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Be it sight, sound, smell, touch, something inside that we need so much The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sand, or the strength of an arms deep in the ground The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst for
sun without burning a wing to lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing, to have all these things in our memories home and they used them to come to find right right right past your soul
take this place all this strength just for me right take a free ride take my place half my seat it's for free I worked like a slave for years went so hard twister in my fears not too in my life before that but by now I know I should have
run wanna take a a ride from the high desert and the Wicked American Southwest, exclusively on serious X and Radio.
This is Dark Matter with your host, Art Bell.
art bell
Now, here's Art Extraterrestrial Radio, actually, broadcast from my home in Perump, Nevada, immediately adjacent to Area 51.
Couple of a few programming notes, actually.
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And I go there and make announcements every now and then.
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unidentified
How's that?
art bell
Artbell at artbell.com.
It will reach me.
Trust me.
Now, I was told that this program now reaches Canadian listeners.
Okay, we're going to find out about that right now.
I have just left three phone lines open, and I would like them filled with three tasty Canadians.
unidentified
We used to call Canadians tasty Canadians.
art bell
Anyway, if you're in Canada, you can help us confirm that you're really there, that you really can call by calling.
So call right now.
If you're in Canada, only, only if you're in Canada, call 1-855-732-5836.
And call now.
Or 1-855-REALUFO.
That's 1-855-REALUFO.
Only from Canada.
So we're going to find out if we've really got Canada there.
Now, updating on a few things.
The weekend schedule.
Here's what's going to happen, I am told.
And they told me this.
Over the next, and Make sure they're really Canadians before you put them on hold because I'm going to talk to them.
Make sure they're Canadians.
Over the next weekend, we are going to do something interesting over the weekend, meaning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
We're going to replay three shows twice.
That's right.
Three shows twice.
We're going to pick three from the week and replay them twice, actually, every day.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
So if you missed something or a friend did, they're going to get a chance to probably hear it.
Then I got a lot of emails about how are all the ABs.
They're very well, thank you.
And that's Art Bell, Aaron Bell, Asia Bell.
And then at least as many about my cats.
My cats are fine.
This is pretty incredible.
Yeti, who I'm sure you all remember, is now, check it out, 22 years old.
A lot of you will have been listening way back when when he bounded into our yard.
Yeti is now 22 years old.
And his bones are stiff, but he motivates around.
And when he has to, he can run at about 1,000 miles an hour.
Abby is fine.
Dolly is fine.
All three of these cats have been around the world now.
One, two, three times.
They've been around the world three times.
That's right.
I shipped them back and forth, and they had to go through Europe, Scandinavia, actually.
So leave that to get to the Philippines.
Remember, folks, if you want to wish me well, I'm stealing from Rush here.
If you want to wish me well, it's Roswell's.
Roswell's art, that means welcome back.
Happy to have you.
If not, then just don't say a word.
You know, have nothing good to say.
Don't say anything.
From the times of India, and this is really, really sad, there were predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity.
The sun would be going nuts, and geomagnetic storms abounding, communication systems a fallen.
You know, just we'd really get it.
Well, it hasn't worked out that way.
Something went wrong.
Something terribly wrong.
This is the weakest solar cycle that we have had in a hundred years.
I repeat, a hundred years.
Now, I don't know if my Canadian colors are on there or not.
Oh, yes, I guess.
I guess.
Okay.
Let's find out, shall we, very quickly?
I'm very curious.
And dark matter.
There, I think we've done it.
You are on there.
Hello?
Okay, I'm not getting good vibes yet.
Was that a Canadian?
Hello there.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Hi, how are you?
unidentified
Not bad.
Have you had your station on in Canada, like Toronto, like AM Radio?
art bell
No.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Maybe I'm mistaken.
art bell
No, we're on Sirius XM.
Where have you been?
unidentified
No, I think I've heard of you on the radio two or three years ago in AM Radio, but maybe I'm just mistaking you with someone else.
Oh, no, no, no.
art bell
You're not mistaking me with anybody.
I was on AM Radio for, well, most of my adult life.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Yeah, because my brother used to listen to you all the time at 3 a.m. and 3 or 4 a.m.
That's right.
Oh, nice.
Can I tell you?
So wait a minute.
art bell
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Where are you?
You're in Toronto, is that right?
unidentified
Yeah, just in Tobacco.
art bell
Hey, all right.
And you're a serious XM listener?
unidentified
Yeah, for the past three years.
art bell
Okay, and you found this show how?
unidentified
Well, I listened to Rotten Tomatoes on this channel.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And I just finished work at 10 o'clock, and the notification was on, so I started listening to it, and I said, hey, that's the same voice as what I heard a few years ago.
art bell
So I have Rotten Tomatoes to thank for your being here.
unidentified
Correct.
art bell
That's really cool.
All right, Rotten Tomatoes.
Thank you very much.
There is one tasty Canadian.
And you're very welcome.
Take care.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
I'll get one.
Let's try going to another tasty Canadian.
Hello there.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
You are on Dark Matter, and I hope you're in Canada.
unidentified
Yes, I am.
art bell
What part?
unidentified
West Coast, Vancouver.
art bell
Okay.
West Coast.
And how, pray tell, did you hear about the show?
unidentified
I was a listener for ever, just for years and years and years.
And I had wanted, I actually had kind of wanted a serious radio for a while.
I hadn't bothered.
And then I heard somewhere somehow, I think I was keeping an eye on your website or I saw an announcement somewhere.
I'm not even 100% sure where.
But as soon as I saw that you were coming back on here, that was enough.
I bought it right away.
art bell
Cool.
All right.
Well, I really, really appreciate your call.
And it's good to know that you're listening up there in Canada.
unidentified
Yeah, it's just great to hear your voice again, and I'll be listening from now on.
art bell
All right, my friend.
Take care.
unidentified
Take it easy.
Bye.
art bell
I think we've got a problem with our software here for controlling these phones.
We'll straighten that out.
I may have one more tasty Canadian to go.
So let's make that switch and go to the next tasty Canadian, possibly here.
I don't know.
You're on Dark Matter.
Hello?
unidentified
Hi, Art.
How are you doing?
I got a little bit of a cold today, and I'm calling you from Montreal, Canada.
art bell
Montreal.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Well, that kind of does it.
I mean, that's all the way across the country, so cool.
It works.
Do you have any trouble getting through?
unidentified
No, I didn't have no trouble getting through.
I just hit the redow or dial summer after I hit the redow.
I wanted to ask you about the signal on XM.
Sure.
Now, I get it.
We have a repeater here at Montreal.
The repeater was down today.
But I was able to bring the antenna, put it outside on my balcony, but still receive the signal.
Wow.
All right.
art bell
Now, the way the Sirius satellites work is really cool.
What they do is they go from Canada all the way down to the South Pole and then make a figure eight and come back up.
And as they're over Canada, they sort of loiter.
They spend a longer time.
It's the kind of orbit it's in.
And so it spends a longer time over your head, about 29,000 miles above Earth.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
And you know what they say?
The higher the antenna, the bigger the signal.
unidentified
Now, that kind of a signal that they send, is that sort of like a beam of light, like a dime almost?
Because I noticed if I move the antenna a little bit, you can almost like lose the signal.
Right.
It's sort of like a laser?
art bell
Well, no, more like a flashlight.
unidentified
Yeah, okay.
art bell
You know, the old-fashioned flashlights?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
art bell
So it kind of covers a lot.
Okay, listen, thank you very, very much.
I wanted to be sure we were getting into Canada.
All right, there we go.
unidentified
Yeah, I'm listening to you on the other side.
art bell
So, how about that?
No question about Canada anymore, I guess, huh?
The Pope, amazingly to me, this is a real wow, the Pope is warning that the Catholic Church's moral structure might fall like his words, house of cards, if it doesn't balance its divisive rules about abortion and gaze and contraception.
My goodness gracious, what kind of pope is this?
He's really going for change.
Now, I'm married to a Catholic, as you know, and these are indeed serious matters to so many Catholics, you know, certainly here in the U.S. That's really big news.
This pope is going to make big changes.
Okay, you can stop calling in Canada.
I see them all.
Okay, we've got it covered, apparently, but you'll be welcome to the show.
Mexico has trouble.
the horror there.
You know, storm after storm and now dirt and rock come tumbling down a hillside.
There's 97 dead.
They're really going through it in Mexico.
In Syria, they're moving around chemical weapons like a little shell game.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda militants seized a town near the Turkish border on Thursday after expelling Western-backed rebels from the area, demonstrating the growing power of jihadis.
A great just absolutely great al-Qaeda militants take a town near the Turkish border.
Just perfect.
All right.
Blew away too much time.
Richard C. Hoagland is coming up in a moment.
My old friend, Richard.
Richard C. Hoagland is a former NASA consultant and former science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News, all during the epic Apollo missions to the moon.
That must have been so cool.
He's author of two best-selling books on his 40 years of intensive research into the possibility of a former ancient solar system-wide high-tech civilization.
The Monuments of Mars, City on the Edge of Forever, and with Mike Barra, Dark Mission, The Secret History of NASA.
Hoagland is currently principal investigator of the not-for-profit space research and public policy organization, the Enterprise Mission.
It's been a long time.
Coming up in a moment, Richard C. Can You See It Now Hoagland.
So from space and 29,000 miles above your head, I'm Ardell, and this is Dark Matter.
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Leave me this way.
I can't survive.
I can't stay alive.
Without you.
I can't stay alive.
I can't stay alive.
I got a lot of those teardrops.
Heart and egg.
Teardrops.
All of the way.
It's XM, baby, and we're very serious.
To call Heart Bell, please manipulate your communication device and call 1-855-Wheel UFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
Can you tell I like that one?
Always play it at the beginning of the show or near the beginning, so then I can play it again.
unidentified
It's XM, baby.
art bell
He knows how to do it, doesn't he?
unidentified
All right, time for Richard C. Hoagland.
art bell
Speaking of heartaches, here he is from New Mexico.
Richard, man, it's been a long time since I've heard your voice.
richard c hoagland
Sidonias, Art.
Sidonias.
art bell
Sidonias.
richard c hoagland
Well, we don't do UFOs, so it has to be Sidonia.
art bell
Yeah, you know, now I know why Rush did what he did.
richard c hoagland
It saves so much time.
art bell
Oh, it really does.
richard c hoagland
And redundancy.
art bell
Richard, I'm hearing noise and weirdness on your phone line.
richard c hoagland
Shouldn't be.
art bell
Well, there isn't.
richard c hoagland
On my end.
art bell
Yeah, it's kind of a...
It's a little bit better.
It's kind of a weird noise.
richard c hoagland
That's weird because we had the phone coming out here a couple days ago checking everything just to make sure.
art bell
Oh, that would have done it.
There's like a tone and then some noise and a tone and some noise.
richard c hoagland
That's bizarre.
It's probably them.
art bell
Them.
richard c hoagland
Them.
art bell
All right.
Well, one of the breaks.
We'll see what we can do about it.
All right.
Look, this is going to be a fun night.
I know it is.
I'm looking at your first image, and we're going to argue about that.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
art bell
And that's, what, 1967?
richard c hoagland
1967 unmanned surveyor spacecraft on the moon after sunset.
art bell
Yeah, I know, but shattered lunar dome?
richard c hoagland
Well, think of this.
You've got a TV camera.
This is an old-style Viticon TV camera, which is insensitive as hell.
You know, I don't know whether you ever were in a TV studio back then, but they were really, they were the best we had, and they were terrible compared to what we have now, CCDs and all that.
art bell
I'm buying it so far, sure.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
And the idea was to, after sunset on the moon, which has no air, no atmosphere, to look toward the horizon when the sun got like about one solar diameter below the horizon, which takes like an hour or so because the moon rotates really slowly, like, you know, once every 30 days.
So then they started taking pictures.
And what they noticed immediately on several of the surveyor missions, not all of them, because they landed at different places on the moon, but at many of them, was they had this incredible, what they called, beaded set of glows, horizon glow, along the western horizon.
And it was very bright and completely unexpected, should not have existed because in a vacuum, when you cut the sun off, it should be like, you know, cutting off with a sharp knife.
You know, one moment you're in daylight and the next moment you're in pitch darkness.
art bell
Okay, so that I understand, this is a lunar sunset, basically, right?
After sunset.
richard c hoagland
After lunar sunset.
unidentified
After it's just a half hour to an hour.
richard c hoagland
Right.
And above the brilliant beating along the horizon, and you see those little jagged dark things sticking up?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
Those are rock shadows.
The horizon here is around two miles away.
Because you're on the moon, the moon is smaller than the earth.
On the earth, the horizon is roughly 30 miles away.
If you're six foot high and the lunar camera was on surveyor at about a six foot elevation, human size.
And then above that brilliant beating was all this light.
Now, they had expected if they took time exposures, because these cameras actually could take a time exposure, and they could record stars down to about sixth magnitude, which is about the dimmest star that a human eye can see in a good dark place like a desert or on the ocean.
In the shot.
art bell
Yeah, sure.
richard c hoagland
The bright one over on the right is, I think, Antares.
art bell
Look, I better stop.
I better tell everybody, look, what we're talking about is on artbell.com.
So everybody listening, you know, if you want to follow along, you really have to go to the website, www.artbell.com.
richard c hoagland
And Keith, on the right-hand side, has put a thing called 919 Hoagland Images for Tonight, making it really easy.
Just click on that.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
And that will take you to a series.
We're going to go through these by themselves.
art bell
A series of photographs.
All right.
This is taken by Surveyor 6, 1st one, November of 67.
And my question, Richard, just to cut to the chase here, you're not trying to tell us that there's really a shattered lunar dome that we're looking at, are you?
unidentified
Of course I am.
richard c hoagland
Why would I not be telling you that?
That's the truth.
art bell
Okay.
Fine.
Okay.
Why would there be a dome on the moon?
richard c hoagland
Well, because you're on a place where there's no air.
If you ever had people and they were kind of like us, needed oxygen, needed pressure, and all that, you have to have something to contain the atmosphere.
art bell
I've got that.
But excuse me, but this is a camera that would, to take this picture, would almost have to be inside the dome, right?
richard c hoagland
No.
Why?
unidentified
Well, because we're designed, sort of.
richard c hoagland
Well, hang on.
If you're standing, let's assume a hypothetical model.
art bell
Or am I looking at the edge of the outer edge of the dome?
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
If you're outside, you're looking in.
And if you're inside the shadow dome, you're looking out.
The key thing is it's a wall of geometric glass.
Now, we've all had the experience of driving west at sunset or east at sunrise on a long trip with windshields full of bugs and scratches and dust and all that.
And you know you can barely see out of it because of a phenomenon known as scattering.
The sunlight bounces off every little imperfection on the glass, including scratches if there are any, and you can't see out because of the haze created by the bouncing sunlight, right?
art bell
Yes, I even see a scratch on there, like it was.
richard c hoagland
Well, that's probably a hair in the enlarger when NASA did this picture.
This was scanned from a NASA print I got, an early generation print I got from the National Space Science Data Center at Goddard Space Flight Center outside Washington, D.C., years and years and years ago.
In fact, I probably got it before you and I even first met.
art bell
All right.
But here's the thing, Richard.
Please don't explain the definition of a dome to me again.
I understand that.
I guess what I'm really asking is, come on, dome, if it's a dome, and I acknowledge it looks like one with a hole in it, but if it's a dome, that means, A, we put it there, or the Russians put it there, or the extraterrestrials put it there.
Or what?
richard c hoagland
We put it there a long, long, long, long time ago.
art bell
Okay, run that one by me.
richard c hoagland
Solar system is four and a half billion years old as currently figured, right?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
Humans on Earth are supposedly a few million years on this planet, Homo sapiens, sapiens.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
That's a huge amount of time to have all kinds of things happen which the archaeological record would have no record of because it doesn't preserve stuff.
There's a TV show called Earth Without People, which I presume you've seen.
art bell
Oh, yes.
richard c hoagland
Very interesting.
And they show how rapidly, how incredibly rapidly, like in a couple of centuries, everything we think of as amazing is gone.
And in a thousand years, it's dust underfoot, and you'd only find it by some kind of chemical assay or digging in the ground for stuff that was protected and buried.
The difference is on the moon, where there's no air, no oxygen, no rusting, no degradation, and the only erosion is from micrometeorites.
art bell
Earthlings put it there, and that's what we're seeing.
Yes?
richard c hoagland
Maybe it's one of the possibilities.
The other Possibility is it's genuine ETs, meaning someone from some other star system, or genuine aliens, because the definitions, you've got to really get your definitions down.
To me, an extraterrestrial is anybody who lives not on Earth.
Extraterrestrial.
Aliens are extraterrestrials who don't have our DNA.
So if you have human beings who live some other place than Earth, they're relatives, they're kin, they're ETs, but they're not aliens.
unidentified
Paul?
art bell
Absolutely.
richard c hoagland
And from this data, remember, this is official NASA data.
All we did was to scan it into the computer from a print I got from one of my sources at Goddard years ago.
Paper trail, absolutely, unquestionably from NASA.
And when we scanned it and simply amped the contrast and the brightness, bingo, this amazing geometry pops out above the horizon, above there should be nothing at all.
You should see nothing but a few stars.
unidentified
Question.
art bell
I have a question.
Obviously, it's been a long time since back in 1967, right?
And at some point, NASA had to have explained what it is that we're seeing in this photograph.
