Episode 0327 · Jun 17, 1997 · 3h 14m
June 17, 1997: NASA Mars Missions - Richard C. Hoagland
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Open transcriptTDRS relay chainhow STS-80 reached a Sacramento cable viewer: Hoagland walks through the elaborate downlink path - shuttle to TDRS satellite 22,300 miles up, down to White Sands NSA control, up to a commercial satellite, to Goddard, back up, down to Houston, and finally onto NASA Select Galaxy 1 - where any link in the chain could have killed the feed but didn't, allowing a viewer named John in Sacramento to capture seven minutes on VCR.
STS-80streaking object launches up from Santiago, Chile: Hoagland sets the scene from the December 1996 STS-80 footage downlinked live to NASA Select: the camera operator zooms into Santiago, Chile, and within seconds an extremely bright object 'wig-wags' upward from the city, leaving a phosphorescent plasma trail too fast for the low-light camera to resolve.
Dawn over the Amazonnon-Newtonian objects 'stop and park' off the shuttle: Hoagland describes the main STS-80 sequence: 45 minutes after the Santiago event, as the shuttle crosses the terminator into sunlight at 19.5 degrees latitude over the Amazon, multiple objects appear, with one slowing, hovering off the port bow, drifting backward against its original motion, and reversing course in ways no ice crystal or orbital debris can.
Hoagland predicts NASA will lose and recover Mars PathfinderHoagland goes on the line with a specific prediction: Mars Pathfinder, currently heading toward a July 4, 1997 landing, will 'disappear' like Mars Observer did, and NASA will then heroically recover it, with the actual touchdown shifted to July 20 to fit a 30-year tetrahedral / Cydonia / Apollo 11 anniversary pattern.
The discussion shifts to Hoagland's bold prediction that Mars Pathfinder will disappear within days and later reappear, with its landing delayed from July 4th to July 20th. He bases this on 30 years of documented celestial alignments showing recurring Egyptian and Osiris-Orion patterns across NASA missions, verified through the Redshift computer program and corroborated by former NASA engineers.
Hoagland connects these patterns to the city of Phoenix and its Egyptian mythological roots, the ongoing Giza plateau controversies, and what he calls a secret adherence to tetrahedral geometry embedded throughout the space program. He warns that critical NASA personnel have recently died under suspicious circumstances.
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