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“This page is dedicated to what many have called The New Renaissance Man. You will find the many facets of James M. McCanney, including the Space Science Theory that has withstood decades of change and new information. In a world full of mis-information, crooked politicians, government supported scientists, scammers and people with hidden agendas ... who do you believe?

Guy Spiro: Jim, I was born in 1952 and I waited decades to see Haley’s Comet. Because of the stories I heard when I was a kid, I thought the tail was going to streak half way across the night sky. It was a real disappointment.

James M. McCanney: With the 1910 Haley’s comet, the Earth actually passed through the tail. The next visitation, which was 1986, was way out there from Earth, and for the average person it was not much to see.

GS: We drove way out into the cornfields to get away from the city lights, and when we finally spotted it, it only had about a half-inch tail.

JM: It wasn’t until the ’90s that a couple exciting comets came through. Hyakutake came fairly close and in fact was the first comet in which they discovered x-rays. That confirmed one of my early predictions. In my papers of 1979, I predicted there should be x-rays on the sunward side of comets. That was reconfirmed when Hale-Bopp came through. That huge comet lasted for a period of six years.

GS: But also wasn’t tremendously visible.

JM: No, in spite of the fact that it at one point it had a tail 200 miles long. Our closest approach was about 110 million miles, so we didn’t really get that close to it. If we had, that would have been a real light show in the sky.

GS: Now when Haley’s Comet came through in 1910, and we actually passed through the tail, why were there not significant Earth changes or things that were more noticeable?

JM: There were tremendous scares. People committed suicide. It was reported that there was cyanide in the tail of Haley’s Comet and of course, when it happened, nothing happened, nobody died, except for the people that committed suicide. But astronomers always point to that and say, “See? Comets are harmless things.” But if we had passed through the tail of Hale-Bopp, it would have been a different story. That was a huge comet on a totally different scale. Haley’s is a little teeny poof ball and Hale-Bopp is an enormous comet with tremendous activity. The main point of all of my theoretical work is that comets are not dirty snowballs, but are an electrical plasma phenomenon involving an astroidal, rocky nucleus and what I call the “solar capacitor.” It’s an electrical capacitor, much like a backyard bug zapper; when an object comes into our solar system, it likewise discharges the solar capacitors, and what we see is this discharge and we call it a comet. My contention is that NASA is totally wrong about this Dirty Snow Ball melting model, and in fact, these objects are drawing in the tail material.

GS: We know that if you wait long enough, everything will happen. We know from the crater in the Yucatan and from other visible signs that the planet has been hit. If it’s happened before, it will happen again. But one of the things that concerns me is all the predictions that have been made for calamitous things that are hyped up and generate fear — most recently Y2K, and before that there was the end of the Aztec calendar, various planetary alignments, people claiming to understand Nostradamus — it goes on. Certainly at some point something will hit, but we have scare after scare and nothing does happen. Now we’re being told by some people that Planet X is going to hit in May, and we’re going to be flash frozen like the Woolly Mammoths.

JM: (Laughing) Exactly. Some of these stories that are false, I’m convinced, are actually created by government agencies to create a Y2K-type of scenario to desensitize the public to the whole idea of a large object coming into the solar system, so that if it ever does happen, they’ll just point and say, “don’t worry about that, that’s just those crazy Planet X People again.” There is evidence that the prediction of May, 2003, and that someone has heard this from Aliens is actually a crazy story designed to make it a crazy story.

GS: Do we have a direction from which we can expect Planet X to come, and is anybody looking? Have we pointed the Hubble telescope at it, or anything like that?

JM: Let’s talk about the government and their equipment which we paid for. They don’t release data anymore. NASA scientists don’t release data to the public. There are official NASA news release agencies and they are very tight lipped. With all of the Planet X talk on the Internet and all of the jabber going on (and it’s really one of the hottest topics on the Internet today), NASA, our 13 billion dollar a year space agency, has never made a public statement — what they’ve seen, what they’ve not seen. We’re in a very funny position because, as an independent scientist myself, I require data and I don’t have access to any because NASA holds it. So I have put together some teams, based on NASA internal studies from the 1990s in which a scientist named Richard Harrington (who was at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., under NASA contract) determined the location of a very large object coming into our solar system from the very far south. It’s only visible during the month of May and only from New Zealand or a location farther south, into the Arctic Circle. It is not a place where the average person would be able to go and view this object coming in. In 1991, he was using an 8-inch Astrograph, which is basically a high precision camera with only an 8-inch lens. He was totally convinced, in his internal NASA documents, that he had found what we call Planet X.