I want to know what they say.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
NASA says, and it's actually in the caption, the brilliant beating along the horizon, they are attributing to electrostatically suspended dust a few inches above the lunar surface due to the electric fields between the daylight side and the nighttime on what's called the terminator, which moves westward at several miles per hour because of the slow rotation rate of the moon.
art bell
And the whole.
richard c hoagland
Well, what they don't explain, because they can't, is all that exquisite geometric stuff rising miles above that horizon.
If you do the geometry, if you actually work out the trigonometry, those things are beyond the horizon by many, many miles.
art bell
Well, are we looking at things that really are out there at the horizon, or are we looking at part of the so-called dome?
richard c hoagland
Well, no.
When I say dome, you've got to think big.
unidentified
Oh, you look.
richard c hoagland
Lunar domes on the moon are not like the little tiny things at McMurdo Sound at the Antarctic, you know, a few hundred feet across.
These things, if they're real, and our data over the last few decades says they're there, are maybe hundreds of miles across.
In fact, one of the models is that the lunar maria, those dark patches on the side of the moon we can see from the earth, the so-called man of the moon, to those roughly circular dark areas.
Like the Surveyor 6 landed in the middle and called Sinus Medi, which is the dark spots right in the center of the moon when you look at the full moon.
By the way, I'm looking at the Gibbous moon rising over the Sandia Mountains here in New Mexico.
It's really gorgeous.
You know, nighttime in the desert, moon, moonlight.
art bell
Oh, I know.
richard c hoagland
Anyway, so if you've got a window, look out with a telescope and you'll see right in the middle of that brilliant circle, the moon, lit by the sun behind you, this dark little spot called Sinus Nedi, the middle bay in Latin.
And that whole bay may have been the dome.
Surveyor 6 landed fortuitously, or maybe NASA knew something, not too far from one of the edges of that dome.
You're seeing a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of a huge, ancient, shattered glass structure.
I've got to emphasize the shattered, because what you see there is not a uniform structure.
It's got all kinds of holes and ragged places, and it's been beaten to hell in a handbag.
art bell
Okay, all right, question.
If it is a shattered dome, then, you know, I can understand how our telescopes would not see a dome made of glass.
It's glass, so you're not going to see it.
Exactly.
But wait a minute.
Once a dome shatters, then you have glass at every angle under the sun or in front of the sun.
So if it was really shattered, shouldn't we be seeing it with telescopes from Earth, you know, as shattered pieces reflecting every now and then?
richard c hoagland
Well, depending upon the rate of the turnover of the regolith on the moon, the basic lunar dirt, it would quickly meld into the background because you're looking straight down.
Remember, from the Earth, you're looking like down through the roof, through the top, the zenith.
The pieces on the ground would quickly be mangled and by meteors turned into the dirt and soil.
And so very quickly, relatively speaking in space, you know, a few thousand years, it would be indistinguishable.
Now, what's really interesting is that when the astronauts who landed years after, you know, two years after this photo was taken was the roughly the Apollo 11 mission.
And two years almost to the day after this picture was taken was the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean and Pete Conrad on Apollo 12, not far from where this thing is.
And they brought back rock samples, right?
The proportion of shattered glass in the lunar surface regolith is an extraordinary 20, 30, 40% by actual measurement in the lab here on Earth from the lunar samples.
Lunar glass occupied a huge fraction of the materials the astronauts brought back.
Now, it's been attributed to volcanic eruption somewhere in an ancient time, or more likely, meteor bombardment.
But the surface of the moon is basically like the surface of the Earth, the rocky surface.
It's silicon dioxide.
art bell
It's like sand, which is glass, and now I'm getting an echo for some reason.
Richard, are you, like in the high 90 percentile range, sure that that's what this is, is a dome?
richard c hoagland
Well, science is always about corroboration, right?
art bell
Give me a percentage of sureness.
richard c hoagland
Oh, I'm up in the high 90s, yes.
art bell
High 90s?
unidentified
Yeah, this is not.
Wow.
richard c hoagland
This is not the only data we got.
We've got data from unmanned missions.
We've got the data from the manned missions.
We have data from the U.S. space program.
We've got data from the Russian program.
We've got data from the Indian space program.
We've got data from the Japanese mission, CELINE, from the Chinese mission, Chang 2, I think, with its name.
art bell
All this data cooperating, not this photograph, but the general idea of ancient glass structures.
richard c hoagland
I mean, look, NASA in its own projected plans when they did some contracting in the 60s, looking toward a vigorous space program.
What the hell happened with that, by the way?
art bell
You know, I really hope you're right, Richard.
Honest to God, I hope you're right.
richard c hoagland
Well, we have to look for the evidence.
It's not about hope.
It's about the evidence.
art bell
Maybe we have to go back to the moon.
You want evidence?
richard c hoagland
And we are going back.
We are literally tonight with an unmanned spacecraft.
No, well, we need to go with men and women, of course.
But even instruments, unmanned spacecraft, if it has the right instrumentation, can confirm this model.
And it just so happens, in honor of your return to the air, NASA a few days ago launched an unmanned mission called the LADDI mission, which stands for Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer.
unidentified
They didn't launch it for my well.
richard c hoagland
As Nouri says, there are no such things as coincidences.
It's a pretty damn interesting coincidence.
art bell
Oh, anyway.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
So look, you know, I want to believe.
I want to believe, Richard.
There's a website called that.
It's a good one, too.
I want to believe that somebody put it on there that we did it.
They did it.
We did it in an earlier incarnation, whatever.
richard c hoagland
I want to believe it because we won't find out who did this until we land with men and women and we begin serious exploration, which I hoped was going to happen after the Bush initiative when the president announced back in 2004 we were going back to the moon.
And then a very funny thing happened, didn't it?
Those plans all went awry.
New president comes in.
Everybody's looking to see what Obama's going to do with NASA, with space exploration.
Is he going to do with Kennedy, et cetera?
And he cancels all of the Bush ideas and then sets us off on a journey that no one in NASA seems to think they can actually do in a reasonable timeframe, which is to go to some asteroid and completely ignore the moon with men and women for the foreseeable future.
art bell
Well, we are trying to go to an asteroid, right?
richard c hoagland
We are trying to not only go to one, we're trying to go and capture one with a robotic probe, bring it back using solar-powered ion rockets to divector its trajectory around the sun into an orbit around the moon,
park it in a very long elliptical orbit around the moon, and then when the new NASA launch system, the space launch system launches toward the end of the decade, 2021, I think, make that a first visit by American astronauts in their new Orion space vehicle,
where they would basically go into lunar orbit, rendezvous with this 500-ton mini-asteroid that NASA had captured and placed in the orbit so it would be accessible, and then do all kinds of preparatory work for analyzing asteroids, building using asteroid materials, developing an industrial infrastructure using asteroid materials, all of that with the convenience of only having to go to and from the moon orbit, which is roughly three days away.
art bell
Pretty cool.
Then when we're done with it, we can aim it at Syria and be done.
richard c hoagland
That would give us something to think about.
You know, there's actually folks on the internet who are actually saying that this is a terrible idea because of exactly that.
art bell
Well, yeah, you hope for no mistakes when you're dealing with asteroids.
unidentified
No.
richard c hoagland
Oh, the idea is when you put this into orbit, you do it in such a way that if you do screw up, there is no way it can impact the Earth.
The worst thing that can happen is it falls on the moon and makes another hole in one of these ancient domes.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
Let me, I want you to go to photo number two.
This is really important.
Remember, the photo number one is a print I scanned, and my detractors say, oh, you just, you know, didn't clean your scanner and all that crud is on your screen.
art bell
Okay, here I am.
richard c hoagland
All right, so go to number two.
Now, do you have a way to toggle back and forth easily?
art bell
Not easily.
richard c hoagland
But you can look at one and then the other and then go back and forth, right?
art bell
I guess.
This looks like it's taken further away.
richard c hoagland
No?
No.
art bell
Almost.
Well, it does.
Further away.
It's just how it's cropped, I guess.
richard c hoagland
It is exactly how it's cropped, yeah.
art bell
Yeah, okay.
richard c hoagland
It's the same image, but it's a 2009 NASA version from the NSSDC.
art bell
Really?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
Really, really, really?
Now that is interesting, Richard.
So you've got two pictures taken.
richard c hoagland
But there are two different processings.
Remember, back in the 60s, we didn't have digital.
Everything was dark rooms, photographs.
Remember film guys?
Remember Tri-X and Ectachrome and all those things?
Sure, sure.
90% of our audience doesn't know what we're talking about?
Yeah, Kodachrome, wonderful Kodachrome, yeah.
This is a digital version from the original magnetic tapes that were recorded from the signals sent back by Surveyor in 67.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
Stored in the National Archive, the NASA Archive, the National Space Science Data Center.
That's what the NSSDC stands for.
And when you click on the full image, because when you go to these thumbnails on the image page, you click on them again, and it takes you to the full.
art bell
Yeah, don't worry.
I've got the full image.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
In the bottom left, you see the URL?
art bell
Yes.
Sorry, Berkeley EDU.
richard c hoagland
That is a paper by a bunch of lunar specialists published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2009 where I got this image from.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
If you're just tuning in, we're looking at these photographs on artbell.com.
Look on the right-hand side, and it says what, Richard?
Richard Hoagland photographs or something.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, Hoagland images for tonight.
art bell
Yeah, this is number two, and it's a dome.
It's a dome on the moon.
richard c hoagland
Okay, it's a part of a dome.
All right, you see how there's kind of like a geometry.
It comes up from the horizon and goes down like a cone?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
That's because of the light scattering characteristics of glass and sunlight when the sun is below the horizon.
art bell
I'll kind of buy that.
Okay.
That's amazing.
richard c hoagland
You can duplicate this on a pool table in a dark room.
What you do is you get some plastic, you know, like those plastic egg cartons or plastic strips, and you basically glue them together in a jumble.
And you put them on the edge of the table.
You turn out the lights in the room.
You take a flashlight, which you were talking to your Canadian friend in the last segment about, and you put it below the edge of the table, and you shine it on the plastic creation.
Sure.
art bell
I don't see how that would work.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
All right, Richard.
Hold on.
Hold it right there.
We're going to probably see if we can reset that phone line, or maybe we can't.
It's livable, kind of.
Dome on the moon.
Maybe.
That's what I'm saying here.
Maybe.
And if it is a dome on the moon, then as Richard pointed out, there's only one of three possibilities, and all of them are pretty cool.
Right?
unidentified
T'was us.
art bell
Twas aliens.
I kind of like the it was us.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can't think at all And my lack of education hasn't hurt enough I can read the writing on the wall Cold and
throw me in the air Cold and throw me in the air
You think that people would have had enough of a silly love song?
Don't look around me and I see it all.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
From the area of 51.
This is Dark Matter with Art Bell.
To join the show, please call 1-855-REALUFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
Oh, my.
At the microphone, I actually started singing.
I do that when I love for music.
And I think I got the first little tiny syllable out and realized, oh, no.
Welcome back to Dark Matter, everybody.
I'm Art Bell.
My guest is Richard C. Hoagland.
And here is somebody who says, Art, I have absolutely no idea what Richard is talking about.
I'm not following this dome on the moon thing.
No idea.
All right, well, look, it's up to you.
But what we're talking about is at artbell.com, my website.
So go there, artbell.com.
Look for the photographs.
We're now on the second photograph, which is photograph number two of a dome on the moon.
Now, this would have to be a dome that either we put there, I'll get back to that in a moment, or the Russians put there, or E.T. put there.
One of the three, if it was us, then it would have been an earlier civilization.
And you have to admit, that's certainly a possibility that it was an earlier civilization.
After all, it is our moon.
Why would somebody want to build a condo on somebody else's moon?
So I'm going for the it was us a long time ago idea at best, Richard.
Hello, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, I'm right here.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Yeah, I said I'm going for the it was us a long time ago.
richard c hoagland
And it's not current us of the Russians for a simple reason.
It's all in shattered ruins.
It's incredibly old.
Given that nothing happens on the moon except under very long time scales, basically micrometeorite erosion, that's it.
There's no earthquakes, there's no atmosphere, there's no hurricanes, no storms, no nothing except micrometeorite abrasion and big and small rocks occasionally falling from the sky.
All the shattered holes and disorganized stuff you see is because it's really been battered to hell.
We can say hell on serious now, right?
art bell
Oh, yes.
richard c hoagland
So now, now I want you on the second picture, look on the left.
Do you see those faint linear lines of light, almost like a staircase, going from the horizon up toward the top left?
art bell
So much, no.
richard c hoagland
Oh, really?
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
Well, look closely.
They're there.
art bell
I see stars.
Is it to the right of the stars, toward the light, or to the left of the stars?
richard c hoagland
Oh, it's to the left of the peak brightness.
Above the beads.
Above where it says surveyor internal light reflections above the horizon.
On the left, horizontal lines paralleling the horizon.
art bell
Well, of course, I've seen those in both photographs.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
art bell
I thought I was looking for something new.
richard c hoagland
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
art bell
Okay, fine.
What about them?
richard c hoagland
The solar corona doesn't give you geometry.
It doesn't give you staircases made of glass stepping up into the sky, into infinity.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
So the hallmark of intelligence anywhere in the universe, this comes from my old friend Carl Sagan, who said when he wrote, what was, I guess, Cosmos, the first sign of intelligent life on Earth is in the geometric regularity of its constructions.
art bell
Yeah, okay.
richard c hoagland
So that's your rule of thumb.
If you look at any planetary surface on any NASA image, either from the surface, from orbit, through the Hubble telescope, spacecraft going past any other place, even on other stars when we ever get there, which at this rate we're not going to, the only way you know if it's a dead civilization that they used to be there is by looking at their geometric constructions.
So when you see geometry, and the key thing here is these two pictures are separated by 30-some years, the two versions of the same shot.
art bell
That is amazing.
richard c hoagland
And it's in an official NASA publication of the results of study of the surveyor data building toward this current unmanned mission, which is en route to the moon tonight, even as we speak.
art bell
Yeah, okay.
All right, Richard, let's say what you're telling me.
All right, hold the data.
Let's say that what you're telling me becomes confirmed, that we send either a manned or unmanned mission to the moon, and we actually confirm that this was and what's left of it is a dome that was on the moon.
What effect do you think that would have on the world?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, you want to cut to the chase.
What the hell does it mean?
art bell
I know.
unidentified
I just kind of like to build a car.
art bell
I know.
I know.
And I know that.
richard c hoagland
But they haven't seen enough data yet.
unidentified
All right, but Richard, I want to say that.
richard c hoagland
The implication is IA, either we're not alone, because if there's structures built by somebody not from Earth, right next door on the moon, it's a paradigm.
art bell
It's very serious.
Very, very serious.
The implications of it have religious implications.
It would disrupt all kinds of paradigms.
People would get quite upset because they would be speculating.
Was it them?
Was it us and an earlier civilization?
No matter what the answer is, it's really big.
richard c hoagland
It's huge.
It's a game changer.
It changes everything.
For one thing, if it's aliens, it means the human race as a species that evolved on this planet is not alone in the Milky Way galaxy, let alone the billions of galaxies you can see on those Hubble Deep Field photographs.
And that means where's company out there?
If there's company out there, it means they obviously were able to travel.
Because again, the model we're discussing is aliens came to the solar system, picked the moon to build amazing things on, left for some reason, died, became extinct.
Their stuff is now in ruins.
art bell
Maybe the hole in their dome, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Well, if you don't keep things up, things happen.
art bell
When rocks come up, everybody knows you're on the moon, you get a hole in the dome, you go and you die.
richard c hoagland
No.
Not if it's a small hole and the dome is huge.
It's about a volume thing.
It would take years for air to leak out of any normal-sized holes on a volume of scale.
art bell
Trying to be humorous.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
So you've got plenty of time to get the robots up there and fix it.
The key thing is I want you to go now to image number three.
Happily.
I'm going to be relentless about this because science is about data.
I am sick to death of my stupid critics saying I'm nuts because they won't look at the data.
It's like the cardinals who wouldn't look through Galileo's telescope and they said he was nuts and violating God.
Well, if you don't look at the evidence, you can't accuse someone of being whatever.
art bell
It's the internet, Richard.
You can accuse anybody of anything.
richard c hoagland
Not in 1610.
art bell
All right.
Well, anyway.
richard c hoagland
Go to three.
art bell
I'm there.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
Zoom in.
art bell
Remarkable similarity of ruins at Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites.
richard c hoagland
Now, you see the black and white shot?
art bell
Yes, I do.
Yes, it is.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
That's the lunar module Intrepid that Conrad and Bean landed on the moon in November of 69, two years after the surveyor shot.
art bell
Pretty damn cool shot, actually.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
Do you notice those horizontal thingies in the sky?
art bell
I do.
Looks like a wood fence.
richard c hoagland
Or a stairscase.
You know.
art bell
I'd go for wood fence.
richard c hoagland
All right, all right.
But now, if you want to flip back to number two.
art bell
No, I don't.
Oh, I will.
I will, I will.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, if I've had a little more time, I would have prepped the side-by-side comparisons, but Keith is allowed to.
art bell
All right, I'm back to two.
Back to two.
richard c hoagland
Look on the left at the same kind of geometry.
art bell
I don't see a wood fence.
richard c hoagland
Well, it's dimmer because we didn't brighten it overly exposed.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Sorry.
richard c hoagland
It's the vertical-horizontal layering.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
I really don't see that, Richard.
I'm sorry.
richard c hoagland
Oh, you don't see the comparison.
That's interesting.
art bell
No, I don't.
Look, in shot three, I clearly see a wood fence in some disrepair, but a wood fence.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
Now, the source material for number three, the black and white shot, is a frame from a movie that NASA put out called Pinpoint for Science.
