Mike Bara

[[File:George Noory (2774042286).jpg|thumb|right|165px|Mike Bara (left) with [[George Noory]] of Coast to Coast AM]]
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'''Mike Bara''' is an [[United States|American]] [[author]] of unintentional fiction, and a general laughingstock among those who actually understand [[physics]], [[astronomy]], and the history of spaceflight. He describes himself as "a born-again [[conspiracy theorist]]."

He has written eight and a half nonfiction books, whose defining feature is the total, laughable inaccuracy of most of his statements on science topics. He has appeared as a talking head on the all-bullshit TV series ''[[Ancient Aliens]]'', again making frequent howling errors of the type that would make a 6<sup>th</sup> grade science student cringe.<ref group="note">Bara also appeared on [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10404822/ ''Truth Behind the Moon Landing''] but on that series he performed as a mere puppet, reciting a memorized script that expressed opinions he does not actually hold himself</ref> Bara is an [[evolution denial|evolution denier]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150414164207/https://twitter.com/mikebara33/status/445573758737059840 Bara on Twitter, March 2014]: "We do believe science is real. That's why we conclude evolution is a crock of shit.", in a reply to a user exasperated that they had "moved to a country where people do not believe science is real"</ref> and a [[Global_warming_denial|global warming denier]].<ref>[http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-satellite-temperature-data-proves.html New Satellite Temperature Data Proves That NASA/NOAA Claim that 2014 is "The Hottest Year on Record" is a Lie &mdash; Bara's blog]</ref>

In common with other delusional people who are [[fractally wrong]], Bara makes debate with him impossible. His immediate response to any challenge is [[Argumentum ad hominem|insult]], then if pressed he will descend to the next fractal level, typically by retorting "I never said that" even when confronted with ''verbatim'' quotes from his own writings.<ref group="note">See, for example, [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-quick-listing-of-things-my-critics.html this blog post] from July 2014, in which he denies ever having said that orbital eccentricity is measured from the [[Earth]], or that centrifugal force makes you heavier. Both statements are documented. See ''Ancient Aliens on Mars'', p.42, and ''The Choice'', p.32. About the centrifugal force error, Bara soared to the heights of absurdity on Facebook in September 2012. To a critic who drew his attention to the error, he wrote "Show me the quote asshole. It doesn't say that. And it was a misprint anyway."</ref> So, he's a liar as well.

==Education, work experience==
Bara was born in Auburn, [[Washington]] State on 26 January 1960. He attended Chief Sealth high school,<ref>[http://www.classmates.com/people/Mike-Bara/561451041 Classmates.com, Chief Sealth Class of 78]</ref> then registered at Seattle Pacific University but dropped out. For several years he made a living as a CAD-CAM technician (basically a jumped-up draughtsman) in the aerospace industry. After being laid off by Boeing, he met the pseudoscientist [[Richard C. Hoagland]], who persuaded him that there was an easier living to be made publishing utter balderdash and pretending it was science. For some time Bara ghosted articles for Hoagland's appalling website, [http://www.enterprisemission.com The Enterprise Mission],<ref group="note">It has been said of that website "The 90s called. They want their HTML back"</ref> then did most of the work on a jointly-authored book, ''Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA'', while Hoagland took most of the credit. The book was ranked 21st on The New York Times listing for paperback nonfiction for the week of November 18, 2007. This ranking might be a legitimate source of pride for any author, but since the "Best Seller List" is, by definition, a list of the top twenty sellers, this book missed it by one ranking point, and instead led the "Also Selling" list.<ref>See [https://web.archive.org/web/20121229083804/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/bestseller/1118bestpapernonfiction.html the archived NYT page]</ref> That does not stop its authors from describing themselves, often and insistently, as "NYT best-selling authors."