GS: There are several instances of what I think of as Fundamentalist Science — where they have a whole body of knowledge that they’ve amassed and careers have been built upon it and there is no interest in anomalies. The Sphinx is several thousand years older than mainstream archeology and mainstream Egyptology will admit ... in the face of visible evidence.

JM: That’s a very interesting point. We have all heard of the New York plumber who went to visit the Sphinx. His job was to investigate water damage in buildings. When he examined it, he said that the Sphinx had been under water up to “this” level. The archeologists freaked out. They didn’t want to accept it, and that’s exactly what you’re saying, but the world over archeology is at odds with the fact that many of these ancient cultures met a very cataclysmic demise.

GS: It’s become very clear that there is a pre-history that we have very little remembrance of. And of course, we come to Velikovsky’s work, Mankind and Amnesia, and his other books.

JM: Right, and Velikovsky is very misunderstood. He grew up in Israel. His father was the curator of the museum. Being in that area, it is one of the more important museums in the entire world. It draws from all of that area, from Egypt, Israel — ancient history back to the Sumerians. He could read Sanskrit and had a Ph.D. in Psychology, and that is where he got the concept of collective amnesia — that some past event was so terrible that mankind actually wanted to forget it. He was studying a very esoteric topic on his own. He wanted to connect the timelines of all the cultures around the world. What he wanted to do was to see if there was some worldwide event that would line up the timeline in Tibet with China, Egypt, and Sumeria — some major event that happened the whole world over.

He came up with the concept that Venus had been a very large comet, had ravaged the Earth on two separate occasions, and then settled into what became the planet Venus today. He published these books in 1948. Worlds in Collision was followed by Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos in the early ’50s. The public loved these books. They were the biggest selling books that McMillan Publishing had ever had. Of course, McMillan was a textbook company, and academia just went berserk! They banned these books in colleges and went to McMillan and said they wouldn’t buy their textbooks if they continued selling these books. So McMillan gave their best selling book to Doubleday.

GS: I didn’t have a problem with the amnesia aspect. I used to say that if we had had a full scale nuclear exchange with the Soviets and lost our ability to recreate our technology, how many generations would it take before almost everything was relegated to myth?

JM: Absolutely. In the case of disastrous things, people tend to want to forget them, so it’s kind of the ability of man’s consciousness to alter history to make it OK. Worlds in Collision deals with the interpretation of ancient languages, showing that all over the world cultures recognized Venus as a large comet. He goes through all of the world’s interpretations of the word. The second book deals with the geological record and the third book brings it all together to talk about the calendar changes. Most of the people that criticize Velikovsky have never read his books, that’s the biggest thing I noticed in dealing with it.

GS: I want to go back to the Sphinx and the pyramids which are still lined up astronomically. If the Sphinx is ten to twelve thousand years old, which it would have to be in order to line up with Leo, how is it that it is still where it was if there was such a crust shift 3,600 or 7,200 years ago?

JM: What’s very interesting is that if you look at how the shift occurred, Egypt was one of the places that did not change a whole lot. Take a globe and put your fingers one at the north pole and one at the south pole and look at the equator. You spin it, and there’s the equator line around the middle, nicely marked. Now take a finger and put it north of the state of Wisconsin right in the middle of what we call the Laurentian Ice Shield. That’s what we call the old North Pole. Now take your other finger and put it directly opposite on the globe and you’ll end up with that finger in the south Indian Ocean. Now spin the globe and look at where the equator would be. If that is, in fact, where the pole shift caused by Venus sending a large gravitational wave into the mantle and pushing it around, then what you find is that Egypt didn’t move very much. Venus must have come very close to Earth over one of the poles. That gravitational wave wrenched the mantle over the core of our Earth just as if it were a softboiled egg. This did not affect the core dramatically, it kept spinning in approximately the same direction. So it’s a wrenching movement. The poles actually shifted about 30 degrees, but oddly enough Egypt just twisted a little.

