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April 16, 2002 - Art Bell
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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Hoagland - Face on Mars and Cydonia Region. Whitley Strieber - UFO Activity in Chile
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art bell
From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I hit you all.
Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever in the world you may be.
unidentified
All 24 times we cover every single one of them.
art bell
Actually, the time zone was like half an hour sometimes.
Actually, I'm a half hour spending hour.
Wouldn't you hate to live there?
They probably have daylight savings time, too.
unidentified
Anyway, good morning, I'm Mark Bell, and this, of course, is post a.m.
art bell
And I just noticed something before I did the show.
Once I put on the headphones, you know, with my microphone, I always wear a headset with a microphone.
It's the only way I operate.
I leave you hands free to turn around and look around without going off mic.
Because I move all around this room to computers and stuff.
And I noticed that before the show actually started, I talked to myself.
It just, you know, I'm giving time cues and stuff like that.
And I'm sitting here doing it in the mic and realizing, not really realizing that absolutely nobody is listening.
Even talking about the music, you know?
That's weird.
Well, we had, as you know, a gigantic windstorm here in the Park Valley.
Told you about it yesterday morning.
It was devastating to parts of the valley.
Parts of the valley look like they've been hit by a hurricane or a tornado, you know, houses turned upside down.
Oh, my God.
I took a bunch of photographs, but in view of the fact that it's private residences here, I'm not going to put them up.
The devastation here is awful.
Now, look at this.
What is God trying to tell us anyway?
Tonight, I'm going to read you a forecast for our area tonight.
Mostly clear and breezy.
That's what they call it in the desert when it's not real windy.
Lows near 43 south wind, 15 to 25 miles an hour with local gusts to 35 miles an hour.
But then tomorrow, they actually use the word windy.
And with it, they associate gusting to 45 miles per hour.
So here it comes again.
The man who wrote the book with me, my co-author, is Whitley Streeber.
And let me tell you, folks, there's something going on in South America that you don't know about.
But in a minute, you're going to.
Whitley's got the lowdown as much as one can have it at this hour.
But there is action in South America.
Now, also, I want to drop in Dr. Stephen Greer is going to be on tomorrow night.
We've rescheduled him for tomorrow night.
And then coming up in the second hour, Richard C. Hoagland, we've got the new Mars Photographs of the Face, as many of you know.
And so, oh, we have so much to talk about with Richard.
That's kind of a...
there's going to be a lot happening tonight.
I suggest you stay right where you are.
Proving at times that half a thunderclap is better than nothing.
All right.
Now, down to Texas, where they had some tornadoes today.
I was looking at that on a weather map.
It was weather.
Oh, my God, the weather.
But that's not the reason he's here tonight, although I would say we probably ought to spend a few minutes going, We Told You So, or something like that.
Here is author of one of my favorite books of all time.
No, not Communion.
It was great.
I love that.
And I know it's a big book, but War Day.
War Day.
God, I loved War Day.
Whitley, welcome to the program.
whitley strieber
It's good to be back, Art.
art bell
I might add, host of Dreamland, which airs Saturday evenings.
whitley strieber
That's right.
And we're going to have Zachariah Sitchin.
art bell
All right.
whitley strieber
So that should be a lot of fun.
art bell
It is.
whitley strieber
Yeah.
art bell
All right.
Well, look.
You called me up the other day, and you said, hey, Art, something's going on in South America.
UFO type something going on in South America now.
whitley strieber
Yeah, it's real interesting.
art bell
What's happening?
whitley strieber
Well, in late March, there was a UFO Congress in the Cipresas River National Reservoir in Roncagua, Chile.
Now, that's quite a mouthful, sixtopaz.
art bell
I wouldn't have tried it.
How does that down in Chile?
whitley strieber
Well, no, I just wanted to say exactly where it was.
It was in the mountainous area of Chile.
art bell
Congratulations.
whitley strieber
Beautiful area, by the way.
Sort of like the Rockies in a way.
And the interesting thing is that Sixto, whom I know is a very nice fellow.
art bell
What's his name?
whitley strieber
Sixto Paz, PAZ.
He predicted on national media in Chile about six months ago that this would happen.
Now, this sort of predicting has been done by UFO people for years, and it's always wrong.
There was a...
art bell
On what basis, pray tell, would anybody predict UFO activity?
whitley strieber
This is the interesting thing.
There has been something going on in the Spanish-speaking world very, very different than what's been happening here.
art bell
Oh, how so?
whitley strieber
Well, for a while.
I mean, since about 1988 or 89.
And there have been much more close encounters and so they're having flap after flap.
art bell
How close are these?
Now, you know, I heard all the old stories lately about airplanes down in Mexico City colliding with UFOs and that kind of thing.
That leaked into the country and made fairly decent amount of news, at least in ufology, but what you're telling me is new.
whitley strieber
Well, yeah.
I'll give you an example of the type of things that have been happening in the past few years down there.
Absolutely unreported, of course, in the U.S. media, because officially in this country we decided this doesn't exist.
art bell
So if we don't even report our own, why report theirs, right?
whitley strieber
No.
So this is the kind of thing that Paws will report from time to time.
Quote, we saw a ship that landed in front of our eyes with being standing about 6.5 feet tall wearing shiny bodysuits.
art bell
Oh, my God.
whitley strieber
Now, this was recent.
We have, incidentally, it's the lead story on unknowncountry.com right now.
It was the lead story a couple of days ago.
We put it back up for your listeners tonight.
art bell
Okay.
whitley strieber
So if they want to go to Unknown Country, they can see it.
Now, what's interesting about this is at virtually the same time in Australia.
art bell
Well, yeah, but wait a minute.
Stop.
Let's roll back to this one.
I mean, you said a craft landed with beings.
I'd like more details.
What kind of craft?
unidentified
How did they get it?
whitley strieber
Well, that's all I have, because one of the problems I've had with this is that I can't get a hold of anyone involved in this conference who is in Chile, including the people I know from the States and Europe who went there.
Everybody's still down there.
art bell
Oh, okay.
All right.
whitley strieber
And out of communication, I can't find them.
art bell
Okay, but this is a serious close encounter of the third kind, right?
whitley strieber
Oh, yeah.
But there was another one in Australia at virtually the same time.
art bell
Australia.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitley strieber
And I'll quote this.
This is near Alice Springs.
There's been quite an extraordinary wave of UFOs near Alice Springs in the past month.
And this is what's so interesting about this.
One of the investigators says, quote, the witness told me she saw a triangular-shaped craft, and then three silvery beings came out of it and walked toward her.
art bell
Silvery beings again.
whitley strieber
Again, exactly.
That's what's so interesting.
And of course, the people in Chile have no idea what was going on in Australia because they're out of contact with each other.
But the thing in Chile that's so extraordinary is on the 29th of March, they saw some very large UFOs in the area where the conference would be held.
And this is not unusual, by the way.
There have been extensive UFO sightings at UFO conferences.
I've actually witnessed some of this myself.
art bell
Actually, you know, that's even occurred here, down in Laughlin, places like that.
whitley strieber
That's right.
A couple of years ago in Laughlin, at a big UFO conference, there were just incredible UFO sightings.
unidentified
Now, maybe, you know what?
art bell
Maybe the aliens have given up on the United States and Canada.
Maybe they've basically said, you know, we've tried.
We've flown with our airliners.
We've made landings.
We've even had a couple of crashes.
We're trying to be noticed, but not to disturb the population, but sort of get word out.
And it's just not working there in the U.S. Let's work on South America and Australia now.
whitley strieber
Well, the thing is that it doesn't really work where basically all you have to do to get rid of them is to send up jets.
It's not hard at all.
You have to shoot.
You have to indicate that you don't want them here, and that's what our government does.
So it's at a very low level here.
And I think that, frankly, that if this ever solidifies and becomes a permanent state of contact, the countries that are involved in it will become the leaders of the world over the next few years.
art bell
Okay, Wait, I'm with you.
whitley strieber
Those will be the important countries.
art bell
Yeah, I'm with you there.
But if what you're saying is true, then the greatest nation on earth would certainly know that, wouldn't they?
And they wouldn't send the guys with the phasers and the new technology down to South America and Australia.
Would we want those places to be the ruling technological centers of the world enslaving us?
No.
whitley strieber
Well, I don't think they would enslave us that they wouldn't.
art bell
I'm exaggerating, wouldn't you?
I'm exaggerating.
My whole point is, why would we, we wouldn't, it seems to me, at least, in essence, send them away by chasing them with motor aircraft or whatever.
whitley strieber
But we have, don't it?
art bell
Into the arms.
Why would you have a why?
whitley strieber
Because we didn't understand what they were, and our government was afraid.
That's essentially why.
art bell
You really think so?
whitley strieber
Yeah.
The Peruvian government and Chilean governments both have programs dealing with this in a much different way.
art bell
How so?
whitley strieber
Well, they're much more open about it.
They don't necessarily, people in those countries, scientists in those countries, don't necessarily believe in UFOs.
They're no different from scientists here, but it's a much more open-minded situation, and there's certainly no question of any kind of military action against them.
In Australia, I don't really know what the situation is.
I do know that the Outback has, especially around Alice Springs.
art bell
No, that I've heard.
whitley strieber
Yeah, there's been a lot of UFOs.
Let me go on about what was happening in Chile, because it's really quite extraordinary.
art bell
Yeah, absolutely, whatever you know.
whitley strieber
Well, during the conference, 24 people disappeared physically in front of a large crowd.
art bell
What?
whitley strieber
They went into another state.
art bell
Do you mean physical?
whitley strieber
Physically, yes.
art bell
Oh, Whitley.
Oh, my goodness.
whitley strieber
Now, whether this was videotaped or not, we don't know.
art bell
May I ask, let me stop you.
We're saying it's pretty incredible, right?
whitley strieber
If it happened, yeah.
art bell
That's my question.
How reliable is your source?
How well do you know this person?
whitley strieber
Well, I know these people who are Reporting this pretty well.
And it's been reported in the Chilean and Peruvian press.
art bell
Oh, really?
whitley strieber
Yeah, and we have translated it on our website.
Basically, we translated the story.
art bell
You got the whole story on your website.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Oh, my.
whitley strieber
And I don't have any reason to disbelieve this, except it's so incredible.
art bell
It is incredible.
You said 24 people.
whitley strieber
24 people.
I think I presume they came back.
art bell
You mean it doesn't mention that part?
whitley strieber
I'm not clear on that, no.
unidentified
Jeez.
Jeez.
whitley strieber
Let me see.
It's like seeing a person disintegrate in front of your eyes, is one of the eyewitnesses said.
art bell
Just like Star Trek Transporter.
whitley strieber
Well, apparently, yeah.
Now, what's interesting is I want to talk to some of the people this happened to, and I think I probably will be able to do that.
I know some UFO investigators who are there and who were there.
art bell
I'll tell you what I'd be working on, Willie.
And if you don't want it, work on it.
If you're not going to do it on Dreamland, then bring them on, and I'll do it.
In other words, get a translator on one line, and get me an actual participant on the other line, and let's rock.
whitley strieber
Well, let's do it.
I mean, I'm going to get, as soon as I get a hold of Sixto, as soon as he comes down out of wherever he went, we'll find out more.
art bell
So wait a minute.
whitley strieber
This is sort of a headstock.
art bell
So then your source, are you telling me your source is one of those who went and who didn't.
whitley strieber
And nobody's told me that.
So we're waiting to find out and to find out if these people, what they experienced.
art bell
Oh, here, folks, is news you can't even get on the BBC.
whitley strieber
Not yet.
art bell
What date did this occur?
Do you know?
whitley strieber
This occurred in the first week of April.
art bell
First week of April.
whitley strieber
week before last.
art bell
This is such an amazing story.
You would think, wouldn't you, as incredible as this is, that at least some tabloid or something here would pick that up.
whitley strieber
Well, I know, but the thing is that you'll find that stories that appear in the non-English language press do not arrive in the United States very quickly.
art bell
That's a very good point.
whitley strieber
But, you know, we're reading these, and one of the great things about a system, a news-gathering system like we have on our website is that there's volunteers all over the world speaking every language and every newspaper.
If something like this happens, we're going to hear about it.
art bell
And again, Whitley, if we're saying that if we're not even reporting our own UFOs nationally in the major media, then why would we report theirs?
whitley strieber
Well, We certainly wouldn't report this because it's too unusual.
American press would assume that this was nonsense.
And, you know, we're going to be blindsided by this, I think.
I believe that the United States has really just lost its edge in this area.
art bell
Well, how do you imagine that might have happened?
I mean, what I said a little while ago really still is, you know, if there was technology gain to be made, I just can't believe the United States would, in essence, drive them off.
And what's just because they're scared of them, they don't understand them?
whitley strieber
Well, if you read, I believe the National Space Act of 1953, we cannot NASA, for example, cannot release any information about essentially unknowns in outer space until it's cleared by the military.
The military is never going to clear it if they don't know whether or not it represents a threat.
Therefore, the bureaucracy has been frozen.
But you know, back in 86 and 87 and 88, when I was just fresh out of my communion experience, I was being asked questions by many people in the intelligence community and in the United States government in various areas.
They knew nothing.
Except they all did come to me with the same assumption, and that is that it was real.
At the same time, the press in this country and in most of the Western world has a kind of institutionalized, knee-jerk reaction of laughter.
And it's nervous laughter is what it is.
They're scared.
They're all scared.
But apparently in the culture of Latin America, in the Spanish-speaking world, people are just more open and more willing to take a look at it.
And maybe that's true of the Australians, too.
unidentified
I don't know.
whitley strieber
But in any case, it's a real interesting case.
And the fact that we're seeing reports coming in from Australia and from Chile at the same time suggests that maybe there is something in it.
art bell
Okay, well then, is it logical to think that at an event of that sort, there would be any number of people who would have video cameras running, if not an absolute dedicated camera to document the whole thing?
And I'm referring to the meeting itself, right?
whitley strieber
It is extremely logical.
And if that didn't happen, then I'm going to be very suspicious, quite frankly.
art bell
Well, if I get a video of a ship and, let me see, silver men and 24 people disappearing, or even two out of the three, I think, Witt, that would do the trick for me.
whitley strieber
Well, if I think that this is if there's really something huge here, I'm going to jump on a plane down to Santiago.
art bell
Are you?
whitley strieber
Oh, sure, because I'm not going to be able to do it.
art bell
Oh, lucky you.
whitley strieber
I'm not going to miss this.
art bell
Oh, lucky you.
I'd love to do that.
But, you know, here I am every night, so I would have to.
I'll have you on the air from Santiago if I do that.
whitley strieber
Yeah, but it remains to be seen.
I'm not going to go all the way down there.
art bell
For nothing.
whitley strieber
Hold on.
art bell
At the bottom of the hour, Whit.
We'll be right back.
This is basically my philosophy of life.
That's what she's singing about.
My philosophy of life.
Something gets in your way.
Go round it.
unidentified
No, I always get back.
I hit up, hit up, cool down When something gets in my way I go round it Don't let life get me down.
Gonna take it the way that I found it.
I got music in me.
Yeah.
I got music in me.
I got music in me.
Be inside of the sand, the smell of the touch.
There's something inside that we need so much.
The sight of the touch, or the scent of the sand, or the strength of an oak leaves deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers to be covered and then should burst up through tarmac to the sun again.
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing, to lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing, All these things in our memory tall, when the youth will come.