=="Literary" (ROFL) work==
''Dark Mission'' was an attack on [[NASA]] and on several other organizations and people who had failed to worship at the altar of Hoagland over the years. One critic, writing for Amazon, wrote of this work:

:''As a scientist … I was sent an advance copy of ''Dark Mission'' to review for a prestigious national publication. Even though it cost me the fee I would have received for writing the review, I convinced the publication's editor that the book was worthless and not deserving of any review. … My professional critical conclusion was that it was so false that it was not worthy of a review in a serious publication. It is bunk &mdash; bunkity bunk bunk &mdash; of the worst sort.''<ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1PALA49SG6SMH/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1932595481</ref>

Bara's first book as sole author was an attempt to cash in on the public fear of the [[Mayan apocalypse]] in December 2012. Named ''The Choice'', it advanced the startling idea that anyone can choose to make the world whatever he or she wishes, merely by choosing it, kind of like the [[law of attraction]] which had been popular 4 years earlier. Bara did not address the question of how seven billion people can simultaneously change the world to suit their personal tastes.

To give a flavor of the laughable inaccuracy of this work, it contained this passage in support of the discredited theory of planetary formation by solar fission:

:''[[Mars]]'s orbit is so eccentric that its distance from Earth goes from 34 million miles at its closest to 249 million miles at its greatest'' (''The Choice,'' p. 34.)<ref group="note">Mars' orbit is quite circular (eccentricity = 0.0934). Rather than measuring from the Sun, Bara has measured eccentricity by the distance from Earth, which changes as they do not orbit together. Confronted about this by a caller when Bara was guesting on [[Coast to Coast AM]], Bara retorted "I never said that" (even though the caller was reading ''verbatim'' from the book.) More on this in [http://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/category/solar-system-formation/ Exposing Pseudoastronomy, November 2011]. Bara compounded the error by repeating it almost word-for-word in a later book, ''Ancient Aliens on Mars''.</ref>

Unabashed by the failure of this book to attract any serious attention, Bara next attempted to cash in on the popularity of the rubbish TV series [[Ancient Aliens]], writing 232 pages of garbage titled ''Ancient Aliens on the Moon''. One of his prize exhibits, which he devoted most of a chapter to, was what he called a ziggurat on the far side of the Moon. He found the image on a video-game forum, [http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/ Call of Duty Zombies]. Even though at the time he had no idea where the image originally came from, he went ahead and published the "fact" that there was a one-mile square ziggurat on the [[Moon]]. After publication, critics<ref group="note">See, for example, blog posts by [http://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/where-is-the-lunar-ziggurat-anyway Astronomer Dr. Stuart Robbins] and [http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-eagle-has-landed-and-richard.html "expat" in the Emoluments of Mars blog]</ref> pointed out that far better imagery of that site, not only from an advanced NASA/JPL orbiter but also from the Japanese orbiter ''Selene'', clearly showed that there was no such structure. Nevertheless Bara insisted that the teenage gaming version, ''whose provenance, remember, he knew nothing about'', was the only trustworthy image of that site.

This belligerent author returned to the topic in his next book, even though it had nothing whatever to do with the book's subject matter. In a long foreword<ref>Bara [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2013/10/excerpt-from-forward-to-my-new-book.html referred to this in his blog as a "forward"]</ref> to ''Ancient Aliens on Mars'' he launched an attack on his critics, accusing them of sending sexually harassing messages to his attractive female [[Facebook]] friends,<ref group="note">In April 2008, on the original ''Dark Mission'' blog, Bara posted "I live on Redondo Beach, California, I drive a 2007 BMW 5 Series, I’m a New York Times bestselling author, and I hang out with strippers and porn starlets half my age."</ref> reiterating his insistence that the Call of Duty image was authentic, and utterly failing to explain why the ziggurat did not appear on the better and more recent imagery.

The body of the book was one chapter of boilerplate Mars-stuff copied from the net, followed by seven chapters of absolute rubbish copied from [[Richard Hoagland]].

''Ancient Aliens on Mars II'', published in July 2014, contained nothing quite as comical as the belligerent "forward" [sic] of its antecedent, but it made up for it in other ways. Pages 139-140 contained a strongly-written denial that [[pareidolia]] is a real phenomenon.

