Donald said the following:

>Hoagland's success is quite ephemeral. The man lives in a mobile home
>in New Mexico and doesn't really make much money selling psuedoscience.
>He's really a pathetic character who attracts only a small number of ragtag
>believers who don't have much money themselves to pay for whatever it is
>he sells. Anyone who has to exaggerate his resume as Hoagland does is
>really not worth worrying too much about.

Almost all modern day exbiology, UFO-ology and alien abduction myths are traceable to three con artists:

George Adamski -- Invented the modern day UFO and alien abduction myth
Robert Lazar -- Invented the Area-51 myth
Richard Hoagland -- Invented Martian anomalism and the Face on Mars myth

There's a multi million dollar entertainment industry that owes its origins to these liars. There are a bunch of crappy SF movies made in the 1950s and early 1960s that were derivative from Adamski's yarns. The movie "Independence Day" borrowed heavily from Lazar's story telling. The movie "Total Recall" was derivative from Hoagland's lies. For almost 50 years, Hollywood has based many successful SF movies upon the tales of UFO/exobiology con artists. It's ironic that the originators of this industry are or were (Adamski is dead) living in trailers and/or scrounging for money from loonies.

I'm reminded of some guys who work for SETI complaining bitterly that Hollywood makes all sorts of money off of SETI but never contributes anything back.

Gary