(Part 5 of Hoagland article)
Carl Sagan is considered as a villian around the UFOlogy-camp, from his hard-line-rejection of the eventual possibility of extraterristrial influence of mankind and its history for thousands of years.
Richard C. Hoagland and Carl Sagan are old acquatenances from a number of joint researchpartys in the 80's, according to Hoagland.
So it was with big suprise people could hear Carl Sagan show doubt on the topic of the monuments at Cydonia (on Mars). Carl Sagan has rejected them as Hoaglands fantasies, up til now. But in an interview recently where he promoted his new book The Demon Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark, he said , to the suprised radio-host: "-...but, I could be wrong. There could be something there." And then he called for intense re-photography via the upcoming Mars-mission by NASA. The radio-host once again asked: "-You're not serious...? and Sagan repeats "- I could be wrong..."
Alright. What do I personaly think about Richard C. Hoaglands claims?
Well, as I work with computerized images and photographic filters myself every day as the editor of swedens biggest free music paper, I must say that my belief lays in NASA explanation on most of the pictures Hoagland has shown up to date (of the Moon). I think he's is missjudging the results of the computer enhancments and also reads dust and scratches as "anomalies" and he let's himself be seduced by his interest to find things that fits his already planned route.
But there are a few photos that I can't put aside. Like the one of "the tower" photographed by both Apollo 12 and Zond 3. And the photo of Bean and Conrad where they photograph eachother and you can see a reflection of something floating above the Lunar surface in Beans visor, and behind Conrad you can see something that could be the "objects" shadow. This is highly interesting and deserves a closer investigation by NASA, who up to date, has refused to acknowledged Hoaglands thesis.
But why reject some of the claims and follow the rest? Can't I be wrong on that point also? Ofcourse! But my experiance with photographic-computer-filters tells me that most of Hoaglands claims is misinterpretation and at the end of the day - your experiance is all you have to judge by.
Richard C. Hoagland will visit Sweden (a place called Ange, in the north of Sweden) on June 10 and our chairman, Anders Persson, is going to travel those 995 kilometers to (try to) meet with Mr Hoagland, who is in Sweden as a guest of the Angstrom foundation that decorated him in 1993 with a medal. So stay tuned for the next episode of - THE ENTERPRISE MISSION.