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SUBJECT: E B E's FILE: UFO1025
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PART 6
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In 1981 the Lorenzens received an anonymous letter from someone
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identifying himself as a "USAF Airman assigned to the 1550th
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Aircrew Training and Testing Wing at Kirtland AFB." The "airman"
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said, "On July 16, 1980, at between 10:30-10:45 A.M., Craig R.
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Weitzel. .. a Civil Air Patrol Cadet from Dobbins AFB, Ga.,
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visiting Kirtland AFB, NM, observed a dull metallic colored UFO
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flying from South to North near Pecos New Mexico. Pecos has a
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secret training site for the 1550th Aircrew Training and Testing
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Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM. WEITZEL was with ten other individuals,
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including USAF active duty airmen, and all witnessed the
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sighting. WEITZEL took some pictures of the object. WEITZEL went
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closer to the UFO and observed the UFO land in a clearing
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approximately 250 yds, NNW of the training area. WEITZEL observed
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an individual dressed in a metallic suit depart the craft and
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walk a few feet away. The individual was outside the craft for
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just a few minutes. When the individual returned the craft took
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off towards the NW." The letter writer said he had been with
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Weitzel when the UFO flew overhead, but he had not been with him
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to observe the landing.
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The letter went on to say that late on the evening of the next
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day a tall, dark-featured, black-suited man wearing sunglasses
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called on Weitzel at Kirtland. The stranger claimed to be "Mr.
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Huck" from Sandia Laboratories, a classified Department of Energy
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contractor on the base. Mr. Huck told Weitzel he had seen
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something he should not have seen, a secret aircraft from Los
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Alamos, and he demanded all of the photographs. Weitzel replied
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that he hadn't taken any, that the photographer was an airman
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whose name he did not know. "The individual warned Weitzel not to
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mention the sighting to anyone or Weitzel would be in serious
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trouble," the writer went on. "After the individual left
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Weitzel[']s room, Weitzel wondered how the individual knew of the
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sighting because Weitzel didn't report the sighting to anyone.
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Weitzel became scared after thinking of the threat the individual
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made. Weitzel call [sic] the Kirtland AFB Security Police and
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reported the incident to them. They referred the incident to the
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Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), which
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investigates these matters according to the security police. A
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Mr. Dody [sic], a special agent with OSI, spoke with Weitzel and
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took a report. Mr. Dody [sic] also obtained all the photographs
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of the UFO. Dody [sic] told Weitzel he would look into the
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matter. That was the last anyone heard of the incident."
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But that was not all the correspondent had to say. He added, "I
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have every reason to beleive [sic] the USAF is covering up
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something. I spent a lot of time looking into this matter and I
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know there is more to it than the USAF will say. I have heard
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rumors, but serious rumors here at Kirtland that the USAF has a
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crashed UFO stored in the Manzano Storage area, which is located
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in a remote area of Kirtland AFB. This area is heavily guarded by
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USAF Security. I have spoke [sic] with two employees of Sandia
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Laboratories, who also store classified objects in Manzano, and
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they told me that Sandia has examined several UFO's during the
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last 20 years. One that crashed near Roswell NM in the late 50's
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was examined by Sandia scientists. That craft is still being
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store [sic] in Manzano.
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"I have reason to beleive [sic] OSI is conducting a very secret
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investigation into UFO sightings. OSI took over when Project Blue
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Book was closed. I was told this by my commander, COL Bruce
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Purvine. COL Purvine also told me that the investigation was so
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secret that most employees of OSI doesn't [sic] even know it. But
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COL Purvine told me that Kirtland AFB, AFOSI District 17 has a
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special secret detachment that investigates sightings around this
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area. They have also investigated the cattle mutilations in New
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Mexico."
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In 1985 investigator Benton Jamison located Craig Weitzel, who
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confirmed that he had indeed seen a UFO in 1980 and reported it
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to Sgt. Doty. But his sighting, while interesting, was rather
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less dramatic than the CE3 reported in the letter; Weitzel saw a
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silver-colored object some 10,000 to 15,000 feet overhead. After
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maneuvering for a few minutes, he told Jamison, it "accelerated
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like you never saw anything accelerate before" (Hastings, 1985).
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He also said he knew nothing of a meeting with anyone identified
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as "Mr. Huck."
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In December 1982, in response to a Freedom of Information
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request from Barry Greenwood of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
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(CAUS), Air Force Office of Special Investigations released a
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two page OSI Complaint Form stamped "For Official Use Only."
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Dated September 8, 1980, it was titled "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug-3
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Sept 80, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in
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Restricted Test Range." The document described several sightings
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of UFOs in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, at the Coyote Canyon
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section of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range. One
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of the reports cited was a New Mexico State Patrolman's August 10
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observation of a UFO landing. (A later check with state police
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sources by Larry Fawcett, a Connecticut police officer and UFO
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investigator, uncovered no record of such a report. The sources
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asserted that the absence of a report could only mean that no
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such incident had ever happened.) This intriguing document is
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signed by then OSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty.
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In 1987, after comparing three documents (the anonymous letter
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to APRO, the September 8, 1980, AFOSI Complaint Form, and a
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purported AFOSI document dated August 14, 1980, and claiming
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"frequency jamming" by UFOs in the Kirtland area), researcher
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Brad Sparks concluded that Doty had written all three. In 1989
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Moore confirmed that Doty had written the letter to APRO.
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"Essentially it was 'bait,'" he says. "AFOSI knew that Bennewitz
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had close ties with APRO at the time, and they were interested in
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recruiting someone within . . . APRO . . . who would be in a
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position to provide them with feedback on Bennewitz'[s]
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activities and communications. Since I was the APRO Board member
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in charge of Special Investigations in 1980, the Weitzel letter
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was passed to me for action shortly after it had been received."
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According to Bruce Maccabee, Doty admitted privately that he had
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written the Ellsworth AFB document, basing it on a real incident
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which he wanted to bring to public attention. Doty has made no
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public comment on any of these allegations. Moore says Doty "was
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almost certainly a part of [the Ellsworth report], but not in a
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capacity where he would have been responsible for creating the
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documents involved" (Moore, 1989a).
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end of part 6
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