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SUBJECT: E B E's FILE: UFO1023
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PART 4
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The Bennewitz Affair: In the late 1970s Paul Bennewitz, an
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Albuquerque businessman trained as a physicist, became convinced
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that he was monitoring electromagnetic signals which
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extraterrestrials were using to control persons they had
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abducted. Bennewitz tried to decode these signals and believed he
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was succeeding. At the same time he began to see what he thought
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were UFOs maneuvering around the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage
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Facility and the Coyote Canyon test area, located near Kirtland
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AFB, and he filmed them.
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Bennewitz reported all this to the Tucson-based Aerial Phenomena
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Research Organization (APRO), whose directors were unimpressed,
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judging Bennewitz to be deluded. But at Kirtland, Bennewitz's
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claims, or at least some of them, were being taken more
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seriously. On October 24, 1980, Bennewitz contacted Air Force
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Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Sgt. Richard Doty
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(whose previous tour of duty had been at Ellsworth) after being
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referred to him by Maj. Ernest Edwards, head of base security,
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and related that he had evidence that something potentially
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threatening was going on in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area. A
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"Multipurpose Internal OSI Form," signed by Maj. Thomas A. Cseh
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(Commander of the Base Investigative Detachment), dated October
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28, 1980, and subsequently released under the Freedom of
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Information Act, states:
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"On 26 Oct 80, SA [Special Agent] Doty, with the assistance of
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JERRY MILLER, GS-15, Chief, Scientific Advisor for Air Force Test
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and Evaluation Center, KAFB , interviewed Dr. BENNEWITZ at his
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home in the Four Hills section of Albuquerque, which is adjacent
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to the northern boundary of Manzano Base. (NOTE: MILLER is a
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former Project Blue Book USAF Investigator who was assigned to
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Wright-Patterson AFB (W-PAFB), OH, with FTD [Foreign Technology
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Division]. Mr. MILLER is one of the most knowledgeable and
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impartial investigators of Aerial Objects in the southwest.) Dr.
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BENNEWITZ has been conducting independent research into Aerial
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Phenomena for the last 15 months. Dr. BENNEWITZ also produced
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several electronic recording tapes, allegedly showing high
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periods of electrical magnetism being emitted from Manzano/Coyote
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Canyon area. Dr. BENNEWITZ also produced several photographs of
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flying objects taken over the general Albuquerque area. He has
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several pieces of electronic surveillance equipment pointed at
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Manzano and is attempting to record high frequency electrical
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beam pulses. Dr. BENNEWITZ claims these Aerial Objects produce
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these pulses. . . . After analyzing the data collected by Dr.
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BENNEWITZ, Mr MILLER related the evidence clearly shows that some
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type of unidentified aerial objects were caught on film; however,
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no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat
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to Manzano/Coyote Canyon areas. Mr MILLER felt the electronical
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[sic] recording tapes were inconclusive and could have been
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gathered from several conventional sources. No sightings, other
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than these, have been reported in the area."
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On November 10 Bennewitz was invited to the base to present his
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findings to a small group of officers and scientists. Exactly one
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week later Doty informed Bennewitz that AFOSI had decided against
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further consideration of the matter. Subsequently Doty reported
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receiving a call from then-New Mexico Sen. Harrison Schmitt, who
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wanted to know what AFOSI was planning to do about Bennewitz's
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allegations. When informed that no investigation was planned,
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Schmitt spoke with Brig. Gen. William Brooksher of base security.
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The following July New Mexico's other senator, Pete Domenici,
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looked into the matter, meeting briefly with Doty before dashing
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off to talk with Bennewitz personally. Domenici subsequently lost
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interest and dropped the issue.
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Bennewitz was also aware of supposed cattle mutilations being
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reported in the western United States. At one point he met a
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young mother who told him that one evening in May 1980, after she
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and her six-year-old son saw several UFOs in a field and one
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approached them, they suffered confusion and disorientation, then
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a period of amnesia which lasted as long as four hours. Bennewitz
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brought the two to University of Wyoming psychologist R. Leo
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Sprinkle, who hypnotized them and got a detailed abduction story
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from the mother and a sketchy one from the little boy. Early in
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the course of the abduction they observed aliens take a calf
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aboard the UFO and mutilate it while it was still alive, removing
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the animal's genitals. At one point during the alleged
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experience, the mother said, they were taken via UFO into an
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underground area which she believed was in New Mexico. She
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briefly escaped her captors and fled into an area where there
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were tanks of water. She looked into one of them and saw body
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parts such as tongues, hearts and internal organs, apparently
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from cattle. But she also observed a human arm with a hand
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attached. There was also the "top of a bald head," apparently
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from one of the hairless aliens, but before she could find out
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for sure, she was dragged away. The objects in the tank, she
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said, "horrified me and made me sick and frightened me to death"
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(Howe, 1989). Later she wondered about the other tanks and about
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their contents.
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end of part 4
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