“Time travel exists and has been used by the United States government since the sixties”- or so Andrew D. Basagio claims (Basagio 1). The American lawyer, writer, self-proclaimed visionary and crononaught, and eventual 2016 presidential candidate, blew the whistle on a time-space travel program hidden by the government called Project Pegasus. He claims to have “taken part in this program from the ages of seven to twelve’”- and he has proof (1). As a respected lawyer, scholar, and editor, Basagio convinced some, but not all. His story raised controversy across the country:
Has the government lied to us?
Is Basagio lying to us?
How much of this is true?
How much can be proven?
Project Pegasus was not what Basagio claims it to have been, and the secret to space-time travel does not lie within the Pentagon.
Andrew D. Basagio is a highly intelligent man. From an early age, he was identified as an “indigo” child born with abilities such as telepathy and levitation (Basagio 1). He was a member of the high IQ society Mensa and holds five degrees, including a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge and a BA in History from the University of California Los Angeles (1).
He used his intelligence to gain influence and create controversy. Using baseless claims that could neither be proven right or wrong, he was catapulted into immense public influence- enough to be able to run for President in 2016, under the banner of “A Time for Truth” (Gaia 1). He presented pictures of his younger self next to Abraham Lincoln (Image 1, Moye)* and even recounted the President’s assassination as a witness. Of course, it is impossible to be certain that these are lies, and this proves the genius of Basagio.
Project Pegasus would have been top secret, so, to the public, it very well could have existed, and this is what gave Basagio power. He had scholarly articles that supported his ideas, with one book, The Dimensional Ecology of the Omniverse, specifically mentioning a “secret US space program” that was hiding “the available evidence [proving] there is current indigenous intelligent life on Mars” (Webre 12). Andrew edited many scholarly books concerning extraterrestrial life, such as Webre’s Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe and The Fátima Trilogy by Dr. Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d’ Armada (Basagio). He authored his own book The Discovery of Life on Mars in 2008, which is widely considered by his community as “the first work to prove that Mars is an inhabited planet and also the first work ever published on Earth to contain images of humanoid beings on another planet” (Webre 12). He was a smart man and knew that speaking his beliefs would create controversy. So why would a man who has his own private practice risk his public appearance to speak out about the Pegasus Project?
Basagio was also a man desperate for attention and influence. He’s used talk radio like Coast-to-Coast AM and podcasts like Occult Radio to spread his name as a time traveler (Basagio 2). In the ten years he spent in the public spotlight, he never published a research paper with real evidence proving his claims. His own website has a page for “research papers,” but it is instead filled largely with Instagram polls, progress articles covering his Presidential campaign, and Basagio’s public reactions to scientific discoveries over time. He has referred to the Pegasus Project of his youth as “the real Philadelphia Experiment” (3) and has said that “the Philadelphia experiment was done to cover up the Pegasus Project” (4). His works of writing and public appearances largely consisted of big words and hot air, which was all right for Basagio, if someone was listening. He claims to be the “President of Mars”, elected by the indigenous intelligent humanoids that live on the planet (6), and presents his material wherever it will gain him followers- conspiracy conventions, skeptical podcast interviews, and of course, Twitter. His 2016 presidential campaign fell on its face, and he blamed political conspiracy within the government for his lack of success.
Basagio became an expert on theories about extraterrestrial life, and, seeking attention, threw his hat in the ring. He was intelligent enough to know how to gain influence through controversy, and he executed it well. He claims that he has dedicated his entire life to working for the government through the DARCA space-time travel program Project Pegasus. He now leads a group by the same name with the goal of convincing the United States government to end its secrecy. Since Basagio became a whistleblower, the question has been: How much of this is true, and how much can be proven?
Project Pegasus was either a lie made up by an attention-seeking Basagio, or a top-secret space-time travel program that the government refuses to reveal to the public. If he was being honest, the American people have been denied technology that has existed only in science fiction for decades. If not, Andrew D. Basagio has successfully fooled his followers and part of society into worshipping himself as a harbinger of truth.
When he became a whistleblower, Basagio came forward with all the evidence he could to prove himself. There wasn’t much evidence to come forward with, but this should be expected when it comes to classified information. With little solid proof and vast claims being made, Basagio’s followers are largely dependent on his honesty in the material being discussed.
In 1972, during his five-year childhood stint in Project Pegasus, Basagio claims to have visited Gettysburg in 1863 via a “plasma confinement chamber located in East Hanover, N.J.” (Moye 1). On this trip, he was photographed near Abraham Lincoln (Image 1). He claims to be the boy standing on the left. Basagio also claims to have heard the assassination of Lincoln, which would place him in Washington, D.C. in 1865: “I was on the theater level when he was shot, and I heard the shot followed by a great commotion that arose from the crowd. It was terrible to hear” (1).
