Project Pegasus

ANDY CALLS ON RICHARD C. HOAGLAND TO
EMBRACE “TRUTH” AND “RECONCILIATION”

Richard C. Hoagland
via Facebook November 11, 2010 at 8:00 pm PST

Dear Sir,

Reference is made to my discovery of life on Mars and statements made by you in the public realm intended to disparage my Mars findings and defame my public reputation. I am writing to you at this time so that we can survey the ground laid out between us and chart a positive, new direction, not only in our personal dealings, but as Mars explorers. Now is the time for human civilization on Earth to become an interplanetary civilization. It is my hope that by working together in a sprit of common enterprise, you and I can do much to advance a positive agenda regarding Mars. Simply put, Mars is inhabited, and protecting the ecology and civilization of Mars from the externalities of visitation, exploration, habitation, and colonization by human beings from Earth presents us with our first major test of cosmic citizenship.

In 2008, I published my landmark paper The Discovery of Life on Mars, which was the first written work to prove that Mars is an inhabited planet. In it, I present an analysis of the abundant evidence that I found in NASA image PIA10214 of humanoid beings, animal species, carved statues, and built structures in the West Valley of the Columbia Basin of the Gusev Crater of Mars. My paper included the image of The Humanoid Being on Tsiolkovksi Ridge that is certain to become the icon for the view that Mars is an inhabited planet. I wrote at the time that PIA10214 is the most significant photograph ever taken by human beings from Earth, because in it we find the first evidence of life on another planet. Since then, I have founded the Mars Anomaly Research Society (MARS) and given numerous radio interviews in which I have both presented my Mars findings and narrated the deep politics of my discovery of life on Mars, including the fact that as a result of its “quantum access” capability the CIA was able to have me read my Mars paper from 2008 in 1971 and that as a former child participant in DARPA’s secret time-space exploration program Project Pegasus, I was asked by the CIA to teleport to Mars in 1981.

My assertion that Mars is inhabited − founded on the basis of the objective, empirical data contained in my paper and not on the basis of the subjective, anecdotal data provided by my account of teleporting to Mars in 1981 and interacting with some of the very life forms that I would later find in PIA10214 and write about in my paper in 2008 − came, inevitably, as a refutation of the position that you have long advocated that Mars is a lifeless planet. This view, propounded by other leading Mars anomalists, including the late Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, George J. Haas, and William R. Saunders, states that the only evidence of indigenous life forms on Mars are the artifacts left by a Martian civilization that arose and fell on Mars in the distant past. This view, which I am calling “The Hoagland-Van Flandern Postulate,” was defended by you as recently as March 8, 2010, in the following e-mail that you wrote to Robert Morningstar:

Evidence… Show me evidence of CURRENT "intelligent life on Mars” :) … All we see are ruins... literally thousands of square miles... of ruins… And, a lot of mud covering them... slowly eroding and blowing away in the wind… Which is why we can now see glimpses [of] what was once buried in a vast, planetary catastrophe… Which suddenly ENDED the Martian Civilization... a long, long time ago. RCH P.S. – If there is anyone NOW living on Mars, it is "us" – as part of the + 60-year-old Secret Space Program…

This e-mail encapsulates well the fallacious nature of your Mars view. It was written fully a year after my The Discovery of Life on Mars and related Mars papers were made available to the Mars research community online at www.projectmars.net/the_annals_of_mars showing that Mars is inhabited. I must tell you that perpetuating the Mars cover-up by continuing to insist that Mars is a muddy wasteland is not only a pernicious anachronism but has already been disproved by the evidence held in my Mars findings.

It is my position that it was incumbent upon you − as the individual who has laid claim to the mantle of leadership in the Mars anomaly research field − to either hail my discovery of life on Mars made in 2008 as a major breakthrough in natural history or rebut it with the clear, convincing, and cogent arguments that your expertise would afford. Instead, you chose to ignore my Mars findings for over a year and never mention them on Coast-to-Coast AM and other major media programs. Then, in 2010, when it was clear that my discovery of life on Mars could not be “undiscovered,” you went on the attack. On Facebook, you began to disseminate the absurd allegation that I am – somehow – not “real.” In radio interviews, you made the outlandish accusation that my accomplished, brilliant, and lucid MARS’ allies Alfred Webre and Laura Eisenhower are “crazy.” After I announced on Project Information Generation Radio on May 20th that I would be publicly calling on Buzz Aldrin to review my Mars findings and state whether or not they show that Mars harbors life, you then stated on Coast-to-Coast AM on May 26th that I am “a kook… being paid by the intelligence agencies to spread disinformation far and wide.” This remark was false and defamatory. I am concerned that if you do not retract it and apologize for it, then history will record that when life was discovered on Mars, your response was to deny the evidence and defame the discoverer.

