"Hoagland's Castle" on the moon - Fact or Fiction?

[Referee]

I asked 1967sander if I could post his new video about the castle/object floating above the surface of the moon. His answer was yes! So, Here you go pretty amazing IMHO

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Frxfq7R0KyA

[Mulder]

I will have to do more research into this issue as I need more evidence than presented in the video to makeup my mind about this object. However, I'm not dismissing this as impossible.

[KiwiElf]

Better to hear it from the "horse's mouth"

UFOTV® Presents : Dark Mission / Ancient ET Moon Discovery - 3-Hours

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ptx7bkGCnhM

Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011

3-Hours - Digitally Restored - From UFOTV®, accept no imitations. - Ancient Alien ruins on the Moon? Is it possible? The Moon/Mars Connection uses NASA's own data to make a compelling scientific case for the existence of ancient alien artifacts on the earth's nearest neighbor in the Solar System. As no one has done before, Hoagland uses state-of-the-art computer image processing and other analytical techniques to take the viewer into an extraordinary world of possible gigantic structures where NASA says there are none. Have some officials within the U.S. Government, for over 30 years, been hiding the truth? The Moon/ Mars Connection opens the mind to these amazing possibilities.

This presentation was given and filmed at Ohio State University in 1994 and to this day remains a vitally important source of research about ancient extraterrestrial artifacts discovered on the Moon.

Richard C. Hoagland, author of The "Monuments of Mars," is a former science consultant to NASA and CBS News.

©1994-2011 Enterprise Mission and UFOTV, a UFO Video, Inc. Company

Will provide written article shortly once I convert it - KiwiElf

[KiwiElf]

NASA Cover-up Exposed: Ancient ET Cities Discovered on the Moon



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After two years of intensive analysis of the Moon, Richard C. Hoagland, head of The Mars Mission team (TMM), has now repeated a remarkable achievement by collecting compelling evidence which strongly indicates the existence of ancient ET ruins on the Lunar surface.

There are many strange facts about the Moon, and one of the strangest is that we haven't returned to our nearest neighbour for 23 years. At least that was the case up until Spring of 1994, when the Pentagon - not NASA - sent an unmanned 'military' probe called Clementine back to photo-mosaic (a composite of numerous separate image components that are combined to give an image of the Lunar surface covering a very large area) the entire Lunar surface.

Much has been learned about the Moon from NASA's three previous Lunar missions: starting with the Lunar Orbiter series in the mid 60's, followed by the Surveyor series, placing the first unmanned probe on the Moon, and ended with Apollo, which was seen as the golden age of space exploration and culminated in putting the first humans on the Moon.

The combined data obtained from these missions has shaped scientist's and our own perceptions of the Moon as a desolate, waterless, lifeless and totally empty planet. After the initial euphoria of the Apollo landings faded, it's probably this perception that contributed to the fact that we took so long to return.

Paradoxically, it's from this same data - plus an exceptionally important 'single-frame mosaic' of the Moon 'leaked' to Hoagland from inside the military - that a staggeringly different picture of the Moon is now emerging.

In substantiating their Lunar evidence, TMM have been confronted with the same problems they faced when trying to establish that the artifacts at 'Cydonia' (on Mars), were of artificial origin. The key difference between establishing the 'Cydonia' hypothesis and the existence of Lunar ruins, lies in the fact that within Cydonia there is a large, sphinx-like structure. This Martian 'face' is humanoid-looking, and therefore a glaringly obvious anomaly that anyone can spot instantly. With the Lunar evidence however, TMM are looking at anomalies that indicate the possible evidence of ancient, extraterrestrial 'cities'.

Substantiating these in the public's eye is more difficult as it involves the use of a great deal of complex computer imaging technology. (But as Hoagland has stated, there is more advanced imaging technology available to the individual on a personal computer now than the entire facilities that NASA had available to them 25 years ago).

Fortunately, this computer imaging technology has become so sophisticated it's now possible to identify the tiniest anomaly in an image and provide empirical evidence of what appears to be innocent looking craters or unusual 'shapes' above the surface of the Moon. These may not be the products of Lunar geology, but could be 'ET artifacts'. Artifacts which Hoagland believes to be the shattered remains of incredibly ancient cities once protected by massive glass-like, geodesic-type domes. He said, "There's something up there that just shouldn't be there" The answer to this lies in geometry.