To fuck up Yeah Ride, ride my soul Take this place On that street Just for me
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art bell
It is exactly that.
Good morning, everybody.
At the top of the hour, Richard C. Hogan, new pictures of Sidonia.
Very important new pictures of Sidonia.
I intentionally have not looked.
I want to see them same time you do tonight as we engage Richard C. Hogan at the top of the hour right now with an incredible story.
We've got Whitley Streeber, and boy, I've got a couple more questions.
Remarkable things going on, for example, in Ecuador.
And, you know, if that kind of thing really was going on, I, too, would get on an airplane, no doubt about it.
All right, my webmaster, Keith Rowland, is on the road right now.
So he didn't get a link up to Whitley's website, but if you want to see the translated story he's talking about, go to his website.
It's unknowncountry.com.
UnknownCountry.com, right, Whit?
whitley strieber
Yep, that's right, Art.
art bell
All right, all right, listen.
In 1947, we do have a fairly credible story in the world of ufology.
And then I interviewed Colonel Corso any number of times before his passing, as you know.
And he documents incredibly well a technological transfer that he made of that crashed stuff that led to all kinds of modern inventions that we have now, it is claimed.
So that would mean that we would know that there would be tremendous technological gain from something like this.
And it's hard for me to believe we'd turn our backs on that.
whitley strieber
Well, I think, though, that it might be that the spiritual gains and gains in consciousness would be even greater.
unidentified
And perhaps there's a lot of ideological.
art bell
We might turn our backs on that.
whitley strieber
Oh, yeah.
I think that there would be a lot of ideological reason to try to keep the American people away from that.
art bell
Well, what makes us think that Catholics are going to take it so well?
whitley strieber
Well, they do.
They seem to have a pretty good handle on it.
Monsignor Balducci, who I know that your listeners know about, is a...
art bell
No, not everybody knows.
Tell them who he is.
whitley strieber
Okay, well, Monsignor Balducci is a cleric.
He is retired now.
He's worked in the Vatican.
And he has given interviews stating, frankly, that he thinks there is something in the UFO business.
art bell
Yeah, well, we know the Vatican's got a lot of telescopes that they write right through to look up into space for some reason, huh?
whitley strieber
Yes, and I had dinner with Monsignor Balducci at his home in the Vatican with Michael Hesseman, the German UFO reporter, a couple of years ago.
And they had a long conversation about this and the degree to which the Pope knew about it.
he wasn't willing to say that, but he was certainly...
He said that he felt that there was a place for the Church in this because this was primarily going to be a spiritual matter.
That was his thought.
art bell
Would you read between the lines here, Whitley, that the Pope does know?
whitley strieber
I would read between the lines that the Pope is aware of it.
That was my impression, certainly.
But nothing like that was ever said directly.
when I asked direct questions about it, I wasn't told no.
art bell
In other words, when I asked the question, No.
whitley strieber
He was very Italian, and I got more wine.
art bell
You got more wine.
unidentified
You got more wine, didn't you?
whitley strieber
Well, Michael Hesseman was going to have a very early morning audience with the Pope the next morning.
And Monsignor Valducci, partly to celebrate the evening and also partly to play a joke on Michael, who loves good wines, kept bringing out these incredible ancient wines from his wine cellar and torturing him with them.
He'd take a little sip of each one because he didn't want to be, you know, he wanted to be.
art bell
I mean, did he see like one pope or three popes?
whitley strieber
Excuse me?
art bell
Did he see like one pope or three popes?
whitley strieber
Well, no, he was absolutely fine, but when Martino Valducci drove me and Anne back to our hotel, I realized that the three of us were not in such good shape.
I began to see the Vatican and then the rest of Rome shooting around outside like we were aborting you.
art bell
Actually, yeah, driving in Rome, even cold, sober in a taxi is, you know.
unidentified
Right.
whitley strieber
Well, with an Italian priest whose trust in God is absolutely total and he's got three bottles of wine in him.
art bell
Interesting.
That is funny.
Anyway, Logi was very highly placed then.
I think we can assume that the Vatican would be aware.
whitley strieber
Oh, I think the Vatican is aware, and I think the Vatican is very comfortable with it.
The Pope has said that if we ever were to come into contact with people from other worlds, that we should treat them in the same way that we treat human beings.
art bell
Okay, but you know, if that's true and the Pope and the Catholic Church behind the scenes are comfortable with it and we're not, then what does that mean?
whitley strieber
It means we're going to be coming up from behind.
But remember, inside the United States, despite the problems its government has had with this for 50 years, there are millions of people who are real comfortable with this and can deal with it very handily.
I mean, I had trouble at first, but in the end, I dealt with it and learned from it and lived with it and was very comfortable with it.
art bell
In the end, you know, if it's really true what you say, that there's a gigantic spiritual aspect of this contact.
whitley strieber
There was in my life.
art bell
Yeah, then I can understand that our government, more than our religious organizations, would freak out and probably and especially if our military essentially couldn't do anything about them and they were powerless.
Our military would never admit that, not in a trillion years, that they could violate our airspace at will and will do nothing.
No.
whitley strieber
They'd never admit that.
Basically, our military has signaled to them that we don't want them here.
And they have respected that to an extent.
And so when they come here, it's very much by night and circumspect.
let me get back to this thing with this disappearance.
There are a couple of things about it that are interesting to me.
In particular, one of the comedio Valdiveso, one of the researchers who was reporting, talking about this in the newspaper, said this, quote, during the days before the contacts took place, the people involved in the teleportation were suddenly aware of the existence of the interdimensional gateway.
art bell
I've got to stop you again.
In the teleportation, they used that word teleportation.
whitley strieber
That was the word he used, yes.
art bell
Okay.
whitley strieber
And this is something that's really familiar to me from my own life.
This sudden awareness where a whole plan of a contact experience will come into your head, and then you go and enact it a few days later, and it happens.
i've had that and so No, I think it's a way of communicating.
I think they can communicate directly into your thoughts.
I think it's very clear that they care.
So you have had the same...
I just went down into the house.
art bell
I'm talking about a precognitive.
whitley strieber
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
art bell
And I'm using that loosely in view of what you're saying.
whitley strieber
Right down to the places I was supposed to go, what I was supposed to do, and everything.
And I did it, and it happened.
So I can see where that...
Because it's not something that you just dream of.
It's not a form of communication that people think about.
art bell
All right.
It's hard for me to believe, and I'm just playing the devil's advocate here, but whatever Spanish language publications there wrote this story, how could they write the story and not say whether the 24 came back or not?
I mean, that's such a big detail.
whitley strieber
Isn't it cute?
I kept reading and rereading this, and I got a translator reading it, and I said, are we missing something?
And he said, no, we're not missing something.
This is just not, this is the whole story.
art bell
So that aspect.
whitley strieber
I think it's assumed that they came back.
art bell
Oh, well.
whitley strieber
Because if they had just disappeared, that would be another and much bigger story.
art bell
Much bigger story.
Yes, I certainly agree.
So I guess you're right.
You have to presume they came back.
That still is totally incredible.
Well, so how do you proceed now?
And when do you say, okay, enough, I'm on a plane, I'm out of here?
whitley strieber
When I get in touch with Sixto, Sixto Paz, the Peruvian investigator who was at the center of the whole business, then I'll talk to him and find out as soon as I get him.
As soon as I find him.
art bell
So you believe that.
whitley strieber
I believe his number at home.
There's nobody there.
art bell
Yeah, you believe the conference then, or people are either en route from or the conference is still going on, one of the two.
whitley strieber
Well, exactly.
I've sent urgent emails to a number of other investigators who I believe to have been at the conference, and these are people who would have immediately called me or answered me, and they haven't yet, and it's been days, so they must still be there.
art bell
Indeed.
All right.
Well, that's an amazing story, Wynn.
And the second you get anything more on it, don't let it wait for Saturday, though.
I know you'll cover what you're doing.
whitley strieber
No, no, don't worry.
unidentified
I won't poop you, Arnold.
whitley strieber
Mind the weekly show.
Yours is much more hot news-oriented.
art bell
Five nights a week.
So if something really does break, you know to give me a call right away.
whitley strieber
Absolutely.
art bell
All right.
Listen, I don't know whether we talked about it.
I can't remember now, but I don't think we did since the Larson B ice shelf broke off and into a gazillion pieces.
It just shattered, boom, like that.
whitley strieber
You know, we have a structure that's similar to what would happen prepared before a superstorm scenario in the Midwest and East Coast right now.
art bell
I know.
whitley strieber
Because you're going to see a massive drop in temperatures in the Midwest in just the next couple of days, possibly accompanied by extraordinary storms.
We'll have to see if there's enough moisture in the air.
I don't know.
I hope not.
art bell
I hope not, too.
There were tornadoes down there in Texas today, as a matter of fact.
whitley strieber
South of here, south of where I am, which is very unusual.
In the entire time I was growing up here, there was never a tornado south of Austin, which is 70 or 80 miles north of here.
Now they're all routinely around this area, right where I live.
art bell
There's a gigantic shift underway.
Yes.
And by the way, I'm looking at a NOAA projection for tomorrow, and it shows either slight to moderate sort of a corridor that runs from, it looks like, Wisconsin, northern Wisconsin, damn near to, well, right up to the Canadian border, and runs right down over you there, Whitley.
Nope.
So there's going to be some violent weather in the Midwest.
There's no doubt about it.
But the weather changes, Whitley.
I don't know how you feel about it after writing.
whitley strieber
My feel is it's happening much faster than we thought.
art bell
Yeah, it would seem that, you know, when we wrote that book, we said, we told people, honestly, that some of it you would have to consider science fiction or, you know, a little bit of a stretch from exact facts that are known.
But we said what was going to happen, and it's happening tick, tock, tick, tock.
Only time is sped up, and it's happening faster than we thought, as you pointed out.
But I mean, right down the line, Whitley, holy across, creeps me out.
whitley strieber
Back in those days, just in 1999, 98, the Argentinian glaciologists who are probably the leading students of the Antarctic ice were predicting the kind of breakups that happened just now in 15 years.
unidentified
And that was four years ago, Art.
art bell
Well, when B broke off, they got a look at C. And I saw a quote from a scientist who said, you know, obviously when one breaks off, you can see into the layers of the next one.
And they said it doesn't look very stable.
whitley strieber
Right.
And then now the next ice that breaks off of that area is shelf ice.
I mean, it's not shelf ice.
It's sheet ice from the continent.
art bell
Yeah, from the beginning of, I don't know if it would be Ross or not, but one of the big onland masses.
And that means, folks, it's not like ice cubes in the water anymore.
It's like putting 10 more ice cubes in the water.
whitley strieber
The other thing, yeah, it will raise sea levels.
The other thing, though, that this ice breaking off in these massive quantities means is that there is a tremendous amount of fresh water down in the Antarctic.
And this means that this water is conducting heat to temperature very, very differently than the salt water that was there.
And there are other scientists who are recording reduced flow in ocean currents in both the Atlantic and the Pacific now, which is, of course, a big part of our scenario.
art bell
The one in the Atlantic they reported has slowed by 40%.
40%.
whitley strieber
40%.
Well, see, that could lead to the superstorm scenario appearing sometime quite soon.
We have on our website, incidentally, a thing called Quick Watch, which is on the left side of the website.
And you hit the home page on unknowncountry.com, and that's updated every week.
And it's a sort of quick look at a number of different weather factors that are related to possible major climate changes.
so you can sort of keep up with it there.
art bell
Whitley, asking you straight out, would it be your view that there are serious attempts to control the climate, control the weather right now, that there are...
Yeah, well, depending on, of course, what their intent is and who's doing it.
whitley strieber
I wish there were art, to be honest with you, because it would mean then we might have some ability to change this.
But if there have been attempts, like with spraying of reflective particles into the upper atmosphere or heating the ionosphere via HARP and things, it's failed because you're talking 92 in New York today.
art bell
Oh, look, I know that obviously our government is well aware there are major changes going on right now.
Meteorologists say it.
Everybody's saying it now.
It's just a matter of where it's headed and what this really is.
But I mean, the fact that we're underway with the change, ha ha, I think that one's over the threshold on that one.
It's changing and everybody knows it.
So wouldn't you think at the very highest levels, Wit, that there would be meetings about, well, gee, what can we do?
whitley strieber
I wish I thought that.
I don't think there's anything such thing going on.
I don't think at the highest levels there's even an awareness, even the slightest awareness.
art bell
Oh, that's really comforting, Wit.
whitley strieber
And not the slightest.
art bell
Yeah, that's really comforting.
Great.
I had no idea you felt that way.
I mean, it would affect economies if it was nothing more serious than the farm belt moving out of the U.S. and on up into Canada.
That would be a major national event of unbelievable proportions.
whitley strieber
Yes, it certainly would.
We're, again, in a situation where we're going to be blindsided, I think, just as it's possible in the UFO thing we will, too, because we're just not able to keep up with these changes on an institutional level.
We just can't do it.
We don't have the imagination.
We don't have the insight.
We don't have the instruments to tell us.
And at the present time, in terms of environmental reporting, we are in the process of shutting down as much as we can in order that people will not know these changes are taking place.
art bell
Well, it seems like a big secret to keep, but maybe it's one that you hide in plain sight.
I mean, you talk to Alaskans, and they say, you know, yeah, tundra's melting.
whitley strieber
Right.
art bell
Right?
I have Alaskans all over the place.
You do on your show, too.
Ask them sometime.
Tundra melting?
Oh, yeah.
Tundra's melting.
So this is maybe it's just sort of an in front of your face secret that's not really a secret.
You know, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe the government just assumes that the people assume the government can't do a damn thing about it anyway.
It's the weather.
It's not any more in their control than it is ours.
But there are people who think this Tesla technology has been used.
whitley strieber
If we put our minds to it, we could completely turn this situation around insofar as we are responsible for it as human beings.
We're not entirely, because it's also part of a big natural cycle.
art bell
You're saying with some sort of spiritual Well, no.
whitley strieber
I mean, with technology and with science, we could turn it around in 10 years, easily.
And not only could we do that, the corporate world could make great profits doing it.
I'll give you an example.
art bell
Well, then they ought to do it.
I mean, we're almost out of time.
They won't do it.
They won't do it?
unidentified
No.
whitley strieber
Why not?
art bell
Money is money.
whitley strieber
Yes, but getting people to try something new is our DuPont has done it and had a great success with it.
art bell
Oh, you're right.
All right, listen, Wade.
whitley strieber
Okay.
art bell
We are out of time.
You and I need to sit down and do a whole show here pretty soon.
I really appreciate the breaking news About South America.
Thank you, brother.
whitley strieber
I'll keep you up.
unidentified
Okay, good.
art bell
Thank you.
Take care.
The minute you hear about that, 24 people, huh?
My mind.
All right, well, there are new pictures of the face on Mars and the Sidonia region.
Who best to talk about them?
He who comes next.
unidentified
Richard C. Hobart.
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art bell
Oh, listen, what's coming up?
We've got Odyssey going around Mars, and it's just now taken new pictures of the Sidonia region, the face on Mars, the pyramids, the whole schmear, brand new photographs, and who better to talk about it than Richard C. Hoagland, one-time NASA advisor, advisor to Walter C. Cronkite, Angstrom Science Award winner.
Richard C. Hoagland, who's been on this for as long as I've known him.
Now, you don't know how I've just saved you all.
He wasn't going to talk about the Odyssey pictures first.
He was going to save them for last.