{{quotebox|"According to the debunker crowd, pareidolia is a supposed human tendency to recognize facial characteristics where none actually exist. This mythical, made-up tendency has no basis in fact, has never been written up or published in any scientific or medical journal, and has failed to meet even the most basic standards of a true medical or psychological disorder."<ref group="note">Of course, nobody is claiming that pareidolia is a ''disorder''. On the contrary, it is a highly adaptive feature of humans and probably many animals also.</ref>}}

There follow approximately 100 images of Martian rock formations that very precisely illustrate the power of pareidolia &mdash; not merely pseudo-recognition of faces, but of whole animals, buildings, bits of machinery etc. Some samples:<ref>Most of these can be seen on [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2014/07/images-for-tonights-coast-to-coast-am.html Mike Bara's blog]</ref>
*A roadrunner
*A parrot
*A portrait of Queen Nefertiti
*A replica of the Theme restaurant at Los Angeles airport
*A grove of palm trees (this one can only be seen correctly when viewed upside down)
*A skull (well, several skulls)
*A projector
*A Hasselblad camera
*An adjustable wrench

In an introductory passage, this comedy of an author wrote that the book was about "…the kind of truth that you can only know in your heart and in your mind." In other words, not the kind of truth that is actually… er, ''true''.

In ''Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies'' (2015), Bara claimed that NASA is run by mystics who worship Egyptian Gods, and the Agency times all launches according to [[Astrology|astrological]] readings. He wrote "What I do know is that NASA continues to follow these rituals to this day, on virtually every mission they undertake." Sadly, he quite forgot to produce any shred of evidence for this self-evidently daft claim.

''Hidden Agenda: NASA and the Secret Space Program'' (2016) was likewise very short on evidence. One of Bara's principal themes was that the real secret purpose of Project Apollo was to retrieve the technology of the [[Anunnaki]] from the Moon. He offered no actual evidence of this at all, instead preferring to speculate about ruins that NASA covered up. In later chapters, he affirmed that sources such as [[Bob Lazar]] and Clifford Stone are reliable and accurate. He also expressed a strong belief in [[Project Serpo]].

===Explorer 1===
Nothing illustrates Bara's abject ignorance of technical matters better than the case of Explorer 1, the very first American satellite (launched 31 Jan 1958).

The brainchild of Wernher von Braun, Explorer 1 was the success the nation craved after several failed attempts to match the Soviet achievement of Sputnik 1. Because of the imprecision of the rocket fuels of the 1950s, and the fact that the Juno rocket had no guidance after first-stage burnout, the orbit parameters were not exactly as planned. It went into a 223 x 1592 mi orbit, cf. the planned 220 x 1000 mi.<ref>[https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1224/1 The twelve-minute hiatus of Explorer 1] The Space Review, by Stuart Harris, 6 October 2008</ref> Given that the Earth's diameter is 7922 mi, that makes its semi-major axis 4868 mi, cf. the planned 4571, an excess of 6.5%.

Mike Bara, unschooled in orbital mechanics and having no flair for mathematics, totally botched this story. He compared the apogee as measured from the Earth's surface with the planned apogee and quite incorrectly deduced that the rocket had 60% excess power.<ref>Bara 2011, ch.12</ref> He wrote:

:''I won't bore you with the details, but the fact is a miscalculation of that type simply cannot happen.'' (''The Choice'', p.144)

He should, perhaps, have bored himself with a little research on the topic. As he did not, he utterly embarrassed himself by writing an entire chapter about some imaginary "anti-gravity effect" on the basis of a fundamental error. Bara repeated the exact same error in his 2016 book ''Hidden Agenda''.

