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64 Skeptical Look At Richard C. Hoagland

The Face Behind the Feinstein's sales pitch included the following November 16:
heads-up: "If that Face should turn out to be It [only] looks like it's perpetual motion,
"Face" on Mars: created by intelligent life, this stamp set could but it's not. Because what I think is happening,

become one of the most valuable collector items based on our Cydonia work, is that the rotation
A Skeptical Look at in the world." Laurence noted that Feinstein's of the magnets opens a gate to the 4th
Richard C. Hoagland latest venture combined "his interest in dimension, and the energy simply flows downhill
extraterrestrial life with his penchant for selling from the 4th to the 3rd, and is manifest in 3-
stamps at high markups to non-collectors." (A space as electrical energy. [The magnets] are
recent Web search revealed that Feinstein has hexagonally shaped in terms of their crystalline
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since created the Feinstein Foundation, whose form, and it's the hexagonal pattern, which is
Web site describes him as "a nationally known really the double tetrahedral pattern, which is
philanthropist and humanitarian [who] founded the heart of our Cydonia equations. . . . [And]
When Greenberg sent to Arthur C.
the World Hunger Program at Brown University there's a more general field effect [going on], a
Clarke (and others) six pages summarizing the
. . . the World Hunger Brigade . . . and the more general energy transfer, and that's what's
history/chronology of this evolving view of
Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts doing the slowing down of time.
Europa, Clarke replied that "I have [since]
University.") Further, Hoagland's studies in
become aware of the fact that many others had
In a follow-up December 10, 1990, "tetrahedral geometry" suggest to him a
thought of it first, as you point out." But Clarke
column, Laurence reported that the stamp set connection not only between the "N Machine"
also expressed his enduring gratitude to
from Sierra Leone, "an obscure and corrupt- and the Cydonia structures, but also with our
Hoagland for his "excellent 1980 article [which
ridden African nation," had recently been own planet's "crop circles": "The measurements
was] my first introduction to the idea."
"blacklisted by a Swiss-based combine of of the units by which this object on Earth [crop
Indeed, the Monuments of Mars
international stamp organizations [due to Sierra circle] was laid out are part and parcel of the
"Publisher's Foreword" makes Hoagland sound
Leone's violations of] the philatelic code of exact same units that the objects on Mars are
like somewhat of a science prodigy:
ethics of the Universal Postal Union." He also laid out -- Alexander Thom's famous megalithic
Richard C. Hoagland is, by career, a
noted that Richard Hoagland had been engaged yard, 2.72 British feet" (July 27).
science writer as well as a consultant in the
by Feinstein for some months "as an expert Referring to Dr. Duncan G. Cumming's
fields of astronomy, planetarium curating, and
witness to support the assertion that the Sierra article about the "N Machine" in the Fall 1990
space-program education. . . . In 1965, at the
Leone set will soon be worth five figures." issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Hoagland claimed
age of nineteen, [Hoagland] became Curator
Laurence then quoted from the October issue of on November 9 that "If you carefully read the
(possibly the youngest in the country) of the
Feinstein's Wealthmaker Quarterly Report, in article, they . . . take potshots but they never do
Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Science.
which Hoagland asserted that the stamp set the experiments." In reality, Dr. Cumming does
. . . In 1966 Hoagland served as NBC
should soon be worth $10,000 or more. discuss his experiments in the article. On
[Television] consultant for the historic soft
That's what I believe. I know basically nothing November 5, I had written to Chuck Harder: "In
landing of a U.S. spacecraft on the moon --
about stamps. But I know a great deal about the the interest of full disclosure, I would request
Surveyor 1. Later he appeared on "The Tonight
specific subject of the Sierra Leone stamp set. that you please send a review copy [of the book]
Show" explaining the significance of the landing
On the basis of my research, that's what I think to Dr. Cumming, and arrange for an on-air
to Johnny Carson. . . . At Christmas [of 1968, for
that set is going to be worth. The value of a interview with him. . . . If necessary, I would be
the Apollo 8 lunar-orbital mission] he was asked
commemorative is dependent on the intrinsic willing to pay for the book and shipping costs."
to become a consultant to CBS News . . . and
value of the event it is commemorating. . . . [The Harder replied on November 27, informing me
served as [a science] advisor to Walter Cronkite.
