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Richard C. Hoagland

American author and former CBS News science adviser during the Apollo era who, from 1987 onward, promoted the theory that the Face on Mars and other Cydonia landforms are artificial monuments built by an ancient civilisation and concealed by NASA; founder of The Enterprise Mission in 1992.

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