==="Crystal towers of the Moon"===
In his book ''Hidden Agenda'' (2016), Bara used [http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/67 this image] from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing a landslide down the rim of crater Marius, in the Ocean of Storms. But he turned it upside down and claimed it was a crystal tower.<ref>See [https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7i1lInUj34 Bara's lecture, ''Contact in the Desert'' 2017] at 37:33 "When you flip it upside down it becomes this."</ref> His caption was ''Jagged, crystalline spires poking miles above the surface of the Moon''. Luckily for Mike Bara, there is no organization policing non-fiction books and banning authors who use blatant trickery to make their points.

[[Image:Morningstar_deception.gif|thumb|center|The "Crystal City" compared with an inversion of the LRO image]]

Piling dishonesty on dishonesty, on 5 May 2018, in answer to an interview question, Bara categorically denied that he turned the Marius image upside down.<ref>[https://www.neelyproductionsinc.com/themartianrevelationshow ''The Martian Revelation''] at 02:14:00 "I did not do that"</ref> Another example of "fractally wrong."

Bara used the same fraudulent image, with the same dishonest caption, in his 2018 book "Ancient Aliens and JFK."

Lecturing at ''Contact in the Desert'' on 9 June 2018, Bara told his audience that there were glass structures in large areas of the Moon, and moreover, he said, this is what accounts for the fact that some parts of the Moon are darker than others. He said "[W]hat seems to be happening is light takes a little bit longer to get to the ground and bounce back to the camera. And that's why you see this darkness in these areas."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180929103652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VehDKUvt5o0 ''Mike Bara 2018 Contact in the Desert Free Lecture] (at 17:17)</ref><ref group="note">The dark appearance of the lunar ''mares'' is due to the fact that they are composed of volcanic basalt. If light were delayed by passing through glass, it would not cause the darkening Bara suggests.</ref>

==Talents==
Judged purely as performances, Bara's TV and radio appearances are pretty good. He can deliver the stuff on cue. He's also shown himself capable of delivering book chapters on time, per contract. All this has great appeal for producers and publishers who are too ignorant to understand that what they're looking at is worthless, such as [[Giorgio Tsoukalos]], Robert Kiviat and [[David Hatcher Childress]].

Bara's other talents are for insulting his many critics, and also for arrogance.

He wrote in his blog "I must admit I take delight in humiliating people who think they're smarter than me". By "humiliating", he generally means just name-calling, not actual rebuttal of objections to his work. The favorite epithet is ''[[douchebag]]'' &mdash; which is strange because it seems unlikely that Mike, the all-American boy, has ever seen a douchebag. (Perhaps it takes one to know one.) To one female critic, he wrote:
:''God Sarah I just looked at you pictures [sic] on your Facebook page. Please don't reproduce. You are just too ugly to be allowed to have children.''

See also his comment directed at Tara Jordan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGGZl7x2n0U here].

To a male critic he wrote, in e-mail:
:''I hear John Travolta is looking for a new masseuse. I'm sure you qualify.''

Bara clearly considers insinuations of [[homosexuality]] a stinging insult &mdash; not everyone would agree about that. In the height of the controversy over the non-existent lunar ziggurat, Bara wrote:
:''"I am going to utterly and completly [sic] destroy you" "When I create a masterpiece such as this and smite my enemies, I love me some me [sic]...." "HAHAHAHA Haters!!!!! I have you now. I shall be merciless, and slow"''

This is what the output of a third-rate author looks like when he doesn't have an editor to correct his copy.

He seems recently to have changed his preferred insult to "dingbat" and discovered calling a woman a [[transsexual]] or – gasp! – a man is almost as much fun as calling people gay. [https://plus.google.com/photos/108348453161239832103/albums/5787528640262041617/5787528725674483730?banner=pwa&pid=5787528725674483730&oid=108348453161239832103]

