4/9/2023 0 Comments Truth lost to time![]() Lacy, from the Office of Public Relations for NASA, wrote in a letter to a journalist that the only trace they could find of a Harold Hill having any connection with NASA was a person who was involved in contracting for the operations and maintenance of some diesel engine operations.įurther, according to a letter I have from the NASA Public Affairs office in Washington, ‘There is no truth to the recurring story that NASA uncovered a lost day in the movement of the Earth.’ His attitude was that if people believed it and it drew them to spiritual things, it was justified.Īnother problem is that NASA has denied that Harold Hill was ever one of its consultants. In his subsequent book, Hill dismissed all skepticism about the story and said that no substantiation was needed. For many years, whenever anyone wrote to him about it, he sent a form letter which said he had misplaced the source of the information, but would send everybody a copy when he found it. One problem is that apart from Harold Hill, there is no known source for the NASA story. Harold Hill himself included it in a Christian book which he wrote. They started receiving requests from all over the world for reprints of the article, and finally stopped counting when the number of inquiries passed 1,500. The total number of cards, letters and telephone calls is now in the thousands.įrom that article, the Missing Day story found its way into untold numbers of magazines, newspapers, gospel tracts, books and now emails. The columnist’s name was Mary Kathryn Bryan and her column appeared in the Spencer Evening World in Spencer, Indiana.Īccording to the newspaper, the results of that particular column were ‘simply unbelievable’. She was so intrigued, that she wrote it up and it was published. Harold Hill apparently told the story without much notice until October 1969, when a columnist for a small American newspaper was told about one of his speeches and was given some notes about the Missing Day. One of his most popular presentations was the story of the Missing Day. He had converted to Christianity as an adult and became a popular speaker among Christian groups, because he was a successful businessman, claimed to be a consultant to NASA, and did presentations on science and the Bible. Harold Hill was a real person and he was the president of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland. What about the other 40 minutes? That’s when the same employee remembers that there is another story in the Bible about a day when the sun moved backwards 10 degrees which, according to the employee, is an arc of 40 minutes…so the entire question of the missing day is solved!Įxcept for the reference to the astronauts, this version of ‘the Missing Day’ story has been around for nearly 30 years. According to the computer, not an entire day was lost, but 23 hours and 20 minutes. The scientists puzzled over this a long time until someone in their midst reflected that in the Bible, there’s a story about the day the sun stood still for the Hebrew leader Joshua. ![]() There seemed to be a day missing from the calculations. A man named Harold Hill, a NASA consultant and president of the Curtis engine company, describes how NASA computers were looking back in time when they issued an alert that something was wrong. ![]() ![]() National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has stumbled across some computer generated evidence that the Bible is true. ![]() NASA Has Found a “Missing Day” on the Calendar, Explained Only by the Bible- Fiction!Īn email says that NASA (The U.S. ![]()
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