Back in those days, remember, this is the day when I was with Cronkite and we were all over NASA like, you know, rug on the floor.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And they were so eager to get their results out to keep people interested in the moon project that they released them very quickly.
Oh, they would bang these things out within days.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
So they made what's called an SP film called.
art bell
So it is your position, Richard, that because they released them so quickly, they didn't have time to change them and eliminate any possible reference to something artificial that was there.
richard c hoagland
Because it wasn't in their conception.
All the honest guys in NASA had no idea this stuff was there.
So the early, remember in history, it's always the earliest stuff that you can trust.
And the later stuff, the folks who want to change things or make history go away or erase, you know, they have time to do their dirty work.
What NASA did is they produced these films with two companies, one in Virginia and one in Houston.
And they got them out within days of the landing when the astronauts had come back.
And then they sent them all over the world.
So there are hard copy film prints in little canisters with this name on it, Pinpoint for Science, the history of the Apollo 12 mission, half an hour, all over the planet, in India, in Russia, in Japan, in Brazil, in Argentina, in Dubuque, Iowa.
There's a zillion copies of this film out there that has absolute parallel data showing glass structures similar, if not identical, to the geometry seen on the surveyor shots taken two years after surveyor.
art bell
Stop for a second.
Are you telling me that this thing that I'm calling a wood fence?
A wood fence.
And it does look like one.
In fact, I have no idea what the vertical styrish and what they mean.
richard c hoagland
That's film scratches.
art bell
Film.
Okay, film scratches.
richard c hoagland
Remember, all we've done is to scan this and put it up.
We haven't touched it in any other way.
art bell
But you're telling me basically that this illustrates, again, the dome.
richard c hoagland
Yes.
And it actually could be a portion of the same one because the Apollo 12 landing was not too far away as the crow flies.
Of course, crows can't fly on the moon, no air.
art bell
Richard, I do admit the way the light is would suggest that something clear, opaque is there.
I don't know what it is, but it does seem to illustrate something is there.
richard c hoagland
You can eliminate by the process of known physics all the things that can't be.
It can't be an atmosphere, because we've got instruments that have measured the gazillion molecules on the moon's surface, and there is no air.
art bell
We're going to get it.
But they are about to measure something they're calling an atmosphere, which I thought was weird.
richard c hoagland
But see, well, it's about definitions.
The lunar atmosphere exists, but it is millions and millions and millions of times thinner than the air we're breathing.
And optically, you couldn't even see it.
There's so few atoms and molecules per cubic foot or cubic cubic foot.
art bell
It's hardly worth talking about or even.
richard c hoagland
Well, on a long-term basis, it can have effects on the lunar surface.
So from a scientific point of view, that's why they're interested in measuring its properties.
But from a practical point of view, it is absolutely as if it was not there.
It certainly cannot create on film.
Remember how slow film used to be compared to electronic cameras?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And this is now taken not after sunset.
This is taken in broad daylight.
And what we've done is we've suppressed the light on the lunar surface, which is already overexposed, and we brightened up the vacuum black lunar sky above the horizon to bring up the faint scattering of light from the ragged fragments of this shattered dome.
actually a small, tiny piece of it.
You're not seeing, you're just Like if you were, well, think of a huge structure like the superdome, and you're standing two feet away from the wall.
That's what you're seeing.
You're seeing a tiny portion of a much more vast structure, which under one-sixth lunar gravity could rise miles into the sky.
art bell
Somebody's objecting.
richard c hoagland
That is Morella.
Morella loves to have national airtime.
She has bothered George.
She's actually barked during the commercials when I've gone to break at the top and the bottom of the hour.
I'm talking to you.
I'm not talking to her.
She's pissed.
unidentified
Plus, you're a cat guy, and I know.
art bell
Now, listen, you're going to lead me down a bad road here.
I said no bad language.
And that is a rule on this program.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
art bell
Angry.
She's angry.
richard c hoagland
All right.
Oh, you mean we can't use that other word?
art bell
Okay.
Well, I'd rather not.
richard c hoagland
All right, fine.
My point is that these are two independent data sets taken two years apart by two different sets of instrumentation.
art bell
Right.
I'm there.
richard c hoagland
And see, these are not our only examples.
I mean, you and I could spend days going through photograph after photograph showing the same stuff all over the moon.
We don't have time.
That's why I have a website.
art bell
I'd need special medicine for it.
richard c hoagland
Now, let's get to image number four.
Because This is where the MacGuffin is.
This is where Hitchcock's end of the story comes to a point.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
We're on artbell.com, folks.
So when you hear him say image four, that means you should be following along with this, or it's going to be hard for you to even comment.
Artbell.com.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Now, that's a nice picture.
richard c hoagland
Well, it's an artistic rendering.
And what it shows is the 800-pound unmanned LADDEE robotic spacecraft, which is headed toward the moon tonight.
It's going to take them about 30 days in these wandering orbits.
They're very low energy to get there, even though you can go there in three days.
They've chosen, because of the rocket system they used, a very elaborate way of saving energy so they can put as much payload in their spacecraft as possible.
And this is the spacecraft that could, if we keep NASA honest, tell us if we're looking at ancient glass domes or we're looking at just some natural phenomenon that has never been encountered before in space and it's just so much everybody.
art bell
All right, that's very hopeful, Richard.
I would like, trust me, I would like nothing more in the world than for you to be right and for them to take the images and here comes a clear image of a dome.
But you, I just know that you're going to say, if there's any dome in the picture, they're going to eliminate it before we ever see it.
richard c hoagland
Well, maybe and maybe not.
Remember, when you and I did shows 10 years ago, the politics were a certain way.
You know, when you were talking with Stephen Greer earlier in the week, you know, we had the phase of this bullet has your name on it to keep secrets.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
My political assessment now is that there are so many people in NASA who are desperate to leak the real stuff out.
And when we get into our Mars Curiosity part of the evening, you're going to see some far more amazing things that are obvious in every photograph that they're releasing.
art bell
Wouldn't you think by now, Richard, if NASA had been doctoring photographs, that a lot of people would have come forward and wanting nothing to do with hiding a gigantic truth of that magnitude from the world?
unidentified
Which people are we talking about?
art bell
The people I just talked about, who would be so upset about hiding a truth of this magnitude from the world that they would get the real thing out and say, here you go.
richard c hoagland
You mean people in NASA?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
Well, but they're just human beings.
They've got car payments.
They've got kids.
They've got mortgages.
They have to live.
They have to survive.
If they're told, a la what Greer was told, you know, you either do this or you don't do anything, what's their decision?
And it doesn't even have to be life-threatening.
All it has to be is job-threatening.
art bell
All there has to be is a few Snowdens in NASA.
richard c hoagland
But they have to be able to get the evidence out.
You understand?
If the evidence that if Snowden hadn't carefully, carefully stashed away on all those thumb drives these documents, these papers, would anybody be paying attention to a guy named Snowden?
If he just came out and said there's this stuff going on in the world.
art bell
No, and I'm saying if there was a Snowden within NASA, he'd pack away on microfilm or whatever he had to pack it away in, the real photographs and get them to us.
richard c hoagland
Well, there's evidence that back, way back when, 30-some years ago, when NASA was preparing some of these films, if you know how film is prepared, you know, where you basically splice different segments together and you had to physically splice it, you had to make what's called internegatives and all that.
art bell
Yes, yes.
richard c hoagland
Somebody actually did stash interesting information between the splices on some of these films.
And the reason I know that is back when I started doing this work was, which was, what, now, 20-some years?
I had a guy, an expert Hollywood guy who was a technician who worked in the major film industry north of Los Angeles.
And he was an inventor.
He was a brilliant engineering genius.
And he had created kind of the next generation of the Moviola.
You're familiar with Moviolas, right?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Which was this gadget that you used to spool film through?
Well, this was a step up above because it had what was called a floating point stage or film gate, which means you could look at film and not put scratches on it.
So you could run it back and forth and you could edit it and chop it into pieces and splice it together, but you wouldn't put scratches, which is the bane of all film editors.
unidentified
Okay, but his own.
art bell
That was then, this is now.
Now we've got high-resolution digital photography.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, we've also got electronic guys at the NSA who are snooping on everybody doing everything.
And if you don't think everybody who has access to data like this has server numbers to where anybody logging on for access is logged, anybody sticking a thumb drive in, I mean, we're not just talking now about millions of pages of text.
We're talking about a relatively small number of images that are in electronic trackable form.
So anybody trying to do a Snowden on us would get caught.
art bell
Certainly everything's being monitored.
I know that's true now.
So you're saying, look, it makes it all that much easier for them to be in absolute total control of what we see.
richard c hoagland
Well, look, I've said this on the air before, both with you and many other people.
We have a space situation where you have one agency which controls the spacecraft, controls the rockets, controls the launch pads, controls the downlink facilities, the big radio antennas, controls the instruments, controls the scientists, controls the public relations.
They own the system end to end to end.
There's no independent way you and I can go to the moon tonight, take a picture, and come back and say, gee, look at that.
Right?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And there are private programs.
art bell
They're certainly connected to government, Richard.
richard c hoagland
In every possible way.
There are no independent emissions yet.
And if there are, if the politics are still where we're not supposed to know any of the stuff is out there, I would bet you dollars to Navy beans that when the first private lunar mission leaves, unless it is sanctioned by the powers that be, it will have a mysterious, sad accident.
And it will be attributed to, oh, they're just a bunch of amateurs.
They don't know what they're doing.
Engineering is hard.
Space is hard.
And no one will ever question.
art bell
Okay, if this gorgeous spacecraft that I'm looking at goes and takes pictures of the dome area and they're good and they're clear and they're high res and you get them back and there's no hint of a dome or even dome pieces there and it hasn't been messed with, will you be satisfied that there's not a dome there?
richard c hoagland
Well, first of all, there's a slight error in your statement.
That's not what they're planning to do.
art bell
They're not going to look at the dome area.
richard c hoagland
They do not have cameras.
art bell
They don't have cameras.
richard c hoagland
They have not.
We think there are cameras on board that they're sneaking to the moon, but they're not telling anybody.
art bell
Oh, my.
richard c hoagland
And I've documented this, and let me go through the story, and then you can pick it apart if you want.
This spacecraft, when you go to the official websites, either the European Space Agency or the NASA Space Agency websites, and you type in Google LADDEE, L-A-D-E-E mission, you'll get a whole bunch of links.
When you look through the instruments, there's only three instruments on this 800-pound spacecraft.
art bell
And they are what?
richard c hoagland
And they're all non-visual, non-photographic.
There's what's called a UVS telescope, ultraviolet visual telescope, designed to look at spectra and at photometry, which is how brightness levels change on a squiggly graph.
art bell
All right, would that see the dome?
richard c hoagland
Of course.
Because it's looking, well, you're looking at these pictures, you're looking at light scattering.
But if you don't have a picture for Art Bell to look at and you publish a set of squiggly lines, are you going to know it's a damn dome?
art bell
Well, no, but if NASA comes back and says it's a dome.
richard c hoagland
They won't.
That's the huge sociological things in this culture, which we have time to get into later in the evening.
They have been publishing official images from Mars from Curiosity, and we'll get to that in a couple of minutes, of artifacts all over the Martian surface of Gale Crater.
And because they don't hold a press conference and say that's an artificial piece of junk left by some prior civilization, nobody looking at the picture wants to say what it is except us.
And who's going to believe us?
Because we're not official.
We have a culture where unless the president comes out and tells everybody what reality is, nobody independently wants to make a judgment.
art bell
All right, Richard, hold it there.
We're going to take a short break.
Domes.
I've been saying this for the last few days because I think it goes over well.
Trust me on this.
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unidentified
Hmm.
art bell
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So, I'm contemplating domes on the moon.
And you should be too.
I mean, if there is a chance that there is a dome on the moon, that means one of three incredible things.
Wouldn't that be something?
Somebody else built it?
unidentified
Or even if it was us a long time ago, don't think it was Russians.
art bell
But a prior civilization?
Yeah, baby.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
Coming to you from Geosynchronous Orbit at the speed of light, this is Dark Matter with Art Bell.
To co-art, please light up the lines at 1-855-REAL UFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
Listen, somebody on the wormhole said Richard's getting angry.
No, he's not.
Richard's not getting angry.
We're just having a heated discussion.
We do that all the time.
We've been doing that for years.
You know, I don't always see the same things that Richard does.
But, you know, what I would like to discuss, Richard, is the implications of what you're saying.
If it's true, I mean, if it's true, then it's the story of our lifetimes, of all lifetimes to date.
It's that big.
richard c hoagland
It's important for it to be proven either true or not true.
The only way you do that is with evidence, scientific evidence.
art bell
All right, I want to go back in time a little bit, Richard.
You maintained early, and you and I argued to death about it, about the face on Mars, right?
Okay, the face on Mars.
What is your position now on the phase on Mars?
richard c hoagland
Well, do you want to leave the moon yet?
Because I wanted to get to the point.
art bell
Just for a moment.
We'll come back to the moon.
richard c hoagland
Well, the face on Mars is real.
There's an ancient city around it.
There's been Umptine spacecraft that has taken images of it.
Do you know that for a place that NASA claims it has no scientific interest in, the Sidonia region of Mars where the face is, is the most photographed region on Mars of any place on Mars in the last 30 years?
art bell
And that's probably thanks to you.
richard c hoagland
Well, no, it's thanks to NASA people inside really wanting to know and lying through their teeth to everybody else.
But the data says they are really interested despite what they say.
If it's just a pile of rocks, why do you spend billions of dollars over 30 years from the 70s taking pictures of a place that means nothing?
art bell
Well, Richard, what if the people at NASA were genuinely going, okay, maybe it's a face.
Let's find out.
richard c hoagland
That's exactly my assessment.
Where I start company is when they tell the public, nothing bears, move along, move along, and privately, they're interested up to their eyeballs in what I've been proposing for the last couple decades.
art bell
How do you know that?
richard c hoagland
Because if the data says they're taking information from spacecraft again and again and again in one region, and yet they're telling the Congress and they're telling the public there's nothing there, move along, move along, that is the height of scientific hypocrisy to say nothing of the attacks they've made against me and a lot of other people who've looked at this now.
art bell
Well, look, I admit Sidonia is an interesting region.
There's no question about that.
Is it a face?
You know, when they did the closer high-res photography, frankly, Richard, it didn't look like a face at that point.
Now, from Earth, with the right telescope, yeah, it looks like a face.
If the sun is in the right place, it definitely looks like a face.
But the ladder pictures that we've received, no.
richard c hoagland
Well, when you say ladder pictures, you kind of have to pick which pictures, because if you look at the NASA picture, Yeah, the NASA pictures, when you get the so-called best images, it really doesn't look like it did in the Viking shots.
But when you look at the images coming from the Mars Express mission, from the European Space Agency, you see all kinds of exquisite detail that for some reason you don't see on the NASA images.
And that's kind of impossible because they're supposed to be photographing the same thing on the same Martian desert, right?
art bell
Okay.
All right.
So your position then, I just wanted to clear it up, remains that that was a face put there by, well, your choice of the above, right?
So we would recognize it was a face, realize there was life on Mars at some point.
richard c hoagland
Well, that's one, again, one hypothesis.
You know, when you try to crawl into people's headspace, into their minds, particularly separated by the present by millions of years, and you may not even be dealing with the same species, because remember, we don't have any ground truth.
We don't have access to the libraries.
We don't have a signature.
We don't know who did it.
All we know is something interesting was done.
And what we need is a human mission to go there, find the libraries, and find out who did it and where they came from and if they were related to us.
Now, we've got some models, some scenarios, some educated guesses, some speculations based on the science.
art bell
And you admit that that's all it is?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, at the moment, because we don't have the ground truth.
It'd be really cool to have a human mission to Mars in our lifetime where astronauts, multinational, of course, walk in the front door, set up TV cameras, send a live transmission, and say, good God, look at that.
Is that going to happen?
I don't know.
art bell
I don't know.
You are getting some support from some of the people that are sending messages.
richard c hoagland
Can I interrupt?
Science is not a popularity contest.
That's why I'm so upset when people say, oh, so-and-so was with you or so-and-so is against you.
art bell
Yeah, I know.
I'm not turning it into that.
I'm just saying, Richard, there are people that have looked at these images back from the phase on Mars to the present, and they are seeing what you see.
And Sidonia is an absolutely fascinating place.
And I can imagine that, you know, NASA thought, yeah, well, maybe.
And so they went back and took more photographs.
richard c hoagland
Well, you can go to the archive.
I mean, this is just engineering data.
And you can look at the missions and the amount of time they've spent taking pictures, high-resolution pictures at trigonometry, different sun angles, even in color, of this one little region.
And remember, Mars is a geologically interesting place.
It has as much land area as all of Earth's continents combined, even though Mars is half the size of Earth because there are no current oceans.
art bell
I'm giving you this, Richard.
I'm saying that.
richard c hoagland
Some people spend so much time taking data on one place and publicly saying there's no interest.
They're lying.
Look, now we live in the 21st century.
art bell
I'm agreeing with you.
Let me actually say yes to you.
I agree.
I think have been fascinated with Sidonia, and so they went back again and again and again.
And I think they did it in part because of you, Richard.
Really?
I do.
unidentified
And the fact that it looks like a face.
richard c hoagland
It has nothing to do with me.
The in-crowd and the out-crowd are totally separate.
We, and I'm talking now about everybody listening to my voice, including you, Art, we don't count from these people's perspectives.
There are two separate civilizations almost going on.
There's the in-crowd, which we can call euphemistically the 1% or the 100th of 1%, and then there's all the rest of us.
