Mr Richard Hoagland — a well known researcher who is a regular guest and contributor to the popular “alternative” late night US syndicated talk show “Coast to Coast”. Mr Hoagland is billed as “Science Advisor” to the programme, though he does not have any formal qualifications in science subjects. Mr Hoagland, however, did apparently work as a Curator for NASA for some time and he also worked with famed CBS reporter, Walter Kronkite — presumably on reports relating to NASA and/or the Apollo and other space missions. Richard C. Hoagland’s Main Areas of Research Starting in about 1983, Richard Hoagland has presented some very interesting information about Mars, the Moon and especially Iapetus and he (and others) have highlighted a number of anomalies in various photos which have been sent back by unmanned probes. Mr Hoagland has posted some quite fascinating, if at times verbose, articles on his website “Enterprise Mission”. He has mainly focused on “space-related” research topics and he has covered these at length in books such as “Monuments of Mars” and more recently “Dark Mission”. Readers of some of his articles may conclude that Mr Hoagland is something of a “trekker” — although unlike this author, Mr Hoagland apparently knew Gene Roddenberry for some time. www.checktheevidence.co.uk CLAIMING THE PIONEER 10 PLAQUE Sagan, the Pioneer 10 plaque and its elegant message (right) have always to me epitomized his poetic genius. But Hoagland told the FTP audience on July 13 …