Page 146 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

Those who have spent time researching the fakery of the Apollo Moon missions have likely come
across the writings and videos of Richard Hoagland. Hoagland was a science advisor to CBS during
the years of the Apollo Missions and appeared with Walter Cronkite on some of the network’s
broadcasts. Prior to this he was a Curator of Astronomy and Space Science at the Springfield Science
Museum, 1964–1967, and Assistant Director at the Gengras Science Center in West Hartford,
Connecticut, 1967-1968. Hoagland is the author of two books: The Monuments of Mars: A City on
the Edge of Forever (1987), and Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA (2007, revised 2009).
The latter book was ranked 21st on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction
about a month after its release.

In his books, Richard Hoagland proposes that NASA is covering up evidence of ancient alien
civilizations which existed on Mars and the Moon. In Dark Mission, Hoagland uses computers and
graphics software which was unavailable during the years of the Apollo missions, to examine the
lunar photography supplied by NASA from the Surveyor and Apollo Missions. By altering the
lighting, contrast and other visual elements of the NASA photographs, Hoagland was able to detect
patterns rising from the lunar surface. These geometric patterns appear in the black areas which form
the backdrop of the lunar photos, ostensibly being the sky just above the surface of the Moon.

Surveyor 6 Photo Taken One Hour After Sunset, November 24, 1967

Hoagland contends that this image of the lunar horizon, which he has enhanced with graphics
software, reveals the remnants of an immense crystalline dome which ancient planetary travelers
built to cover their cities. He estimates that this crystal dome was 6-7 miles high. Such an
interpretation of this image seems plausible to Hoagland, for he is basing his conclusions on the
assumption that NASA actually landed Surveyor robotic craft on the Moon, and later put men on the
moon. He is consequently accepting at face value that what he is looking at is a genuine photograph
taken from the Moon’s surface, in full scale, which would cause the geometric patterns in the
background to be immense.

However, a far more plausible explanation is forthcoming. This explanation asserts that NASA used
one of the scale mock-ups of the lunar surface, such as the ones they built at Langley Research
Center, and they used a fabric backdrop, possibly something like 3M’s Scotchlite fabric, placed
behind the model of the moon. Hoagland’s photographic enhancements are bringing into view the
pattern of the fabric backdrop, not some ancient alien crystal dome that was erected on the Moon.