Hoagland cites astrophysicist Carl Sagan's "Criteria for remotely determining intelligence," in reference to orbiting probes around a planet. To determine the presence of intelligent life on a planet - past or present - one would see that at 100 meter resolution, everything changes. The images would reveal a planet covered with straight lines, geometric shapes, squares, rectangles and circles..." Here he is referring to satellite images of Earth, but the criteria should apply to any planet. He continues, "...Their regularity, complexity and distribution would be hard to explain except by the existence of intelligent life..."

TMM were first alerted to the possibility of artificial structures on the Moon by an anomaly that has been puzzling scientists for ages. In an area of the Moon called Sinus Medii (Central Bay) is a crater called Ukert which when observed, even from Earth, contains an equilateral triangular shape. Even more strange, Ukert is at the 'sub-Earth point,' which means it is centrally located on the Moon's surface and at the point nearest the Earth.

In 1967, NASA sent Lunar Orbiter to photograph the Moon as a prelude to Apollo. It was from a series of these black and white images near Ukert that really started the ball rolling: one frame showed a huge 'artifact' towering up one-and-a-half miles above the Lunar surface, which TMM have dubbed 'the Shard'.

According to the established scientific model of how the Moon is eroded, TMM claim the existence of the Shard is an impossibility: geological differences between the Earth and Moon are enormous. Unlike erosion of the Earth, the Moon has no water cycle, no volcanic activity and most importantly - no atmosphere, which means it's been exposed to millions of years of constant meteoric bombardment.

The Moon's surface is divided into two main areas: dark and light. Light areas are called Terra and are the highlands, dark are called Mare (or seas) which are the low ground areas. Anyone who has seen images of the Moon will be familiar with the fact that the entire surface is basically flat. Highlands were at one time mountains, which due to the constant meteoric bombardment, have been flattened into smooth, low curving hills. Therefore, the existence of a natural, vertically-oriented 'rock' - standing like a mile-and-a-half high skyscraper - is inconceivable, given that millions of years exposure to meteorites would have long ago smashed it flat!

TMM obtained a variety of black and white prints of this area and discovered something even larger and more bizarre. In one print, standing behind the Shard, is something that looks initially like a comet with its tail pointing down. (See FIGURE 3 above). TMM called this 'land form' the Tower, because like the Shard, it is also a 'solid' tower-like structure which soars a staggering 6-7 miles above the Lunar surface. When both these anomalies were subjected to a series of computer enhancement techniques, TMM made a shattering discovery. As Hoagland explains, "... it unveiled what NASA seemed so keen to hide..." One of these techniques converts grey scale images to colour, a method enabling three-dimensional features to be seen more clearly, as it shows how light is reflected off the object in varying degrees of brightness.

"Early analysis showed that the most reflective areas were not on the outside, as would be expected if it was a rock, but on the inside. So this indicates we are looking at some kind of internal crystalline or glass-like material, which is arranged in layers and has a specific geometry."

When TMM were mysteriously leaked the image mosaic from the Clementine probe, which covers an area 30,000 square miles and contains the whole Sinus Medii region, their struggle to analyse previous 23-year-old data became a great deal easier, and their claims a great deal more convincing. The Clementine probe contained an array of high-tech 'multi-spectral' cameras, one of which operated in the near-infrared region (NIR), which was used to analyse the composition and distribution of minerals, materials and provide insights into the geological processes across the Lunar surface. It was therefore the ideal tool to analyse and explore the existence of anything constructed on the surface. TMM believe, that due to the politics surrounding Clementine, that was its most likely primary objective. Using this new data from Clementine confirmed TMM's initial hypothesis that they were looking at intelligently constructed multi-layered units, and refer to them as 'mega-cubes' of glass, (or a similar transparent material). This transparency effect enables one to 'look inside' and this partially unveils the existence of other regular, geometrically-interlocking structural elements.

The Tower and other vertical artifacts TMM have discovered are of massive dimensions, defying all models of Lunar geology, and since they have been severely eroded by meteoric bombardment over a very long period, they must have been much taller. If artificial, they would also by inference, have once been protected in some way from these meteoric bombardments. Consequently, the idea is that these structures lay under vast geodesic domes - constructed along similar lines to Buckminster Fuller's design of a trapezoidal interlocking truss - that is pound for pound the strongest structural arrangement possible. It is also known from NASA's own studies that glass, in a Lunar environment, has the structural strength of steel. Hoagland says, "We can see what's left of a protecting structure."

