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Randall Carlson

well-supported researcher status · verified public figure

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Randall Carlson · 1:36:58

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American Alchemy · 0:39:49

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American Alchemy · 0:16:09

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Carlson lectures on evidence for catastrophic meltwater floods and comet impact at the end of the Ice Age and appears often with Graham Hancock. The corpus interviews him on catastrophism.

Who

RoleGeomythologist and builder; argues for catastrophic Younger Dryas flooding
Sideresearcher
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

Interviews and appearances

Claims made

  • Asked about the Admiral Byrd stories, Randall Carlson declined to endorse them: 'I know the stories... I don't know what to think.'

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 1:36:58 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      Do you know Do you know Admiral Richard I know the stories. What do you think of that story? I don't know what to think.
  • Clube and Napier proposed in 'The Cosmic Serpent' (1982) that a giant comet captured into the inner solar system underwent hierarchical fragmentation producing the Taurid complex.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:34:50 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      Victor Clue William Napier uh William Asher several others uh also some Australian astronomers that theorized that around 25 to 30,000 years ago a gigantic comet maybe 50 to 60 mi diameter nucleus or even
  • William Morris Davis published 'The Value of Outrageous Geological Hypotheses' (Science, 1926), which Carlson cites as his methodological license for Moon speculation.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:24:29 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      William R. Davis who was the founding father of the science of geomorphology excori back in the 20s
  • The Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, producing near-perfect total eclipses - one of Jesse's 'weird coincidences' about the Moon.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:32:44 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      the distance between you have a proportional relationship between diameters and distance. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away.
  • Marine geology shows overwhelming evidence of major subsidence on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, concentrated along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Carlson's physical case for a sunken landmass.

    INFERENCE contested 2025

    • 0:00:01 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      there is overwhelming evidence of major subsidance on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, particularly concentrated along
  • If the Younger Dryas events repeated now, archaeologists 10,000 years from now would have a hard time finding any evidence that our civilization was ever here.

    INFERENCE thin 2025

    • 0:27:34 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      if the younger dus events were to be repeated now, well, 10,000 years from now, um, archaeologists would have a hard time finding any evidence that we were ever even here.
  • The Moon's two moments of inertia show it failed to deform into the least-energy sphere its mass requires - Randall Carlson's structural anomaly argument.

    INFERENCE thin 2025

    • 0:19:13 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      which is a sphere. Why hasn't it done that, Randall? Why hasn't it done that? What do you think?
  • Eisenhower's science adviser Gordon MacDonald concluded the Moon would only make sense if it were hollow - the corpus's recurring quotation.

    SPECULATION unsupported 2025

    • 0:21:46 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      there's a famous uh space adviser, I think he was NASA affiliated uh to Eisenhower named Gordon McDonald who said the only way that I've read his work, the only way that the moon makes any sense is if it's hollow.

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Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.

  • The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) 16 May 2025

    • 0:00:00 interview
    • 0:00:01 Randall Carlson Marine geology shows overwhelming evidence of major subsidence on the floor of the…
      there is overwhelming evidence of major subsidance on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, particularly concentrated along
    • 0:19:13 Randall Carlson The Moon's two moments of inertia show it failed to deform into the least-energy sphere…
      which is a sphere. Why hasn't it done that, Randall? Why hasn't it done that? What do you think?
    • 0:21:46 Randall Carlson Eisenhower's science adviser Gordon MacDonald concluded the Moon would only make sense…
      there's a famous uh space adviser, I think he was NASA affiliated uh to Eisenhower named Gordon McDonald who said the only way that I've read his work, the only way that the moon makes any sense is if it's hollow.
    • 0:24:29 Randall Carlson William Morris Davis published 'The Value of Outrageous Geological Hypotheses' (Science…
      William R. Davis who was the founding father of the science of geomorphology excori back in the 20s
    • 0:27:34 Randall Carlson If the Younger Dryas events repeated now, archaeologists 10,000 years from now would…
      if the younger dus events were to be repeated now, well, 10,000 years from now, um, archaeologists would have a hard time finding any evidence that we were ever even here.
    • 0:32:44 Randall Carlson The Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon and about 400 times farther away…
      the distance between you have a proportional relationship between diameters and distance. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away.
    • 0:34:50 Randall Carlson
      Victor Clue William Napier uh William Asher several others uh also some Australian astronomers that theorized that around 25 to 30,000 years ago a gigantic comet maybe 50 to 60 mi diameter nucleus or even
    • 1:36:58 Randall Carlson
      Do you know Do you know Admiral Richard I know the stories. What do you think of that story? I don't know what to think.
  • Joe Rogan: The Truth About Aliens (He Finally Says It) 30 November 2025

  • "The Pyramids Are NOT What We Think!" (Ft. Luke Caverns) 1 May 2025

  • Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse 22 December 2022

Named in 11 uploads (automatic name matching, 18 mentions)

Sources on this record

  • 1:36:58 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
    Do you know Do you know Admiral Richard I know the stories. What do you think of that story? I don't know what to think.
  • 0:34:50 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
    Victor Clue William Napier uh William Asher several others uh also some Australian astronomers that theorized that around 25 to 30,000 years ago a gigantic comet maybe 50 to 60 mi diameter nucleus or even

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