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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 25, 1996: UFOs - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 25, 1996
3h 14m
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Richard C. Hoagland returns to break down a cascade of extraordinary developments. Edgar Mitchell has just appeared on NBC Dateline claiming the government covered up the Roswell crash. Carl Sagan has publicly admitted on KABC radio that Hoagland might be right about structures on Mars. And Art Bell has received alleged Roswell crash debris now undergoing independent laboratory analysis.

Hoagland unveils new photographic evidence from the Apollo 10 and Apollo 14 missions, describing a distorted Earthrise filmed through what he believes are ancient glass structures on the lunar horizon. He announces the official launch of the Enterprise Mission website and discusses a Memphis lecture where attendees, including skeptics, left convinced by his six-hour presentation. The conversation turns to hyperdimensional physics, Tesla's 60-cycle alternating current as a coded clue, and zero-point energy as the boundary between visible reality and higher dimensions.

Perhaps most striking is Hoagland's question about why astronauts are choosing to reveal UFO secrets rather than lunar anomalies, and his speculation that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's recent remarks about extraterrestrial intelligence signal a coordinated, accelerating disclosure. The dominoes, he argues, are falling in a deliberate direction.

Key Moments

  1. Hoagland recounts Sagan's secret 1984 Capitol Hill review of the Cydonia photos: Hoagland recounts a mid-1980s Capitol Hill session where Sagan personally examined the Cydonia enlargements with Dr. David Webb of Reagan's Space Commission - then asked Webb that the meeting never be admitted. When Billy Cox later confronted him, Sagan denied it; Webb confirmed Hoagland's version.

  2. Sagan on KABC: 'I could be wrong' on Cydonia: Hoagland reports that on Michael Jackson's KABC show, while plugging The Demon-Haunted World, Sagan suddenly walked back his decade of mockery of the Mars face - saying he could be wrong, calling for intensive re-photography of Cydonia by upcoming Mars missions.

  3. Listener report: an astronaut affirms Roswell and the moon coverup: Art reads a listener email recounting a face-to-face conversation with an astronaut: asked whether NASA never returned to the moon because of structures found there, the astronaut said yes; asked about Roswell, he said it seems more likely than not there was a crash. The listener's read: he knew more than he could say.