Richard Hoagland

Brace yourself for one of the hottest events appearing at the Bay Area UFO Expo. Richard Hoagland will do a special workshop after the banquet dinner called, "Mars at Midnight," photos from the Lowell Observatory, in Flagstaff, AZ. Be sure not to miss this presentation. We have seen some of the film, and it's spectacular!

The light finally dawns at Cydonia! Be sure to check out his website … you won’t want to miss it.

He is a former museum space science Curator; a former NASA Consultant; and, during the Apollo Missions to the Moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. His creative efforts in the 1960's to facilitate media attention towards Mariner 4's unmanned space flight to Mars garnered him a Peabody Award nomination. In the early 1970's, Hoagland proposed the placement of a "message to mankind" aboard the first unmanned Jupiter probe, Pioneer 10, which became the first artifact to successfully escape the solar system carrying "the Plaque."

In the early 1980's, based on NASA data from the unmanned Voyager fly-bys of the outer planets, Hoagland was the first to propose the possible existence of "deep ocean life" under the global ice shield perpetually surrounding the enigmatic moon of Jupiter, Europa. Despite contempt at the time by most NASA scientists, Arthur C. Clarke's visionary sequel to "2001" ("2010: Odyssey Two") was built entirely around this extraordinary concept. In the early 1990's Hoagland helped create a pioneering "space-age" educational effort at Dunbar Senior High in Washington D.C. The experiment was built around the concept of "student involvement in real time mission planning and data acquisition" during various NASA exploration missions.

For the last 20 years, Hoagland has been heading an independent analysis of possible intelligently-designed artifacts on Mars, beginning with the unmanned VIKING mission in 1976 and its provocative images of a region called "Cydonia." Since then he has briefed NASA scientists and engineers on the results of his on-going Mars investigations. In 1993, Hoagland was awarded the International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science by the Angstrom Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden for his continuing research. More recently, his investigations have been extended to include over 30 years of previously hidden data from NASA, Soviet, and Pentagon missions to the Moon -- with startling results.