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Richard Hoagland, Mars & NASA Anomalies

Episodes centered on Richard C. Hoagland, the Face on Mars, Cydonia, lunar anomalies, NASA imagery, and the late-night argument that space-program photographs might hide a deeper history.

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Episode thumbnail for March 31, 1998: The Face on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 31, 1998: The Face on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 31, 1998
3h 26m
Art Bell opens with news of the day, including the Jonesboro school shooting aftermath and Sarah McLendon's provocative press release about government UFO knowledge that reportedly triggered threats against the veteran White House correspondent. An April Fools' Day prank fax briefly adds confusion before Art shares...
Episode thumbnail for December 26, 2003: The Importance of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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December 26, 2003: The Importance of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Dec 26, 2003
2h 51m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the so-called Mars curse, examining why more than two-thirds of all spacecraft sent to Mars have failed. Hoagland presents his theory that a small, determined group may be sabotaging missions to prevent public discovery of what he believes are buried Martian cities, c...
Episode thumbnail for November 7, 2002: Ancient Civilizations on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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November 7, 2002: Ancient Civilizations on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Nov 7, 2002
2h 49m
Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for an examination of newly released infrared images from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars. Hoagland presents side-by-side comparisons of aerial photographs of downtown Cairo and thermal images of the Cydonia region on Mars, arguing the structural similarities point t...
Episode thumbnail for September 5, 2002: Cydonia Region Of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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September 5, 2002: Cydonia Region Of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Sep 5, 2002
2h 47m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, former NASA consultant and science advisor to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, to present what he calls overwhelming evidence of ancient artificial structures on Mars. Using newly released daytime infrared imaging from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Hoagland and his te...
Episode thumbnail for March 6, 2001: Glass Tunnels on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 6, 2001: Glass Tunnels on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 6, 2001
1h 18m
Art Bell and Richard C. Hoagland examine stunning Mars Global Surveyor photographs showing what appears to be a translucent, ribbed tube structure approximately one mile long and 600 feet wide in a crevasse northwest of Cydonia. Richard argues the object's regular structural supports, sun glint off its surface, and...
Episode thumbnail for March 7, 2000: Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 7, 2000: Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 7, 2000
33m
Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for a discussion about the upcoming Disney-Touchstone film Mission to Mars and the extraordinary controversy surrounding it. Hoagland reveals that director Brian De Palma has mysteriously canceled all press interviews and apparently fled the country days before the film's pr...
Episode thumbnail for July 14, 1998: Hyperdimensional Physics - Richard C. Hoagland
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July 14, 1998: Hyperdimensional Physics - Richard C. Hoagland

Jul 14, 1998
2h 11m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an expansive discussion of his newly published 50-page hyperdimensional physics paper and its implications for climate change, planetary science, and space exploration. Hoagland opens by questioning why Japan launched a Mars probe five months early into Earth parking orbit,...
Episode thumbnail for August 9, 2001: Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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August 9, 2001: Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 9, 2001
2h 41m
Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to present his solution to the mystery of Mars, including Viking life data, Gilbert Levin's Labeled Release experiment, Joseph Miller's circadian analysis, and evidence for liquid water. Art opens with current events, including President Bush's stem cell research decision, a Jerusa...
Episode thumbnail for May 25, 2001: Mars Face Update - Richard C. Hoagland with Kynthia
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May 25, 2001: Mars Face Update - Richard C. Hoagland with Kynthia

May 25, 2001
1h 23m
Art Bell examines newly released high-resolution photographs of the Face on Mars with Richard C. Hoagland and multimedia artist Kynthia, who has spent nearly two decades sculpting detailed models of the Martian formation. Art admits that upon viewing the new NASA imagery, his initial reaction was that the face argum...
Episode thumbnail for April 25, 1996: UFOs - Richard C. Hoagland
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April 25, 1996: UFOs - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 25, 1996
3h 14m
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 all...
Episode thumbnail for June 23, 1995: Mars & The Moon - Richard C. Hoagland
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June 23, 1995: Mars & The Moon - Richard C. Hoagland