And I said, Richard, it just can't happen.
They hang us both.
We need that Odyssey information up front.
So other than a couple little things we'll hit on, the Odyssey information is coming right up.
Stay right there.
All right, all right, right.
From a new location somewhere or another in the New Mexico area, here is Richard C. Hoagland.
So in other words, you've picked up everything you own, and you have yet, once again, moved to a new location.
Is that right?
richard c hoagland
Yes, that is unfortunately correct.
Actually, it's not unfortunately very fortunate.
We are in wonderful, exquisite surroundings.
I'm talking to you tonight, everybody, from my new office, high atop everything.
I have a spectacular view.
art bell
Where are you, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Well, in a little place called Edgewood, which you know well.
It's east of Albuquerque.
It's actually closer to Albuquerque than we were when we had to wind up the canyon to the Monzano Mountains, about 20 minutes from here.
art bell
I thought I wanted to live in Edgewood.
I bought property there.
unidentified
Well, I'm probably looking at it out the window.
art bell
I always called it Edgeworld.
richard c hoagland
Do you know where Stone Mountain is?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
I have this incredible view of Stone Mountain.
art bell
You're in a beautiful place.
richard c hoagland
Which is about the same size and proportions.
Get this.
I actually measured it the other day as the face on Mars seen from the sea.
I mean, that is really...
Not really.
Actually, it's some friends that have a house up on Stone Mountain.
But I was looking out the window the other day, and I realized that in terms of an optical width, you know, how big it appears on the horizon?
art bell
Oh, yes.
richard c hoagland
It's about the same size as our friend at Sidonia seen from the fort or one of those other things that we talk about.
art bell
One of the downsides to your move, I understand, was that you moved into essentially a radio blackout.
richard c hoagland
Oh, my God.
art bell
In other words, you're not.
Edgewood is not far from Alpha Curtis.
unidentified
Just across the mountains.
art bell
You've got 770 with 50,000 watts.
richard c hoagland
50,000 watts.
art bell
But you must be at a very odd place.
richard c hoagland
They have got their antenna in a hole in the ground bound by the Rio Grande.
art bell
Yeah, but that's all right for AM.
richard c hoagland
Normally.
I can see a whole cluster of antennas up on the Sandillas.
In fact, as doctors, I can count the rhythms.
art bell
Yeah, but Richard, those are VHF.
Touch your TV, yes.
And you want to be high.
For an AM station, you want to be low, and you want to be near the water, too, if you can be.
richard c hoagland
Because of the ground plane and all that stuff.
art bell
Exactly.
I know all that.
You have to blackout.
richard c hoagland
I move a few miles away, and this is what you sound like, okay?
unidentified
Listen.
Okay.
Wow.
art bell
That's incredible.
richard c hoagland
Isn't that delightful?
art bell
That's incredible, actually.
Yeah.
I wouldn't have believed that unless you're telling me that was 770?
richard c hoagland
That's 770.
50 KW, and I can't get, I'm getting nothing but AC line noise.
art bell
Oh, yeah?
Oh, you've got a lot of AC line noise there, huh?
richard c hoagland
Well, you can hear the background.
Anyway, so I placed a call to our favorite emergency person.
art bell
Bob Seacray?
richard c hoagland
No, Alan Corbett.
art bell
Alan Corbett, yes.
And I said, all right, now, just so you know, Richard, I'm in Nevada, right?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
You can hear the background.
Anyway, you hear all that?
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
That's 770.
richard c hoagland
Amazing.
art bell
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
Well, I can get other stations sometimes, you know, because of the skip.
But, you know, KLB used to come in resoundingly, boomingly, and it was as good as when I used to have the satellite dish and got you directly off the satellite.
art bell
Okay, so in other words, you're in a horrible location.
richard c hoagland
I'm in a horrible location, and I have some friends up on Stone Mountain who also can't get you.
art bell
There is something about mountains.
There's an electromagnetic change that occurs with mountains.
I've noticed that traveling the country, Richard, using every manner of radio, that on the HF bands, which aren't very far from the broadcast band, as you're going up a mountain, you inevitably experience a really sharp signal loss.
And some mountains, and I guess it depends on what they're made of and a lot of things.
richard c hoagland
I believe so.
We used to, you know, we were carting stuff back and forth because it's a few miles away from the other place.
We could actually, in the car radio, not get you, and then I could make eyes of contours of when you'd begin to kind of come in, and then if you climbed up the driveway in the old place, you'd come in beautifully.
But nothing here.
I mean, it was like I'd fallen off the edge of the planet.
So as I said, I picked up the phone, I called Alan, and I said, help.
And he says, what do you mean?
I said, can you kind of talk to Bob Crane and tell him my predicament?
Because how can I do art if I can't hear art?
So he called Bob Crane, and Bob, bless his Pick and Heart, sent me by FedEx this exquisite piece of technology.
I mean, this is completely unsolicited, folks, but the CC Radio Plus, which is what he sent me, is the most incredible radio I have ever owned.
art bell
Well, I only say that every single night.
richard c hoagland
You now boom in better than when it was almost line of sight to their 50,000-watt tower.
art bell
Yeah, I know.
That radio is awesome.
It is awesome.
They built it specifically for a low-noise floor for incredible amounts of gain and rejection, something that almost all modern radios ignore.
That's what that radio is.
So thanks for the plug.
richard c hoagland
Well, I was telling severe art withdrawal until Bob came to the rescue.
And the last few nights I've heard, you know, I've been sitting here working on these new images, and I've been listening to you, of course, because what else would I do at 3 o'clock in the morning?
unidentified
And it's like you're in the next room.
richard c hoagland
It's astonishing how good this technology is.
Just for anybody who's wondering what to do about a good radio, tell them that Hoagland says, get the damn speech.
art bell
Well, I preach it, so we're really on the same page here.
I mean, I know all of that's true.
Now, listen, we've got new images of Mars, and here's what everybody's going to have to do.
Go to my website, Richard C. Hogan's name.
Go to the Enterprise Mission link right there, because you're going to be able to follow along with us.
richard c hoagland
Actually, we have the direct link to the article at the top of the guest page.
art bell
To the article.
richard c hoagland
Dinner, with his laptop, was able to get the link up directly to Do Geologists Dream of Windblown Sheep?
art bell
Do geologists dream of windblown sheep?
Anyway, in order to follow along with the photographs, you're going to have to ultimately get to the Enterprise Mission website.
And the first thing that they put up under this Do Geologists Dream of Windblown Sheep?
By the way, who the hell makes that stuff up anyway?
richard c hoagland
Mike Barra.
art bell
Mike Barra?
richard c hoagland
My dear colleague in crime.
art bell
That was really good.
richard c hoagland
It was superb.
I cannot, you know, he has an engineer's diligence and a poet's imagination.
And when you read the article, you'll see why he titled it that.
Because these guys at NASA, after they took this picture, which we're going to discuss, you know, in the next few hours, they basically claim that it's all in our imagination and that it's all done by the wind.
art bell
Okay, well, look.
The first picture you're going to see on the Enterprise mission is the actual raw NASA strip.
And when I first, I intentionally didn't look until tonight.
I've got it on the screen right now.
When I first looked at just the strip itself, Richard, I said, I know that I shouldn't, but I said, oh, come on.
You know, the same old thing I always say.
But I admit, and I'm telling everybody out there, don't just do as I have done.
Don't just say that, because what's going to come as we go close up into this photograph, I think is going, in my opinion, substantiates the original picture of the face on Mars.
It looks just exactly like the original picture with more detail.
But there's no still, in my mind, I'm getting way ahead of myself.
But, you know, the bottom line of this, Richard, it seems to me, is that the new picture's just like the old picture.
That's what I think.
richard c hoagland
Well, you know what this is, is what I call either the Gigi phenomenon or the Mona Lisa phenomenon.
art bell
Gigi?
richard c hoagland
Remember Gigi?
The movie Gigi?
art bell
Sort of.
A little.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, well, it was a wonderful movie, and there was a great song in it.
And it was called, Have I Been Standing Up Too Close or Back Too Far?
If you stand back too far, you don't see anything.
If you stand up too close to a work of art, you don't see anything.
unidentified
Because you basically see the brushstrokes.
richard c hoagland
There is a medium distance at which a work of art is meant to be viewed.
And Odyssey is probably within that ballpark, within that range of distance, because the image is about twice as good as the Viking image.
It's about one-tenth as close as the Mars surveyor image.
art bell
All right, when we get down to the blow-ups and you get down to the actual face on Mars, folks, what I'm saying to you tonight is that to me it looks like the same face.
It really does this time.
It looks like the same face.
And it's because, I guess, of the angle and the lighting being fairly similar, Richard?
Fairly similar.
Fairly similar.
richard c hoagland
About two in the afternoon.
The Viking lighting was taken at about four in the afternoon.
There's a difference between fall and summer, but basically the lighting is very similar, and obviously a work of art is meant to be viewed under consistent lighting.
art bell
Okay, so there's only two things you can believe once you see the blow-ups, folks.
And I would say number one is that you are seeing a face that was created by beings to be seen as a face.
And it is reasonable to assume that when you look at these photographs, both the old and now the brand new.
Other would be erosion, but it looks like it was at one time a rather sharp, distinct face and has eroded.
You could either believe that, and that's totally plausible, or you could believe it's the hundred monkey thing.
The trouble is there are other objects that trouble the hundred monkeys.
It would make it more like a million monkeys.
richard c hoagland
I have said from day one when DiPietro Molinar got me into this kicking and screaming, because remember, I was not a believer in the beginning.
I was skeptical.
And I proceeded, and I've written this whole elaborate story of the last 20 years of my pursuit of the truth on this in the Monuments of Mars, A City on the Edge of Forever, which, by the way, is now in its fifth and final edition, the 2001 edition, which has now come out.
And we are getting some very nice reviews.
I've added a lot of new material.
You know, not this image, because obviously this came in after we put the book to bed, but we have the previous image from Dr. Malin, the high-resolution image that you and I had such wonderful times discussing several months ago.
And as I've looked at this over the years, the question that I always had was, well, if it was just a face, it could be the trick of light and shadow.
It could be the things we see in the clouds.
It could be the projection of human psychology.
So what I started looking for, and I say so in the book and I've said it consistently for 20 years, was a context.
Because if this was done, if this was the work of intelligent beings of any stripe, any ilk, any species, there had to be a logic and a rationale for doing it.
And the only logic and rationale that we have to go from is our experience here on Earth.
So I was looking at anthropological and archaeological resemblances and models here in our own terrestrial database.
And of course, you go to Egypt immediately to look at faces and pyramids.
That's the place everybody thinks of.
art bell
That's where they are.
richard c hoagland
I began finding this exquisite geometric context for the face on Mars.
art bell
You're saying you see parallels between the face and what's at Giza in Egypt?
richard c hoagland
Absolutely.
And there were specific numerical parallels.
There were specific morphological parallel.
In other words, you had pyramids in a complex that was arrayed geometrically, you know, not too far away from a thing that looked like a Sphinx.
art bell
And before anybody dismisses this, remember, nobody knows how the hell those pyramids were built.
Not even the man who presides over Zahiawas.
No, he'll tell you in the end there are mysteries he can't answer, period.
There's no way.
richard c hoagland
You know, they've had a number of folks, Japanese and others, in there trying to duplicate the pyramids.
art bell
Yes, nobody's done it.
richard c hoagland
They've finally had to resort to bulldozers and helicopters.
And even then, they can only produce little small ones a few feet high.
art bell
Hey, Richard.
Oh, God, Richard, I've got to bring this up to you.
It may have been during your blackout zone time.
But there's a gentleman, a caller of mine, who is a big fan of the Coral Castle thing.
Okay.
And he went inside the Coral Castle, Richard, and took a picture of an electromagnetic device.
richard c hoagland
It's a flotary thing.
art bell
It's the damnest thing you've ever seen.
Richard, if that's not an electromagnetic device of some kind, I don't eat my shorts, you know.
I mean, it is.
richard c hoagland
When I was down there, you know, kind of living under duress in Miami for six months because of the heart thing and all that after the circle.
art bell
Well remember, yes.
richard c hoagland
We spent, we did a couple of trips to Coral Castle, Robin and I and some friends.
art bell
And you saw that thing?
richard c hoagland
Oh, yeah.
It's sitting there, covered with dust, in the lower part of his stone cupola that he built, where he actually lived with very primitive accouterments.
And I looked at it, and I had that kind of passing impression, but there's so much that's missing.
art bell
That's like that came out of Stargate.
richard c hoagland
Well, it certainly is a rotary device.
Now, remember, I said on the show from Miami one night, a few weeks after they let me out of the hospital, remember?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
That we had found on a wall evidence of how he did this.
And what I found, in fact, I think we have a picture somewhere on the Enterprise Mission website, and it was Robin who actually saw it above his stone bathtub that he had carved out of the coral.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
It was a double tetrahedron looking in plane like the Jewish star, which is what the Jewish star is.
It's a double tetrahedron in two dimensions.
art bell
The coral castle is in Florida.
richard c hoagland
The Coral Castle is not far from Miami.
art bell
Tons of stones were moved by this man in secret.
No one knows how he did it.
richard c hoagland
He was like a 90-pound weakling.
art bell
Yeah, it's a big giant story.
He did what the Egyptians did.
He did what the Egyptians did.
He did the impossible.
richard c hoagland
He did the impossible.
There was a story in one of the booklets they give out that when he was moving it from one site to another, which is a very important point, because the geometry and the location on the terrestrial grid is important.
art bell
Why did he have to move it, Richard?
richard c hoagland
No one knows.
art bell
No one knows.
richard c hoagland
My feeling is that he miscalculated where he originally was supposed to put it, and he had to pick the whole damn thing up, which is hundreds of tons of stone by himself and move it.
Now, what he did is he actually hired a big rig, one of these big flatbeds, and the workmen would drive the stones from the old site a few miles away to the new site.
But he wouldn't let them see how he moved the stones.
art bell
The workman did not move the stone.
richard c hoagland
They did not move the stone.
All they did was drive the work.
And there's a story that one day they all went to lunch, and he was there by himself, and one guy had forgotten his lunch pail back at the old work site.
So he came back in his flipper, because this was back in the 30s or 20s or whatever.
whitley strieber
Yes.
richard c hoagland
To get his lunch.
art bell
And instead of finding it.
richard c hoagland
And in 20 minutes, when he'd been gone, Let Scallion had loaded the whole damn truck with these stones by himself.
Now, there's no physical way that one man could have done that with any conventional technology.
art bell
Unless he had the secret.
richard c hoagland
Unless he had a way to make them weightless.
art bell
Unless he had the secret that the Egyptians had and that maybe the Martians had.
unidentified
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
And he basically made nullified inertia and he floated them over to the flatbed and lowered them down.
And in 20 minutes, he had most of the whole truck loaded, and the workman was absolutely flabbergasted.
In fact, I think he quit.
At that point, he quit.
art bell
That's some sort of you believe that to be true, huh?
richard c hoagland
Well, it's either one of those colloquial things, you know, folktales that kind of circulate around someone like with scallion, or it is true.
art bell
All right, hold it right there.
richard c hoagland
Given that there's so much about the castle that's so weird and inexplicable and really neat, I have a tendency to think that it's true.
art bell
All right, hold on.
We'll be right back.
Richard C. Hoakland is my guest, and we are going to take you in a true adventure tonight through these photographs.
