
I'm sorry?
Real TV, right?
Real TV, yes.
All right.
So I sent a tape to them.
I talked to the folks, and they called me back and said, unfortunately, we cannot accept it right now because we don't have much interest for you as both.
All right.
Well, if you will send it to me, I will show some interest and watch it and pass it on to other people.
It's very difficult to get precision in terms of times.
All we can say is they've happened before and they will happen again.
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First time caller align.
You're on the air with Richard C. Holtman.
Hi.
Hello.
No.
Hey, is this...
Well, who are you calling?
Oh, I'm calling you, but I'm totally shocked that I got here.
Okay.
The radio's on, so I thought, and I didn't.
Turn it off.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I turned it off.
Okay.
I have something interesting that, well, it might interest you guys.
I'm from Auburn, Washington.
Yes.
Okay.
There's a supermall here that has the old Navy store here.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, this is really pissing me off because I can't remember the, I think it was a star with a circle around it.
There was a thing above the sign that was in the mall.
Can you go and photograph it?
Absolutely.
Send me the picture.
Oh, yeah.
I have a story I have to tell you because it's very, very interesting.
I walked in there and because I heard what you said about it before, and we tried to call that number, and you know, and it said that there weren't any stores in our area.
So, and because we were in Bellingham then, we were in Bellingham because we were staying up with some friends.
We heard your program, we just called it, and we said, blah, blah, blah.
There's no stores in this area.
But, okay, so I went to the mall the other day.
I walked in there, and there was a woman with, she looked like, she had headphones on, and plus she had like a hip pack on, like black stuff.
I don't know, like it looked like maybe there was a battery holder and stuff for her head piece or something, but she was like decked.
Head was just weird.
And she never looked up at me or anything, but I asked her, she was like really rude, you know, and I thought that's really strange that she would be standing right in the doorway because, you know, it can do anything about like dying stuff.
You know, that that kind of a look would scare people away.
Exactly.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
You know, and so it was this weird kid.
I went in.
She never looked up at me once, not even once, no eye contact, but I just decided to leave.
But I said, well, can you tell me where the nearest bathroom is?
Because I'm four months long pregnant.
You're not first, so I had to go to the bathroom at the wrong time.
But she goes, yes.
She goes, the closest one is right outside the doorway, down the hall, and to the right.
So before, which is stupid, what I did is I did exactly what she said, but I went down this hallway in the mall, thinking, you know, she's the hallway in the mall, never looking up to see what the hallway sign said above where I was going, right?
I went down this hallway.
I swear to you, this is 100% true story.
I have no reason to lie.
I went down this hallway, which had cameras, you know, like cameras when you see in the malls, in the hallways.
But then I took a left, because then it did say down there that there was a bathroom.
And I saw two rooms, huge rooms with cast iron, like steel doors.
And they said that there's showers.
Shower rooms, which I don't know why they have in the mall, but I'm just trying yours here.
I saw it down there.
Then I saw someone opening a door.
It was a man dressed like she was.
But it was a man.
I mean, he had this headset on, too.
And there was a whole bunch of men in there.
I didn't see any women.
I don't know what that has to do with it, but I just saw a bunch of men.
They were all wearing this kind of headset like her.
See, I only saw in here because I'm walking towards the bathroom.
So one of them walks into this room.
He opens the door, so I just see a crack.
So no one showed me in or anything.
But I thought it was really strange.
And I thought it was strange that there were shower rooms, and there was hundreds of rooms down there that weren't, they didn't, like they weren't entrances.
You know, like I've worked in a mall before.
And I've worked, like you'd walk out of the back of the office and it'll say, you know, enter this exit or whatever to go back into your own little store, you know.