And history in the last 20 years has proven that we don't count.
Look around at all the mainstream news and all the things that we used to talk about that were spooky or conspiratorial or, oh, there's no way that could be true.
Every worst nightmare that you and I and all your other guests have ever discussed has come true, has it not?
The worst case scenario is worse than anybody could have imagined up to and including Edward Snowden.
art bell
A lot of them, yes, have come true.
richard c hoagland
Not a lot.
All of them.
There is a very important report called Report from Iron Mountain.
You want to have someone on somnight to discuss Report from Iron Mountain.
art bell
I want to say something, Richard.
Okay, let me say something, Richard.
I'm going to support you.
I think that if the current spying being done on the American people was done in 1950, let's say 1950, Richard, and the American people became aware that all of their phone calls were being listened to or monitored and all of their emails, if they had email or mail or whatever.
richard c hoagland
Their actual hard copy mail was open in some secret office.
art bell
All right, I said mail.
That they were being spied on by the government en masse as they are now.
I think there would have been a revolution.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
art bell
That's what I think.
richard c hoagland
In a nation with a lot of people carrying guns, there would have been a real revolution.
Now people just seem to roll over and accept it as, oh, that's just the cost of doing business.
So I'm on Facebook and I'm on Google and everybody's monitoring what I'm doing.
Well, they're doing it for business purposes.
They want to sell me something.
We have become so passive at the idea that we are being treated like chattel, like slaves, and there's a few people who have access to the good stuff.
And by good stuff, I mean, you asked me before the question, what does this mean, if I'm right, if there's an ancient civilization on the moon and Mars?
Yes.
It changes everything because it gives us the tools so that 7 billion human beings technologically can live off the earth without destroying the earth.
They can all have incomes.
They can all have jobs.
They can all have a life.
They can all have families.
They don't have to go to war with each other and shoot each other because of something stupid like oil.
It totally changes the equation of the has versus the have-nots.
And that's why this information has been locked up, Art.
They want us in chains.
art bell
Well, we're getting there.
unidentified
We're so close.
richard c hoagland
And that's why I'm looking at this mission back to the moon, and I'm saying there may be a contingent, a group, that are going to blow the whistle.
And they've set this up very carefully so that the bad guys don't know what the good guys inside are about to spring on them.
art bell
All right.
I'm going to give you this much, Richard.
If they didn't want us to know about what was on Mars, and they didn't want us to know what was on the moon, and there was something of intense interest there, they have the power for us not to know.
richard c hoagland
Totally.
art bell
Yeah, okay.
That I'll give you.
richard c hoagland
Unless there's a break inside, unless the politics of cover-up, a la Brookings, which is a nice excuse, have changed, we won't know from this current mission.
And unfortunately, there's indications they're planning to really try to sneak in a little and past us.
Let me tell you how.
When one of my Readers on Enterprise saw that I was going to be on your show.
He sent me an email the other night and he said, What are those two weird things on the top of the LADDEE spacecraft?
And I went and looked and I didn't see anything unusual.
And so we got into this dialogue and I actually started doing some homework and digging and digging.
And finally, I found an obscure engineering thing out of NASA that said they were what are called star trackers.
Now, star trackers are important because you need to maintain the attitude of a spacecraft in space so you can give the inertial measuring units, the gyroscopes inside their spinning, basic updates so that you know where the thing is pointing.
If you don't know where it's pointing, you can't point the instruments, you can't get data, et cetera, et cetera.
So star trackers have been on every single unmanned spacecraft we ever launched.
As the technology has gotten more sophisticated, they basically evolved from little slit scan thingies where you basically are looking through two razor blades butted up against each other and the star has to fall right between them so there's a little sliver of light and that's how you know you're pointed at the star.
They've evolved into CCD cameras.
When the Clementine mission went back in the early 90s, 92, it was a DOD mission, they had these Star Treker cameras that frankly were a damn sight better than the best NASA cameras like on Surveyor because they were built on state-of-the-art CCD technology and not using old Vidicon tubes, TV tubes.
Those pictures of the moon showed an extended glow around the moon like you were looking at the combined scattered light of a lot of lunar domes shattered, made of glass, and scattering light that shouldn't be there.
art bell
And then when the astronauts, and I'm going to back up a bit, I want to ask a question about the astronauts right now, and that is, if what you're saying is true, and there are many domes and or buildings, very tall buildings, you've talked about those before, glass buildings, right?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
Okay.
If that sort of thing was there, then we have to presume that our astronauts got a look at some of it, right?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
So then we have to jump to the conclusion that the astronauts.
and here I may help your case as opposed to hurt it, that the astronauts – Well, yes.
They saw it.
They've been sworn to secrecy with, I don't know, maybe the volume with your name on it.
Whatever.
richard c hoagland
Or even worse.
art bell
Or even worse?
unidentified
Yep.
Their minds have been altered.
richard c hoagland
They have been subjected to a sophisticated technology that has replaced their real memories of what they saw and what they did with fake memories.
And the key entry point of that theory is the conversation you and I had with Ed Mitchell over a decade ago, where Ed on air live and in his book, The Way of the Explorer, confounds his own perception of his experience by saying, I can't remember what it felt like to do what I did on the moon.
art bell
Thank you.
You saved me from having to say it.
Now, here's a follow-up question to that.
You're right about Ed Mitchell because I was there.
I asked him.
Now, what about the other astronauts, Richard?
And I think, again, this comes down on your side because they've all been sort of disturbed.
richard c hoagland
In chapter two of Dark Mission, which Mike and I spent a lot of time researching heavily, I was so intrigued with the Mitchell anomaly because, look, it's got to be the high point of your entire existence to be one of the first frigging people to walk on another planet, right?
art bell
Totally.
Absolutely.
richard c hoagland
It's got to be the zenith of your life.
When I met him, because I palled around with him early on when we were still going to the moon with a later lunar mission.
Remember, I was a Cronkite sky, so I had access to all the astronauts and all the other people.
God, if I knew then what I know now, the questions I could have asked.
Anyway, Mitchell at that time was freely acknowledging that he had real problems because he couldn't remember what it felt like, the emotion.
And because he's a smart guy, it bothered him.
It bothered him so much that he actually booked therapy sessions with a well-known hypnotherapist.
I won't mention any names, but I have, because I know the people involved, because I was really focused on this in the later years, when he went to those sessions, the thing he wanted to do is to somehow find out why he couldn't remember the emotions of what he did.
He could remember the mission timeline, what rocks they picked up, the tools they used.
art bell
Very, very curious, Richard.
Yeah, it's very curious.
richard c hoagland
Let me leap to the end of the chase here.
If we get to the therapist, who's a well-known household name?
If I told you the name, you'd go, oh, that person.
And they're in their first session, and this person is trying hypnotic regression to eliminate all the fuzzy stuff and get him to calm and to focus.
And he gets to the point and he says, that's not important.
I don't need to know that.
And he absolutely resists the hypnotic regression.
They can't break through the block.
He had some psychological inhibition against remembering his real experience, and it has bedeviled the bejesus out of him for 40 years.
As it has with all the other astronauts, when I was researching for Dark Mission, I found to my amazement and sadness, because when you think of national heroes being tampered with to this degree, it goes back to what I said a few minutes ago,
how the 1.01% doesn't give a damn about the rest of us, including national heroes Who are their slaves to do their bidding and put out their political spin, but not to be valued as individual human beings under the Constitution?
Each one of them has a way of working around this problem that none of them can remember what it felt like.
art bell
I can offer no argument to this.
And if people don't find this strange and really strange, then they're not listening.
That's all I can say.
richard c hoagland
And people say to me, they say to me, well, why haven't we been back to the moon for 40 years?
Well, duh, if the powers that be know what's there and they don't want the rest of the planet to know, then they would never go back.
They got what they're saying.
art bell
All right, stop, stop for a moment.
Why wouldn't they want us to know?
Now, we're going to talk about Brookings for a minute, okay?
Okay.
Because there really has to be a reason.
Now, Brookings, of course, suggested that if the world was given information that there were others, there are others, that it would deeply impact so many of our institutions, and chiefly among them would be religion.
It would deeply impact religion.
Now, there's arguments against that, and I know there's a million people come out and say, oh, it wouldn't bother me.
Wouldn't bother me.
And that's fine.
Maybe it wouldn't bother you, but it would bother a lot of people, and that's what you have to understand.
Now, there represents a reason for not telling us.
Maybe it's not a good reason anymore, but it's a reason.
And when you start talking about hiding all of this, Richard, you damn well better have a reason why the American government and other governments would hide these things.
richard c hoagland
Well, look, when you come across a dead body on the floor, let's say you're a cop, you don't give a damn about why the person was killed.
art bell
Oh, yes, you do.
No, you don't.
richard c hoagland
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You can't.
It's nice to have a motive, but there have been plenty of jury convictions without a motive.
art bell
Not as many.
unidentified
Usually you need as many, and there's not as few as you think.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
By the way, I just got a note from George.
In fact, I've got two notes from George.
His first one, he said, I hear he's giving you a hard time.
And I said we're having a spirited conversation.
art bell
No, George, it's called a conversation.
richard c hoagland
So he just sent me another one.
unidentified
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
Go get him.
art bell
Okay, come get me, Richard.
No problem.
Look, I've got to do it.
That's what we're doing.
If we weren't doing this, I wouldn't be having fun.
richard c hoagland
I have known you since before George was out of the crib.
Not quite, but, you know.
art bell
Not that far.
richard c hoagland
No one seems to understand that the way you get to the bottom of this is you have two very civilized people talk about real stuff without being personal.
And I love it when you challenge because it means you're listening to the answers.
art bell
Richard, it's called a talk show.
richard c hoagland
For a reason.
art bell
All right, all right, enough of that.
So anyway, back to Brookings.
unidentified
Well, I think it's a good idea.
art bell
Brookings does give us, I think it gives us a legitimate reason to hide this.
And short of Brookings and what they say in there, what reason would there be to hide it?
richard c hoagland
Well, look, if we're doing multiple choice, remember your conversation with Greer?
You know, why don't they want us to know about UFOs and all that?
And you went down a list of all the reasons.
Ultimately, it seems to me it comes down to control.
This planet has a history of control.
Even under the aegis of democracy, ultimately, we don't have a pure democracy.
And if you look at Washington now, with the stunning exception of the latest refusal by the American people to stampede into another stupid Middle East war and the Congress to actually listen, as well as the president, we haven't had many examples of where the people's will was actually exercised for decades, right?
art bell
I agree with that, yes.
And since I agree with that, hold on, Richard, we're going to do a quick break here.
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unidentified
I've had no trouble in my life.
art bell
None at all.
unidentified
No foolish dreams can make me cry.
I've never gotten no worries.
I know I always get by.
I hit up, cool down.
When something gets in my way, I go round it.
Don't let life get me.
I hit up, cool down.
I hit up, cool down.
Want to take a ride to call dark matter with ourselves and be part of the serious action BLS.
Very large signal.
1855.
Wheel UFO.
F1855-732-5846.
art bell
Very large signal is right.
unidentified
Let's see.
art bell
This comes from Jerry.
Jerry says, the bit Richard was just talking about the astronauts having had their minds blocked.
You know, I thought for years that this was done when they were quarantined after they returned from the moon.
Perfect time to do it.
You know, I've got to admit that there's probably something to this.
I don't know that they've had their minds blocked, but something is absolutely wrong with their reactions when they're asked about how they felt to walk on the moon, to be a man walking on the moon.
This would not be something you would forget.
You wouldn't forget your feelings and your emotions, and it would be, I don't know, a high point in your life, and you just sure as hell wouldn't forget.
Richard?
richard c hoagland
I'm here.
art bell
Okay.
So I'm with you on that part.
And I guess what I want to ask you now is, in your mind, is Brookings no longer viable?
richard c hoagland
Well, I've always thought, you know, when I say always, I mean, you know, you and I have an, it's like Rip Van Winkle.
You know, I was listening to you the other night, and it was like I had woken up from a 10 years sleep, and there was art, and there were guests, and there were good conversation, and it's like you're in the groove.
You are really in the groove, and I love talking with you.
I don't know why people think I'm angry.
I'm passionate because I'm tired of being lied to.
art bell
Right, I'm passionate too, and that's all it is.
It's talk.
richard c hoagland
American people were so tired, so sick to death of endless, endless war, they said in the last couple of weeks, no.
And the most amazing thing is the system listened.
This is unheard of, and I think this is going to progress.
Now, if this is part of something new, which is bubbling under the body politic, this mission to the moon could be finally the vindication of all the things that will change the world for the better if this data comes out and people realize, oh my God, not only are we not alone, but it was us at one time.
We did astonishing, amazing things.
There's amazing stuff left there, which if brought back to Earth, could be turned on and could give everybody a human life, regardless of the fact that there's 7 billion people destroying the planet tonight.
I mean, this is a game changer in every sense of the word, which is why it's important to argue and to debate and to discuss data and to have a vigorous conversation at an international space satellite level reaching multiple continents, because this is not just about Americans or high Canadians.
It's about everybody.
This changes everything.
And this unmanned mission, if the good guys can sneak one past the bad guys, if they've set this up correctly to where that spacecraft in three weeks goes into orbit and they begin to take data and they confirm what I've been showing in these pictures, and it's just the tip of the peruvial iceberg.
art bell
Okay, but Richard, my question is, are we ready?
richard c hoagland
Yes.
We'll never be more ready.
Like, as Greer said the other night, it would have been a lot easier, I think, 50 years ago.
Because the 50s, we were all expecting there was somebody out there.
Now, the movies had them all being really, really bad guys, right?
art bell
That's right.
richard c hoagland
That's why it's the only safe route to introduce people to the idea of an inhabited universe is to find ruins when there's nobody home.
And it's proactive.
We go there.
It's like archaeology.
Are we threatened by the Sumerians?
Are we threatened by the Assyrians?
Are we threatened by the Mayans?
No.
Why?
Because they've been dead and gone a long, long time.
Well, whoever left the stuff on the moon and Mars had been dead and gone a long, long time.
But the difference is, unlike these pre-technological ruins that we've investigated, the goodies, the spoils, the incredible, wondrous, magical physics and technologies and breakthroughs available from a high-tech civilization and ruins, all you got to do is find a library.
And the library will be in the form that we can probably translate with computers and chips and the full state-of-the-art we now have.
art bell
And you'll have to give you this, Richard.
You'll have 3D views.
If there is a library and it's on Mars or it's on the moon, it would have been a logical place.
Either place would have been a logical one for them to have left archives for us to find.
unidentified
Lots of archives.
art bell
Go back to 2001, whatever.
richard c hoagland
Well, look, let's assume the worst case scenario and something happens and everything disappears tomorrow morning on Earth.
Right?
art bell
Kaku's thing would have done that.
What is it?
W-R-104?
richard c hoagland
W-R-104.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
Think of your channel in Sirius.
Yeah, and I'm not sure I agree with the astrophysics of that, but that's a whole other discussion.
The point is, let's assume something terrible happens and everybody dies.
art bell
That'll be a moot point.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, all the stuff.
By the way, under that scenario, humans and biology and dogs and cats and pussycats and begonias would all be dead.
But all our industry, our infrastructure, our technology would not be.
It would quietly degrade, like those films, you know, Earth Without People, over decades and millennia.
Now, suppose an alien civilization comes and finds this little blue planet.
They land.
They don't know, obviously, the names of any of the places they're going to land, but they land on, let's say, Las Vegas.
Just pick Las Vegas.
art bell
All the movies do.
You might as well.
richard c hoagland
If they bury, if they dig deep underground, let's say 10, 20, 30, 40 feet, they'll find stuff.
And they'll find it in fairly good condition because it will have been protected because of dirt and sand and stuff on top of it.
And there's no oxygen underground if you get down deep enough.
What if they find a computer?
art bell
They're probably more likely to find a slot machine.
richard c hoagland
What if they find more than one computer?
What if they land in the middle of Chicago or Los Angeles?
In other words, what's the main way that our civilization has now of preserving and storing and archiving zillions of copies of the same stuff?
art bell
Well, I don't know if a hard drive would make it.
Maybe one of the new digital babies.
richard c hoagland
And we're a whisker away from optical crystal storage media.
art bell
It's true.
richard c hoagland
Which are basically rocks.
That's why rocks last billions of years.
So we're going to have media which very shortly are going to be immortal by any civilization standard.
And there's going to be a zillion copies of everything ever done.
Which means it's not we have to find a centralized library art.
All we have to do is find one of their computers that still works.
art bell
That's right.
richard c hoagland
And on the moon, it's going to be duck soup because nothing has happened on the moon for millions and millions and millions of years.
And certainly, if you get down deep enough underground, nothing has disturbed it.
So yeah, a human expedition that goes and looks for the libraries will eventually find them.
And of course, to short circuit this around, my feeling is that Kennedy's real reason for sending our guys to the moon was to find the archives and bring it back and put it to benefit for all mankind.
And that's why they killed him.
And the data I have that supports that is that 12 days after he agreed to go there with Khrushchev, they bumped him off, and then they put Khrushchev under house arrest, and he died, a broken man, sitting on a rocker on his porch when the world went nuts into a huge spiral of new weapons development.
art bell
Yes, it did.
richard c hoagland
And I know that he and Kennedy were in touch because Ted Sorensen, who was almost like Kennedy's spiritual soul brother, they were like brothers.
They thought the same.
They talked the same.
They wrote the same.
They had the same philosophy.