Image 1, Moye
Project Pegasus was more than a time travel program, though. Basagio claims the American government has visited Mars, seen evidence of humanoid intelligent life there, and has kept it secret for fifty years. Basagio’s 2008 paper titled The Discovery of Life on Mars holds:
Photographic evidence and textual analysis of humanoid beings, animal species, carved statues, and built structures on Mars. These were derived from images taken by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on the surface of Mars. His paper, which achieves over 50 “firsts” in science, is the first work to prove that Mars not only harbored life in ancient times but is an inhabited planet today (Basagio 1).
Basagio released this photographic evidence (Image 2, Image 3) in a 2016 paper on the Project Pegasus archives titled Andrew Basagio is Predicted Planetary-level Whistle Blower for Mars Life and Time Travel. He also leaked this information in an interview with Daria Okuneva of TVC-Moscow, a state-run Russian news source. When Okuneva asked about the possibility of a past or present indigenous population of Mars, Basagio responded “Yes. Mars was inhabited in antiquity and is inhabited today” (Basagio 2). Also in this interview, Basagio exposes evidence of liquid water and irrigation technology on our neighbor planet:
In NASA image PIA10214, a lake, azure blue in color, can be seen at the foot of Husband Hill, to the west of the Home Plate Plateau. In NASA image PIA11049, a pipe can be seen, and from it, water can be seen flowing downward into a catch basin. . . Such evidence shows that NASA is attempting to conceal the obvious evidence of life that exists in its own photographs, which is contrary to the mission that the US space agency was given by the US Congress in the NASA Act of 1958, which was to foster "the expansion of human knowledge of… space (Basagio 3).
Images 2 and 3, Basagio
Basagio denies any assertion that this evidence could be an illusion. The government doesn’t want to publicly acknowledge the existence of intelligent life on Mars out of fear of colonization, and to keep the precedent “established by the CIA's Robertson Panel of 1952-53, which has been to deny the existence of extraterrestrial life” (Basagio 4). Andrew D. Basagio has released overwhelming evidence exposing Project Pegasus as a space-time travel program that the American government hides, and a look into his archives can make one think that his claims are too intricate to fabricate. However, a look into his personality, his evidence, and the political state of America in 2008, can turn his research into fantasy.
There is a NASA program called Project Pegasus, initiated in 1962, but the project has nothing to do with space-time travel. “The objective of the Pegasus Meteoroid Project is the collection of the meteoroid penetration data in aluminum panels of three different thicknesses in near-earth orbits” (NASA 9). Not nearly as flashy as moving from 1972 to 1863, but this proves that the Pegasus Project that Andrew D. Basagio exposed did not exist.
Additionally, Basagio described the program as consisting of “over 140 schoolchildren like myself” (Basagio 1), but this makes the conspiracy even more unlikely. Such a large group of people would have had to keep quiet about their secrets and experiences for decades, and not one person has come forward since the claims were made as a participant. He began speaking out about the program in 2008, which was the perfect time to publish an exposé on the American government. There had been decades of public distrust in the government, and for good reason. Administration after administration was caught in scandal, our war in Afghanistan seemed to have no end, and the country was in recovery from one of the worst recessions in recent history. This political state made the public more susceptible to conspiracy, and as covered, Basagio was a smart man. He knew how to gather a following, he had expertise in extraterrestrial research, and he believed in Martian life. Basagio gained influence by referencing blurry, distorted photographs that could be easily mistaken for anything one would claim it to be. He claimed there were large number of participants to make the scale of the conspiracy more dramatic, but this claim ultimately makes his conspiracy unbelievable.
Basagio claims to have worked for the government from the ages of seven to twelve, but he spent this time in second to seventh grade, not in Gettysburg or D.C. He grew up in northern New Jersey and had a normal childhood, though he called himself an Indigo child (Basagio 1). He went to prestigious schools, earned his degrees, and did not get the attention he wanted through his academic achievements. He believed that there was life on Mars and that space-time travel is possible, and he believed that the American government had proof of this. His goal, by spreading his claims, was to make the government release these secrets, and for him to amass popularity as the leader of those that fought for the truth.
Project Pegasus was not what Basagio claims it to have been, but he believed that programs like the one he described existed and were being hidden. To uncover these secrets, he set up the conspiracy theory that he had taken part in Project Pegasus as a child and spoke out against the government, getting the attention he was desperate for in the process.
When Andrew D. Basagio blew the whistle on the top-secret space-time travel program Project Pegasus of the 1970s, he created a conspiracy about the morality of our government:
Do we have technology that the government is hiding from us?
Is there civilization on Mars that we aren’t allowed to know about?
To some, he became a herald of truth in a time plagued by dishonesty and a hope for a futuristic life with the technology he described. To others, he was just another man fabricating stories to gain influence. What the Pegasus Project really was, and if it existed at all, is still a mystery.
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