This letter, then, is a call for truth and reconciliation. You know that I am neither a “kook” nor a “spook.” You know that I am an emerging figure in the Truth Movement who is leading a campaign to lobby the US government to disclose such truths as the fact that Mars harbors life and that the United States has achieved “quantum access” to past and future events. You know that I have much to share about Mars gained via both first-hand experience and scholarship. I want you to tell the truth by ending your pattern of lying about me and my allies and to pursue reconciliation by adopting a collegial approach that reconciles your position on Mars with those of other leading figures in our field. Your false and defamatory statements about Alfred, Laura, and me are dishonorable and indefensible and must end!

Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot has informed me that you are part of a faction − one that includes Clark McClelland − that has known that Mars is inhabited but has kept this information secret so that it might be disclosed at a later time. I could make light of this scenario and say, “Richard, if you were intending to reveal the existence of life on Mars by keeping it secret, then I just wish you would have told us!” Instead, I will extend the olive branch of peace and understanding and urge you to see that there is much that we agree on pertaining to Mars that can form the basis of a partnership that will end the Mars cover-up once and for all. It is clear to me that we agree on two of the three major aspects of this cover-up.

First, we agree that there are many ancient artifacts on Mars that reveal the existence there of an advanced, intelligent civilization that thrived in antiquity and left us the incredibly intriguing evidence of a civilization that emerged and flourished on another planet. Dr. Van Flandern once stated that this civilization died out 3.2 million years ago, around the time that life was first emerging on Earth. The findings by Haas and Saunders of the Aztecan provenance of many Martian artifacts would suggest a later emergence. Whatever determination is made about the time that civilization arose on Mars, it is clear that both the old regime of Mars anomaly researchers working from satellite data and the new regime of Mars anomaly researchers working from rover data agree that Mars has been settled since antiquity and that exploring its many fascinating artifacts will make the 21st century an Age of Discovery.

Second, we agree, as is suggested by your e-mail to Mr. Morningstar, that a secret space program has placed US personnel of Mars. What you bring to that question is the knowledge of the individual who has bravely and steadfastly led the assault on the Mars cover-up for 35 years. What I bring is the experience of an individual who was teleported to Mars by the secret space program as a 19-year-old, who then decided to boldly and independently end the cover-up of life on Mars by spending thousands of hours analyzing the data from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in order to show the life forms that occupy the Martian surface. Our position regarding the secret space program has been supported by Bob Dean, who disclosed a photograph of one of the US bases on Mars at the European Exopolitics Summit in Barcelona, Spain in July 2009 and by the accounts of Michael Relfe and Arthur Neumann about teleporting to Mars and of Laura Eisenhower about being approached to join the secret Mars colony.

We disagree over whether or not Mars presently harbors life. This, however, has now been made plainly evident in my work. Therefore, in calling for truth and reconciliation, I would like to begin the process of achieving these noble goals by calling on you and Buzz Aldrin to meet with me publicly in a Mars summit broadcast live on YouTube, review my two-year portfolio of Mars findings, and issue a joint public statement that Mars is inhabited and that international law and policy regarding Mars should now be formulated with a view to the fact that an indigenous ecology and civilization exist on Mars. If the second astronaut to walk on the Moon, the most prominent figure in the field of Mars research, and one of the “chrononauts” to be sent to Mars were to issue such a public statement, then civilization on Earth will have the opportunity to interact with Mars in the 21st century in a way that will meet the basic test of cosmic citizenship, which is to treat Mars − and its inhabitants − in the same way that we would want visitors from Mars to treat our planet. If we do so now, then we can one day say that we did what was in the best interests of the inhabitants of Earth and Mars, namely, help forge an interplanetary federation based not on conquest but on cooperation and constructive engagement between inhabited planets.

Sincerely,

Andrew D. Basiago