The pre-Clementine evidence came from a series of NASA pictures taken during the Apollo 10 mission over the area containing the Treisnecker/Ukert and Manitius craters.
NASA frame 4822 is a close-up that was obtained by TMM because it appeared as a black or missing frame in the Apollo 10 catalogue. What the image reveals is astounding. Firstly, the area to the top right is dark, when in fact it should be as bright as the surrounding area.

When this frame was enhanced, it unveiled what NASA seemed so keen to hide. Hoagland's explanation for the darkness is because this area is covered with what's left of a structural frame or interlocking glass panels. The meteoric bombardment has destroyed much, but sufficient is left to see what it is composed of. The darkness is a result of the 'venetian blind' effect, where reflected light is scattered by the truss, so looking down, one is actually looking through the remains of the structure and this obscures a clear view of the surface.

When you look at the photo below the same area but with the lunar horizon visible, there are what look like hazy patches above the surface. These are not photographic flaws, although the image reproduced here is of poor quality. This 'haze' is caused again by light scattering as it passes through the structural 'dome'. With further enhancement, astounding details can be seen. A series of solid objects are suspended miles above the surface, which are connected on a grid-like pattern, indicating the original geometrical structure of a 'dome'.

One of these suspended objects was even further enhanced revealing a piece of devastating evidence. This is what TMM have dubbed 'the Castle' This object appears to be part of the structure that is hanging down off the truss. It not only shows it's composed of straight 'structural' elements and is hanging miles above the surface, but as the Clementine enhancements reveal, has transparent, or glass-like material inside it.

Strangely, when TMM originally requested the negatives of this series of pictures, they had mysteriously 'disappeared.' When prints of this area were finally obtained through various sources, these 'anomalies' had been removed from the images.

"It is clear to me," Hoagland said, "that NASA and the astronauts must have been aware of these structures. Frankly, I'm amazed none of them were killed accidentally colliding with some of them." This scenario might well explain the suspicious nature of Clementine's demise. After taking the images of the Moon, it suddenly malfunctioned and was unable complete its 'public science mission'.

The whole aura of secrecy surrounding the Clementine mission, the fact that the Pentagon were going to release the millions of images it took to the public - and have so far reneged on that promise - clearly indicate that NASA and the US government are extremely keen to keep this information secret. Fortunately, due to TMM's work on the early data and leaked Clementine image, this is no longer possible. The analysis of the vastly superior data contained in the Clementine mosaic has made it possible for TMM to confirm many of the theories which evolved out of the early NASA data. It also lends credibility to their assertion that a series of huge areas on the lunar surface - or even below it - were once protected by vast and environmentally encapsulated structures, similar in concept but not scale, to the one we have built on Earth called Biosphere 2. This glass and steel trapezoidal building was designed to keep its enclosed ecology totally cut off from the outside environment. These early experiments in archologies, as they are called, are for the very purpose of seeing if we can build something similar on another planet.

Hoagland believes that what was built on the Moon was a series of vast archologies, probably thousands or even millions of years ago, and are now battered into ruins.

Who built them and why, remains a profound mystery, one we can only begin to answer if we return to the Moon, which after all is only a few days away in terms of space travel. Although TMM are currently in the process of organising financial backing to the tune of $15M, so that they can put together the first ever independent mission to the Moon, Hoagland is convinced he has all the evidence to prove his claims.

The political repercussions so far have sent shock waves through American society, leading to the exposure of NASA's covert commissioning of the Brookings Institution. In the late 50's, the institution evaluated what would happen to society if they discovered ET artifacts in the Solar system: their recommendations - possibly based on religious paranoia - as that any such discoveries would be withheld from the public! This scenario has continued until today, leading to a political crisis and a series of possible congressional hearings to investigate a public institution that has seemingly corrupted itself, either through its own paranoia, or some covert agenda. This exposure, in and of itself, has widespread implications for the whole UFO/Extraterrestrial situation that possibly goes right back to Roswell. Are we finally witnessing the initial 'un-covering' of what surely must be the biggest cover-up of all time? We certainly seem to be at the turning point of this whole 'Cosmic Watergate.' What seems utterly fantastic now, will soon become widespread public fact. As Hoagland States, "... if we return to the Moon we will find wonders and treasures beyond imagining. It is up to us."

Sources: Based on an article by Tim Coleman, "Monument to Life II" UFO Magazine, November/December 1995, pp12-16, and Martian Horizons, Volume 2, No. 5, Summer 1995, (C) by Richard C. Hoagland & NASA Archives