Without Sorensen, Kennedy would not have been the genius orator that he was.
art bell
All right, here's a rub that I see, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Can I finish my point?
art bell
I guess, yeah, I'll go ahead.
richard c hoagland
In Sorensen's book called Counselor, he describes how from the day JFK walked into the Oval Office, he would give Sorensen an envelope with a letter for Khrushchev, separate from state, separate from the DOD, really separate from the CIA.
Ted would walk down into the middle of Washington, D.C., down Pennsylvania Avenue.
He'd stand on a corner, and a guy from the KGB would come up to him with a folded copy of the Washington Post.
art bell
But we don't know what was in this, right?
richard c hoagland
Yes, we do.
art bell
How do we know?
richard c hoagland
Because Sorensen reports it in his book.
art bell
And he says, what was in it?
richard c hoagland
From day one, he was trying to get Khrushchev to go to the moon with the United States.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
And when Khrushchev finally told his son in the garden of their DACA outside Moscow in late, late fall of 1963, I've decided I can trust this man.
It was after the Cuban missile crisis.
art bell
Right, right, right.
richard c hoagland
12 days later, Kennedy was killed.
Lyndon Johnson and the chief of, I forget who the congressman was in the House, introduced legislation forbidding the United States from cooperating with the Soviet Union in going to the moon.
art bell
Well, you weave a fascinating possibility.
It's data.
Here's what I want to say, Richard.
If this is proven true, if it somehow, in any way, ends up suggesting to the world that the source Of life on earth is other than as written in the good book we've got problems.
richard c hoagland
You mean intelligent life?
art bell
Yes, sir.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
Well, we're going to have problems anyway.
Because science is.
Well, look, the way I'm going to be.
art bell
Those are big ones.
Those are really, really big ones.
richard c hoagland
You've got JC calls you all the time.
If JC were confronted tomorrow with evidence of a lunar civilization, do you think it would matter a wit to him?
art bell
No.
richard c hoagland
Do you think he would pay attention?
art bell
No, he would banish them to boiling pits of sewage.
richard c hoagland
Yeah, sewage, right.
And he would refuse to acknowledge the existence of the information.
My feeling for decades, and I think this is what Brookings was saying, is that those people will wrap themselves in a bubble inside an enigma, inside a freezer, and they will totally be unsazed by this because their life continues regardless of the facts of science that would intrude on their view of the universe.
What would really happen is that the smart people on the planet would seize the opportunity to break out of the prison and the shackles we're currently in.
They would take these technologies, put them to use to free people from being demeaning slaves and become rulers of their own destiny.
They would stop despoiling the earth, contaminating the planet, ruining the net.
art bell
Maybe.
richard c hoagland
Well, look, the technologies I'm talking about are the same technologies you were talking about with Stephen the other night.
art bell
If Genesis was no longer true in the minds of those who looked at the evidence, there'd be big trouble, Richard.
Big trouble.
unidentified
I don't think.
richard c hoagland
In other words, that is a philosophical perspective, and we have a right to disagree.
See, this is not Brookings.
Brookings used this as a club to basically threaten everybody in this report.
art bell
Okay, let's talk about clubs for a second.
How big a club would that be?
That would mean to a lot of people, okay, Genesis wrong.
New information, right.
No afterlife, no heaven, no hell, no.
richard c hoagland
Why do the two go hand in hand?
art bell
Well, you're hitting the underpinnings of religion, Richard, really hard when you say life didn't originate.
Look, if Genesis goes, a lot goes.
richard c hoagland
Or Genesis gets reinterpreted, and my feeling is those who are fundamentally religious will continue to believe what they want to believe, data notwithstanding, and the rest of us can move on to create a real civilization on this planet.
Can I go back to the next one?
art bell
Well, maybe we need a new assessment of what would happen.
Maybe we need a new Brookings.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
Oh, that would be fantastic.
But remember, a few minutes ago I talked about the report from Iron Mountain, which was commissioned under Kennedy as an alternative to what he foresaw as a perpetual state of war on planet Earth.
And he tasked certain people, and there's huge controversy over was the study that came out real?
Was it satire?
You know, the way you dismiss real stuff is you make fun of it, then nobody believes it.
Given all the things that report from Iron Mountain, which Robin has done numerous shows on, with extraordinary reception by our audience, because they're dumbfounded, that all of the things forecast in that report, which was published in the early 60s,
have come true, including the idea of the need to perpetuate perpetual war on earth to maintain control in the absence of peace that would create such uncertainties and such depression in the economy that civilization itself would crumble.
unidentified
Sounds awfully, awfully lot like the fear porn of Brookings.
art bell
We may have turned the corner on that one.
Well, we'll wait and see how Syria turns out.
richard c hoagland
Well, yeah, exactly.
One of their possibilities that they offered as an alternative to endless war, a la Orwell, was a huge space program that would basically have the budget of the Pentagon.
I mean, look, NASA spends, I'm going to use round numbers now, about $16 billion a year.
The Pentagon is up in the hundreds of billions a year.
art bell
Good point.
richard c hoagland
NASA's down in the noise.
People seem to think NASA has all the money in the world.
No, they have a pittance of what we spend on better ways to kill people.
Cruise missiles, stealth drugs.
art bell
I'm with you all the way.
I know.
You're right.
The disparity in the spending is obvious.
richard c hoagland
What the report from Iron Mountain said was, well, one way to move from a war economy, which has all kinds of ancillary benefits, you know, we lose a few thousand people here and there in some wars, but frankly, society is so big, it needs the economy, it needs the technological development, it needs all the stimulus.
We can live with that.
The only alternative they propose that might counter that would be a super big Pentagon-sized budget space program.
art bell
I'd love to see it.
richard c hoagland
I would too.
unidentified
I'd love to see it.
richard c hoagland
But, but, but, but.
This was formulated before NASA's first missions into the solar system and to the moon.
Now, of course, if the objective of the controllers is control, you can't possibly have a big unlimited space program because, my God, you can't control it.
They'll find out what's really out there.
They'll find out their real history.
They'll find out all the incredible technologies that make oil and all the other control mechanisms obsolete.
Holy cow, we can't have that.
So what are we seeing from NASA?
We've seen a long, slow attrition down to death.
art bell
Yes, indeed.
All right.
So being in the middle of this attrition, it's my view, Richard, that a NASA guy or gal would say, oh, my God, if, you know, our agency is going to hell in a handbasket.
If we can get information out to the public and the world like this, we're going to get all the money that's going into those bombs and Cruise missiles, and we're going to be able to go to Mars.
We're going to be able to go to the moon and well beyond because we've proven there's a reason to do it, and so they'd want to release the information.
richard c hoagland
That's a very linear view that if everything else was equal, I would say you're probably right.
And that's been one of the biggest criticisms of our model for decades.
This would be a gold card for NASA.
Why the hell don't they do it?
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
Which means there must be a bigger counter force that keeps them from doing it.
Oh, have I mentioned the bodies?
Have I mentioned the various NASA personnel who have shown up dead, really, really, really dead in various places over the last 30, 40 years?
art bell
But as long as you can be, but yes, go ahead.
I mean, aren't there that many?
richard c hoagland
It doesn't have to be the right people, or in this case, the wrong people, at the wrong place at the wrong time, up to and including some astronauts.
Like Pete Conrad years ago, he was the commander of Apollo 12 that took the pictures.
Picture number three corroborates the geometry taken by Surveyor.
A few years ago, Pete Conrad, who was very much into space industrialization, he was one of those guys who couldn't figure out why we hadn't aggressively taken advantage of all the amazing resources in space, created a space-bound civilization to do some of the economic things that we've been talking about tonight.
Pete is about to speak at a major space conference in Houston, and Conrad loved to ride his motorbike, you know, big chopper.
I think it may even have been a Harley.
He's out with some friends.
He takes a curve a little too fast.
He skids and he falls over on the road.
He gets up and his friends say, you know, that was a pretty bad spill.
You should go to the hospital.
And he's fine.
He's got some scrapes and nothing is wrong with him.
He goes to the hospital.
He never comes out.
art bell
So I don't need more bodies.
I'm sure you're going to come up with a lot of bodies.
I've got more.
I'm sure you're not going to be able to do that.
richard c hoagland
Including people stashed behind fences, people assassinated in a roadside rest in Maryland.
art bell
So you're thinking this is so serious that NASA has had people.
richard c hoagland
I didn't say NASA.
No, these are NASA people.
art bell
All right, all right, sorry.
richard c hoagland
Far above NASA.
art bell
Yes, the shadow government.
richard c hoagland
Whoever the controllers use to keep people in line.
I mean, remember, the freak out was that Snowden was a contractor of a contractor.
And it's obvious to me that he had careful help.
He did not do this on his own.
I've got evidence that this was actually planned.
And he did not wind up in Russia by accident.
That's part of the plan.
It's where the guys that would get rid of him.
The reason he doesn't come back and do, you know, like Ellsberg, they're going to kill him.
Look what they did to Hastings.
Michael Hastings, the journalist who was killed in that.
art bell
Right, right, right.
Right, I know you can keep rattling them off.
richard c hoagland
I can keep going because it's the truth and we need to look it right in the face.
And that answers the question, why don't we have whistleblowers who simply cheerfully talk about what's really on the moon and Mars?
Now, what I think they're doing on this mission to the moon, I think they've set this up either for the most amazing revelation that will be unstoppable, or they've set themselves up to really check this out so they can make the decision if they're going to release something.
art bell
All right, here's a question for you, Richard.
After all the missions there have been to Mars and the moon, manned and unmanned, why do you think they would pick this mission to you're going to love this answer?
I hope so.
richard c hoagland
Are you ready?
art bell
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
richard c hoagland
Because Barack Hussein Obama is president.
He is the guy.
art bell
You're right.
I kind of like the answer.
richard c hoagland
He's the guy who has been picked to do this.
Now, I have completely independent data.
I've been watching this guy like a hawk.
Back when he was just a twinkle in the eye of the pollsters, when he was at 20% in the polls in 2007, I predicted he was going to win the presidency.
And I was so certain based on my data, I made a bet with George.
And my bet with George was that if I won, meaning the president was elected, I would get to host Coast all by myself, pick my own guests, do an entire four-hour show on whatever I chose.
And I've got that in the bank.
I have not played that card because it hasn't been time.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Well, good luck with that.
And hold on for a moment.
richard c hoagland
Well, George is an honorable man.
unidentified
Take a break here.
art bell
And then, you know, I do want to go to the next photograph.
The next photograph is the launch with the frog.
And I actually don't know the whole story.
I've seen the picture, but it's awesome.
So we'll do that when we come back.
From the high desert, this is Dark Matter.
unidentified
Oh, clear to me now.
Oh, clear to me now.
You were mine.
I remember whose eyes reflected in your eyes.
I wonder where you are.
I wonder if you think about me.
What's a part of the time?
And you're the wildest dream.
To be part of dark matter this night, please direct your finger digits to dial.
1-855-REO UFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
Hang on to those numbers.
We are going to open lines.
Richard is going to take questions from the listeners.
Coming up, I want to direct your attention to the next photograph.
What number would this be, Richard?
Richard?
Richard.
Richard's not there.
Did we lose Richard?
unidentified
Apparently.
art bell
We must have lost Richard.
Okay, well, they'll get him back on the line.
Eventually.
I want to know about this frog.
I wonder if this frog was Photoshopped on.
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
We're going to get into exactly all that.
art bell
There you are.
You don't think it was Photoshop, do you?
richard c hoagland
I don't know.
I have been to the Cape a million times.
art bell
Okay, you've got another radio behind you there, Richard.
richard c hoagland
No, I'm sorry.
You have a weird delay on Sirius.
I don't know why.
art bell
Well, it's a satellite delay.
Don't worry about it.
Just turn off the radio.
Jeez, why do I have to tell Richard Hoagland to turn off the radio?
richard c hoagland
We've made news tonight.
art bell
Oh?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, the reason I wanted this up there is because given the implications of this mission, I thought it was very bizarre that out of all the NASA missions that I have covered over decades, I mean, I've been at the Cape for launches, I've been at the pads, I've seen where the cameras are.
Do you know that Florida is a swamp?
Do you know what swamps have in them overwhelmingly in abundance?
art bell
A lot of frogs.
richard c hoagland
Lots of insects.
Tons of insects.
You can't stand there without being bitten to death and eaten to death by every creepy, crawly creature you can imagine.
art bell
Oh, I know.
richard c hoagland
So there's zillions of frogs eating all the little insects that would try to eat you.
This, in the entire history of the space program, this is the first time we have ever seen a frog jumping away from a launch pad camera.
And we've got zillions of cameras and millions of feet of film, right?
art bell
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
Now it's all electronic.
So, you know, Hoagland, with his conspiratorial turn of mind when it comes to NASA, that knows that they are into symbolism and ritual and secret messaging and all that.
art bell
So the frog is a symbol.
richard c hoagland
Says, is the frog potentially a message about this mission?
So I thought and I thought and I thought.
And again, I'm totally speculating.
art bell
Oh, no.
I've got it for you, Richard.
I'm jumping off point.
richard c hoagland
That's one really good one.
Mine was a little more pointed.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
If all that you've talked about tonight and all your religious implications and all the extraordinary rent of civilization that you believe would happen if we were to confirm this information that we're not alone and we build all this stuff.
art bell
Richard, stop.
Don't put that on me.
Don't put that on me.
I'm just saying it is something that has to be considered.
I'm not saying the world would go nuts.
In fact, I even said maybe there ought to be another Brookings.
richard c hoagland
All right.
art bell
Okay.
So I'm just saying it's got to be considered.
richard c hoagland
No, no.
I want to be absolutely straight down the middle on this.
But if this has huge game-changing implications, should we put it that way?
art bell
Which number picture is the frog?
richard c hoagland
Frive, number five.
art bell
Five.
All right, folks.
Go to artbell.com.
And go to picture number five.
It is a pretty cool picture, actually.
It's a frog.
Right in the middle of the launch.
Here is this airborne frog.
richard c hoagland
So when the Minotaur rockets lighted up, obviously, if it's a real picture, he jumped, you know, freaked out.
How would you like to have your quiet lily pad disturbed by a mission of the launch?
art bell
Using hyperdimensional measuring techniques, Richard.
How far is this frog from the camera?
richard c hoagland
Actually, that's a very good question.
There's a lot of blogs and websites that have actually been working this out, and they think he may have been far enough away to survive the launch.
In other words, he's much closer to the camera than he is to the launch pad.
And they used angles and geometry and trigger and all that.
My question is, NASA made a big deal about this.
Whenever NASA makes a big deal about anything, I get very curious.
And I ask myself, what is the subliminal subtext?
What's the real message?
And my speculation was, symbolically, out of the frying pan, into the fire.
art bell
To the fire.
Oh, Richard, I love you.
Okay.
richard c hoagland
You too, Art.
art bell
Or a jumping off point or...
richard c hoagland
Let's cut to photograph number six.
art bell
Oh, good.
We need to make it through these.
richard c hoagland
Yep, we will.
We've got just enough time to do this.
Number six, guys.
art bell
Isn't it wonderful?
Have you noticed, by the way, with extra terrestrial radio, you actually have time to have a conversation?
richard c hoagland
I've noticed.
art bell
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
Lunar laser communications demonstration.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
We currently communicate with spacecraft all over the solar system.
When I say we, I mean NASA and ESSA and the Russians and the Japanese and all that by means of radio.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
It's very, very high-frequency radio.
It's called S-band and X-band.
It's in the gigahertz range, but it's basically radio.
Radio is limited when you want to really send a lot of information down a pipeline to Earth, especially across millions and millions and millions of miles.
art bell
It can also be eavesdropped on.
richard c hoagland
So, for, you've got to stop reading my mind, Mr. Bell.
So, it has been discussed for literally since Surveyor.
They did a laser experiment 40 years ago, 40-some years ago, on Surveyor, where they shone laser beams up at the Surveyor spacecraft, and they used the TV cameras to actually see the little tiny spot beams on the night side of the Earth as a prelude to someday using laser communication.
Now, why would lasers be a really big step forward?
Because, as everybody now knows, watch any commercials, because all of our telephone calls, even this phone call, is sent at some point via laser through fiber optics.
They can hold billions and billions of telephone calls on a laser beam, or you can send zillions of photographs, high-definition, 3D holograms, you name it.
You've got the bandwidth using lasers that you don't have.
art bell
All of that, and I can't get a good, clean phone connection with you.
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
But we don't know about lasers here in New Mexico.
Anyway, so on of all missions, what do they put this super-duper expensive, complicated, and really snazzy laser communication system on of all the missions we've ever sent anywhere in the solar system for the last 50 years?
This mission.
Now, in honest truth, the three instruments that they're going to be publicly using to take data on lunar dust and the atmosphere basically have minuscule bandwidth requirements.
It doesn't take a lot of bandwidth to send bar graphs or squiggly lines.
Right?
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
So they've got a super communication system which could send, you know, the Library of Congress in an hour, and they've got nothing to put on that end.
Except, this goes back to my friend who emailed me a few days ago, they've got these two weird horn-shaped things on the top of the spacecraft, which I finally tracked down.
And the engineering guys say those are what are called star tracker cameras.
art bell
Cameras?
richard c hoagland
Cameras.
This spacecraft, not advertised to anybody unless you did Mr. Tig Dig, are carrying two cameras.
And if you look at the size of those light baffles, they appear to be really super duper cameras.
art bell
All right, so let me jump ahead.
richard c hoagland
Go ahead and read my mind now.
art bell
We're going to take the pictures with these secret cameras.
We're going to beam it back to Earth, not using radio that can be intercepted, but lasers that cannot.
And then we're going to decide whether we want to tell the world what we just found.
richard c hoagland
Mr. Bell, you go to the head of the class.
art bell
Well, that's the thing.
