John Brandenburg's theories
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Contents 8
| Date | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | John Brandenburg |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 120 |
| Year | 1994 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1994 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
John Brandenburg is an American plasma physicist with a career in defence and space research who has made a series of controversial claims, including that an image from the 1994 Clementine lunar mission showed an artificial structure and that ancient civilisations on Mars were destroyed by nuclear explosions.[1][2][3]
Career
Brandenburg earned his doctorate at the University of California, Davis, and has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as a senior propulsion scientist at Orbital Technologies Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin. He was involved in Clementine, a joint Defense Department and NASA mission that mapped the Moon in 1994 and found evidence suggesting water ice at the lunar poles. He has also developed unconventional theories linking gravity and electromagnetism.[1][2]
The Clementine claim
In interviews Brandenburg has said that while working on Clementine he saw an image of a mile-wide rectilinear structure that looked "unmistakably artificial", that it caused him "great concern" as someone in the space-defence community, and that he was told not to interfere with a highly cleared team that analysed the images. Mainstream analyses of Clementine and later, higher-resolution lunar images have found no artificial structures.[2][4]
Mars
In 2011 Brandenburg proposed that a natural nuclear reaction about 180 million years ago had devastated the Mare Acidalium region of Mars, citing gamma-ray maps and spikes of xenon-129 in the Martian atmosphere; NASA geologist David Beaty and Lawrence Livermore's Lars Borg were sceptical. By 2014 he argued that two ancient humanoid civilisations, at Cydonia and Utopia, had been wiped out by nuclear airbursts launched by another alien race, presenting the idea at an American Physical Society meeting and in his books on Mars. The work was not peer reviewed, and no prominent scientists have endorsed it.[1][3]
Significance
The testimony includes Brandenburg as an example of people with genuine space-programme credentials who have publicly argued for evidence of extraterrestrial activity.[1][3]
People and topics
- John Brandenburg — Plasma physicist who made claims about Mars and the Moon.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
On the Timeline
- Edward Dudgeon and the Philadelphia Navy Yard (1994) — A Navy veteran tells Vallée about his time at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
- Dan Sherman's first communication (1994) (Early 1994) — Sherman claims he received his first alien communication while on duty.
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References
- John Brandon, "Was there a natural nuclear blast on Mars?", Fox News (Apr 2011) · foxnews.com · archived copy
- "John E. Brandenburg", SourceWatch · sourcewatch.org · archived copy
- Jason Koebler, "Were ancient Martians murdered by nuclear bomb-dropping aliens?", Vice (Nov 2014) · vice.com · archived copy
- "Moon backside alien structures", Chinasona · chinasona.org · archived copy
Further reading
- Sandia National Laboratories — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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