Richard C. Hoagland
| Richard C. Hoagland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Charles Hoagland April 25, 1945 Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Residence | Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Known for | Theories about advanced ancient civilizations colonizing the solar system; accusations of corruption of NASA and U.S. government |
| Notable work | The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever |
| Partner(s) | Robin Falkov |
| Awards | International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science, 1993. Ig Nobel Prize for Astronomy, 1997. |
Richard Charles Hoagland (born April 25, 1945), is an American author, and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics.
His writings claim that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that NASA and the United States government have conspired to keep these facts secret. He has advocated his ideas in two published books, videos, lectures, interviews, and press conferences.
Hoagland has been described by James Oberg of The Space Review, Phil Plait of Badastronomy.com, and Ralph Greenberg, a professor at the University of Washington, as a conspiracy theorist and fringe pseudoscientist. His book publisher describes him as "a unique mixture of amateur scientist, genius inventor, scam artist, and performer, blending true, legitimate speculative science with his own extrapolations, tall tales, and inflations."
According to Hoagland's curriculum vitae 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, and a Science Advisor to CBS News during the Apollo program, 1968–1971. In July 1968, Hoagland filed a copyright registration for a planetarium presentation and show script called The Grand Tour. In 1969, he was contracted by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation to write a chapter about the Moon for a press book. The Grumman publication was intended to educate members of the media and government officials concerning the Apollo Lunar Module.
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