You know what, Richard?
Nobody more than me hopes that you're right.
I really, honest God, I hope you're right, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Well, the frog in the pond is, are they going to decide to tell us or not?
Oh, and I got one little cutie.
I've been looking at the orbit.
You know, I do orbits.
I look at spacecraft.
I look at coverage.
I look at geometry.
This darn thing is going to go to the moon.
It's taking a month to get there, which gives you time to check out instruments, right?
art bell
Sure.
richard c hoagland
You have nothing else to do.
You turn them on.
You point them at various...
You can do that anywhere between here and the moon.
You don't have to be in lunar orbit to look at the sun and see if the damn thing is working.
The same with the UVS spectrometer and the same with the particle detector.
They're going to spend a month in high lunar orbit checking out the instruments before they lower the orbit to where they actually begin to officially do science.
And I think that month is a license to find out all kinds of cool things and then decide whether you're going to tell anybody.
They did the same thing when Malin sent the first camera to Mars on Mars Surveyor.
They had a block of period called Checkout, and an academic of Stan McDaniel at Sonoma State University wrote a scathing indictment of the fact that their reasoning made zero logical sense from a scientific perspective, from a mission perspective, from an economic perspective, from an operations perspective.
And he basically said, these guys are going to use this time to photograph Sidonia secretly and decide what's there and if they're going to tell anybody.
Because the press doesn't care about checkout.
They only get interested vaguely when the actual mission is supposed to begin.
So if you want to do something in public but in secret, you simply say, oh, we're going to just be doing engineering checkouts, and no one in Washington is going to give a damn.
art bell
Maybe.
I hope you're right.
Ms. Magg says, I'm the frog, Richard.
It's just a giant leap for frog kind.
Sorry.
Couldn't resist.
It is a hell of a picture, though.
I'll give you that.
And are we almost through the pictures?
Because I want to get phones going here.
richard c hoagland
Well, I want to go to number seven.
And then we can go through these quickly because there is going to be zero controversy, I hope.
You know, when one is talking to art, one never knows, but there should be zero controversy.
Go to seven.
art bell
I'm there.
richard c hoagland
All right.
This is a beautiful mosaic on the shot with the onboard camera of our little Curiosity one-ton nuclear-powered rover loaded for bear.
art bell
It is gorgeous.
richard c hoagland
And it's got all kinds of really cool instrumentation.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Mars environment or Mars atmosphere or surface composition or the ruins of an ancient civilization, this robot can tell us.
And what it's been doing for the last year, since August 6, 2020.
art bell
It looks like it's sitting on somebody's old terrace.
How's that for?
richard c hoagland
Well, it is sitting on a bunch of flagstones.
Very good.
That's what I said, which are the lowest area of the crater it could reach in the last year.
It's going to go to the mountain in the next year.
But they sent it to the lowest place because that's, of course, as you're going to see when you read part one and part two of my Curiosity expose on EnterpriseMission.com called It Only Takes One White Crow.
You know this old Apache saying, right?
unidentified
Not really.
richard c hoagland
It only takes one white crow to prove all crows aren't black.
unidentified
Think about it.
richard c hoagland
If we're proposing that there's an Ichi civilization all over the solar system that's left zillions and zillions of things in various states of ruin, all we got to do is find one.
Just one.
To prove all that.
art bell
And Mars does seem a logical place to me that there once was a civilization.
After all, it had an atmosphere.
It had a lot of stuff we don't know about that got wiped out.
So, yeah, Mars is.
richard c hoagland
Well, the difference between Mars and the Moon is, on the Moon, you need a high technology to live.
It's kind of like the...
Well, yeah, you need a dome to keep the air in.
And you only build those by having high technology.
A la Kaku and Kardashev, a really high technology can do.
art bell
Type 2, type 3.
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
Well, I'm just restricting my projections to type 2 because type 2, by the way, we're not going to go to 1.
We're going to leap to 2.
If any of this comes out, we leap to 2 immediately.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
And we'll get to that later on, just for questions.
We got, what, an hour?
No, half an hour.
art bell
Oh, no, we've got an hour and a half.
richard c hoagland
Okay, but I mean until we want to get to questions.
art bell
Oh, any minute now.
So hurry.
richard c hoagland
No, thanks.
So anyway, this thing is prowling around on those wonderful wheels.
It weighs one ton.
It's got 17 cameras alone on this thing.
Black and white.
art bell
It is beautiful.
It's a beautiful wheel.
richard c hoagland
Oh, and it's nuclear-powered.
Do you know the Voyagers are nuclear-powered, and the Voyager 1 just penetrated into interstellar space the last year or so, and it's been 30-some years en route?
Do you know what the projections for the lifetime of the power supply in Curiosity could be if they can keep the thing just going?
art bell
I'd like to know.
What are they?
richard c hoagland
Over 100 years.
art bell
Wow.
richard c hoagland
And that's where spirit and opportunity are going strong after seven or eight years, or at least opportunity is.
And they were projected for have lifetimes of 90 days.
art bell
Well, credit where credit is due, Richard, they really know how to build these things.
And getting this down to the surface was amazing.
richard c hoagland
Okay, so they got down to the surface in this miracle Skycrane landing on the early dawn of August 6th.
I did a live show with George narrating everything all the way down to the surface.
art bell
Yeah, it was amazing.
richard c hoagland
Absolutely amazing.
So then let's go to photograph number 8.
art bell
Okay, I like it.
Let's go to 8.
And I presume a lot of people are following with us.
By the way, things are crashing.
My little message wormhole has just been down about 10 times.
Anyway, okay, here we are on 8, and right away I kind of don't like it.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
art bell
What am I looking at?
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
What are you looking at?
art bell
Well, that's why I don't like it, Richard.
I can't tell.
richard c hoagland
You can't tell.
It's not a rock.
Rocks aren't shiny blue.
art bell
No.
richard c hoagland
They don't have cylinders coming out of them looking like pipes.
They don't have copper-colored flanges on the ends of some of the cylinders.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
There might be blue rocks on Mars.
White, right?
unidentified
Yeah, white.
richard c hoagland
That have specular, metallic, sheen reflections on the side facing the sun and the camera?
art bell
I do see that, yes.
richard c hoagland
That's a piece of junk.
It's a piece of mangled, battered machinery that, by the way, was uncovered by the rocket blast of the Skycrane descent rockets as Curiosity landed.
art bell
How can you not know that it's part of the landing apparatus?
richard c hoagland
Oh, absolutely not.
No, it's not.
art bell
How do you know that?
richard c hoagland
because there's nothing like that on the spacecraft.
And it didn't, the sky crane, when it left, Thing zaps into Mars' atmosphere at 13,000 miles an hour.
It takes seven screening minutes to go from the stratosphere all the way to the surface.
The last few thousand feet is lowered on a device called a Skycrane, which basically was a rocket-powered helicopter kind of craft with boards set to rockets.
As it's hovering on the rockets, like an old 1950s sci-fi movie, it lowers Curiosity on nylon ropes to the surface.
The computer then senses the lack of weight when the wheels touch the ground.
The Skycrane cuts with squibs the nylon ropes, and the Skycrane dashes off into the atmosphere and lands a couple of miles away over the hill.
art bell
I saw the simulation.
And what I'm asking is, how do you know that some little piece of something didn't break off?
There'd be no way to not know that.
richard c hoagland
This is not little.
unidentified
This is about the size of a telephone.
richard c hoagland
One of those old-fashioned rotary phones.
unidentified
It looks to me like a pump.
richard c hoagland
It looks like a pump.
And I'll remember: there's an old engineering axiom: form follows function.
If you have to build a device to pump fluids, be it on Mars, on the Moon, on Alpha Centauri, wherever, it's got to kind of look very similar to anything you'd build on Earth because it's got to have a way to pump fluids, and fluids have a certain Reynolds number and a certain pressure and a certain flow rate and all that.
So a device to pump fluids will kind of look like a device to pump fluids, regardless of the culture.
Like an old man.
art bell
You know, I can't go there with you, Richard.
I'm sorry.
I see it, and it does look weird, and blue is weird, and that's about as far as I can go.
richard c hoagland
Okay.
Well, then let's go to the next one.
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
Number nine.
art bell
Number nine.
Takes me a second.
Bear with me.
Number nine.
Okay.
What are we looking at with number nine?
richard c hoagland
After they landed, they spent about two months trekking on the wheels east to a place called Glen Elg.
And on the way, they took lots and lots and lots of pictures.
This was one of the pictures.
art bell
What is that?
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
What is that?
It's not a rock.
How do we know that?
art bell
Now, that one, that one, that one.
richard c hoagland
It's too damn symmetrical.
art bell
Yeah, that one is way too symmetrical.
richard c hoagland
That really...
art bell
And it's shiny, too.
And it's shiny.
richard c hoagland
It's got a pipe sticking out of it right toward the camera.
art bell
All right, I see it.
All right, folks.
If you haven't looked at anything else, you need to go to artbell.com.
And this is, I'm sorry, what, number 10?
Nine.
richard c hoagland
Number nine.
art bell
Number nine.
Look at picture number nine.
What in the hell is this?
richard c hoagland
See, you can't ascribe what these things are because it's.
art bell
You know, I see the pipe, Richard.
I see the pipe.
unidentified
Yeah.
richard c hoagland
And it looks like it's old, corroded metal, oxidized.
art bell
Right.
My God, I just made it bigger.
What is that?
That is not natural.
richard c hoagland
It's not a rock.
art bell
There's no way that's natural.
richard c hoagland
It only takes one white pro.
Art, you have just officially confirmed the presence of an ancient technological civilization on Mars.
unidentified
And we have I really done that on the market.
richard c hoagland
I've got so many damn images.
I've been spending months trying to write part two of the One White Crow series because I've got too many examples and I'm trying to distill the best context.
art bell
All right, this is undeniable in the sense that there's no way this is natural.
Picture number nine, there's no way it's natural.
The only thing I can do is say, Richard, are you sure this was not somehow from our spacecraft or previous spacecrafts or whatever?
richard c hoagland
Well, for one thing, what are the odds that previous missions will be able to land on a planet with a surface area equivalent to all the continents on Earth within a couple hundred feet of the one that came after?
Second, we've never been to Gale Crater.
art bell
It's never been targeted.
Yeah, this one is suspicious.
richard c hoagland
It's incredibly suspicious.
Remember, it only takes one white crowd prove all crows aren't black.
unidentified
Yep, yep.
richard c hoagland
Moving on, let's go to number 10.
art bell
Boy, I really like number 9, Richard.
Do I have to leave?
richard c hoagland
You come look at that.
art bell
Number 9 is a wow.
To me, that's a wow.
Maybe some other people looking at it out there will have something else to say.
But to me, that is a wow.
You don't wow me frequently, but you did with that.
All right, here we are at number 10, for the sake of hurrying along here, and we have a...
richard c hoagland
It's bluish.
It's round.
art bell
Are you sure that these colors we're seeing?
richard c hoagland
Oh, the colors are absolutely accurate.
Nope, they're absolutely accurate.
art bell
You're sure?
richard c hoagland
unequivocally sure.
See, what you do is you go to the original, I'm posting links back to the original NASA data archives at JPL.
Every frame has a frame number.
They've been posting all these images.
The inside leakers have been leaking all the good stuff, and they know nothing will happen unless an official at NASA says these are artificial.
We live in a time where now I know that we are on the cusp of something huge.
It's been a long time.
art bell
This is good.
This is good, Richard.
Number nine is better, but this is good.
All right, listen.
I'm going to instruct them to begin, go ahead, open up the lines and begin to get some calls for Richard, please.
You can start now because we're going to do that shortly, Richard.
We've really got to.
You got me with number nine, buddy.
richard c hoagland
It only took us three hours, 27 minutes, and 10 seconds.
art bell
Well, you didn't show me number nine that long ago, so.
richard c hoagland
Yeah.
No, look, the way I like to do things is you build slowly.
Building a case is like a lawyer.
You have to lay foundation.
You have to get people used to the idea.
And a lot of our audience has never heard any of this stuff.
And they're obviously thinking you've got this lunatic who thinks, even though I work for NASA and Cronkite, that there's stuff out there and people out there and all this.
And of course, we know that's not true.
Well, it only takes one white crow to change the paradigm.
And I've given you now three objects, two out of three you really can't explain as rocks.
art bell
Number nine got me.
I know of no way to explain number nine.
It's the semi-I guess, young.
On that note, hold on, Richard, hold on.
We're really going to go to the phones.
No joke.
richard c hoagland
Go phone.
art bell
So, our phone number here at Dark Matter is 855-REALUFO.
It's easy.
1-855-REAL UFO or 1-855-732-5836.
We are now officially taking calls.
So be my guest.
There really is a lot to talk about.
All I ask is if you want to disagree, be polite.
You may be a bit strident, as I have been, but be polite.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Richard C. Hoagland is my guest.
It's been one whale of a night, and I bet it's going to get even better.
dark matter in the nighttime, coming to you from the high desert and the great American Southwest.
unidentified
We're made of the end.
Whoa, I do determine.
I travel the world and whatever we see.
Everybody is looking for something.
Some of them.
Some of them.
In the day, nothing matters.
Bye.
It's the night, time to fly.
In the night, no control.
Through the walls, something's like this.
Wearing white, has no walking.
Down the street, hard rock's low.
You take myself, you take myself, I'm cold.
It's XM, baby, and we're very serious.
To call Art Bell, please manipulate your communication device and call 1-855-RIO UFO at 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
You really love that one.
Hi, everybody.
That's Ross Major, of course.
Number 9 tears it for me.
There's no question about that.
If you haven't seen it, go to artbell.com.
These are the photographs we've been talking about.
Number nine is on Mars.
And if number nine is a rock, then I'll eat my phone.
And it's a big phone, too.
They call it a grand screen.
I wouldn't want to have to eat it.
Number nine's a twincher.
All right, we're going to begin taking calls.
No telling what's ahead, but I hope you'll be civil.
I know Richard has a lot of detractors and a lot of supporters.
But I want you to be civil.
That's very important.
And remember the language.
richard c hoagland
All right, I have to tell you one thing.
Robin is not happy with our conversation.
She thinks we're fighting.
She says, I sound strained and all this.
And I said, I'm just passionate, and I love a good argument when the opponent has really good points and questions.
art bell
No, Robin, this is not a fight.
This is the way Richard and I interact.
Yeah.
Okay, here we go.
You're on Dark Matter with Richard C. Hoagland.
Hello.
unidentified
Art Bell, this is truly an honor.
How are you, sir?
art bell
That would be Roswell's.
Thank you.
unidentified
Hey, you know, how many years ago was it that the Vatican actually came out and said the question, if there is life out there, they are our brothers?
richard c hoagland
And that is not a metaphor.
They mean it absolutely 100% for real.
art bell
How long ago was it?
richard c hoagland
Two years.
art bell
Two years.
richard c hoagland
There's been a progression.
Well, everybody's been talking, you know, Stephen Bassett's disclosure, the D-word.
I have been seeing so many trend curves pointing us in the direction of the ultimate disclosure that we're so close now.
If you look at these as political trend curves, I would say we're within a couple of years, maybe, maybe sooner, than this stuff is officially acknowledged in some way which is non-threatening.
That's why I think the laser system on LADDEE and the secret cameras is, I mean, you really nailed it on it.
They want to look before they leap.
unidentified
They have to.
Can I follow up with another question?
Am I the only one that, when I read the book of Genesis, saw it right there in black and white, they're pretty much admitting it when God says, we will make man in our likeness.
He was the only one at the time.
Who's he talking to?
Because that was before Adam and Eve.
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
art bell
There you go.
All right.
Fair enough.
And maybe if they were to redo Brookings, we'd come up with a whole different answer.
Let's go here, Dark Matter.
You're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Yeah, hey, Richard.
I'm a supporter of your premise here.
But I was wondering, when you use the term civilization, what if they just uncovered like a small complex of structures, like an outpost?
Would you say that's a civilization or?
richard c hoagland
Well, you've got to look at all the missions we've sent, the orbital missions, the landed missions.
There's stuff on every mission that's all over Mars.
Just thinking of Mars as one place.
When you look at all the NASA spacecraft over the last 30, 40 years, which includes, you know, the mission to Mercury, Messenger, the mission to Saturn, Cassini, the Galileo missions to Jupiter, the mission like Voyager to the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, there's artificial stuff that I can build the case for all over the solar system.
In which case, we're talking about living.
Do you remember that movie art that Catherine Hepburn started in called Love Among the Ruins?
art bell
Not offhand.
richard c hoagland
We are living amid the ruins, I believe, of a type 2 civilization.
And we're the dim, dim, dim descendants, 15 million generations removed, of something extraordinary.
And when Genesis talks about the fall, frankly, I think this is what it's really referring to.
Because ultimately, when you lose your history, you lose 99.999% of everybody, and you lose planets in the process of a huge interplanetary war.
The survivors are going to cling to scraps of information.
They're going to mythologize them.
They're going to put them on pedestals.
They're going to make them sacred.
And the things that used to be real and practical will be looked at as metaphors or as examples of something else.
I think we're living, you know, with genuine homage to Michio and to Kardashev Paporium amid the ruins of an extraordinary type 2 civilization.
And it's now almost time to tell people who we really are.
art bell
Okay.
Caller, anything else?
unidentified
No, that's kind of what I was thinking.
I think that the quote-unquote alien civilization is what we call our civilization now.
