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SUBJECT: E B E's FILE: UFO1026
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PART 7
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Doty was also the source of an alleged AFOSI communication dated
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November 17, 1980, and destined to become known as the "Aquarius
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document." Allegedly sent from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB
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in Washington, D.C., to the AFOSI District 17 office at Kirtland,
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it mentions, in brief and cryptic form, analyses of negatives
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from a UFO film apparently taken the previous month. The version
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that circulated through the UFO community states in its
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penultimate paragraph: "USAF NO LONGER PUBLICLY ACTIVE IN UFO
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RESEARCH, HOWEVER USAF STILL HAS INTEREST IN ALL UFO SIGHTINGS
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OVER USAF INSTALLATION/TEST RANGES. SEVERAL OTHER GOVERNMENT
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AGENCIES, LED BY NASA, ACTIVELY INVESTIGATES [sic] LEGITIMATE
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SIGHTINGS THROUGH COVERT COVER.... ONE SUCH COVER IS UFO
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REPORTING CENTER, US COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, ROCKVILLE, MD
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20852, NASA FILTERS RESULTS OF SIGHTINGS TO APPROPRIATE MILITARY
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DEPARTMENTS WITH INTEREST IN THAT PARTICULAR SIGHTING. THE
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OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT POLICY AND RESULTS OF PROJECT AQUARIUS IS
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[sic] STILL CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET WITH NO DISEMINATION [sic]
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OUTSIDE OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS AND WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS
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TO 'MJ TWELVE'."
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This is the first mention of "MJ-12" in an allegedly official
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government document. Moore describes it as an "example of some of
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the disinformation produced in connection with the Bennewitz
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case. The document is a retyped version of a real AFOSI message
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with a few spurious additions." Among the most significant
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additions, by Moore's account, are the bogus references to the
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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and to NASA, which he says was NSA
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(National Security Agency) in the original.
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According to Moore, Doty got the document "right off the
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teletype" (Moore, 1990) and showed it to Moore almost
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immediately. Later Doty came by with what purported to be a copy
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of it, but Moore noticed that it was not exactly the same;
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material had been added to it. Doty said he wanted Moore to give
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the doctored copy to Bennewitz. Reluctant to involve himself in
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the passing of this dubious document, Moore sat on it for a
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while, then finally worried that the sources he was developing,
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the ones who were telling him about the U.S. government's alleged
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interactions with EBEs, would dry up if he did not cooperate. So
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eventually he gave the document to Bennewitz but urged him not to
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publicize it. Bennewitz agreed and kept his promise.
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As of September 1982 Moore knew of three copies of the document:
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the one Bennewitz had, one Moore had in safekeeping, and one he
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had in his briefcase during a trip he made that month to meet
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someone in San Francisco. He met the man in the morning and that
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afternoon someone broke into his car and stole his briefcase.
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Four months later a copy of the document showed up in the hands
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of a New York lawyer interested in UFOs, and soon the document
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was circulating widely. Moore himself had little to say on the
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subject until he delivered a controversial and explosive speech
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to the annual conference of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Las
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Vegas in 1989.
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In late 1982, "during," he says, "one of the many friendly
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conversations I had with Richard Doty," Moore mentioned that he
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was looking into the old (and seemingly discredited) story that a
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UFO had crashed in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. This tale was the
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subject of Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.
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(Moore's long account of his investigation into the affair, which
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he found to be an elaborate hoax, would appear in the 1985 MUFON
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symposium proceedings.) Doty said he had never heard the story
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and asked for details, taking notes as Moore spoke.
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end of part 7
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