Hoagland and Bara on WOR Radio Saturday

Dark Mission co-authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara will be on WOR radio in New York Saturday, May 24th, 2008. We will appear in a pre-taped interview segment with host Joe Bartlett on the Saturday Morning Show. The show can be heard in the New York city area and streaming on the web at http://www.wor710.com/.

I will update you when I learn the exact time the segement will be aired.


Update: The interview will be broadcast at 6:35 AM Saturday morning on WOR.

Update: an mp3 of the interview can be found here

NASA to Make Annoucement Today - Have They Found Planet X?

In a few hours, NASA is scheduled to hold a press briefing on a new discovery made by the Chandra X-Ray telescope. According to the press release, it will concern a celestial object "in our Galaxy" that astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years.

I'm just wondering if it might be Planet X?

It seems like a long shot, especially since Planet X is a solar system object, not "in our galaxy," but we'll see.


UPDATE: They found a young Supernova.

Upcoming Appearances

Saturday, May 17th 2008 – Dark Mission co-author Mike Bara will be appearing at the “UFO’s Magic and Mysticism in Hollywood” panel discussion in the Beverly Garland Grand Ballroom at the Universal studios Holiday Inn. He will be attending as an invited guest and will be participating in the question and answer sessions after the main panel discussion. The event will be moderated by Coast to Coast AM host George Noory, and the panel will feature Whitley Streiber, Dr. Roger Leir, Jordan Maxwell and Jay Weidner.

Sunday, May 18th 2008 – Dark Mission co-author Richard C. Hoagland will be featured on the SciFi channel special “Mystery of the Crystal Skulls” at 9 PM (8 Central time). The show will feature an extended segment on Dark Mission.

Watch a preview video here.


Sunday, May 18th 2008 – Dark Mission co-author Mike Bara will be interviewed on Live From Roswell radio between 6 and 8 PM. The website is here.

Hoagland on SciFi Channel Crystal Skulls Special

Dark Mission co-author Richard C. Hoagland is going to be featured on an upcoming SciFi Channel special on the Crystal skulls. The skulls are the subject of the upcoming movie "Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Crystal Skulls." The movie comes out May 22nd, the special airs Sunday night, May 18th.

Here's a video preview:

Crystal Skulls Video

The Egyptian History Discussion

Okay guys, rather than have you keep going back and forth in the Shatner post, I'll set you up with your own topic on all this Hathor and ancient Egypt stuff.

Carry on...

In The Belly of The Beast

Would they really welcome me if they new my true secret superhero identity?


This weekend my buddy Christian Meoli from Cabaret Voltaire and I went up to the JPL open house in Pasadena. We thought maybe there'd be some interesting little references to various aspects of Dark Mission (maybe a pic of an aritfact on prominent display, the odd Egyptian reference), but alas, we were disappointed. The displays were pretty generic and pure vanilla, but it was still interesting to walk around and see some of the places we'd like to get access to. So near and yet so far...

What is really impressive is the degree of sophistication of the various labs and facilities. JPL is truly a cutting edge research laboratory, boasting facilities that far exceed anything I've seen in over 25 years in aerospace. I'm sure we have our share of cool labs and equipment, but I was very impressed with what I saw. Here's a little photo blog of the day.


Pulling up to the gate: I'm a little apprehensive. What if they make me take a loyalty oath or something to get in?

There were only a few Orion references in the displays that I saw.


This is not a real person. I suppose you could say that about some of the posters on this blog...

There were lots of "actual size" models and mock-ups and wall hangings of various JPL spacecraft.

Christian does a little guerrilla marketing for the "UFO's in Hollywood" panel coming up in two weeks. Wish I'd thought to bring some Dark Mission cover cards to leave lying around!

You know when I saw this sign, this was the place I really wanted to see the inside of...

One of the uber sophisticated labs in the basement of one of the buildings. Wish I had the Reynolds Wrap concession for this place...

The main Mission Control room at JPL. The heart of darkness...

Well, that's basically it. I highly recommend that you go if you ever get the chance. Whitewashed and vanilla all the way, but it's totally cool to see some of this stuff up close.

Dark Mission to be Translated into German

Dark Mission publisher Feral House Books has reached an agreement with German publisher Kopp-Verlag to translate, publish and distribute a German language edition of Dark Mission throughout the nation of Germany. This is just the first of what we anticipate to be many foreign language editions of the book. Kopp-Verlag is the leading publisher of alternative science and history books in Germany, and has many English language authors in its catalog, including such luminaries as Zecharia Sitchin, Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert.