Timeline of Deception
A chronological examination of how the globe earth narrative was constructed through philosophy, assumption, and institutional control.
Research compiled by Austin Witsit
Part 1: Ancient to Pre-Modern (350 BC - 1933)
From Aristotle's philosophical declaration through Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein - how the globe model was built on assumption, guesswork, and mathematical convenience rather than empirical proof.
Part 2: Modern Era (1945 - 1988)
From Operation Paperclip through the moon landing and beyond - the rapid sequence of government operations, agency formations, treaties, and media events that cemented the globe narrative in public consciousness.
Part 1: The Philosophical Foundation
The globe earth model was not discovered through empirical measurement, but constructed through philosophical assumption and mathematical convenience.
Globe Earth Inception
Aristotle allegedly became the first to formally declare the Earth was a sphere. His reasoning was philosophical - he believed the perfect shape was a sphere, therefore the Earth must be a sphere. He noted that moving North and South causes an alteration in the horizon, but this same phenomenon would occur on a plane Earth as well.
"The Pythagorean teaching was founded upon hypothesis and it is not necessary that the hypothesis should be true or even probable."
— Aristotle, On the Heavens
Distance to the Sun - Guesswork
Aristarchus allegedly used the quarter moon phase to determine the distance to the Sun by guessing the angle and estimating that the Moon is one-third as wide as the Earth. He guessed the sun was 19 times as far from Earth as the moon - current claims say it's 400 times as far.
"He guessed that the sun was 19 times as far from the earth as the moon and 19 times as big."
— Historical Record
Eratosthenes Shadow Experiment
Lacking any primary documentation (we only have two contradictory secondary sources), it is said that Eratosthenes noted shadow differences between Syene and Alexandria. Assuming the Earth is a sphere, light rays from the Sun to be parallel, and the sun to be infinitely far away, he calculated a circumference. The same shadow differences would occur with a local sun on a flat plane.
"Even mainstream scientists admit this experiment would work on a flat Earth with a local light source."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Big Think
First Globe Model Created
The Nuremberg Terrestrial Globe (Erdapfel meaning 'Earth Apple') is the oldest existing scale model of Earth. It was created around 1492 by German explorer Martin Behaim. Coincidentally, this is the same year Christopher Columbus allegedly utilized the globe idea to discover the Americas - though he thought he was in India and the globe model was inaccurate.
Copernican Model Introduced (Read Fred Hoyle's Research)
The errors for Mars in the worst circumstances would be more than 15°, errors so gross as to have been unacceptable to astronomers even 1500 years before Copernicus. Ptolemy, working between A. D. 100 and 150, developed a geocentric theory which reduced the discrepancies by more than an order of magnitude - in the case of Mars, from more than 15° to about 1°. Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model using only naked eye observations. He explicitly acknowledged it was simply a model for mathematical simplicity, not necessarily truth. He was never truly persecuted - he lived in a castle while others were being executed for possessing Bibles.
View Source"The hypothesis of the movement of the earth is only one which is useful to explain certain phenomena but it should not be considered as an absolute truth."
— Nicholas Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, 1543
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
Using Tycho Brahe's geocentric model and data, Kepler proposed his ideas of planetary motion. He explicitly acknowledged that theories of heliocentrism were built upon philosophy, not empirical evidence.
"I've demonstrated the redundancy of Earth meaning that the Earth is round and that it moves around the Sun by means of philosophy."
— Johannes Kepler
Venus Size Estimation - More Guesswork
Christian Huygens allegedly used the newly invented telescope to determine the astronomical unit by guessing that Venus was the same size as Earth. He happened to get within 5% of the currently accepted value - by pure coincidence of his guess being correct.
Newton's Gravity Theory
Kevin Kendall explores and documents Hertz proving newtons theory wrong in 1882. Spheres don't naturally stick together. Isaac Newton proposed gravity as a dynamic force. However, he made it abundantly clear he could not conceive of any mechanism other than a direct act of God, and was a major proponent of an ether. He explicitly stated that gravity acting through a vacuum without a medium was absurd.
View Source"That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."
— Isaac Newton, Letter to Bentley, 1692
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed a test that Einstein said 'should have been definitive' in detecting Earth's motion through space. It was over 10 times more sensitive than needed, yet no motion was detected. This showed the Earth was stationary, but the result was rejected due to philosophical commitment to heliocentrism.
View Source"It appears that the Earth may be stationary."
— Albert Michelson
Ionosphere 'Discovery'
Marconi succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean - 2,200 miles - disproving those who said curvature would block the signal at roughly 200 miles. The ionosphere was then theorized to explain how this could be possible on a spherical Earth.
Einstein's Relativity - Saving Heliocentrism
Right after the Michelson Morely experiment, Einstein admits that experiment was his first path that led him to relativity. Primarily in response to the Michelson-Morley experiment, Einstein proposed special and general relativity. These theories were required to keep the heliocentric model alive after the null result showed no Earth motion.
View Source"While I was thinking of this problem in my student years, I came to know the strange result of Michelson's experiment... This was the first path which led me to the special theory of relativity."
— Albert Einstein
Expanding Universe Theory
Edwin Hubble made observations showing a direct relationship between the speeds of distant galaxies and their distances from Earth. Instead of acknowledging Earth's central position, this was interpreted as evidence the universe is expanding equally in all directions - an interpretation required to avoid a privileged Earth position.
"Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe... This hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and will only be accepted as a last resort... The unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs."
— Edwin Hubble
Dark Matter Invented
Fritz Zwicky discovered that the mass of all visible stars in the Coma cluster provided only 1% of the mass needed to keep galaxies from escaping gravitational pull. Instead of questioning gravity theory, 'dark matter' was invented - undefined, undetected matter making up the missing 99%.
Part 2: The Institutional Takeover
A rapid sequence of government operations, intelligence agencies, international treaties, and media events that locked the globe narrative in place.
NACA Founded
Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) with the mission 'to separate the real from the imagined and make known the overlooked and unexpected in the quest for flight.' In 1958, NACA's staff, facilities and know-how were transitioned to the newly created NASA.
View SourceOperation Paperclip
The U.S. government secretly brought over roughly 1,600 Nazi scientists and engineers. Wernher von Braun, who had previously created fake space propaganda for the Nazi regime, was put in charge of space exploration for the United States. He had Psalm 19:1 (referencing the firmament) put on his tombstone and reportedly told his secretary that space propaganda was being used to lie to the public.
View SourceOperation High Jump
The United States explored the Antarctic region, founding the first American base in Antarctica called 'Little America.' This was led by Admiral Richard Byrd, who later stated on national television that there was 'an area as big as the continental United States on the other side of Antarctica that remains unexplored with tons of resources.' He died shortly after making this statement.
View SourceCIA Founded
The National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA as an independent civilian intelligence agency. The CIA later admitted to Operation Mockingbird (media infiltration), MK Ultra (mind control experiments on unwitting citizens), and numerous other deception programs.
View SourceThe Mars Project Written
Wernher von Braun authored a science fiction book detailing the first civilization on Mars, established by a character with the title 'Elon.' This is decades before Elon Musk's Mars ambitions.
View SourceNSA Founded
The NSA was founded by President Harry Truman. Originally promised to never be used on domestic Americans, the NSA was later exposed for mass surveillance of all American communications.
View SourceOperation Deep Freeze
A series of U.S. missions to Antarctica began, leading into the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 - a collaborative effort among 40 nations regarding the North and South Pole explorations.
View SourceDEW Line & Firmament Mapping ~ Ijaz Durrani
This paper revisits the once-sacred term celestial firmament, reinterpreting it through contemporary astrophysics, cosmology, and mathematical topology. From its origin as a divine canopy in ancient cosmology to its echoes in brane-world physics and holographic duality, we explore whether the firmament is a poetic relic or a veiled reality. The study unifies geometric metaphors, observational data. The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radar system was set up to monitor any activity north of the 55th latitude. In the same year, classified CIA documents (not declassified until 2000) describe using 'a visual photometer of the daytime sky intended for measuring the brightness of the firmament' with calculations 'derived on the assumption of a flat Earth.'
View SourceNASA Founded
After extensive exploration and monitoring of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, NASA was founded 'to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere.' NACA's infrastructure from 1915 was absorbed into NASA.
View SourceAntarctic Treaty Signed
The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington by 12 countries, entering into force in 1961. Now ratified by 56 nations, this treaty restricts free and private exploration of the Antarctic region. The official emblem depicts Antarctica at the center of a flat plane projection.
View SourceDIA Founded
The Defense Intelligence Agency was founded with only 25 personnel in borrowed Pentagon space. Another intelligence agency added to the growing surveillance apparatus.
View SourceOperation Fishbowl
Operation Fishbowl (part of the larger Operation Dominic, meaning 'of the Lord') was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests. The first successful missile was named 'Starfish Prime.' High-altitude tests actually began in 1958 - the same year NASA was founded.
View SourceJFK Announces Moon Landing
President Kennedy gave a speech announcing that America would land on the moon within eight years: 'We choose to go to the moon in this decade... not because they are easy, but because they are hard.'
View SourceOuter Space Treaty & Gus Grissom Death (Colin Burgess speaks about who he was in this source)
The Outer Space Treaty was signed, providing international framework on space law. In the same year, Apollo astronaut Gus Grissom - who was openly critical of the Apollo program and had hung a lemon on the lunar module - died in a suspicious fire during routine testing when pure oxygen was pumped in and the door locked from outside.
View Source2001: A Space Odyssey Released
Stanley Kubrick's film about a moon landing mission won Film of the Year and normalized the previously unheard-of idea that people could land on the moon - released just one year before the alleged moon landing.
View SourceApollo 11 Moon Landing
Men allegedly stepped foot on the moon, just within the close of the decade as JFK predicted. No human has claimed to return to the lunar surface since 1972 - over five decades later.
View SourceThe Blue Marble Photo
The famous first shot of Earth from space. There was not another claimed 'real' photo of the entire Earth until 2015 - almost 50 years. The Blue Marble of 2002 (iPhone default wallpaper) was admitted by creator Robert Simmons to be 'photoshopped because it has to be.'
View SourceNorth Warning System
The Distant Early Warning Line was replaced with the North Warning System, which is still active today monitoring all movement north of the 55th latitude. Combined with Antarctic restrictions, both poles remain off-limits to private exploration.
View SourceThe Pattern Emerges
From 1945 to 1959, in just 14 years: Operation Paperclip brought Nazi rocket scientists to the US, Antarctic exploration was locked down, the CIA, NSA, and DIA were founded, the North and South poles were restricted and monitored, NASA was created, and the Antarctic Treaty was signed by all major nations.
The globe earth model was not discovered through rigorous scientific testing - it was constructed through philosophical assumption (Aristotle, Copernicus), protected from falsification (Einstein's relativity after Michelson-Morley), and institutionally enforced through an unprecedented sequence of government operations and international treaties.
"Philosophy is not science. Sun worship is not science. Blind guesses due to simpler math is not science. Ignoring evidence is not science. Consensus is not science. CGI is not science. Presupposition is not science."
— Austin Witsit