Here's a screenshot, in case he has the self-awareness to delete the comments. [[:Image:Screen Shot 2014-10-24 at 4.20.00 PM.png]]<ref group="note">The image at issue is a version of [https://web.archive.org/web/20090706091547/http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/photos/32-s/as10-32-4820.jpg this Apollo 10 shot]. A 10x8 glossy print was stored in a binder by [[Ken Johnston]] for approx. 30 years. It was then retrieved and scanned on [[Richard Hoagland]]'s office scanner. The scanner was obviously contaminated &mdash; a human hair is clearly visible &mdash; and when Hoagland slammed the brightness up to max every scratch and smear on the scanner glass appeared in the all-black lunar sky. Hoagland & Bara triumphantly proclaimed that Johnston's print revealed glass towers that NASA had since "airbrushed out."</ref>

In October 2017, Bara's response to a critic posting to [https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMikeBara his author Facebook page] was "Lick my balls, assshole [sic]."

===Sexual harassment===
Bara has accused his critics, in addition to being homosexual, of sending sexually harassing messages to his attractive female Facebook friends. He has even made this accusation in a published book.<ref>Foreword to ''Ancient Aliens on Mars''</ref> When challenged to provide evidence of this allegation, he has exercised his right to remain silent.

There is, however, evidence of harassment in the reverse direction. [http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-facebook-conversation.html This blogpost] from March 2013 transcribes a Facebook exchange between James Concannon, one of Bara's critics, and Sara Shanae, one of Mike Bara's FB friends and supporters. WARNING: NSFW.

==Political opinions==
[[File:Kenyan.png|thumb|Bara's FB text 9/10/13]]
On 10 September 2013, on Facebook, Mike Bara gave his opinion of President Obama:
:"[A] Kenyan douchebag impersonating an American speaking in phony platitudes."

His comment on the death of Senator John McCain, 26 August 2018, was "Rot in hell."

==Religious opinions==
On 18 June 2015, after the papal encyclical '''Laudito Si''', Mike Bara offered this advice to his holiness:
:"Dear [[Pope Francis]]; Stay out of the debate on the Global Warming Scam and stick to molesting altar boys you [[Illuminati]] whore."

On 26 July 2016, showing equal contempt for English orthography and religious freedom, Bara tweeted "Go back to the 3rd world shithole you came from Muslim's."

==Cultural sensitivity==
On 9 October 2015, after a flight on Spirit Airlines LAX-DFW, Bara tweeted "Now I know how the [[Jews]] felt on the train to [[Auschwitz|auchwitz]] [sic]."

==Opinions of working scientists==
Responding to [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]'s dictum "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it", Bara wrote<ref>Facebook, 5 June 2014</ref> "The great thing about truth is that it eventually becomes self-evident no matter what the scientific [[materialist]]s believe."

He added, "Trust me, neither you nor NDGT would like to see me debate him. He'd get beat worse than the Broncos in the Super Bowl." In a [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2014/09/neil-degrasse-tyson-science-choad.html blog post] on 22 September 2014, Bara described Tyson as a "science choad."<ref group="note">The urban dictionary [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=choad defines a choad] as a short, fat penis.</ref>

At other times he has expressed contempt for the late [[Stephen Hawking]],<ref>"He’s just a sad, broken man who has lost his way" Mike Bara's blog, May 2011</ref> [[Gerry Soffen]] and [[Michio Kaku]]. He described [[Phil Plait]] as "a grotesque little toad of [a] man,"<ref>''Bara 2014, p.70</ref> and Stuart Robbins as "my sworn enemy" and "A Paid Shill For NASA." He wrote "[F]rankly, taking one look at him, it’s pretty obvious he’s never even kissed a girl, or if he has, she wasn’t exactly a “Penny”<ref>Believed to be a reference to a character in the TV comedy series ''The Big Bang Theory''</ref> in the looks department." He then posted a [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e0sHw6UnIwk/UdMoru8ewlI/AAAAAAAACrQ/4_urCJoyEbw/s400/shana.jpg jpg of him cuddling Shana Eva], an attractive (but married) actress at the Conscious Life Expo.<ref>[http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2013/10/nasas-dr-stuart-robbins-gift-that-keeps_6823.html Blog, 2 October 2013]</ref>

