Joseph McMoneagle

Claims made

• McMoneagle's on-air recollection places the Mars session on a Saturday evening after a nap; the declassified record dates it Tuesday 22 May 1984 with the interview beginning at 10:09 a.m.

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  • 1:49:26 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    it was a Saturday evening I've been working for two days with Bob so I was tired so he was doing some kind of work in the lab and I was taking a nap in the isolation chamber

• McMoneagle told the show the Martian beings were about twelve feet tall; the contemporaneous transcript records only 'very tall...thin' and 'very large', with no height given.

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  • 1:51:35 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    they're human they're just really big people they're like twice our size 12 feet tall but they're just like us and they're dying

• McMoneagle argues humans may descend from Martians who fled the dying planet and lost their technology on arrival.

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  • 2:11:54 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    exists that we in fact might be aliens and what is that evidence that evidence is the way we treat our planet

• McMoneagle testified that he took the coordinate card to the JPL public counter and was handed a packet of negatives by a clerk who said 'oh this is the old city on Mars'.

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  • 1:53:11 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    I went to JPL and they have a big counter where you go in and buy pictures space so I went up the counter and the guy said how can I help you and I said I have this card here

• McMoneagle says he holds roughly sixty photographs of things on Mars that are clearly alien, obtained as JPL mapping negatives.

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  • 1:56:48 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    I have probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 something photographs of things on Mars that are clearly alien really yeah like what

• McMoneagle presents an object he says is a bone lying on Mars, three feet long, photographed from a mapping satellite negative.

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  • 2:07:14 “Mars Had Alien Life!” (Ft. Joe McMoneagle) · Joe McMoneagle ▶

    this is a bone on Mars okay that's on Mars that's on Mars that's a bone what yeah certainly isn't a stone that does not look like a stone