[TalonDJ]

Trinity happened in 1945. That's seventy-five years. Hart would have been 92 at the time of the explosion. And I doubt he would have been able to go anywhere near the site until after he was 100.

It fits the rest of the writing. And it holds for more conspiracy stuff. You start with traces of actual facts. Throw in a slight dose of rumor and conjecture and then slap in some unsupported conclusions. For example they don't mention that thousands of years old ruins can look 'melted' due to acid rain and other erosion. And they don't mention that volcanoes can throw out glassy bits.

A good example is the part about the Sahara. They start off with facts about how it was once greener, and that there is recent evidence of that, and then the author jumps right to a claim that it was obliterated all at once, without any intervening steps of logic or evidence.

I think there is lots of stuff out there not explained, or totally misunderstood. But the way most 'conspiracy theory' type stuff is so lacking in credibility or logic that it is kind of disappointing. Nazi UFOs or ancient nuclear war would be nifty stuff if there was anything to back it up that had a continous thread of reasoning.

[Señor Zorro]

Nazi UFOs or ancient nuclear war would be nifty stuff if there was anything to back it up that had a continous thread of reasoning.

It would indeed. Actually, I think most conspiracy theorists missed their true callings as scifi or thriller writers. This stuff reads like some awesome fiction, but lacks any credibility as fact (as you rightly point out).