And I must admit, even me, the guy who said nothing but a pile of rocks last time, this time I look at it, oh my, I see a face.
This is really interesting.
This is like the old face.
Same face, new face, same as the old face.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah.
The End
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art bell
So, a connection between Giza, the pyramids, the Sphinx, Mars, and the photographs we've just got.
We'll verify that for you as the evening goes on.
I've got kind of a curveball I want to serve up to Richard very quickly when we get back regarding some other Odyssey data.
See what he has to say about that.
It is fascinating.
Don't touch that dial.
Well, if you're like me, you can't wait, and you've zoomed down Richard's page to see the new picture, the new face, and then he's got a comparison between the old face and the new face.
And, you know, I must say, as I told you when I told you the one photograph they took, the awful one, to me, it was a cat box.
We're back to its being a face, in my opinion.
We're back to its being a face.
Now, that would seem to generate an astounding amount of pressure for a trip to Mars.
But here's a Knight Ritter Tribune article I've got that I'm going to read and then get Richard's comment on.
Knight Ritter Tribune, Houston.
NASA's latest mission to Mars has confirmed that astronauts won't be visiting there anytime soon.
Even Val Kilmer couldn't survive the deadly radiation that he would encounter on the way to the Red Planet.
Last week, scientists announced new measurements of the radiation hazard taken by the robotic Mars Odyssey spacecraft on the way to Mars.
A person would be blasted with more than twice the radiation experienced by astronauts in the relatively protected environment of Earth's orbit.
This is bad news, the article says.
This is a real problem for getting humans out there, said Tim Claghorn, a radiation expert at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston last week at a gathering of planetary scientists.
Now, the person who said this to me adds, I spoke with a very close associate in manned spaceflight at JSC today, and he says this story is a total fabrication by the boys at JPL and in the space robotics program.
He says no prior probes sent to Mars indicated this radiation hazard.
He thinks it's being done to shoot down the growing push for a manned flight to Mars.
Richard?
richard c hoagland
I agree.
art bell
You do?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, I'll tell you why.
You go back to the numbers.
The astronauts who are up there right now on the space station, who are spending like between three and five months, and then they come home, they receive about what you get by going into a doctor's office and getting an x-ray.
art bell
So then if you were to get twice that, which is what has two-rays.
So why then would Tim Cleghorn, a radiation expert at NASA Space Johnson Space Center in Houston, say this as though it kills the idea of a manned mission to Mars?
I mean, that's the way the story reads.
richard c hoagland
Maybe he's secretly being paid by JPL.
I mean, look, we know JPL doesn't play fair, and we know that they have been extraordinarily unhappy with the idea of going to Mars with anything that could give us the truth about what's there.
So when this story came out, this is not a new story.
This is maybe a month or two old.
There were a lot of people in the space business who were extremely skeptical of both the writer.
unidentified
I forget what it was.
art bell
It's about a month.
It's March 23rd.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, it's about a month.
Skeptical of the writer as well as those people that she interviewed.
And when you look at the actual numbers, I mean, radiation in space has been uppermost in a lot of people's minds for a very long time since the Apollo missions.
And the space station, you know, when they talk about factors of two, you've got to have a baseline.
You've got to know what your original number is.
And the original number is about equivalent to one x-ray.
You get more radiation art, you know, if you're a, let's say, a Concorde pilot.
art bell
Okay, so Richard, I don't disagree with you for one second.
You know, I mean, two x-rays worth of radiation to get to Mars.
Pooey, no big deal, nothing at all.
I mean, not even a consideration.
richard c hoagland
That's the background.
art bell
So then why in the hell would they, at a time when they could get money, I mean, these new photographs, there's going to be a lot of interest in Mars.
Even you are doing a movie.
We'll touch on that here.
I mean, big time on Mars, and here they're writing the kind of article that seems intended to, you know, throw water on the whole thing.
richard c hoagland
Well, we have discussed on the show innumerable times the fact that it's not a level playing field, that there is weird politics around Mars and what's there.
And there are factions.
You know, we've even called them, after Chris Carter, the roosters and the owls.
You know, the owls in NASA want to basically keep the lid on and not get people excited or interested or intrigued.
And the roosters basically want to leak stuff and give people enough information that they will mount a serious public demand on the Congress to demand that we go to Mars and find out what's there.
Now, what's really interesting, and I was going to do this a little later on, but since we're jumping the gun tonight, why not?
What was very intriguing to me about the release of this latest image, this Odyssey visible light strip, was the timing.
First of all, it was done on a Friday.
Remember that I called you a few weeks ago and I told you that our Bush sources had told us and a news conference.
art bell
And I promoed the fact on the air and I said you'd be here if there was a news conference.
Well, there was some kind of news conference, but there weren't pictures, and so we didn't have you on.
Then all of a sudden...
richard c hoagland
And they've been releasing the most nondescript, you know, ordinary, mundane, you know, more Martian sand and craters and windblown dust kind of images until last Friday.
art bell
And then kaboom.
richard c hoagland
And then the 13th image.
Remember, there are numerology guys over there.
The 13th image.
art bell
Of course, number 13th.
richard c hoagland
Yes.
Released on April 12th was the Sidonia region, which they had promised us.
But it's not the picture that we really want, Art.
And I will say that a little later.
I will tell you probably in the next hour what one we're really waiting for.
And we think now that we might actually get.
But let me go back to the other thing that happened on Friday the 12th as this image was being released.
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
Sean O'Keefe, who's the new NASA head, the replacement for Dan Golden, was in Syracuse, New York at the Maxwell School, where he's a graduate in public administration, giving an address to a whole bunch of other public administrators and basically the world on, and here is the subject, pioneering the future.
And one of the two things, one of the three things that he talked about in that speech, which I taped, because it was very important, basically telling us where the Bush administration is on this whole question of where's NASA going and are we going to go along with them.
art bell
And so what did he say?
richard c hoagland
He said that this is NASA's new vision for the future.
I'm quoting from his speech now, which is on the NASA website, to improve life here, which is all the spin-offs and all the biological stuff the space station is going to do and all that.
To extend life to there, meaning manned missions to other places in the solar system, and to find life beyond.
And he said, this is the roadmap our people will follow into this new millennium.
These are exciting times.
We are on the threshold of discovery, and we hope to take you on that journey into the future.
We will pioneer the future, he said.
And as Lincoln tasked us, we will, quote, disdain the beaten path and seek regions hitherto unexplored.
art bell
Sounds like the intro to Star Trek.
richard c hoagland
Doesn't it?
Now, Sean O'Keefe is supposed to be a bean counter.
You know, he's supposed to be an accountant.
He was the Secretary of the Navy.
He was a fan of the Carter.
art bell
I was going to ask you which side the roosters, or which side the bean counters were on, because that's the problem.
richard c hoagland
Okay, the roosters are the ones that crow about things.
The owls are the ones that sit on it.
So the cover-up crowd are the owls.
And the ones that are leaking us this information, including the folks that call me on the phone from inside the bush crowd.
art bell
Roosters.
They're the roosters.
And they're the customers.
richard c hoagland
And these terms come from our dear friend, you know, who did X-Files.
art bell
And there's rooster bean counters?
richard c hoagland
Well, Sean O'Keefe has a background very similar, as I've said on this show before, to James Webb, who was the kick-ass public administrator who Kennedy picked to basically spearhead his mission to the moon, Proudhon's Apollo.
And Sean O'Keefe is talking an awful lot like James Webb.
For instance, here's another quote from the speech, which is really an important speech.
And it was simultaneous with the release of this famous image of Sidonia.
Do not discount those, quote, coincidences, because, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to say, in politics, there are no coincidences.
Here's O'Keeffe.
art bell
That's pretty intriguing.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
Here's what O'Keeffe said.
As I've been telling you today, NASA has to do things differently in the future.
One fundamental difference is a need to find new ways to explore the galaxy.
The galaxy, Mr. O'Keeffe?
art bell
The galaxy?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, I mean, this is a bean counter?
Listen, he goes on.
Conventional rockets and fuel simply aren't practical as we reach further out into the cosmos.
art bell
He's right.
richard c hoagland
That's why we are launching an initiative to explore the use of nuclear propulsion.
One of the major obstacles of deep space travel, O'Keefe said, is finding fast and efficient ways to get around, to get to anywhere.
Today's spacecraft travel at speeds only slightly faster than John Glenn's Friendship 7 did 40 years ago.
NASA has explored the use of solar sails and ion engines as alternatives to dimensional fuels, but their uses are limited and restrict us to very close-in objectives.
How close in is yours?
art bell
May I ask you a question?
If we had a nuclear engine in space, what could we achieve?
unidentified
Anything.
richard c hoagland
Remember, as Heinlein said, once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anything.
art bell
Yeah, absolutely so.
unidentified
But if we had a nuclear propulsion system in space.
art bell
Give me the real lowdown.
We know what the speed of light is.
How fast could we go?
richard c hoagland
Ultimately, up to the speed of light.
Depends on what kind of nuclear propulsion you're talking about.
art bell
Nuclear propulsion could take us to the speed of light or right up to the edge, depending on whether you're...
Yes.
richard c hoagland
I mean, that's the ultimate efficiency in conventional drives.
art bell
But with what we have now from a nuclear point of view.
richard c hoagland
You could certainly get to Mars depending upon what kind of technology he's pushing and what he says.
I mean, listen to what he says.
He says here, nuclear propulsion is the next logical step to overcome this technology limitation.
It's a mature technology, and its application to space travel has great potential.
Remember, he's a Navy man, okay?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
He says the U.S. Navy has been operating nuclear-powered vessels since 1955.
In that time, the Navy has sailed more than 120 million miles without incident and has safely operated these efficient power generators for more than 5,000 reactor years.
And throughout that time, the Navy has designed more compact, safer, and more efficient reactors which last the 40-year life of the vessels without refueling.
art bell
Yeah, but I will add this, Richard.
There is a little difference.
I mean, after all, you crack a bottle of champagne on a ship and it slides into the water.
It doesn't have to blast into space.
There is that.
richard c hoagland
Listen to what he's saying.
This is the head of NASA now.
art bell
I'm listening.
richard c hoagland
The technology is there.
We just need to take the next step to increase speed and on-orbit time, thereby beginning to overcome this persistent technical limitation.
If we're going to pioneer the future as only NASA can, he said, we're going to need new ways to get us there.
Now, let me tell you the political reality.
You don't need that segment of his speech if you're only thinking robots.
It doesn't matter how long it takes a robot to get to Mars or Jupiter or Pluto.
art bell
That's true.
Yes.
In other words, it moved back toward man.
richard c hoagland
But if you're talking men and women, if you're talking a manned expedition to set down at Sidonia and once and for all put spades in the ground, turn over the Earth and find out what's there, you need nuclear propulsion as a foundation.
And the same day the administrator said this, they released this new provocative engineer.
art bell
Can you tell me in layman's language how a nuclear engine in space would work?
In other words, I know how it works for a ship, and we covered that or a submarine, for example, but by what means do you convert and use energy in a nuclear space engine?
richard c hoagland
Okay, there are several, I can think of three right off the bat.
One is, and I think this is what will keep us thinking, is you take the most efficient power reactor the Navy has produced.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
And what do power reactors do in a nuclear submarine?
They don't propel the ship, the boat, directly.
art bell
No, they make heat.
richard c hoagland
No, they don't.
art bell
And they heat water, right?
richard c hoagland
Electricity.
art bell
Oh, okay, yeah.
richard c hoagland
They generate electrical power.
art bell
Yeah, it's all the same.
richard c hoagland
Megawatts and megawatts and megawatts of electrical power.
art bell
Yes, sir.
richard c hoagland
And they do it for the 40-year life of the boat.
art bell
Yes, sir.
Fine.
So apply that out of space.
richard c hoagland
What he's recommending is taking that same technology and putting it in orbit to make electricity.
Gobs of electricity.
And then that electricity is used to fuel or to power ion engines.
art bell
Okay.
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And because you've got all that power to spare, you can have lots of ion engines.
You cluster them just like Von Braun clustered the five engines of the Saturn V. Right.
And you basically then refuel in orbit using things like shuttles and expendables to take up the fuel, which can be mercury, it can be cesium, it can be a number of exotic metals.
And you use the electricity to ionize the metals, shoot them out the back end of the ion engine at 100,000 miles per second, close to the speed of light in some cases.
And that little push drives you in the other direction as a rocket.
unidentified
The difference is it keeps pushing and pushing and pushing.
art bell
And so you break it.
richard c hoagland
So instead of coasting between planets, you're under constant acceleration, even if it's only a tenth or a hundredth of a G, over several weeks that mounts up to incredible speeds.
art bell
And then you're breaking.
richard c hoagland
And then you turn around halfway and you break into orbit when you get where you want to go.
art bell
So now I see an application here, Richard, for very deep space travel.
Obviously, you could get up near the speed of light.
But in a trip to Mars, just as an example, what is it normally, 18 months?
richard c hoagland
No, it's about 8 or 9 months.
art bell
8 or 9 months?
Okay, round trip, 18 months.
All right, that's right.
So, how much faster with this kind of engine?
richard c hoagland
Depending, well, you'd have to look at all the numbers and all the various sizings and all that.
unidentified
But I would say ballpark, you could probably cut it by a third.
art bell
Wow.
richard c hoagland
All right.
art bell
And that number would get much, much bigger as your destination got farther out.
richard c hoagland
That's right, because you have a longer runway.
That's right.
art bell
That's right.
You can accelerate further.
richard c hoagland
You only need this art if you're thinking men and women going with a big expedition.
art bell
So that would suggest to you that NASA is moving back toward a manned system.
richard c hoagland
There was a nuclear propulsion program, as I said on an earlier show, in NASA 40 years ago.
And it actually produced some very interesting technology.
And they used to demonstrate it, test it, not far from where you live at a place called Jackass Flats, the Nevada test site, out there a few miles from you.
And they had an engine called Nerva.
art bell
And it worked, right?
richard c hoagland
And it worked.
And that was not nuclear electric.
That was a straight rocket.
In other words, with a rocket, what you need is a heat source and a fuel.
And the heat source expands the fuel and it squirts out the back end.
And because of Newton's third law, the thing goes forward.
In a nuclear rocket, as opposed to a chemical rocket, or let me tell you how a chemical rocket works.
You take two fuels, like hydrogen and oxygen.
art bell
Mix them together.
richard c hoagland
You mix them together, they explode.
A controlled explosion.
unidentified
Correct.
richard c hoagland
They burn fast.
Those expanding gases in an engine, with a familiar bell shape, jet the gases out the back end.
art bell
Absolutely.
richard c hoagland
The reaction pushes the vehicle attached to the engine forward, and you get where you want to go.
And in the case of nuclear power, they would substitute the chemical reaction with a nuclear reactor.
In other words, you have basically a reactor where you flow a fluid through it.
And the reactor provides the heat.
Not a chemical reaction, but the basic nuclear reaction itself makes the reactor hot several thousand degrees.
And they flow hydrogen through it, which is the lightest gas, and thereby gives you the highest exhaust velocity.
And these were the engines that were tested at Jackass Platz in the so-called NERVA N-E-R-V-A programming in the 1960s.
And they worked.
And they had problems, and they would spew reactor parts into the sky in the initial ones.
And they eventually, with companies like Westinghouse and DuPont and GE, you know, all the high-tech firms back then, they were able to solve all the problems, and they were on the verge of an actual flight test.
art bell
And what happened?
richard c hoagland
It was shut down.
art bell
Why?
richard c hoagland
That's a very good question.
art bell
And it's a very good place to take a break.