GS: Well, if that were true, it would explain why Egypt was one of the major surviving cultures. I would think that it might be a good thing to know when something like this is going to occur, but on the other hand I don’t see how there could be a lot of effective preparation for it. If the mantle were to shift that abruptly, it would knock everything down.

JM: Right, and that is the statement that comes out of the Old Testament, which is very much a textbook on cataclysm events — we’re talking the flood, fire and brimstone, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah — these things came out of the sky.

GS: The Tower of Babel, I think, is the most fascinating story along these lines. Humanity tried to build a tower to heaven, and God was affronted and struck it down, and created the division of languages. What could that be but the destruction of a global civilization, perhaps something like our own?

JM: Right, just look around the globe. There’s an ancient temple city 2,000 feet under the ocean off the coast of Cuba. We’re finding very many coastal cities that come out of the water. There’s a road that goes out of the Yucatan and simply goes down into the water.

GS: And the Mediterranean was a river valley, that’s where the Deluge story comes from. I believe that in the next 20-30 years we’re going to find out some mind blowing things about what is still considered prehistory. If we get access to Mesopotamia, what is buried there?

GS: It’s fascinating, what is over there and what we’re going to find out. The city of Babylon still stands.

JM: Absolutely, and of course, the original use of the city of Babylon was to study the motion of the heavens. That was one of the primary things they were doing with the original platform.

GS: OK, on to Zacharia Sitchin. He has said that he has translated the clay tablets found in Ur and has come up with the story of Nibiru, which seems to pretty closely correspond to what we’re talking about when we talk about Planet X.

JM: Exactly. Here is my personal read on the story of Nibiru. It goes along with many other’s references, one coming from the Kobrin Bible, which is one of the more pure translations of the Old Testament, that was kept by Joseph of Aramithea. The Kobrin Bible is more graphic on the destruction in the early days and it’s very clear about something. They call Nibiru the “Destroyer,” and they talk about it blowing its trumpet across the sky. This would be the electrical discharges as they affected earth’s atmosphere and rumbled in the lightning that they associated with this object moving through the solar system. But what is very clear is they said it was the Companion to the Destroyer that affected Earth. So this object Nibiru has a whole entourage of big objects that it is hauling along with it. In other words, Moons.

It is my contention that the protoplanet Venus, which became the large comet Venus which Velikovsky talks about, and the comet Hale-Bopp came in as companions to Nibiru about 4,000 years ago. 4,200 years ago is when we know Hale-Bopp was here, but the point is that Hale-Bopp swung out of the southern part of our solar system and kept going out, only to return in 1995, so to speak. But Venus was trapped in the plane of the planets, and by Jupiter, and remained there, and this huge comet moved through the solar system, eventually encountering Earth on two occasions.

My theoretical work shows that it is the tail drag that causes the comet to do two things. One is to reduce its orbital size over a period of time and the other is to circularize its orbit. These are two things that you need to create a planet and put it inside of Earth’s orbit in a short period of time. My calculations show that it probably took about 600 years for Venus the comet to become Venus the planet, and it actually corresponds quite well with the Mayan story. My contention is that Nibiru is a big planet and Venus and Hale-Bopp, which was a big comet, were originally companions of Nibiru. It all fits on a timeline and it’s very clear in ancient text that there was more than one big comet in the solar system back then. Not Haley’s type comets. I’m really glad you started with Haley’s because it’s a very small, insignificant comet, whereas Hale-Bopp is huge. One thing I have learned is that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp came in at half the size of our Moon and when it went out, it went out about the size of our Moon, so it grew tremendously during that six year period.

GS: It’s supposed to be losing volume, not gaining volume.

