November 12, 1996: NASA, Moon, Mars, Egypt - Richard C. Hoagland & Ken Johnston
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
July 23, 20232h 11m
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Show Notes
Richard C. Hoagland and former NASA lunar module test pilot Ken Johnston join Art Bell to recount their experiences at Cape Canaveral during the Mars Global Surveyor launch. Johnston, a 32nd-degree Mason with 30 years in aerospace, reveals that while heading the Apollo photo control department, he was ordered to destroy complete sets of original mission photographs. He describes screening Apollo 14 film showing mysterious bright lights inside a lunar crater for NASA's chief astronomer, only to find the footage scrubbed clean when he showed the same film 24 hours later.
Hoagland recounts a confrontation with a JPL public affairs official at the press site who tried to remove their Cydonia research poster, claiming it was disturbing the press. After he invoked the First Amendment and the Air Force declined to intervene, the incident backfired, drawing CNN, Reuters, and AP to conduct extensive interviews. A JPL engineer privately confirmed that false data could technically be uplinked to spacecraft recorders, raising questions about future Mars imagery.
The episode builds to a stunning thesis connecting Freemasonry to Apollo, revealing that Buzz Aldrin conducted a Masonic ceremony 33 minutes after landing while Sirius sat at 19.5 degrees above the lunar horizon. Johnston and Hoagland argue that Kennedy's original vision for the space program was subverted after his assassination, transforming a grand plan for enlightenment into a system of secrecy.
Hoagland recounts a confrontation with a JPL public affairs official at the press site who tried to remove their Cydonia research poster, claiming it was disturbing the press. After he invoked the First Amendment and the Air Force declined to intervene, the incident backfired, drawing CNN, Reuters, and AP to conduct extensive interviews. A JPL engineer privately confirmed that false data could technically be uplinked to spacecraft recorders, raising questions about future Mars imagery.
The episode builds to a stunning thesis connecting Freemasonry to Apollo, revealing that Buzz Aldrin conducted a Masonic ceremony 33 minutes after landing while Sirius sat at 19.5 degrees above the lunar horizon. Johnston and Hoagland argue that Kennedy's original vision for the space program was subverted after his assassination, transforming a grand plan for enlightenment into a system of secrecy.