Richard C. Hoagland is my guest.
Always strange things going on with Mars.
Inexplicable in so many ways.
They release information like these photographs that, again, take us back to the fact that we've got a face here, and a lot more than a phase, I might add.
Pyramids, all the kinds of things that you see at Giza in Egypt.
So there's something about Mars, right?
There's definitely something about Mars.
But do we or do we not wish to go there?
unidentified
I don't know.
art bell
It's hard to figure out.
Two faces coming from NASA.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
Just my job five days a week.
Rocket man.
Rocket man.
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time.
Talking about brings me back again to find.
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art bell
Boy, I started a whole minute early.
I just got two pieces of breaking news that I'm not all that pleased with.
Well, one's all right.
This one, though, I'm not.
Under the category of deja vu, here we go again.
And what have we done to deserve this?
Let me read you the forecast for southern Nye County, which is where I live.
You know what we just went through yesterday, right?
This just popped up.
South winds have increased across southern Nye County and will continue through the day Wednesday as of 11.45 p.m.
That was a little while ago.
The Desert Dock Airport near Mercury, that's the test site, folks, have recorded wind gusts of 55 miles per hour.
Now they're saying strong winds have been localized so far, but will become more widespread toward daybreak.
Sustained winds of 25 to 35 miles an hour should be expected with gusts now they're saying to 55 miles an hour.
This will produce areas of Reduced visibility and blowing dust and sand, and they're not kidding.
So here we go again.
If you're in the southern Nevada area based on what I just read, you damn well better buckle down and buckle in and get all the missiles that are lying around as far away as you can.
That's the one danger we've got here now.
We had so much damage yesterday in the winds, or now the day before, that there's a lot of loose material out there.
And if we get 55 mile an hour winds today or worse, those are going to become missiles.
And then there is this for all of you.
Aurora warning.
A full halo coronal mass ejection billowed away from the sun.
The expanding cloud is, in fact, headed toward Earth and could ignite northern lights, most likely at high latitudes, but very possibly mid-latitudes as well.
That might be us, when it sweeps past our planet on April 17th or 18th.
Visit spaceweather.com for updates.
So two little bits of breaking news there.
Oh, boy.
Well, 55 mile-an-hour winds on their way.
Just exactly what everybody wanted to hear.
And so the warning, let it be out, everybody.
Buckle in out there.
And the sun just spit a big one at us, Richard.
Interesting times we live in.
richard c hoagland
Sounds like hyperdimensional weather to me.
art bell
Hyperdimensional weather, right.
richard c hoagland
We had two days of 30 mile-an-hour straight winds here.
I woke up this morning and the house was shaking.
It was so fierce.
art bell
Yeah, we had 84 miles an hour.
now work fifty five and it is going to be fifty five and it's going to blow around things like weapons all right look for the moment uh...
back richard to uh...
uh...
your page and these incredible the Another satellite, it's another time, it's many years later.
richard c hoagland
It's Arthur Clark's mission, my dear friend Arthur, that I've known since the mid-60s.
And NASA named this mission, you know, it was a nameless mission.
It just had a number, and they decided a few years ago they were going to call this mission launched last year, 2001, the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission.
And Arthur has been hinting in all different venues in all different ways for the last couple of years that this mission, when it got to Mars, was going to find and confirm some really neat stuff.
He's been talking about bushes and trees and artifacts.
And, you know, he's done everything but basically say, you know, it's there.
What he did say in his email to the Lockheed Martin people who actually built this spacecraft the day it was launched is he sent this email and he said, basically, I won't believe in artifacts until I can read the license plates.
Go find them.
Now, you know, my take, having known Arthur for all these years, is that he's part of the in crowd and he knows what's there.
You know, he gave this very interesting review of my book, The Monuments of Mars, many years ago in a book of his called The Snows of Olympus.
And it was kind of, you know, cute and tongue-in-cheek and all that.
But the bottom line is he has been incredibly robust in the last couple of years on the idea that Mars is teeming with life.
And the day that they inserted the spacecraft into orbit, he sent me an email which he copied, not on the blind, but in public, to a whole bunch of other NASA people.
I'm sure that made their day.
Where he said basically that he found a whole bunch of images from Dr. Malin's site, and he gave all the numbers.
And he talked about something leaving a trail through the jungle and something with tentacles and banyan trees.
And I mean, he has been incredibly aggressive on the concept that Odyssey, when it got there, was going to confirm the most extraordinary, different planet than what NASA's been telling us for the last 40 years.
art bell
You've been talking to Arthur C. Clark Hemington.
richard c hoagland
I've been emailing him.
art bell
Oh, that's talking to him.
richard c hoagland
I mean, basically, you know, we're in the same room even though we're halfway around the planet.
art bell
Right.
That's today's internet.
You know, people really should go ahead and scroll on down the page.
I mean, you've got the three images.
richard c hoagland
I wanted to do this a little systematic review.
art bell
I know you do.
richard c hoagland
Well, that's what science is.
It's systematics.
And it's not that it looks like the face art.
art bell
It does to me.
richard c hoagland
Well, but that's the beginning.
That's not the end.
That's what gets you interested, what's got me interested.
But what really convinced me, you know, and I have no qualm in saying that I am 99.999% certain that there were ancient Martians on Mars tonight, is the geometry and the mathematics of the site.
Remember, it was Sagan who said that intelligent life on Earth first manifests itself in the geometric regularity of its construction.
art bell
It's so hard, though, to convince.
You know, it gets down to the math, and you've got to understand the math.
And when you understand the math, I understand the crystal clarity that comes to you.
But the average person in the audience, look, if you can figure a way to explain this to people so that they are actually going to understand it, have at it, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Well, I've only spent, what, 20 years doing this?
And I went over to Amazon.com tonight because I wanted to make sure that Keith had the latest link up.
And you know how they have basically public reviews of your books?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
And you go in, every once in a while, if you're an author, you kind of quietly read the reviews and see what people are thinking because it's a very good poll.
People who get it, people who don't get it.
It's first come, first serve.
It's like your open caller lines.
There's no pre-selection.
What you see on the site is what you get.
art bell
Yeah, but a lot of times you get your enemies going out there writing crap, too.
richard c hoagland
Well, what's interesting is that more people who get it are writing reviews for Monuments of Mars than people who are enemies, people who are skeptics.
art bell
For example, when I go to the photographs of the pyramids, Richard, I see the incredible.
I mean, these are pyramids.
And, you know, when you compare, it's pretty obvious.
I don't know.
I need all the math for that.
richard c hoagland
But if you scroll down past the strip image to the next strip, which is an enlargement, it says face at the top.
At the bottom, it says DNM.
art bell
That's right.
richard c hoagland
In the middle, it says tetrahedral ruin.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
On the cat box image.
unidentified
Right.
richard c hoagland
By the way, in monuments, I now have immortalized you.
I have described the story of how we got this name, the cat box image, in 98.
art bell
I was so disappointed in that photograph.
You know, I have four cats, and they can do a lot of business in there.
richard c hoagland
But three have been immortalized, too.
art bell
Yeah, that's right.
richard c hoagland
The cat box image because it looked like something the cat dragged in out of a litter box.
art bell
Yeah, it still does.
richard c hoagland
On that image, which was a very low angle, it was 45 degrees from the vertical, and it was taken under the most atrocious lighting, and JPL did something with filters that made it look absolutely flat.
art bell
Agreed.
richard c hoagland
There was this little weird thing below the mesa to the south of the face, which you can see if you scroll down in the middle of the strip where I have face and DNM and tetrahedral ruin.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Just below that little mesa, there's this little thing, and then if you scroll a little further down, I've got an enlargement.
art bell
You're referring to this triangle area?
richard c hoagland
Triangle.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
Equilateral triangle.
art bell
Yes, I see it.
richard c hoagland
What you see on the left is the image.
On the right is the overlay.
On the left, that is the partial edges of a former tetrahedron, which is a four-cornered, four-sided pyramid.
It's one of the so-called platonic solids.
Now, the reason I'm so intrigued with this is if you scroll back up a little bit, is this tetrahedron isn't sitting on Mars just any old place.
It's sitting about halfway between the face and this big massive pyramid to the south called the DNM.
art bell
I agree.
richard c hoagland
And it is, if you draw a line between the apex of the pyramid and the midpoint between the eyes and the face, 19.5 degrees to that line is this tetrahedral ruin.
Now, what people need to know who have not heard me in a while is that if you put a tetrahedron in a sphere, the points will touch, three of them anyway, at 19.5 degrees above or below the equator of a spinning sphere.
So what we have here is a mathematical redundancy that Sagan, if he was still with us, would have, if he really got into the nitty-gritty before he had died, he was beginning to get intrigued with Sidonia.
In his last book, he said we should take new pictures.
If he'd stuck around for the endgame, he would have been part of this discussion on, I believe, our side because he was an honest broker when it came to remarkable data.
art bell
No, we're not at the end game yet.
richard c hoagland
And we're not there yet, but we're getting closer.
So now you know what I mean.
art bell
These photographs, scroll where?
richard c hoagland
Scroll further down.
Now the next object we have, again from this same theme image strip taken and released on Friday last, we have this object we call the DNM pyramid.
art bell
It's gigantic.
richard c hoagland
It's gigantic.
It's about a mile and a half on the long side, a mile on the short side.
I call it DNM after DuPietro and Molinar back in 87 when I was writing monuments and doing the first investigations because they actually were the two Goddard imaging guys that found it back in 1979.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
And so I figured they deserved a place on Mars.
And all right, now you scroll a little further down, you'll see two images of the same pyramid side by side.
The one on the left is an enhanced version.
We kind of contrast enhanced it.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And we got an overlay showing five sides to it.
This came from my friend Errol Torrey.
art bell
Yeah, that's very clear.
richard c hoagland
The geomorphologist at Defense Mapping, who came to me in the late 80s and said, Hoagland, this damn thing should not exist.
Under any geomorphological analyses I can perform, there's no way that a five-sided figure like this can exist in nature because if it was sculpted by the winds, if the wind was blowing in one direction art, it would remove the other sides.
art bell
Yeah, so there it is.
Nevertheless, there it is.
richard c hoagland
You'd basically get a dome.
You wouldn't get a planar object with facets.
art bell
Okay, that's clear.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
On the right of this image, and the title of this is TNM Internal Geometry and Featured Tale, I basically annotated the new Odyssey image, showing all kinds of neat things we can see on it.
And then if you scroll a little further down, you can see now some 3D work by Dr. Mark Carlato from the original Viking data.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
Companion with a Viking image on the right, the Odyssey image on the left, another 3D shot from Carlato below that, and below that now a super enlargement and enhancement of the so-called buttresses, which are these protuberances that are on the corners of this pyramid.
art bell
Richard, these absolutely look artificial to me.
richard c hoagland
If you look at the left foot, look at that left button.
art bell
Yeah, no, they look artificial.
richard c hoagland
These are the damn doors?
art bell
Yeah, I do, Richard.
richard c hoagland
1200-foot-wide doors.
Now, in monuments, this is like almost 20 years ago now.
art bell
No, I see it.
I see it clearly.
richard c hoagland
I said that these buttresses may have been not just things to keep the pyramid up, like a buttress is supposed to, like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
The buttresses are basically part of the architectural form to keep the cathedral from collapsing.
art bell
Right, sure.
richard c hoagland
In these things, I thought maybe they were more interesting in that they were also architectural forms like entrances.
Now we get the Themis image with enough resolution so you can see the geometry, particularly on the left-hand one, which is not destroyed.
art bell
No, I see it.
richard c hoagland
Where you see the rectangular, and if you click on it, it gets bigger and you can see it easier.
art bell
Yeah, no, I see it just fine.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
art bell
It's very clear.
richard c hoagland
All right.
One of the guys looking at the new image, a guy named Robert Harrison at a site called SidoniaQuest, sent us an email over the weekend saying, you know, if you look at this in another way, the geometry is turned to the south as opposed to the north.
And I looked and I looked and I thought, well, he's looking at something.
So then, if you scroll further down, you'll see a GIF animation series we put together called the DNM from a new perspective.
And all we've done is to take the normal view and rotated it by, I think it was 28 degrees from the way the shot was taken on the surface of the planet.
And what I've done is we've overlaid three views, just an ordinary view, a view with a line down the center, and then a flipped version where I've outlined basically in white the edges of the perimeter of the original pyramid that we saw in the Viking data, and then the new additional material that we now see at the new sun angle taken by the Odyssey camera.
Because the Odyssey image is not the same sunlight perspective as the old Viking data.
And as you all know, if you ever fly over terrain to look down, as the sunlight changes, the ground changes because you're seeing different relief at different angles.
So what we're seeing here is this incredibly symmetrical object, which has this five-sided symmetry.
Scroll down a little further now.
And you'll see on the left, I've got the original five-sided geometry with the buttress there in the shadow.
And I've got Carlado's 3D reconstruction from Viking, which is this shape-from-shading technique, which is used by the military.
It's used by NASA.
It's state-of-the-art.
And Carlato has graciously been applying this to this data under our aegis back in the mid-80s, you know, for the last almost 20 years.
And what we see on the left is the original geometry tilted, because I rotated this 28 degrees.
On the right, what I've done now is to superimpose with red lines the new geometry that the new lighting has demonstrated together with the old geometry, which is in blue.
art bell
Okay, so this is the new gift, the red part.
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
And what we're seeing now is that this 3D thing, this pyramid, this massive pyramid, was built on a two-dimensional platform that has seven sides.
Now, why is the seven sides interesting?
Because again, it's more mathematical redundancy.
If you take a tetrahedron and you spin it art, there are only seven ways to spin a tetrahedron.
There may be, according to Samuel Garth Buckle, 50 ways to leave your lever, but there are only seven ways to symmetrically spin a tetrahedron.
And remember, if we could put the tetrahedron in the series, you get the 19.5?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
The new platform, if you look at the angles there, one of the new angles with the buttress is 19.5 degrees in the internal angles of the new object that we're seeing in a new light, old object in a new light.
The point of all this being that the only way to resolve the issue from Earth of whether there was an ancient civilization on Mars is not what it looks like, but what the numbers tell us.
And the numbers tell us over and over and over again in all kinds of ways all over this complex that I and my colleagues have been studying for the last 20 years that the tetrahedral geometry is the message of Sidonia.
It's the means of determining that it's real.
It's the means of proving it to skeptics who are willing to put their preconceptions aside and look at the numbers.
And it's the means of luring us back to find out who was there, what they were doing there, and how long they were there and why they aren't there now.
art bell
All right.
Hold on, Richard.
We're at the bottom of the hour.
I see all of this clearly.
And I think the average person, even ignoring the numbers, will look at the geometry and the face and they'll say, well, I guess we ought to go to Mars.
That's what the average person, I think, is going to say.
Because I say it.
We'll be right back.
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art bell
Listen here, now, I want to warn the people in my local area again, southern Nevada, that we're in for it again today.
They just revised the weather forecast.
Now they're talking about 55-mile per hour winds.
That's a revision that appeared about an hour ago.
That's serious stuff.
They say it's going to begin about now, really take off at dawn, and we're in for another hellish day.
Kind of like on Mars, actually.
It's a lot like Mars when it gets going.
It's all red.
You can't see anything.
And it's incredible.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
Reminds me of what it.