==Opinions of astronauts — ''astronomic'' levels of projection==
Bara has written that [[John Glenn]] is a liar<ref>Bara 2016, p.174. See [[John_Glenn#Guest_appearance_on_Frasier|this section]]</ref> and that Apollo 12 LMP Al Bean deliberately ruined the new color TV camera to avoid showing alien cities on the Moon.<ref>Ibid., p.115. Bean and his Commander Pete Conrad nevertheless shot four magazines of high quality 70mm stills without apparently worrying about revealing [[Anunnaki]].</ref> He reiterated his opinion of Glenn in [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2016/12/john-glenn-rip.html a blogpost] on the occasion of Glenn's death in December 2016. When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, Bara also called him a liar, writing on Facebook:
{{cquote|RIP Neil Armstrong - a true American hero who wanted to tell the truth but was loyal to his oath.}}

==Words of wisdom==
In a [http://mikebara.blogspot.com/2012/12/connecticut-school-shootings-generate.html blog post on December 15 2012], Mike Bara wrote the <strike>nauseating cliché</strike> wise and profound thoughts on the [[Sandy Hook massacre]] saying, ''"out of tragedy we have at least one more proof that we are all connected, that there is a Force of love out there that binds us all together. Such proof can at least give us hope and comfort knowing that there is something beyond this crude, material existence we all inhabit."'' Incidentally he mentioned his recently published book three times.

After the {{wpl|Sutherland Springs church shooting}} in November 2017, Bara tweeted "''[The shooter] was Trump-hating [[Antifa]] [[terrorist]]. That's all you need to know.''" That allegation is totally untrue—it was a [[canard]] put about by [[4chan]] and other fake news sites.<ref name="Snopes.com">{{cite web|last1=Mikkelson|first1=David|url=https://www.snopes.com/texas-church-shooter-antifa|title=Was the Texas Church Shooter an Antifa Member Who Vowed to Start Civil War?|publisher=Snopes.com|date=November 5, 2017|accessdate=November 6, 2017}}</ref>

==Publications==
*{{cite book |last1=Hoagland |first1=Richard C. |last2=Bara |first2=Mike |title=Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA |publisher=Feral House |location=Port Townsend |pages=634 |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-932-59526-0}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=The Choice |publisher=New Page |location=Pompton Plains, NJ |pages=240 |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-60163-144-2}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Ancient Aliens on the Moon |publisher=Adventures Unlimited |location=Kempton, IL |pages=256 |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-935487-85-2}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Ancient Aliens on Mars |publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=286 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-935487-89-0}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Ancient Aliens on Mars II|publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=294 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2014 |isbn=978-1939149-31-2}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies|publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=288 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2015 |isbn=978-1939149404}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Hidden Agenda: NASA and the Secret Space Program|publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=208 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2016 |isbn=978-1939149664}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Lightbringer: A Dark Mission Novel|publisher=Star Spin Press (self-published) |pages=493 |year=2017 |ASIN=B077T2RBRL}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=Ancient Aliens & JFK: The Race to the Moon and the Kennedy Assassination|publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=288 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2018 |isbn=978-1939149992}}

*{{cite book |last=Bara |first=Mike |title=The Triangle: The truth behind the world's most enduring mystery|publisher=Adventures Unlimited |pages=191 |location=Kempton, IL |year=2019 |asin=B07SVG79C5}}


==See also==
*[[Lunar anomalies]]

==External links==
*[http://mikebara.blogspot.com/ Mike Bara's blog]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3796770 Mike Bara at the IMDB]
*[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-bara/4b/488/7b4 Mike Bara at LinkedIn]
*[http://americanloons.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/469-mike-bara.html Encyclopedia of American Loons, #469]; Mike Bara
*[https://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/mike-baras-new-agey-anti-science-beliefs-from-bad-geometry-to-astrology-to-exploding-planets/ ''Exposing Pseudoastronomy'' blog on Bara's anti-science beliefs, 10 November 2011]

==Notes==
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==References==
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