Jun 23, 1995
3h 10m
Richard C. Hoagland, former science consultant to CBS News and NASA, presents his case that artificial structures exist on Mars and the moon, and that a small group within NASA has systematically suppressed photographic evidence for decades. Hoagland details the 1976 Viking orbiter discovery of the Face on Mars at C...
Episode thumbnail for March 14, 2000: Mars Panel Discussion - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 14, 2000: Mars Panel Discussion - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 14, 2000
2h 33m
Art Bell hosts a wide-ranging panel discussion led by Richard C. Hoagland and joined by journalist David Giamarco and political lobbyist Stephen Bassett, examining the aftermath of the Mission to Mars opening weekend. The film earned $23.1 million, the second-highest March gross of all time, despite an unprecedented...
Episode thumbnail for March 9, 2000: Mission to Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 9, 2000: Mission to Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 9, 2000
36m
Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland and Canadian entertainment journalist David Giamarco for a final preview on the eve of the Mission to Mars theatrical release. The controversial second trailer, featuring real Viking imagery of the Cydonia face and declaring a 25-year government cover-up, is now posted on Ar...
Episode thumbnail for May 26, 1998: Weather & Planetary Changes - Richard C. Hoagland
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May 26, 1998: Weather & Planetary Changes - Richard C. Hoagland

May 26, 1998
2h 40m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for a wide-ranging discussion connecting weather anomalies, volcanic activity, school violence, and animal behavior through the lens of hyperdimensional physics. Hoagland argues that the geometry discovered at Cydonia on Mars points to a century-old branch of physics pioneered b...
Episode thumbnail for July 31, 1996: Outer Space - Richard C. Hoagland
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July 31, 1996: Outer Space - Richard C. Hoagland

Jul 31, 1996
41m
Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell from New York City to discuss Europa as a potential harbor for extraterrestrial life, a claim he says he first published in 1980, years before it entered mainstream scientific discussion. Hoagland accuses a Cornell professor of plagiarizing his original analysis and suggests a poli...
Episode thumbnail for May 15, 2004: Future of Earth - Richard C. Hoagland
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May 15, 2004: Future of Earth - Richard C. Hoagland

May 15, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell opens with the shocking news of Dr. Eugene Mallove's murder, a leading cold fusion researcher who was bludgeoned to death in Connecticut. Richard C. Hoagland joins to discuss Mallove's final conversation, in which Mallove revealed that the Department of Defense had taken sudden interest in cold fusion due t...
Episode thumbnail for February 13, 2002: New Face on Mars - Michael C. Luckman
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February 13, 2002: New Face on Mars - Michael C. Luckman

Feb 13, 2002
2h 47m
Art Bell opens with a tribute to Waylon Jennings, who passed away that day, before welcoming Michael C. Luckman, founder of the New York Center for UFO Research and director of CosmicMajority.com. Luckman presents a newly discovered face on the Martian surface found by amateur astronomer Greg Ormay in the Cerberus M...
Episode thumbnail for October 18, 2001: Mass Consciousness Experiment - Richard C. Hoagland
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October 18, 2001: Mass Consciousness Experiment - Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 18, 2001
2h 55m
Art Bell conducts two extraordinary live experiments with his audience, one aimed at healing Rush Limbaugh's rapidly deteriorating hearing and another designed to influence random number generators monitored by Princeton University's Global Consciousness Project. He asks millions of listeners to simultaneously close...
Episode thumbnail for March 30, 2001: Richard C. Hoagland
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March 30, 2001: Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 30, 2001
5m
Art Bell and Richard C. Hoagland share a remarkable night of live observation as a massive solar storm produces aurora borealis visible across the United States, extending far south of its usual range. Hoagland, calling from 8,000 feet in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico, describes brilliant blue-green curtains a...
Episode thumbnail for March 22, 2000: Ice Breakup, Animal Mutilations - Richard C. Hoagland
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March 22, 2000: Ice Breakup, Animal Mutilations - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 22, 2000
34m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss a range of breaking news, beginning with the imminent calving of a massive iceberg from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, measuring 183 miles by 22 miles. Hoagland connects the event to hyperdimensional physics and rapid climate change, referencing ice core data showi...
Episode thumbnail for September 23, 1999: Loss of Mars Orbiter - Richard C. Hoagland
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September 23, 1999: Loss of Mars Orbiter - Richard C. Hoagland

Sep 23, 1999
42m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the sudden disappearance of NASA's $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter, which vanished as it approached the red planet after traveling 416 million miles. Hoagland questions the official explanation of a navigation error, noting that the spacecraft dove 12 to 15 miles de...
Episode thumbnail for November 4, 1998: EQ Pegasi - Richard C. Hoagland
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November 4, 1998: EQ Pegasi - Richard C. Hoagland

Nov 4, 1998
2h 32m
Art Bell devotes the full program to unraveling the EQ Pegasi signal story with Richard C. Hoagland after the planned London press conference is canceled and the GeoCities clearinghouse website is replaced by an NSA seal. Hoagland reveals that his on-the-ground contacts in London discovered the press conference was...