Well, I've never been to Mars, so what do I know?
But from the stories I hear, it's probably like that.
All right, you know, again, I'm a talk show host.
I'm not a mathematician, and I don't absorb all that as easily as I'm sure the pure scientists do.
But as I look down over what Richard has presented carefully on his website tonight, I do say that there is an irresistible suggestion of artificiality here, period.
I mean, whether you're looking at the pyramids, the tetrahedrons, the phase on Mars itself, which we're about to discuss, any of it tonight with the new images suggests artificial origins.
How about that?
And so, you know, we've got a good reason to be going to Mars, I guess.
Richard, welcome back.
richard c hoagland
Well, I think you're not the only one that shares that view.
I think very quietly the Bush administration is building a public consensus and a technology, the nuclear initiative that O'Keefe is talking about, so we can do just that in a few years.
art bell
Go to Mars, yeah.
I hope so.
richard c hoagland
And you've got to have a reason.
And the only reason that makes sense is to find out if somebody used to be home.
If somebody used to be us.
art bell
Richard, let's do it.
Scroll down just one more, and you're at the three faces, right?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
All right, now tell them which face is which.
richard c hoagland
Okay, on the far left, we have the high sun angle Viking, frame 7813.
art bell
This is the old one where everybody went, oh my god, it's a face on Mars.
richard c hoagland
One of the two that was taken in 76 with a primitive Viticon camera.
Remember Viticon cameras art?
art bell
Yes, of course.
I ruined many of them.
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Well, they came after Image Orthicon, so that shows how old I am.
Okay.
The middle image is the one you didn't like.
art bell
Yeah, and I still don't.
I call it the cat box.
richard c hoagland
No, that's not the cat box.
This is the one that was taken on April 8th of 2001.
art bell
still cat boxy.
richard c hoagland
Two months later?
art bell
Yeah, with what looks like...
richard c hoagland
Okay.
And then the one on the far right is the current themis Odyssey image that we're talking about tonight.
art bell
All right, if I imagine that this was a face, which I can easily do, and I can imagine erosion, which I can easily imagine on Mars, there is erosion, then to me, this looks like it was a face.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, and it's two faces.
art bell
Remember that.
richard c hoagland
My model is left half is hominid, primitive human.
art bell
Right half, a feline.
richard c hoagland
A feline, a pussycat.
What's really interesting is that when you go to various websites, as I do from time to time, an awful lot of people are who have never been involved in this discussion.
They look at it and they say, oh my God, it's a lion.
This is telling us something incredibly profound.
Remember the night that I talked about a secret guy at JPL who was talking to one of my sources in California?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And this was years ago.
And I was having this dinner in this rather palatial place somewhere up in the Pasadena Hills.
And the conversation turned to, you know, he obviously was trying to impress me with what his sources were telling him inside NASA about why all this is secret and covered up and all that.
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And he says, you know, he says, it's because of the feel I have.
richard c hoagland
And I had my laptop with me.
And I turned it around on the table.
And I pressed a couple of keys.
And bingo, there appeared the image that we had done for my UN presentation ten years ago.
Well, this guy's, you know, you know those people that always have to one-up you?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
They have the big car, the big mansion, the big everything?
art bell
They drive me nuts.
richard c hoagland
This guy, he looked like somebody had stuck a pin into a souffle.
He just kind of sank into himself because he thought he had this really neat scoop.
But what he, in fact, had done was to confirm what we have strongly suspected, which is one of the very important reasons for the cover-up by the owls, is what this duality, this double image, this hominid feline thing is trying to tell us about life on Mars and life on Earth and how we're involved.
And it's not going to be the way that a lot of people expect it to come out, and they're not going to be happy.
Now, a few months ago, Arthur Clark, back to Dear Arthur, did a satellite address to a university in Worcester, a Worcester Polytech, I think.
And it was some anniversary.
You know, he's doing a lot of these now because he can sit there in Sri Lanka in Paradise and be anywhere in the world by satellite.
It's really cool.
He was talking about a timeline, and this was reported on Space.com and Yahoo and AOL and CNN and all those places.
Arthur C. Clarke projects a timeline for the next 50 years.
And he had a projection, a prediction, for the year 2032, I believe.
Now, think about this.
art bell
Now, what do you think?
richard c hoagland
What the hell does he mean by an unpleasant surprise?
art bell
Unpleasant surprise.
Surprise.
What do you think he means?
richard c hoagland
I think he means we come face to face, unattended, everybody, with the reality of what the face on Mars really means.
art bell
And what it means about us.
richard c hoagland
It has something to do with the fusion of a lion and a hominid image.
And I'm going to develop this in 2032.
art bell
May I ask a media kind of question?
richard c hoagland
Oh, sure.
art bell
Go ahead.
Since they released this photograph on Friday, this last Friday, they're so sharp, they're so fascinating, they're so interesting that why are you not on CNN right now, or why have you not been on CNN since the release, or a Coppel show, or, you know, I don't know, whatever.
In other words, why hasn't the mainstream media since Friday gone, oh, gee, look, new photographs, these really Are very interesting.
Let's get Mr. Hoagland or somebody on and get the wild stuff.
Why aren't they doing that?
richard c hoagland
I think it's because we can only hold one thought in our media at one time now, and everybody is focused on Sharon and Arafat and the possibility of World War III.
And this will percolate along, and at some point, you know, somebody will go, Bing, the light bulb will come off, and I'll get a couple of calls or some emails or whatever.
Remember, we're doing this big Hollywood extravaganza.
art bell
Oh, the movie.
How's the movie going?
What's going on?
And where the hell's my script?
richard c hoagland
Well, I've actually not sent it to you.
art bell
I noticed.
richard c hoagland
Because I'm a perfectionist.
And I've got, you know, look, I promised on your show when I was on with Paul Davids, you know, a few months ago that we would do this in a transparent fashion, that we would lay out what goes on with movies and movie making.
art bell
No, no, but you called me and said you're sending.
richard c hoagland
I know, I know, I did.
art bell
And then you didn't do it.
richard c hoagland
Well, it's not because I don't want to, it's because I don't want to quite yet.
There is an RKO person coming to visit me to discuss casting production and things like that.
Yes.
And to do some, how should we say, discussions on the script.
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Yes.
richard c hoagland
And I wanted to incorporate those ideas before we actually gave you something because I wanted to be able to stand behind it.
And a movie is like an army.
I mean, it's like doing the D-Day invasion.
art bell
Yeah.
I know.
richard c hoagland
And an awful lot of people get involved in the process.
art bell
Well, I would say these new photographs are going to the new Odyssey photographs are going to buttress the case for the movie, not to mention the Mars mission.
I mean, they're going to buttress the case for the movie, I believe.
richard c hoagland
That's a terrible pun.
You mean the DNM pyramid buttresses?
art bell
No, I mean all the new pictures, all of them.
richard c hoagland
No, you're absolutely right.
And, you know, the good news is things are progressing extremely well on the movie front.
is, for those that want to desperately see this script, I'm being very snickety.
Cagey.
When you get it, I want it to be something I really am really, really happy with.
art bell
Well, this is an opportunity for MGM to reach an entire new level of frustration, even for them.
richard c hoagland
You mean RKO?
art bell
I'm sorry, RKO.
Yeah, that's right.
An entire new level of frustration.
I'm sure they always have a hard time with this kind of thing, but just wait till they meet Richardson.
richard c hoagland
Actually, Ted Hartley, who runs the company, and Tom Mount, who is the head of our project, are very happy with everything that's going on, and they're very pleased.
I will say one thing, that since we submitted this new draft, the budget has increased substantially.
art bell
Really?
Well, then they obviously like it.
richard c hoagland
They like it, and we want to really, really like it.
Anyway, I'll have more to report to people.
Now, the one thing that I can tell everybody that has remained exactly the same is that I am dead serious, and so is Tom, about including as many folks in this audience who want to be in this thing.
Don't laugh, Bart.
art bell
I am laughing just because I know what it brings on.
richard c hoagland
Because there are people that have followed this research for years.
And, you know, it's almost like, you know how the first three laws of business are location, location, location?
unidentified
Yep.
richard c hoagland
You ask me why CNN isn't calling me up and asking me to talk about this latest stuff.
It's because there isn't a big enough media splash yet.
The production of a feature film based on the reality of what we figured out on this that makes the big screen and is reviewed in variety and on the Today Show and all that is going to definitely drive this to number one in terms of media land.
And then all those media people who couldn't get arrested with day before yesterday will suddenly be asking me on talk shows to talk about how this movie was made and how long it was in production and where the research was done and who was involved and all that.
So that's one of the key reasons why we're doing this.
The other reason is it's going to be one hell of a lot of fun.
And what I want to do is include as many folks in this audience in that fun as we can legitimately get away with.
And Tom and Ted are behind me on this.
art bell
Well, what you need are big crowd scenes.
richard c hoagland
Well, we have them.
We certainly have them.
We have a demonstration that we actually produced in the real world that we're going to recreate in the film at some point.
art bell
All right.
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All right.
richard c hoagland
I'm going to give a little hint there of what might be in this thing.
art bell
Well, I mean, you need that to get a lot of the audience in.
So that would be one of the things.
richard c hoagland
My old friend Gene Roddenberry, when he did his first Star Trek movie, which was with the support of the fans, he found a way to include a lot of Star Trek fans as extras in the film.
So all I'm doing is continuing the democratization process of Enterprise and this investigation.
And as I said on that show, the one criteria that we are kind of insisting on is that people who want to be in this know what we're talking about.
And that means they have read the monuments of Mars.
And here's where the offer comes, because there's a way tonight you can get that book for free.
All you do is you call the 800 number, I'm going to give you in a minute, and you ask to order the complete tape set of the things I've done at NASA, the UN, Ohio State.
There are several tapes that have chronicled this investigation as we proceeded through it over the last 20 years.
And as part of the package, Tim Crawford and the good folks there will throw in for free an autographed copy of the 2001 edition, 1,000 pages of the Monuments of Mars with brand new photographs, new text, new everything.
art bell
Okay, that's it.
richard c hoagland
Including a connection of this investigation with Arthur N. Kubrick's movie.
art bell
Sold, that's a really good offer.
richard c hoagland
I think so.
We have a number if you want to get in on this, because my writing hand, you know, when I do these, as you know, Art, it gets very, very tired right now.
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So the number is 1-800-350.
art bell
350.
richard c hoagland
4639.
4639.
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1-800-350-4639.
richard c hoagland
4639.
art bell
39, yeah.
Okay.
And those lines are available, what, 24 hours?
richard c hoagland
24 hours.
art bell
So you could even call right now.
richard c hoagland
Operators are sitting.
They're not standing.
They're sitting there, but they're there.
art bell
Okay.
So you order the tape set, everything done.
That goes back to the UN stuff.
richard c hoagland
My first NASA briefing at NASA Lewis, where Dan Golden was working on nuclear propulsion 30 years before he got tapped by Bush to be the head of NASA, and then he sat on everything for 10 years.
The politics of this art are as important as the science, if not more so.
Because unlike any other mystery, you know, with Egypt, for instance, you can get on an airplane, and Zahid, notwithstanding, you can go there and stand in the pyramids, go inside and find stuff, even if he doesn't want you to.
But with Mars, you've got a filter.
You have gatekeepers.
It's called NASA.
And unless you can get on their good side and get access to the good photographs and access to the good analyses, you're stopped before you even start in the middle of the morning.
art bell
I know that NASA imagines manned missions to Mars.
richard c hoagland
Well, we already know that somebody there is.
art bell
In their present imaginings of a manned mission to Mars, where would be the first place we would land?
What is their current thinking about where we would land?
Would it be Sidonia, that region?
Would it be where they think they've seen all this vegetation?
Would it be at one of the poles?
Where would they go, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Well, remember, the key prerequisite for a man or a person mission, you know, the 21st century, can't be chauvinist here, would be to go where the water is.
Because you need water for life.
You need water for rocket fuel.
You need water to split into oxygen to breathe.
You need water to drink.
art bell
And water would be where life might be.
richard c hoagland
Well, some kind of life.
art bell
Some kind of life, yeah.
richard c hoagland
Maybe microbial life on Mars.
art bell
Whatever, but I mean, water almost guarantees you to find something.
richard c hoagland
That's right.
Well, Odyssey a few months ago, a couple of months ago, gave us this stunning confirmation that Mars is dripping.
There is water all over the damn planet, mostly around the South Pole where it's frozen and it's cold.
But as we predicted in not only the title paper we produced, but also in the fifth edition, I was actually going through my prologue to the fifth edition of Monuments, and I found out that I actually predicted in Monuments that Odyssey would find water on Mars in these two locations.
So 20 centuries apart, verifying the tidal model.
art bell
That's right.
So you feel that they would choose to.
richard c hoagland
They would choose to go to where the water is instead of a base camp.
But, and here's the interesting but, if you have nuclear propulsion, you can go, mixing metaphors badly, loaded for bear, which means you can take tractors, you can take airplanes, you can take gliders.
In other words, you can explore like you would in the Antarctic with high technology because you've got the means to take enough mass to do it the right way.
art bell
Boy, that's something that's not.
richard c hoagland
So even if you don't land at Sidonia, you could get there by driving across the surface with GPS and other navigational tools, satellite tools put into orbit, high-tech navigation that's being used on the space station right now.
art bell
How bad are the dust storms on Mars, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Well, they're not like in Nevada.
The Nevada ones, you know, your 98-mile-an-hour winds the other night were really, really bad because we have a very dense atmosphere.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
The atmosphere on Mars is one one-hundredth of the density of the air that you and I are breathing.
art bell
Yeah, but they seem to have enough dust in the air to show up very handily even on a home telescope.
richard c hoagland
Oh, yeah, but it's very fine dust.
It's not heavy stuff.
It's not like sand.
It's like talcum powder.
And talcum powder, even thrown at you at 300 miles an hour, which is the strength of the highest winds, doesn't do much damage.
art bell
300 miles an hour.
richard c hoagland
Now, what it would do, of course, would be, you know, we actually know what this looks like because Viking and Pathfinder were on the surface during dust storms.
And we know that even during the most severe storms during the Viking era, you didn't get the kind of blinding clouds that, you know, reduce visibility, as Ramona was saying, the other day to zero.
art bell
So, in other words, you could be in the...
richard c hoagland
It becomes like a cloudy day on Earth.
art bell
You could be in a dust storm, and it would be nothing more than a cloudy day.
richard c hoagland
It's like, well, optically, it's a cloudy day.
The particle density is very low because the atmosphere can't support a lot of stuff.
art bell
Gotcha.
richard c hoagland
It's not that thick.
art bell
Gotcha.
richard c hoagland
So with the right technology and the right high-tech nav-aids, like GPS or whatever from satellites you put in Mars orbit, dust storms would not be much of a deterrent to exploring or surviving in a base.
The key thing is to be able to live off the land, and that means you go where the water is.
Well, now we know that there's water all over the place, including not far from Sidonia, including not far from that incredible canyon, Vallas Marineras, including not far from the most incredible volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons.
art bell
So what's the most likely landing spot?
richard c hoagland
Somewhere where you would have access to those three regions, I would think, which would mean somewhere slightly north of the equator, probably on the edge of the Chrysea Basin, which is about a thousand-mile shot over to Sidonia, but maybe a few hundred miles to the canyon and a few miles to the volcano.
art bell
Richard, is that where they're going to land in your movie?
