I'm afraid this story is a complete fake, I believe that Andrew Basiago and Project Pegasus is a book selling ploy to make some money. They won't have him on Coast to Coast anymore because he gets embarrassing at times with his BS and who he knew, in the civil war days as a child, and in the current time.

WHY can't we just tell the truth, and just get to the bottom of this Time Travel story. I DO believe that time travel is Real, and Possibly John Titor was a real time traveler, this story has stood the test of time for many years now, I would tend to believe the John Titor story before Basiago's balloney.

https://jonettecrowley.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-is-a-jump-room-to-mars/

What is a ‘Jump Room to Mars”?  (Excerpt)

On one of my recent trips I met a woman who had been a New York City detective specializing in cults and the occult…. we’ll call her ‘Rhonda’. She mentioned that in her special crime investigations she would interview people…particularly those with mind control and memory loss symptoms, who would sometimes mention being in a secret facility in Long Island (read Peter Moon’s book, The Montauk Project, Experiments in Time.) Some individuals, especially those with a military background, talked about ‘jump rooms.’ When I asked Rhonda what a jump room is, she said it is like an elevator that takes people to other times or places, or even to Mars.

One man she met talked about the technology of such jump rooms …coils, transducers, etc. (Note from Jonette: My internet search indicates that one teleportation technology was based on Tesla’s work. In popular fiction and movies these rooms are sometimes called ‘jump gates.’)

Since I’ve read how science/military has been able to open portals in time/space, and spiritual adepts have certainly been doing this, Rhonda’s story wasn’t so much of a surprise. The surprise is that you could ‘jump’ or teleport to Mars or the moon. However, upon reflection, such a journey shouldn’t really be too much different than popping around the Earth. Do take some time to Google “jump rooms” or “jump room teleportation.” It is truly mind-boggling what has been done, and that some of it was happening as early as the late 1960’s …in secret of course. There have certainly been stories and photographs of underground bases on Mars.

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_78.htm

From 1981 to 1983, the young attendees then went on to teleport to Mars via a "jump room" located in a building occupied by Hughes Aircraft at 999 N. Sepulveda Boulevard in El Segundo, California, adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).