JM: Right. But that’s not what happened, and that’s why NASA has not released any data regarding Hale-Bopp, and claims that they never took a single photograph with the Hubble Space Telescope.

GS: I started with Haley’s on purpose, my point being that it came in this time at such a distance that we could hardly even see it, so clearly it had no visible effect on the Earth. If we are, indeed, as I guess your evidence shows, about to have another visitation from Planet X or Nibiru, we don’t really know where in the solar system it will come through. It’s possible it may do a great deal of damage, and would you also say that it’s possible that it could come through and do not very much damage?

JM: Exactly, we know we saw weather effects as a result of Hale-Bopp, we know that they were not severe. We saw the solar flares, reacting to Hale-Bopp, come out and hit Earth, and we had mild continuation of weather due to those storms. You could actually measure it with satellites. But I talk about a concept I call Action at a Distance, and that is that these comets interact electrically with the Sun. The Sun can throw out a flare towards us, and the comet is nowhere near us, yet it can have this effect on us. The point is that, if you get a big comet, there is a whole array of things that can happen, depending on how close you are, how far away you are — and the other thing that can possibly happen with Nibiru again is that it would drop off one or two of its companions which are possibly the size of a small Moon. Now suddenly we have this thing in the solar system, which is now a permanent member trying to become a new member of our solar system, wherein lies the potential ongoing problem. It may not be the passage of this big planet. It may be one of its entourage, one of its sub-members that causes us the problems.

GS: My point is that we can be looking at anything on a wide continuum from a direct hit, or the slightly lesser damage of a mantle shift, to “Hey, that’s a pretty light in the sky.”

JM: Exactly. The Hopi Indians talk extensively about the Earth changes, and talk very matter-of-factly that it’s the comets that cause these. What they add is that it’s the blue ones that are dangerous. The blue ones are so electrically active that they light up like a light bulb, and blue is the color of the very high end of the electrical spectrum, like a blue arc so to speak.

GS: What’s your best guess on our schedule?

JM: I don’t like to pick dates.

GS: I said best guess. I know there are people who have said “this May and we’re screwed.”

JM: Right, and, like I said, I think those stories may be a planned disinformation campaign. I think that NASA has data that would tell us exactly when the next big object is going to come in, and they’re not saying. My personal best guess is that we’ll see a major comet — bigger than Hale-Bopp, within the next ten years. There’s another reason for saying this. I don’t believe people that say that the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012, therefore that’s the end of the world. That’s just the end of one of the many cycles of the Mayan calendar. I don’t believe they intended for it to be interpreted as the end of the world. We live in a solar system with probably hundreds of these big objects floating around out there; it’s just the way the solar system is. NASA has discovered forty new objects nearly the size of Pluto moving around in our outer solar system. Now they’re asking if Pluto is actually a planet, or a big asteroid, or what? The point is, if you could go out of our solar system and look back in with clear vision, we might have hundreds of these objects, some of them quite large, that may only come in once every 100,000 years. And so it’s hard to pinpoint which object was here last, because we didn’t have good astronomical measurements from that point, and much of the information was lost both in the cataclysm itself or burned at the Library of Alexandria.

GS: One of the great crimes against humanity.

JM: Makes you just weep?

GS: When people start talking about conspiracies to withhold information, I start to get a little queasy about it. If, for instance, the Bush administration knows that we’re going to take a big hit in five or ten years, why would they bother taking Saddam out? What would be the point in continuing the…

JM: Much of what is going on could be a smoke screen keeping the attention of everyone looking at something else. I have information directly from the source, that NASA scientists are building dome homes twenty feet underground in the Arizona dessert. It is very clear that there is some very large tunnel making going on in restricted areas. They are stocked with food for about fifty years. You wouldn’t do that with a little terrorism going on. This brings up a point that I think people should pose. Do we want to spend our resources and time fighting wars in the Mideast for oil? Or should we get together as a society and say we want our civilization, our species, to last long into the future? Let’s quit putting our resources into this petty war stuff so that a few people in the war industry can get rich, and let’s put our resources into getting our population secured, and possibly moving some of these asteroids long before they possibly hit us.

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