Big long pause.
Don't even bother to answer it.
All right, stay right there.
You can throw people balls like that every now and then just for fun.
Listen, this is Coast, and we'll be right back.
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art bell
It is indeed, and we're about to open alliance for Richard C. Hoagland.
I know that many of you have many questions based on an awful lot of what we've talked about tonight.
So if you have something you would Like to ask Richard about Mars, about the new photographs, about getting to Mars, whether we're going to go, the politics of it all, whatever.
Pick up a telephone, that's what they're for.
Those were the numbers.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
This is Coast.
art bell
Don't move.
All right, I want to briefly warn everybody again in the southern Nevada area, the forecast for the day today is beginning to change, and there could be a very dangerous situation developing with regard to wind.
Like, that's just what we need, but they're talking about winds to 55 miles per hour now, and that could change yet again.
But that change occurred at about midnight.
So if you're in this area, please be warned.
We have what looks like another dangerous situation developing today.
If it does, of course, we'll be giving you local information on the affiliate here, KNYE FM 95.1.
I hope it doesn't get to that, but it certainly looks that way.
That's what the late forecasts are saying.
All right, once again, from the mountains of Edgeworld, that's where he is.
Edgeworld, I call it.
Richard C. Hoagland.
Richard, welcome back.
richard c hoagland
You know, one night I want to do a show again on the physics that we have learned from decoding this geometry and mathematics of Sidonia.
art bell
We've done it, but yeah, we should do it.
richard c hoagland
It is so relevant to the weather and the Larsen shelf and the melting of Mars and all of this that we published several years ago.
I think it was 98.
We put the paper up on the web, the hyperdimensional 101 paper.
And toward the end of that paper, if you want to go back and refresh your memory, you'll see I made a series of predictions based on the model that forecast these Earth changes that we're seeing right now.
And we should probably go through that because this idea of going to Mars to find out what's there is not just an academic question.
It's not, oh, wouldn't it be nice to know?
I believe it's vital to our survival as a people to know.
Because whoever the Martians were, whoever built all this stuff, they were not primitives a la the Egyptians.
They weren't Stone Age or Bronze Age equivalent.
They were high-tech.
I mean, you don't build a pyramid like that DNM thing.
art bell
But they were, you know, their technology, high-tech, I agree with you, but I think high-tech in the sense of the pyramids at Giza, high-tech in the sense of the coral castle, high-tech in a sense that we don't yet understand, or at least the majority of us.
richard c hoagland
Well, when I say high-tech, that's exactly what I mean.
I don't mean, you know, current technology.
We're talking about really high tech.
art bell
A new application of...
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Ability to control gravity.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Ability to control maybe time, favorite subject.
art bell
It is.
richard c hoagland
Ability to control the planetary environment.
So, I mean, the obvious question that folks out there are obviously thinking about, and somebody will probably ask me tonight, is if these guys were such hot, you know what, how come they died?
How come Mars is a desperate, desolated, you know, glacial hell right now as opposed to a garden planet like the Earth?
art bell
By the way, Richard, I am so fascinated with time.
The other day, I found out there was the book that Christopher Reeves signed in Somewhere in Time, the actual movie prop.
richard c hoagland
Oh, my God.
art bell
And I got in a bidding war on eBay with some people, and I want to tell whoever beat me by four seconds with a bid, you stink!
richard c hoagland
Oh, that's a shame.
art bell
I am fascinated, no doubt, with Palma.
richard c hoagland
Well, there is this experiment, and I know whether I've discussed it, which De Palma did many, many, many years ago, which was he took a simple spinning disc, which was nothing but an old 33, 45, 78 record changer.
All right?
And he had it rotating at, I think, 33 and a third RPM.
Little thin aluminum disc.
I mean, you remember how flimsy those turntables were?
art bell
Oh, yeah.
richard c hoagland
Probably used a lot of them in the radio business.
art bell
Tons of them, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Too many, huh?
Anyway, he put a clock above that disc with a metal shield between the rotating turntable.
art bell
This would be something you could try at home if you still had a turntable, which nobody has anymore.
richard c hoagland
Do try this at home.
Everybody says you don't.
This one is perfectly safe.
Try it.
And what he found was an ordinary Bulova Accutron watch.
Remember those?
With a little tuning fork that went back and forth?
Of course.
He found that when he just let it sit there, that after a few hours, it had lost several seconds compared to a control at another part of the lab.
If he let it sit there for a day, it lost several minutes.
art bell
Yeah, there's something about motion.
There's no question about it.
richard c hoagland
It's the rotational energy, for lack of a better term, in terms of angular momentum that is the key to understanding this physics.
art bell
You know, I agree so much with that, Richard.
And then when you look at that contraption down at the coral castle, light bulbs start going off like crazy.
I just went, oh my God, look at that.
I think I know what that is.
I don't precisely know what it is, but I know sort of what it is.
richard c hoagland
Well, if you look at Sidonia, you have these damn tetrahedrons all over the place, either implicit, like the one I showed you in the middle of the strip now.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Which, I mean, there's no doubt that's a tetrahedron, right?
whitley strieber
No doubt.
richard c hoagland
No doubt.
Okay.
art bell
Listen, I've got to do that.
richard c hoagland
And one more point.
The math all over geometry says tetrahedron, tetrahedron, tetrahedron.
Well, tetrahedrons rotating do weird, funny things in our dimension.
And when I was at Carl Castle and I saw that big ring, which you said looks like the Stargate, and you're right.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And then Robin, who, by the way, is in the other room listening on the CC radio, even as we speak here.
We have to flip a coin now.
art bell
Would you like to feel tent?
Oops, sorry about That?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, I sure would.
When she spotted that double tetrahedron that he had carved in the coral on the side of the castle above that bathtub, that's when the light bulb went off.
And I said, well, of course, that's the only way he could have done it.
He employed the hyperdimensional technology that he got from somewhere that mimicked what the Egyptians did, that mimicked what folks before the Egyptians knew how to do.
art bell
That's how it hit me, Richard.
richard c hoagland
And we closed the loop by going back to Mars.
And the show I want to do is how we use this physics and technology to prevent the weird and nasty things that are going to happen on this planet from happening again.
art bell
Yeah, well, you know, when we close the loop, Richard, it's going to bring on many changes, like they sang about in MASH, you know, suicide brings on many changes.
Well, Revelation will bring on many changes.
And I mean, that kind of revelation.
Listen, there's a lot of people that want to talk to you, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Let's get to that.
art bell
All right, good.
First time call our line.
You're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland in New Mexico.
Hello.
richard c hoagland
Hello, Art.
Hi, Richard.
Hi there.
unidentified
Not so much a question here.
First of all, this is Mike from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
art bell
Yes, Mike.
unidentified
If you would take the latest picture on the face of Mars.
art bell
The one that we've got up there tonight.
Everybody wanted to...
I've got a million, million, million people asking, what fishes are you talking about?
They came in late.
So just go to my website, go to Richard C. Hoagland's website, Enterprise Mission, and then just start scroll.
You have got to click on the first item, which is entitled, Laughingly, What Is It, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Do geologists dream of windblown sheep?
art bell
And start down the page, and you will see a development of the newest pictures that we're talking about tonight from Mars.
All right, that's how you get there.
Caller?
unidentified
Yes, the one that has the three pictures of the faces.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
unidentified
If you would take that latest picture and rotate it 180 degrees.
art bell
Looks like a gray, right?
unidentified
Yes, it does.
Yep, yep.
richard c hoagland
We've all seen that, those of us involved in this biz for a while.
art bell
So you're aware of that, Richard, yes.
It does, in fact, look like a gray.
richard c hoagland
Well, this gets to the heart of who would do a mile-long sculpture on a Martian desert?
What's the purpose?
What's the point?
If the point is to memorialize our complicatedness, the involvement of the human species with others, in other words, I'm not rejecting at all the idea that there are a lot of people who see that image.
And again, remember, this thing is eroded when it was new, when it was pristine.
art bell
Richard, I don't think it's a reach at all.
Why do we memorialize presidents on the side of mountains here?
I mean, we do it because that's what intelligent creatures do.
unidentified
Yep.
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
Right?
richard c hoagland
No, this caller is very perceptive, and we actually spotted this, and Canthea and I discussed it at great length back during the Malin image in 2001.
art bell
Yeah, well, everybody might try it.
Just look at it upside down, rotate it with your computer, or just look at it upside down, and you'll get it.
It's a gray.
There's no question about it.
All right.
Wildcard line, you're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, good evening, Art.
Good evening, Richard.
This is John in Scottsdale.
richard c hoagland
Oh, John.
Hi there.
unidentified
I'm well.
Hope this finds you well.
A couple of quick comments, and then a question.
First of all, Art, I appreciate your, or rather Richard, excuse me, I appreciate your nod to Philip K. Dick to Android's Dream of Electric Sheep.
In 1982, I was the one in the theater at Blade Runner that was clapping at the end when the author's name was on the screen.
Anyway, secondly, it's interesting that you have, a little while ago you discussed the radiation problem.
art bell
Yeah, I read this.
Yeah, I read this story.
unidentified
Anyway, it seems that they have ironically dusted off this albatross that was put out in the book Dark Moon vis-a-vis We Never Went to the Moon because the radiation is too intense beyond the Van Allen belt.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
Interesting that they're now using this device.
richard c hoagland
It's a sign of desperation of the owls.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
All right.
And one thing that I wanted to mention was the chlorophyll story art.
art bell
Oh, yes.
richard c hoagland
John, are you aware of this?
unidentified
Yes, I am.
richard c hoagland
Carol Stoker at NASA Ames.
art bell
Yeah, we didn't even get to that.
Tell us about the chlorophyll.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, well, it's relevant to what John was saying.
Carol Stoker, who was one of the old underground Martians that created the Mars Underground Mars conferences in Boulder, Colorado, many, many years ago, where I saw the DiPetro Molinar enhancements of the face of Mars for the first time.
I was on my way back from the first shuttle launch.
I was there at CNN when they launched the shuttle in 81.
And at this Mars Underground, Stoker and Chris McKay and a bunch of others, Penny Boston, Penelope Boston, they were these young grad students that basically didn't want the idea of going to Mars to die.
So they set up this kind of underground conference.
And it took off, and now they're in responsible positions in NASA.
Well, Carol, the other day, with a colleague whose name escapes me, NASA Ames, presented at the second astrobiology conference at Ames last week a paper, an analysis of the Pathfinder color imagery from 1997.
And the Pathfinder camera, like the FEMAS camera, had 15 different spectral bands, wide spectrum color, and an ability to detect certain pigments or certain materials provided you knew what you were looking for.
So they programmed a computer to look at the Pathfinder super mosaic in these various spectral bands looking for the telltale signature of chlorophyll.
art bell
Very important.
richard c hoagland
It's the active molecule in green plants that allows them to convert sunlight into energy and break down the water.
art bell
That would mean there's growing stuff.
richard c hoagland
So they found places in this image close to the lander, four of which were on the lander, two of which were on the Martian surface that look like the signature of chlorophyll.
The interesting thing is that as soon as Carol was going to publish this paper, or it was announced that she was going to present this at a post-recession at the conference, NASA put out a press release in Washington, NASA headquarters, basically raining all over their parade, saying that it wasn't what she was saying, and she didn't really mean it and all this.
So we can see in this little contra-temp the war between the owls and the roosters.
Carol is a rooster, and the guys who wrote the press release throwing cold water on it are representing the owls.
So you have this war between those that want us to go and those that don't want us to do anything.
unidentified
Sounds like the push-me-pull you, Richard.
Yep.
richard c hoagland
By the way, have you gone to see Senator McCain yet?
No, I'm not sure.
unidentified
No, you said it was Bill Christensen at U of A in Tucson.
richard c hoagland
Well, that was another name that would be useful.
unidentified
Now I have two.
richard c hoagland
Now you have two.
art bell
All right.
Go get them, sir.
Listen, so what, I mean, the chlorophyll thing really is important.
In your opinion, what are the odds that what's been uncovered is, in fact, chlorophyll, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Well, the Russians reported from ground-based studies evidence of chlorophyll.
I wrote in the new edition of Monuments that Odyssey could find chlorophyll if they would ever give us a damn color image.
And notice that we have no color images from Odyssey, and it's got a camera with exquisite color capability.
Why aren't we getting colored?
Because it's not time.
There is a fierce internal war.
I was told by my Bush sources that there is this war going on between JPL and Arizona State and Johnson and headquarters and Ames, and someone is trying to get everybody on the same page, and there are fierce internal turf battles over who's going to control the dialogue.
And so what we're seeing is little efforts here and there, like this Sidonia image from the FEMA's camera, the same afternoon that O'Keefe makes his big speech on pioneering the future, where NASA is going.
So we have to read between the lines.
Now, if we're right, if the roosters are the ones putting out this new data, so we can all look at it and basically come to the assessments that you have tonight, Art, that there's something there to go for, then the next data point in this political war is going to be an infrared image taken at night.
Because if we got an infrared image of the Sidonia region, these structures, these putative structures that we've spent so many years studying are going to stand out like a sore thumb.
art bell
And do you think they'll release this late on a Friday?
richard c hoagland
Late on a Friday, I would bet within the next month we're going to get a nighttime IR image of Sidonia.
art bell
That would be something.
All right.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Richard C. Hoglund.
Hello.
unidentified
Good morning, Artin Richard.
richard c hoagland
Good morning.
unidentified
Richard, my preface is this.
I work in a magnetic resonance lab, and it's nice to hear a guest who explains how physicists and academicians fight so fiercely because either the money is so scarce or the money in the tenured offices are so few.
And my question is this.
Is it simpler and therefore easier for the United States to send a vehicle to Mars' surface, which then unleashes or launches the sort of unmanned plane the military used in Afghanistan to take a daytime photograph of Sidonia?
And I suppose there are two tracks, because I asked the scientific question, and beyond science, there are the internal politics of NASA.
richard c hoagland
Well, there's also the national security questions of the United States and the global situation.
This is not trivial information.
If you think that what's going on in the Middle East is big news between Arabs fighting Jews over who's really God, just bring Martians into the mix and stir well.
art bell
Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah.
You know, Richard, you're so right about that.
That's usually my argument.
Bring in Martians and stir well.
Bring in any news that says it didn't go the way the creationists are certain it did.
And, gosh, you know.
richard c hoagland
This is why I think we're seeing, even on the roosters part, a lot of tiptoeing through the minefield.
art bell
I can almost see your crowd scenes, Richard.
And I haven't read the script, Richard, but I think I know where the crowd scenes come from.
Anyway, listen, hold on.
We're at the bottom of the hour, all right?
Stay right there, don't move.
richard c hoagland
Well not.
art bell
Okay, good.
How about the rest of you?
Can you see those crowd scenes, the ones that some of you might get in?
And I'm just guessing.
I'm just good at guessing.
From the high deserts, where the winds, the devil winds, apparently are preparing to howl once again.
They're already running at about 25 right now, and they don't crank until the sun peeks up over the horizon and adds the energy.
It's going to be bad again today, they say.
55 miles an hour.
Watch out.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
I'm Art Bell.
Oh
Thank you.
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art bell
Have of the morning from the windblown high desert.
I am Art Bell, and Richard C. Hoagland is here.
If you'll just stay right where you are, we've got another segment to go, and a lot of people want to talk to Richard.
Don't move.
Once again, to the mountains of New Mexico and Edge World, here's Richard C. Hoagland.