"Face"] is a constructed monument made by that he was "sending [my letter] on to Richard
But I learned from Dr. David Morrison,
intelligent life. When the world finds that out, it Hoagland who will respond." When Hoagland
Chief of the Space Science Division at NASA's
will be nothing less than the greatest discovery failed to do so, I sent Harder a reminder on
Ames Research Center, that Hoagland was
in the world. It will have an unprecedented effect January 12, 1991, to which he responded, "If
largely "self-educated" in science. In an August
on people everywhere, and on the value of the you or Duncan Cumming want a book from us,
31, 1990, letter, Morrison told me that he knew
Sierra Leone set. you can order one from the catalog and pay for
of "no one in the scientific community, or who is
Michael Laurence's learned response it."
associated with the NASA Mars Science
followed: "Those who believe such breathless According to FTP, a variation of the "N
Working Group, or who is working on Mars
nonsense probably deserve financial Machine" was already in full operation. Thus, on
mission plans at such NASA centers as Ames,
disappointment. And that's the likely reward in September 21, 1990, I wrote to B. Premanand,
Johnson, or JPL, who ascribes even the smallest
store for anyone who expects speculative profit founder of the Indian Committee for the
credibility to Hoagland or his weird ideas about
from this overpriced and highly manipulated Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Mars." So much for the "groundswell of official stamp set." Indeed, Laurence informs me that Paranormal:
NASA interest" that Hoagland boasted of during
the current philatelic retail value of the set I would like to know if the Indian
his July 13 For The People appearance.
remains less than $100. But don't lose hope. government has in operation a power generator
Several Web sites contain "Sale" listings for the that produces more energy than it consumes
The $10,000 Stamp Set
set (in mint condition) with owners requesting (i.e., a perpetual energy machine). This claim is
anywhere from $99 (rare), to several hundred being made repeatedly on the "For The People"
Hoagland also endeavored to help create a dollars (more plentiful), to Hoagland's $10,000 radio program (heard on 7.520 MHz.
groundswell of public interest in a set of figure. (Most appear to be asking for about internationally from 2400 to 0200 hours UTC).
souvenir stamp sheets that was being sold $5,000.) The machine is supposedly a magnetized
through mail order, by promoter (and occasional
gyroscope, located on the west coast of India in
stamp dealer) Alan Shawn Feinstein, for more
Free-Energy Machines a city that sounded like "Caroa," which is
than $100, roughly two to three times its face
supposedly south of an old Portuguese colony
value. The thirty-seven-stamp series from Sierra
During the course of my 1990 monitoring of For that sounded like "Doa." If I heard correctly, a
Leone was devoted to "saluting the coming
The People broadcasts, Hoagland (with Chuck German company that sounded like "Gadori"
exploration of Mars" by the ill-fated Mars
Harder) was also engaged in selling a book, may have actually built it.
Observer craft, which was to have returned published by FTP and edited by Hoagland,
high-definition photographs of the red planet,
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including the Cydonia region. The stamps depict
dubbed the "N Machine." According to
likenesses varying from Galileo and Percival
Hoagland on September 7, the machine opens "a THE ‘X’ ZONE BROADCAST NETWORK
Lowell to space probes and Martian surface
gate to the 4th dimension [as it] reaches into -and- THE ‘X’ ZONE TV CHANNEL
features, including the "Face".
space-time and converts direct electrical energy MOTTO:
According to Michael Laurence's
from the basic properties of the space-time SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS,
"Editor's Choice" column in the April 30, 1990,
continuum." He "clarified" matters on DEMANDING THE TRUTH.
issue of the authoritative Linn's Stamp News,