And relics or artifacts in the solar system may be just remnants of their journey here.
richard c hoagland
When I finally get to do the book on all this, which is going to be called The Heritage of Mars, Remembering Forever, I have some stunning genetic data to put in to corroborate with mainstream papers,
which to me, and probably to any objective observer, we're going to find out, proves that the human race, certainly one faction of us, originally lived on Mars.
I can prove that that significance is.
art bell
Richard, have you ever heard of junk DNA?
richard c hoagland
Yeah, of course.
art bell
What if it's not junk?
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
But our evidence is not having to do with the junk DNA.
It has to do with something even more interesting that proves a fraction of the current human, and this is mainstream studies.
And the folks doing the studies, which have gone back to the 50s, they didn't know what they got.
So again, they just published it, not knowing they should have kept it secret.
And the cover-up crowd, who are actually not very smart, you know, they're basically operating on some kind of manual.
You know, they let lots of stuff through either by design, the long education process that Brooking called for, where you turn up the water slowly on our poor little frog, or it's because they simply don't know what to keep secret because they don't know any more than we do, and they don't know the key things that will allow someone to put the puzzle together and make a big picture.
art bell
Well, either that or you've really annoyed them, Richard, and they're trying to drive you completely insane.
You're on there with Richard C. Holland on Dark Matter.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Super Mega Roswell to you folks.
Thank you.
Hey, I've got two quick questions for one for Art and one for Richard.
Art, the other night I was listening to Dr. Greer, and he was talking about all the data that nobody has access to, such as presidents, congressmen, leaders.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
Who is guarding this data?
Is this a modern-day version of the TIFFs, or what is it?
art bell
That's a better question for Richard.
Who's guarding the data?
richard c hoagland
I think you put your finger on it.
I think these are ancient secret societies.
We may not actually know the names because I always tend to think that everybody who blames the Illuminati and the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, look, this suppression, this control is at such a high level that you don't even know the names of the groups that they're part of.
Everything else is kind of diversion out front, like those annual meetings of the Bilderbergers.
That's not where this really originates.
So, yes, I think you have secret societies.
I think one of them traces itself all the way back to ancient Egypt called the Shem Tsuhor, or the followers of Horus.
And their task, when you actually read the ancient Egyptian, their task is to preserve the fragments of the first time and to restore civilization from before a catastrophe.
art bell
All right, Collar, you're even noisier than Richard, so let's have the other question quickly.
unidentified
Got two questions for Richard.
I want to get caught up on everything you guys have been talking about tonight because I've been kind of out of the loop for a while.
Where can I catch up to find more of these photos and stuff like that?
art bell
That's a fair question.
All right, Richard.
richard c hoagland
EnterpriseMission.com.
I've got part one of an extraordinarily deep expose on Curiosity, the real secret mission of Curiosity.
The title is One White Crow.
And part two will be up in a few days as soon as I figure out what data I have to eliminate to fit within certain space limits.
art bell
Well, I love number nine, Richard.
God, I love it.
It's just great.
It's your white bird.
richard c hoagland
The more you look, the more you see, right?
art bell
It's your white bird.
richard c hoagland
And there's more.
Wait till you see what I'm going to have in part two on the Enterprise mission.
art bell
Dark Matter, it's your turn with Richard.
Hello.
Going along.
unidentified
Are you there, Art?
art bell
I'm here.
unidentified
Brothel City.
art bell
Oh, you're breaking up on us.
unidentified
Terrible phone.
I'm sorry.
There was a probe sent to Mars a few Years back, that was apparently destroyed by a laser from Mars.
Did that actually happen?
richard c hoagland
No.
The probe you're talking about is a Mars observer.
They were putting it into orbit and they suddenly lost communication.
And of course, I was on CNN with a press conference that very afternoon, and I said on the record that this is the way you take the mission black.
And with the sophistication of computers, even back in the early 90s, what used to take hundreds of people sitting in a mission control, you could run with five guys in a basement and a few laptops.
So I always felt Mars Observer disappeared so that, again, they could look at what they were going to see and make the political decision.
Do we tell them or do we wait?
art bell
Okay, I've got a question, Richard.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Look, it's about number nine.
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
Number nine is not a natural object.
Is it possible that number nine could be something...
No, they didn't.
richard c hoagland
No.
They had two missions that landed.
Well, they had three missions that disappeared.
They had one that landed, and for a few seconds, like maybe 10 seconds after landing, it was transmitting and then it stopped.
And they think that maybe the high winds, you know, took the parachute and turned it over so it killed it.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
But you're talking about...
There is no way statistically that we could have landed, plus those landing coordinates were nowhere near Gale Crater from the trajectory analysis.
That is not an answer.
I actually have a very good friend who was involved in the early space program from the...
Anyway, my friend Don, who used to work on all this stuff.
He worked at Rockadine.
He was involved with Mercury and Apollo and Gemini and Shuttle.
He actually, with a straight face, said to me, oh, this has got to be Russian, German engineering from when the Germans secretly went to Mars.
And I said to him, the same thing I'm telling you, because statistically, there is no possible way that we'd wind up in the same place on a planet with a continental area bigger than the Earth.
art bell
Well, it's not a natural object, so I've got to grasp it something.
richard c hoagland
And there's more than one.
When you see.
art bell
Dark matter.
Dark matter, you're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Hello.
Yes, hello.
unidentified
Oh, very nice.
Finally, I'm so happy to be on.
It's glad to hear you back, Art.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
I guess my question for Richard is if he could talk about, I love all your work.
What is the Vatican looking at there at that Mount Graham Observatory?
And I'll take my question off the air.
Thank you very much.
art bell
That would be your answer, and we'll give it to you, all right.
Yes, the Vatican has an observatory.
They certainly do.
A lot of people don't know that.
Go ahead, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Well, they have two.
The traditional observatory for the Vatican is at Castle Gandalfo.
It's just south of Rome.
It's where the Pope spends.
It's kind of his summer home.
It's also a full-fledged working professional observatory.
And we found out a few years ago, a couple years ago, through a very strange set of circumstances, when the Vatican officially announced that ETs could be our brothers, which I looked at as part of this slow disclosure process and slow motion.
art bell
I think that's fair, too.
richard c hoagland
We found out that at Castle Gondolpo, in addition to the telescopes and the observatory domes and all that, the Pope has his own meteorite collection.
art bell
Wow.
richard c hoagland
Now, what the hell does the Pope, sorry, have a meteorite collection unless he knows because of ancient sacred documents, remember there's always been the rumors of what's in the Vatican archives underneath Rome when the Library of Alexandria burned.
art bell
You're talking about the current Pope, right?
richard c hoagland
Well, every Pope.
art bell
Every Pope?
unidentified
Every Pope.
richard c hoagland
It's part of the Church.
It's the Pope.
It's not any given Pope.
It's the papacy has a meteorite collection.
And there is a custodian.
There's a Jesuit priest who's in charge, who was actually giving press conferences and interviews right after the announcement by the, what's his name in London, that, yell, ETs could be our brothers.
When I found out that the papacy has an official meteorite collection, that to me was a ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, because that's part of the trail of evidence.
Remember, our model is, a la the late Dr. Tom Van Flandern, which is a shame he's not around so you could talk to him these days about all this.
His model was there used to be another planet between Mars, between Earth and Jupiter, of which Mars was a moon, a satellite.
And it somehow blew up.
And the meteorites and all the junk that's coursing around the sun now is basically the shrapnel from that extraordinary seminal event in solar system history.
And the Pope has his own collection of those pieces.
Just connect the dots.
art bell
Right, okay.
Dark Matter, you're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland.
richard c hoagland
Don't we wish that Malachi Martin was still with us?
unidentified
Oh, yes.
art bell
Laura, are you there?
unidentified
Yes.
Hello, can you hear me?
Yes, we hear you.
Go ahead.
Excellent.
richard c hoagland
Excellent.
unidentified
Hey, it's great to talk to you guys.
I just wanted to ask Richard about the Dark Knight satellite.
I mean, is that thing real?
I can't find any information on it.
I mean, what the heck is it?
richard c hoagland
Okay, what he's talking about, Art, is in the 1950s, the government, and NASA didn't exist then, of course, it's before 58, announced, this is before the launch of Sputnik and before the launch of Explorer 1, our own first satellite.
There was some object in polar orbit that they called the Dark Knight.
And there were a couple of news stories, including in the Washington Post, I've got the actual stories, and then all references and knowledge disappeared.
Now you know as much as I do.
art bell
Okay, fascinating.
That's something to look into, isn't it?
richard c hoagland
Yep.
art bell
All right.
Hi there.
Dark Matter, you're on with Richard C. Hogund.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Hi.
Many Roswells from up in Victoria, British Columbia.
My question for your guest, it actually applies to last night's guest as well, but it's this.
All the information that he's presenting, has it been offered up for scientific peer review?
And if so, where would we be able to read the reports of those reviews?
And I'll take my answer off here.
Thank you.
art bell
Okay.
Richard, any peer review of number nine?
unidentified
No.
art bell
Why not?
richard c hoagland
Exactly.
Why not?
For a mission which is named Curiosity, number nine is only one of dozens and dozens and dozens of objects.
I mean, poor Keith this afternoon, he said, stop when I got to my 13th image.
Because I could keep loading.
art bell
Yeah, I get it.
richard c hoagland
So, no, there will not be peer-reviewed because peer-review is an exquisite censoring system.
art bell
Yeah, but you can't have that many number nines.
This is too good.
richard c hoagland
Oh, we want more.
Wait till you see.
There are more number nines for you.
art bell
Really?
richard c hoagland
Okay, yes.
art bell
All right.
Here's a number eight for you.
You're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Am I on?
richard c hoagland
You're on.
art bell
You are on, yeah.
unidentified
I don't believe it.
I have a question about...
Thank you.
I'm really glad you're back, Art.
I spent at least three days getting this X thing together for my 97-year young mother to listen to you because she's your greatest fan.
richard c hoagland
Oh, what's her name?
unidentified
Her name is Annette.
richard c hoagland
Annette, good evening.
unidentified
And she will be listening to this.
There's a delay.
I'm so shocked I'm on.
But I do have a question.
Is it possible, along with these other questions, the British had a ship that went up and it crashed called the Beagle?
Yep.
Could this be some debris possibly from the Beagle?
richard c hoagland
We know where Beagle landed, and it's nowhere near Gale Crater.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
It's actually photographed from orbit, from Mars orbit, with the high-rise camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, the smash of debris of poor little Beagle as it hit the ground.
art bell
Young lady, listen, obviously you've seen number nine, right?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Your opinion?
unidentified
Well, it certainly looks like some sort of an electronic equipment.
And I certainly see the pipe coming out, and it doesn't resemble the rocks.
art bell
No.
unidentified
So I really, I can't tell you.
It's certainly an anomaly, if that will work.
art bell
Well, it works.
It's not a natural object, right?
unidentified
Correct.
richard c hoagland
Well, if it's not natural, it's got to be artificial bingo.
Exactly.
art bell
Yeah, you've got to come to that one.
unidentified
It's black and white.
Yes.
richard c hoagland
There are a few questions in the universe that are so clear-cut.
Remember, it only takes one white crowd.
art bell
Right.
I'm with you there, Whitebird.
Okay.
Let's see.
Number nine.
Lucky number nine.
You're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Okay.
Hi, Richard.
richard c hoagland
Yes, sir.
unidentified
My question is, we're talking at Taipei civilization.
So I'm wondering if these have, with its abilities to terraform and add atmosphere and stuff like that, why would they just put domes on the moon instead of just terraforming the whole thing?
richard c hoagland
Well, if you terraform the moon, if you don't use artificial gravity, the atmosphere will leak away in a relatively short period of time, a few thousand years, I think.
It's called the Jeans number, named after a very famous British astronomer back in the 19th century, Sir James Jeans.
And you can actually do a calculation based on distance from the sun, meaning temperature, size of the planet, meaning surface gravity.
And so if you gave the atmosphere, if you gave the moon an artificial atmosphere, in a couple thousand years between us and the time of Christ, it would leak away.
unidentified
So why didn't they give it an artificial gravity as well?
richard c hoagland
Because maybe on a scale like that, you can't.
Maybe you can do it in pockets in local regions, and that's where the domes are.
In other words, there's so much about this that we don't know because we don't have the physics.
Because the physics we're currently using, and I've got a whole bunch of graphs on our site tonight about the physics that we're not going to obviously get to, so I guess we'll have to do that the next time.
But I've been able to prove using actual field measurements with our torsion field technology that the kinds of physics that would be used to terraform and modify the solar system is actually measurable with current techniques, and I've been using them for 10 years since the Venus transit back in 2004.
That's what those other three diagrams are on the bottom of our image page here.
So yeah, they could have maybe terraformed the moon, but we don't know whether there are limitations to where it's easier and more efficient and has a much longer life to do it in a way that it will last thousands or maybe even millions of years, in which case you build yourself artificial environments.
I mean, what's the biggest thing about the moon that makes it a cool, cool place to hang out?
A view of the earth.
And if you want a view of the earth, you need lots and lots and lots of windows, i.e.
a glass dome.
Can you imagine living in Sinus Medi and looking Up every night and seeing the clouds swirling and the planet twirling around, and it's four times the size of the full moon, and it goes through phases, and you get eclipses and rainbows and stunning visual drama.
art bell
Gotcha.
Yeah, it'd be gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
Okay, Richard, we're gonna pause here, and this one's for you all the way.
And number nine, definitely for number nine.
In the nighttime, you're listening to Dark Matter.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Extraterrestrial Radio.
unidentified
White bird in a golden cage on a winter day in the rain White Bird in a golden cage.
alone.
Oh, oh.
Oh, getting ready for the moon.
Summer happy.
Summer safe.
Oh, I'm gonna let the music play.
What the people need is a way to make them smile.
It ain't so hard to do with me now.
Gotta get a message.
Get it all through.
Oh, now mama's gonna feel that way.
Oh, oh, oh.
To the music play.
From the area of 51.
This is Dark Matter with Art Bell.
To join the show, please call 1-855-REAL UFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
And it's pretty darn close to the area.
51, by the way, just over the hill.
I am Art Bell.
Richard C. Hopeland is my guest.
And here comes a caller on Dark Matter.
You're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller.
So Rodwell's to you.
Thank you.
So I'm looking on the Art Bell, on your website, and I see these graphs for the torsion field measurements.
I kind of wanted to ask Richard what they are and if he has any theories as to what could have made the spikes.
art bell
Richard?
richard c hoagland
That's going to be a little hard since we didn't really get into any of the background.
art bell
Argumentation.
How about a short and sweet?
I mean, torsion field measurements.
What are we talking about, Richard?
richard c hoagland
Okay, torsion field is the ether.
Remember how Einstein claims to have gotten rid of the ether back in the latter part of the 19th century with the theories of relativity?
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
And the first part of the 20th century?
Well, he didn't.
And a lot of experimentation has proven there is an ether.
Obviously, in two minutes, I don't have time to go through the experiments, but the Russians, the British, the Australians, there's a huge cadre of physicists who have been publishing for years experiments proving there is an ether.
There is a medium, a matrix, a plenum between everything, out of which matter and light and energy that we understand derives from.
What I did, based on the geometry and the physics models that seem to be laid out on the ground at Sidonia in those recurring specific geometric numbers and geometries, is I created a technology which can actually measure the changes in the torsion field in the ether here on Earth.
And it's portable, it's digitized, it's built around the inertial properties of a tuning fork in an Accutron Bulova commercial watch, which was a huge rage back in the 60s when Bulova first brought it out.
And NASA zapped it into everything they could think of, spacecraft, astronauts, you know, control systems.
And then they quietly took them all out.
And why did they do that?
Because they're responding to changes in the torsion field, and they're lousy under certain circumstances at keeping time.
Because they don't keep time.
They change the frequency depending upon what the field is doing.
So what we've done over the last 10 years, since 2004, is we've taken this instrumentation and gone to various places to measure astronomical events, alignments like the transit of Venus across the surface of the Sun in 2004 and then again in 2012, And eclipses, like the one in May of last year in 2012, and the one that occurred in Hawaii a few months ago.
We've also taken it to various archaeological sites built by Mayans, built by Native Americans, built by...
That's one of the places I'm going to go.
You know, current problems there notwithstanding.
And what we've discovered is that the ancient cultures, when they were building these man-made mountains, pyramids, actually were building a solid state amplifier of the background torsion field that allows me to measure changes both in the field and the really amazing part that we've measured at Chitsunica before the solstice last year,
you can actually measure in that field the changing impressions of consciousness on the readings of the field.
art bell
All right, we're into another show with that.
richard c hoagland
Totally, totally, totally.
And it's so cool.
And I've got data, and three snapshots of it are up on your site tonight.
art bell
Okay.
You're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Hi.
Hello.
art bell
Hello.
unidentified
Yeah, so I wanted to ask Richard, you know, with it.
I'm kind of a skeptic.
With it being space junk, and then I don't know why they would use just glass on the moon.
That's kind of crazy to me.
What really got me was the lack of feelings from the astronauts that they just forgot, you know, their life's work.
Where could I find more information about that?
art bell
Well, listen, I did a show with Edgar Mitchell, you know, a long form, just like this, talk show.
And I actually got to the point where I asked him, please, for the sake of my audience, close your eyes and tell me what it felt like.
And, you know, all the senses that you can recall, what it felt like to be on the moon.
And there was a big, long pause.
And he said, you know what?
I really can't remember.
And, you know, that just floored me.
It literally almost put me on the floor.
I couldn't believe it because if you had been one of the first men to ever walk on the moon, I don't think you'd forget what you'd done, would you?
unidentified
You've been playing one in the World Series, Super Bowl.