So many people waiting to talk to you, Richard.
Let's go ahead and I know it's a marketing technique, but it's really a good marketing technique.
I think, you know, if people order your tape series, they get with it a free and autographed 2001 version of the monuments of Mars.
And that's something you all should have.
It is our future, and I think it'll be a collector's item, so it's good to get it just for that, I think.
A lot of people do that.
Number is 1-800-350-4639.
That's 1-800-350-4639.
24 hours a day, including right now, if you'd like to.
All right, Richard, I'm trying to devote this as much as I can to callers.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Richard C. Hoglund.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes, this is Phil and Phoenix.
art bell
Hello, Phil.
unidentified
Howdy, it's an honor to speak with both of you, but I'd like to ask Mr. Hogland about the fort and if any more new pictures have been taken and what do they show about the honeycombs?
art bell
Okay, the fort and the honeycombs.
richard c hoagland
You know, that's a really perceptive question.
Because if you go back to the website, do you have a computer, sir?
art bell
I don't know if he does or not, but I do so.
richard c hoagland
Okay, if you go up to the top image.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Let's see, top image.
Give me a second here.
I've got a fast connection here.
Okay, here I am.
You see the face?
Yep.
richard c hoagland
Down a little bit and all the way to the left.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
That object is the fort.
art bell
What new observations, if any, with these images have you determined?
richard c hoagland
Okay.
When we got the fort from Malin, remember this is a separate group.
This is Dr. Christensen and the Odyssey group at ASU as opposed to Malin Space Science Systems.
It didn't look like it did in the Viking.
And it didn't seem to have any kind of artificial features that leapt out at you.
On this image, it's much more interesting.
And the honeycomb is back.
If you look to the bottom of it, on the far left, below the main structures, and you go in and zoom in, and you have to save the image in the Photoshop or something, and zoom in, you will see a series of layered, tiered areas that look like stacked playing cards that have been rippled back.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
like their edges that are scalloped, step down, step down, step down, right where the honeycomb is.
So, again, this image from Odyssey appears to be much more faithful to the...
art bell
The images, the latest images we have, seem to take us back not forward to OG even more of a cat box, but they take us back to the original concept, which is pretty interesting since they're higher res.
richard c hoagland
Yep.
Yep.
They're about twice what Viking was.
art bell
Yes, exactly.
richard c hoagland
There's a better grayscale.
The technology is now CCD imaging as opposed to...
art bell
I mean, that's just not proven to be true.
Not at all.
richard c hoagland
So I didn't have time to do a lot of work on the fort, but we're going to do that.
And again, to me, this is kind of like a placeholder.
The real data we're expecting politically and scientifically, if we're right about the creatures and owls model, we're going to get the IR.
And they'll make all kinds of crazy claims, forget the claims, like forget the caption that goes with this image.
It's Looney Tunes, all right?
Nature having an imagination.
But the image speaks for itself, and that's the process of undisclosed disclosure.
art bell
That's what I think, too.
Just from even a layman's point of view, these images, as the last ones did, that I screeched so hard about, these images also speak for themselves.
I agree with that.
First time caller line, you're on the air with Richard C. Hobund.
unidentified
Yes, thank you.
This is Thomas.
I'm calling from Columbus, Ohio.
art bell
Hello, Thomas.
richard c hoagland
Hi, Tom.
unidentified
My question is, I want to switch lanes a little bit and go back to the nuclear reactor proposal.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
Sure.
There are two loops.
There's a primary loop and there's a secondary loop, and they're separate from each other.
The primary is pressurized and the secondary is not.
How is the secondary loop going to react under low gravity or even no gravity?
richard c hoagland
Probably not a real change.
it's in the engineering.
It's in the materials.
It's in the coolant selection, the materials and the coolant.
There's a lot of coolants that have been used in nuclear reactors in space over the last 20, 30 years by the Russians, Topaz reactors.
We have a couple of reactors that the DOD put into orbit for reconnaissance satellites.
The Russians use them for radar reconnaissance.
So it's not as if this is a brand new idea.
It's just a brand new idea to do it big time with NASA to take civilians to Mars.
art bell
And you believe they have, based on that speech, for example, made that commitment or are making it internally?
richard c hoagland
Look, O'Keefe reiterated it again today at a press conference at 8.30 this morning in Houston when he was introducing the new teacher in space, Barbara Morgan.
They're going to reinstate the whole idea of the Kristen McAuliffe Memorial.
art bell
Oh, yes, I heard that.
richard c hoagland
And then Barbara, who was her backup, she's now a full-fledged astronaut.
She's going to be astronauts and go through the whole training.
But, you know, O'Keefe appears to me to be leading NASA under Bush's direction or Cheney's or whoever's running the show back there in a new direction.
art bell
Well, isn't his mouth bigger than his wallet?
richard c hoagland
It depends on the American people.
Ultimately, if they pull the Sidonia cap out of the bag, pun intended, guys, there will be unlimited money.
You know we have enough money, Art, to do this.
art bell
I know.
richard c hoagland
It's all a matter of political will.
The only thing that's going to get us to go with men and women to Mars is an ancient civilization.
The lure of people, of intelligence, of heritage, of who the hell are we and what were we doing in that place?
And I think we're marching very quietly down that road, and the pieces are being assembled, and my job and those on Enterprise with NEARS is to show everyone how to connect the dots so we get there before they do.
art bell
Gotcha.
All right.
Wildcard line, you're on the air with Richard.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello.
I've got a quick question for Richard.
Do you think that the privatization of space exploration might have a significant effect on how fast we get to Mars and whether or not we, as a race, will admit that there's anything there?
richard c hoagland
Not in the short term, unless there was a dramatic breakthrough in the form of private anti-gravity, some hyperdimensional technology that was put together with corporate money or private sponsorship or whatever, because it looks like NASA has chosen the nuclear route, which means they're not going to disclose these technologies like the thing that flew over ARC and Ramona that night many years ago.
They're going to go the nuclear route, but that represents an order of magnitude improvement in capabilities of going anywhere.
So I, frankly, am less concerned with how we get there than we get there because I know what's waiting for us at the end of the journey.
art bell
I have to agree with you.
unidentified
Thank you.
All right.
art bell
Thank you very much.
East of the Rockies, you're on there with Richard C. Hoagland.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Hi.
art bell
Hi.
richard c hoagland
I'm Don from West Chicago.
Okay.
And I want to tell you, both of you guys do a great job.
art bell
Thank you.
richard c hoagland
I think because we enjoy what we're doing.
art bell
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
I think so.
Being a baby boomer, I've enjoyed Walter Conkrer right up to what you're doing right now.
And also, I think because that generation being born roughly around 1950, that's 19.5 centuries AD.
Which reminds me.
Sir, thank you for triggering my memory here.
Why is your FM radio antenna 195 feet tall?
art bell
Because at 200 feet, you have to start lighting it, Richard.
See, FAA regulation.
richard c hoagland
So why is it 197, 194, 193?
art bell
Oh, Richard, 19 points.
unidentified
Oh.
Richard.
art bell
Color, do you have anything else you want to ask us?
richard c hoagland
Yes, that large area on the strip of photos from the show to BNM and the face at the top.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
In between, you know, there's a large area right above the tetrahedral ruin.
Yes.
And I noticed on the global surveyor pictures especially that when you look at it from the west, it looks oddly symmetrical.
Not perfectly so, but when you look at each of the slopes of it, it looks like it maybe was symmetrical.
Also looks like it took a huge pounding from the right, almost a hole in it.
I don't know.
You can especially, again, see it from the global surveyor.
Anyway, I was just wondering if you had happened to notice that or had any comments on that?
There's a lot of things in the Sidonia region that we haven't had time to look at carefully and plot out mathematically, but I would not be surprised if that's another reshaped or former ruin or something of that nature.
I mean, this whole region is so interesting and is so exquisitely interconnected mathematically that I don't think we've mined maybe 10% of what's ultimately there.
art bell
All right.
On the international line, you're on the air with Richard.
See, Hoglind, where are you calling from, please?
unidentified
Hello, Art.
I'm calling from Norway.
art bell
Norway?
richard c hoagland
Wow.
unidentified
Norway.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Good morning.
I called you previously, Art.
I don't know if you remember.
This is F-R-O-D-E from Norway.
art bell
I think I recall, yes.
unidentified
Thank you.
Richard.
Yes.
I actually sent you a fax regarding the anti-gravity drive that has been receiving a lot of attention on the Internet lately.
I don't know if you got that or even remember it.
richard c hoagland
Our fax machine is temporarily down because with the move, we only have one phone line.
Quest really did me in.
I had four at the previous location, and now I only have one.
So I have to decide tonight whether I listen to Art on the phone and talk to him or I'm on the Internet.
So until we get Quest to get us more lines, I'm not getting any faxes.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
With your permission, I could recap some of what I wrote in the fax.
richard c hoagland
Well, I'll tell you, we don't have time now, but do me a favor.
Do you have email?
unidentified
I do.
richard c hoagland
Send it to Lunar Anomalies, and they'll forward it to me via email.
art bell
LunarAnomalies.com.com.
Well, that would be it.
That's not an email address, right?
richard c hoagland
No, that is an email.
art bell
No, Lunar Anomalies, well, is it?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, if you go to www.lunaranomalies.com, there's an email address.
art bell
Okay, okay, okay.
richard c hoagland
See, that's a web address.
All right, here.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Do you have time for one more?
Sure.
You had Tim Valentine on a while ago.
And he was talking about the lifter that he built and videotaped.
art bell
I don't think that was my guess, sir.
I don't recall that.
richard c hoagland
Yes, it was.
It was when the first hour he had built one of these technological.
unidentified
Oh, right.
He was not a guest.
art bell
He was.
richard c hoagland
This is the electrogravitic technology.
We actually have a lifter.
unidentified
And that was my subject in the facts.
And what really was a pity was that Tim Valentine didn't give credit to Jean-Louis Nodin, which has really been the driving force.
richard c hoagland
I'm a French researcher who has done a lot of this last year.
art bell
That's right.
A number of people complain about that.
But I guess the technological aspects of it, though, nevertheless have some validity, you both believe.
richard c hoagland
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
richard c hoagland
No question.
It goes back to T. Townsend Brown.
art bell
Okay.
All the way from Norway.
Thank you very much.
So short on time here.
First time caller line.
You're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
My name is Cameron.
I'm coming from Toronto.
art bell
Toronto, yes, sir.
unidentified
While I've been sitting on the line here, somebody has actually mentioned exactly what I've been talking about.
But to me, the tetrahedral rune, there's a round structure right above it.
And the caller was saying it looks oddly symmetrical.
To me, it's jumping right out at me, more clear even than the original face on Mars as a skull.
It looks eroded on the bottom half, but you can see the kind of pits of the eyes and the forehead very clearly.
richard c hoagland
Well, we'll go take a look, but I'd be careful of these projections because it's so easy to see that kind of stuff that's anthropomorphic.
I'm much more trustworthy of the geometry.
art bell
Yeah, and I fully understand that.
It's just that people do what people do, and they look at these things, and their brains try to make something out of them, and you do.
I mean, in this case, you do, to really get to the depth that you've gotten and understand the mathematical relationships that prove artificiality in a good old scientific way, not just, oh, wow, look at that.
That's the important path to try and follow.
And we'll do a program on that, Richard.
I just, it's so hard for people to grasp the whole concept when you try and do it technically.
richard c hoagland
Well, we won't touch too heavily on the mathematics, but more on the implications of a physics that gives us the solar system and beyond and can do something about your weather.
art bell
That'd be nice.
It's amazing to me that we really do apparently have this other technology, and we're not going to use it.
I mean, we're going to use big, giant chemical rockets to blast nuclear engines into space and do it that way.
I mean, that's the old big dollar, got to fight your way out of Earth's gravity way.
richard c hoagland
Well, that's the whole program in itself.
art bell
It certainly is.
richard c hoagland
That's the decision, and I've been discussing this with Steve Bassett in terms of the politics of this.
It tells us a lot about the idea that we're going to have partial disclosure, but not full disclosure.
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
And certain things are going to be held back.
I mean, if that was released into the public domain, our friend Eugene Maloff, notwithstanding, and the coal fusion and the energy crowd, you can imagine what would happen economically to oil futures and coal and things like that.
art bell
Yeah, and the markets are in enough trouble right now.
richard c hoagland
And the whole Enron debacle.
art bell
Yeah.
Wells to the Rockies.
You're on there with Richard C. Hoglund.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, good evening.
I just wanted to say, Richard, I was one of the first to send you a fax.
I'm a guy toasting with that woman at the table on the Queen Mary.
I sent you a fax maybe in February about the picture movie.
And I hope that you would really consider me.
whitley strieber
I'm really anxious to get into this.
richard c hoagland
I have prepared a file.
Everyone who sent us a fax is in the file.
whitley strieber
Okay, so I'm the guy toasting.
richard c hoagland
Don't worry, we're going to get back to you.
The key thing is have you read it.
whitley strieber
My phone number and everything is on it.
richard c hoagland
Have you read Monuments?
whitley strieber
I'm going to read it.
unidentified
I'm trying to get hold of your 800 number, and they're busy as all days.
richard c hoagland
I can't imagine why, but they're there for days, so just keep trying.
art bell
All right.
That's 1-800-350-4639.
1-800-350-4639.
And yeah, obviously.
richard c hoagland
And we have plenty of time, sir.
art bell
If it's jammed, just give it a try later today, you know, when you wake up or whatever.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland.
Not a lot of time.
unidentified
Hello?
Good morning, Richard.
Thanks a lot for squeezing McCollin.
art bell
Sure.
unidentified
Richard, I'd like to know if there's any researchers who have published any papers, had any book deals recently, any new theories pertaining to Sedonia, anything that would strike a chord with the general public, in layman's terms, nothing too preachy or academic.
richard c hoagland
Well, we're doing this movie, which I think is going to strike a chord, and I'm working on the follow-on to monuments called The Heritage of Mars, Remembering Forever, which is going to have some juicy things I'm hoping it will be because we've got a lot of stuff that it's now time to put out there to let people take pot shots at me over.
art bell
Yeah, well, you're used to that by the way.
richard c hoagland
I'm a little used to it by now, yes.
art bell
I must say, you must feel vindicated to some degree by these latest photographs, Even though they're not ultimately what you want, I know you want the IRs and they're coming.
But even with what we've received and seen tonight, Richard, you must feel somewhat vindicated.
richard c hoagland
Well, I do, because, for instance, the tetrahedral ruin that.
Remember, I was on the show on April, this is my birthday when that second image came out that showed this ruin.
art bell
I remember.
richard c hoagland
Ed Dames was on.
art bell
Yep.
richard c hoagland
And you were so excited then.
Well, now we've got a top-down view.
There's no doubt it's a tetrahedral ruin.
You can't get more tetrahedral than a tetrahedron in the middle of a mathematical complex with tetrahedra.
So, yeah, I feel we're on the right track, the right direction.
And I thank you, my friend, for sticking with us all these years.
And the fun is just about to begin.
art bell
Thanks, Richard, and good night.
richard c hoagland
You too.
art bell
Take care.
He has been a very good friend over the years.
Richard C. Hoagland, folks.
That's it for tonight.
Again, for those of you in the local southern Nevada area, we've had a revision of the forecast, and we're looking at the possibility of 55-mile-an-hour winds later on this morning and into the day.
So beware.
Buckle up, everybody.
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