I mean, I don't know how you want to put it, but I mean, that's above and beyond all of that.
I mean, that's just amazing.
So, yeah, how could you forget that?
art bell
I don't know.
richard c hoagland
It can't really compare, but I'll tell you, when I was tapped on the shoulder to do all that work with Cronkite when I was 23, and they flew me around, and I got to stand at the Cape, and I got to, you know, be at the foot of that huge 360-foot-tall, glistening monument to human genius and ingenuity.
And I got to watch launch after launch, and I got to go out in boats on the night side and take pictures, and got to powl around.
I mean, it's something that I will carry to my grave.
It's like it happened yesterday, and I can remember all the awe and inspiration and the excitement.
And it's something you cannot eliminate from your consciousness if it hasn't been said to you as a tape.
art bell
I have to agree that, you know, I don't know whether the minds were affected in some way or what happened, but it's odd beyond my ability to even try an explorer.
richard c hoagland
Okay, for that caller.
art bell
Without getting to where you were going, go ahead.
richard c hoagland
No, for that caller, if he wants to do the, Google, is your friend, Google Ed Mitchell's seminal work on this problem called The Way of the Explorer.
The Way of the Explorer.
I don't remember which page, but he actually describes in print art, in his own words, in his own copywritten book, the problem of finding out why he couldn't remember the emotions and connect with them and how it first hit him and how disturbing it was and how he got bothered more and more and more and what he tried to do about it and solve it and figure it out.
So it's not just you and me anecdotally telling a tale.
He's put it in print himself because he's probably the most heroic and courageous of the guys to admit up front something the others have gone through and they haven't wanted to admit it in public.
art bell
There are very few things that stop me cold, and that was one of them.
To hear that, it's like I had no idea what to say.
richard c hoagland
It's incontrovertible that something weird's going on.
The question is, what?
It ain't.
art bell
All right.
Dark Matter, you're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Hi.
Hi.
Is it me on the air?
art bell
It is you.
Extinguisher radio, please.
unidentified
Okay, 10 radio, of course.
Yes, Roswell, see you.
Art, it's good to hear you back.
And I'd like to ask a question on the photograph on the moon that shows what looks like a space helmet.
Is that on the NASA files that can be downloaded now from the guy?
richard c hoagland
He's talking about what we call either data's head or C3PO?
Yes.
art bell
I've seen it.
richard c hoagland
What do you think?
unidentified
Okay, what I'm wondering, is that it can still be downloaded.
Is that still on the NASA database?
richard c hoagland
Oh, yeah.
They took probably two dozen images, and I've got them all.
unidentified
Can I download it now?
richard c hoagland
I'm getting to that, all right?
art bell
Okay.
richard c hoagland
When I last looked, remember, I don't do this checking every day.
art bell
Right.
richard c hoagland
Those images are in high resolution on the official NASA website.
But you have to have the frame numbers.
So in Dark Mission, I publish the frame numbers.
You then put them in Google.
You get the highest resolution version you can from the NASA headquarters website of Shorty Crater.
That was the crater in which it was lying.
And if they didn't scoop it up and bring it home, it's still there for some future mission.
And it is.
art bell
Richard, you don't have the frame number, do you?
richard c hoagland
Not handy.
We have a break.
I can go look.
art bell
One more break.
I don't know if that's.
unidentified
Okay, well, that's okay.
I appreciate that information.
And it's one thing, sure, that was not artificial, whatever it is.
art bell
You mean it is artificial?
unidentified
I mean, it is artificial.
It's not natural.
richard c hoagland
Well, the thing, sir, you want to look for is look at the eyes.
Yep.
And they're irises, like camera lenses.
unidentified
Well, as long as they don't come along now and say that somebody put that in there as a joke, if they did, that would destroy the validity of every other picture they published because they would never know whether they were legitimate or not.
richard c hoagland
And there's about a dozen different pictures overlapping of the same objects in the bottom of that crater.
unidentified
Well, thank you very much, Richard.
I enjoyed talking to you, and we'll talk to you again.
Okay.
art bell
Take care.
richard c hoagland
I'm going to try looking for the frame number while we're talking.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
Well, that's all.
art bell
I don't want to disturb your concentration, Richard, because we have callers waiting for you.
You're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland on Dark Matter.
unidentified
Hi.
Hello.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Is this me on the air?
richard c hoagland
It is you.
art bell
It is you, yes.
unidentified
Look in the air.
Okay.
First of all, Art, I'd like to say Roswells.
richard c hoagland
You started something, my friend.
unidentified
Yes, and I wanted to say it Roswell's quite dramatically in such a way because it is quite a dramatic thing to have him back.
Picture 9, it's quite interesting.
Good.
art bell
I'm glad you said that.
Please, your impressions of number 9.
unidentified
Number 9, it kind of looks like a wheel with a pipe sticking out of it.
richard c hoagland
You got it.
If you tilt your head to the right and you think of it as an 18-wheeler axle without a tire on it, with a pipe sticking out of it, it's the symmetry.
It's the cylindrical flanged symmetry, which is the giveaway.
art bell
And we don't know what it is.
unidentified
I think it looks like a gun turret or something.
richard c hoagland
That's also possible.
Remember, we don't know what these things are.
We just know it's not a rock.
art bell
I really think the only thing you can say about it, you could imagine it to be many things.
One thing it ain't, is natural.
richard c hoagland
Yep.
But see, again, what you said by saying it's not natural, it's artificial.
And that means everything I've been saying for 20 years is true.
art bell
That's what I've said.
And this color agrees, right?
unidentified
Yes.
And when I lay back and look at the picture, it looks like the colors kind of like the rocks take on a different perspective of colors coming out.
art bell
Well, there's plenty of rocks to look at right there.
It's not a rock.
richard c hoagland
There's also some things in the foreground, the background that are not rocks.
unidentified
Well, that's what I'm saying.
It's like when you change the angle, it glares back at a different kind of color.
art bell
Because I can look at this thing from any angle.
I can put my head upside down.
It's still not natural.
richard c hoagland
Nope.
unidentified
No.
Okay.
art bell
All right.
Thank you very much, Caller.
richard c hoagland
Okay, I've got the frame number for data's head.
art bell
Okay, I've got a caller on the line.
So, caller, hold on one second.
The frame number, please.
richard c hoagland
AS17-137-21001HR.
HR stands for high-res.
Type it into Google.
Find a server.
art bell
Wait a minute.
Let me check the number with you.
AS17-137-21001.
unidentified
Yep.
richard c hoagland
HR.
unidentified
Capital HR.
Okay.
richard c hoagland
And that will take you to Shorty Crater, one of the images, and in the bottom is Data's Head.
art bell
All right.
Caller, you're on the air with Richard Hoagland.
unidentified
Hi.
Yay, it's my two favorite people.
My name is Mars as a youth.
I carried that around forever.
It's my favorite thing in the world.
richard c hoagland
It'll be concrete by now.
unidentified
Yeah, it was pretty ratty by the time I was finished with it.
Now, I like the Roswells thing, Art, but there's one other greeting that could be a little more functional that I'd like to suggest if Roswells gets old, and that's turn off your radio.
It's my favorite thing you say.
It's constant, and we could turn it into a greeting rather than a roadblock.
art bell
Anyway, Roswell's pretty good.
unidentified
Yeah, it is pretty good.
But my question for Richard was the first plethora of probes they sent to Mars, I guess they didn't sterilize them?
richard c hoagland
The Russians didn't.
Hang on, the Russians didn't.
We did.
unidentified
Well, what kind of problems does that cause in the long run?
I mean, unless they find a biped or a motorcycle, I mean, they're probably going to go with that who we found fossilized microbial life.
But is that going to be even remotely valid since we've already littered the surface with bacteria?
richard c hoagland
Well, if we find that any microbes we do ultimately find someday, or bigger life, has our DNA, then the ambiguity will be up there.
We won't know, did we seed Mars at some early stage in our own space program?
If the DNA is different, if as Art said, what, a couple hours ago, think about the junk DNA, if that's expressed in different ways, then we'll be pretty sure that it's an indigenous Martian guy.
Now, of course, in the last week or two, or maybe a month, there have been a couple of papers claiming that Earth life came from Mars, which I think is more gentle, soft disclosure.
art bell
Yeah, I've heard that.
A little Martian in all of us.
richard c hoagland
You got it.
I think it's code for the big stuff, which they're trying to quietly prepare for a, mixing our metaphors, Natalie, soft landing.
unidentified
Well, thanks, Philip.
art bell
Soft landing.
Thank you very much.
Soft landing.
That's really, really, really an interesting phrase, Richard.
I was trying to get an answer from Dr. Greer about soft landing.
How do you envision a soft landing could be implemented?
richard c hoagland
Well, I think what we need to do is to introduce the idea of torsion field physics, i.e.
unlimited pollutionless energy, into the culture in a non-threatening form.
Just like going out and finding ruins on another planet shouldn't be that threatening because there's nobody there with ray guns and they're not going to come and eat your face off and whatever.
It's just archaeology.
It's just stuff left by somebody.
The soft landing way of introducing the stunning technologies and engineering and scientific breakthroughs would be, I think, with a commercial toy that runs and runs and runs and runs.
And I found literally a few hours ago in one of my favorite magazines, which is Infinite Energy, which used to be edited by My late dear friend Gene Maloff, before he was viciously murdered in Washington for discussing this stuff at a level where people would take it seriously.
I found an example of exactly that kind of infinite energy torsion field fuel electrical advice, the little torsion pendulum, which has been running in a Bucharest, Hungary museum for the last several years with no power source.
art bell
Wow.
richard c hoagland
And I've got to go look.
I've got to call the guy up.
I've got to connect him with Paul.
And maybe he'll talk to him.
He writes really good English.
But he has photographs in the magazine this month's issue of this device that was built in the 40s.
And it's been running in this museum since the 1940s.
art bell
All right.
Another show.
You're on the air with Richard C. Hoagland, Dark Matter.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
Hey, it's great to have you back on the air, man.
Hey, I'm just a little bit skeptical, Richard.
I don't doubt that, you know, when millions of years ago maybe that Mars had atmosphere and possibly even advanced life.
But when I think about just the simple things here in archaeology and on Earth and how things deteriorate over the years and things like that, that any kind of Martian man-made object could have survived since its atmosphere has deteriorated all of that.
richard c hoagland
Oh, that's an exquisite question.
So let me give you hopefully an exquisite answer.
unidentified
Okay.
richard c hoagland
The current Curiosity mission has a very complicated gadget inside called the SAM instrument, which stands for Sampling Atmosphere on Mars.
They have been running atmospheric tests.
In fact, the story came out today, no methane, no methane, which I find very suspicious since there's been Earth-based astronomers who found copious methane like MUMMA out of Goddard a few years ago.
Anyway, what they've been running is a profile of all the constituents in the current atmosphere, which include things like CO2, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon monoxide.
The oxygen is like down at the 0.01 level or something.
It's really, really a tiny, tiny percentage.
If you bury metallic things like made of steel or iron or aluminum or whatever, magnesium, under sand, under dust on Mars, it is basically the same as having the stuff on the floor of the Atlantic from the Titanic, which did not corrode in almost 100 years, because there's no oxygen two miles down under the North Atlantic because of the pressure.
And there's no oxygen on Mars even a few inches under those sands and dust.
So without oxygen, you don't have corrosion and rust.
If it's protected under dust, it's like the Sphinx, which spends most of its life buried up to its neck in sand.
You don't get windblown abrasion and erosion and sandstorm problems of basically cutting away material.
So you could have on Mars stuff artifacts that would be in almost pristine condition even after millions of years because with an atmosphere that's mostly CO2, if you know anything about basic chemistry or fluid physics,
if you have an atmosphere with heavy molecules and then you put light molecules in amongst the atmosphere, the heavy ones, the light stuff floats on top, which means the heavy atmosphere of Mars, CO2, forces the oxygen to rise so it doesn't even touch the ground.
It's thousands and tens of thousands of feet higher than the surface of Mars for most of Mars' current history, meaning stuff will be preserved almost in pristine conditions.
art bell
All right.
All right, Richard, sit tight.
We've got a short break ahead.
You're listening to Dark Matter, and I must say, number nine, number nine, number nine, if you see any photograph on my website, artbell.com, this picture, number nine, my goodness, it's just about got me.
unidentified
I'm out.
The heart of the city's dream is beating.
Thank you.
I'm beyond the darkness of me.
We had to get out before the magic got away.
We were born every night.
From the area of 51.
This is Dark Matter with Art Bell.
To join the show, please call 1-855-WEAL UFO.
That's 1-855-732-5836.
art bell
I'll tell you something.
If Jodie Foster's wormhole had collapsed as many times as mine has tonight, she'd be dead as a doornail, never would have made it.
Thank you all for the messages, but we're sort of overdoing it.
We're going to have to figure out a Way to prop up Google or something.
I don't know.
unidentified
It's crazy.
art bell
Anyway, Richard C. Hoagland is my guest, and there's not a lot of time left.
So let's go here and say, Dark Matter, you're on the market.
They are, Richard.
unidentified
Yes.
richard c hoagland
I'm looking at our page of people looking at the images.
art bell
Yes.
richard c hoagland
We have 17,923 views so far.
art bell
Oh, my.
unidentified
Hold on.
art bell
We've got a caller, Richard.
Caller, Dark.
unidentified
Thanks, Art, very much.
Richard, it's a pleasure.
In addition to wondering, as I know art must be, if we're ever going to find out actually where cats come from, my question for you, Richard, this is, I was listening to the Stephen Greer interview the other night, and this has been bugging me, and you're the perfect guy to run it by.
Thinking back to the comments you had briefly earlier about the book of Genesis, what if, this is just my hypothesis, what if the information manipulators, can't call them truth manipulators because the truth can't be manipulated, but the information manipulators,
what if what they are afraid of is that the public finds out what they already know, which might be or is that the Bible, our understanding of religion is true.
Not that the truth flies in the face of religion, but our understanding of religion is actually true.
And maybe that there's a judgment coming.
I mean, Jesus, everybody pretty much accepts that Jesus said, you're going to do great things like I did, and you're going to do even bigger things than I did.
I'm just wondering.
richard c hoagland
That's a very interesting perspective.
art bell
It is.
unidentified
Yeah, that would shatter people.
art bell
You know, when I had a cat that was so sick, Richard, I took it to the vet, and the vet was, you know, doing things over, it took two or three months to heal this cat.
And her comment to me was that cats have a biology, a physiology that is so different than anything else on the planet that they might as well be from another world.
And I'll leave it at that.
You wanted to say something?
We're getting short on time.
richard c hoagland
Let me say two things.
One is, do you know that cats are the closest non-primate relatives genetically to humans?
unidentified
No, I actually did not know that.
richard c hoagland
Google, you use your friend.
It's part of the data I'm going to put in Dark Mission because I discovered back, oh, Muslim, what, 20 years ago, that the right-hand side of the face is a feline image, a lion-esque image married to the left-hand side, which is a hominid anthropoid image, which always said to me when I figured that out that this was some meta-message about genetic engineering on a mega-scale.
art bell
Well, perhaps so.
We have very little time left in the show.
We have a little bit, but here, take it, Richard, and say whatever else you would like to say.
richard c hoagland
Well, obviously, even in four hours, and it's been delightful to have four hours with basically no interruptions to really go at this.
And I love the fact that you don't roll over like a limp noodle and you really stay.
No, I'm serious.
art bell
No, I know.
It's got to be said because people will say things like Robin did.
It sounds like you're fighting.
No, we're not fighting, folks.
richard c hoagland
Given the stakes, which is nothing less than the future destiny of the human race, it's important to subject this material to peer review.
Now, who are my peers, Art?
You're one of them.
art bell
Thank you.
richard c hoagland
You know, the concept of peer review is people who have enough background to understand anomalies when they see them and not just go to sleep or, you know, play the party line.
The fact that you see number nine for what it is, and you're going to see a lot more when you go to Enterprise Mission and read part one and part two of it only takes one white crow.
Because I think the real mission of curiosity is to prepare us by dumping hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of things like number nine.
And it's just, you know, we don't have the staff to go through and clean them up and make sure that the colors are balanced and that the contrast is good because they're covered by all this icky, icky, yellowish dust, which makes it impossible to see anything.
And that's what they want.
They want to delay the inevitable as long as possible while they figure out.
And I think what ultimately is the political agenda here is that when ultimately someone says, yes, there was stuff on Mars, NASA can point back to the Curiosity mission and say, well, we published it all along just like we said we would.
We're not hiding anything.
If you're too damn dumb to notice it, it's not our fault.
It's all plausible deniability.
It's an old game in Washington.
art bell
I wonder if that's what ultimately they will say.
Well, we had it up there.
You could have seen it any, you know, any old time.
richard c hoagland
I'll make you a bet.
art bell
Well, you're not doing a show here, buddy.
Hey, listen, it's been a blast, Richard.
And you know we'll do it again.
So you have a great night, and what a great discussion.
richard c hoagland
Thank you, Art.
art bell
Good night.
And good night to you all.
It has been a pleasure.
unidentified
It's been a great first week.
art bell
Thanks to all of you.
And we're leaving the lines full and blazing.
So from the high desert and the great American Southwest, I'm Art Bell.
Good night.
unidentified
The sun shine on you.
Midnight in the desert.
I'm listening.
Ooh, I'm listening to you.
I'm listening.
I'm listening.
Midnight in the desert, and there's wisdom in the air.
I've been looking for the answers.
All my life I found you there as the world we live in.
Are we eating all the sun?
Are we lost our intuition?
Are we running out of time?
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