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SUBJECT: EBE #1 FILE: UFO2457
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Recently, Jerry Clark published the first of three volumes titled "UFOs in the
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1980s," an invaluable research tool containing a host of information on the
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who, where and what of UFOlogy. With his kind permission and the kind
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permission of Apogee Publishing Company, we are reprinting an article taken
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from that book -- Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. In this article, Jerry
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culls all of the past history and controversy surrounding the MJ-12
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controversy and other related material that has spewed forth from the extreme
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side of UFOlogy representing the ETH such as Lear, Cooper and others. Although
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this might be considered by some to be "old news," Jerry's chronology of
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events shed a different light on the players that have made up this compendium
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of scenarios -- aliens eating humans, genetic experimentation and the gamut of
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sensationalistic information that drove Paul Bennewitz to an NBD at the kind
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hands of admitted-disinformant, William L. Moore.
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This article is being presented here in its entirety contained in 18 messages
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including this one. The entire body of these messages are copyrighted (C)
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1990 by Apogee Books with license to ParaNet(sm) Information Service for
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reproduction on this forum. No further reposting or copying is allowed
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without express written permission of the publisher.
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This file was provided by ParaNet(sm) Information Service
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and its network of international affiliates.
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ParaNet has received exclusive permission to reprint this
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article by the copyright holder.
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For further information on ParaNet(sm), contact:
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Michael Corbin
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ParaNet Information Service
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P.O. Box 928
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Wheatridge, CO 80034-0928
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UFOs in the 1980s
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(C) 1990 by Apogee Books and Jerome Clark
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Pages 85 - 109
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES
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Perhaps the strangest and most convoluted UFO story of the 1980s
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concerns allegations from various sources, some of them
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individuals connected with military and intelligence agencies,
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that the U.S. government not only has communicated with but has
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an ongoing relationship with what are known officially as
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"extraterrestrial biological entities," or EBEs.
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The Emenegger/Sandler Saga: The story begins in 1973, when Robert
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Emenegger and Alan Sandler, two well-connected Los Angeles
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businessmen, were invited to Norton Air Force Base in California
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to discuss a possible documentary film on advanced research
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projects. Two military officials, one the base's head of the Air
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Force Office of Special Investigations, the other, the audio-
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visual director Paul Shartle, discussed a number of projects. One
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of them involved UFOs. This one sounded the most interesting and
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plans were launched to go ahead with a film on the subject.
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Emenegger and Sandler were told of a film taken at Holloman AFB,
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New Mexico, in May 1971. In October 1988, in a national
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television broadcast, Shartle would declare that he had seen the
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16mm film showing "three disc-shaped craft. One of the craft
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landed and two of them went away." A door opened on the landed
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vehicle and three beings emerged. Shartle said, "They were human-
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size. They had an odd, gray complexion and a pronounced nose.
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They wore tightfitting jump suits, [and] thin headdresses that
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appeared to be communication devices, and in their hands they
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held a 'translator.' A Holloman base commander and other Air
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Force officers went out to meet them" (Howe, 1989).
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Emenegger was led to believe he would be given the film for use
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in his documentary. He was even taken to Norton and shown the
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landing site and the building in which the spaceship had been
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stored and others (Buildings 383 and 1382) in which meetings
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between Air Force personnel and the aliens had been conducted
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over the next several days. According to his sources, the landing
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had taken place at 6 a.m. The extraterrestrials were "doctors,
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professional types." Their eyes had vertical slits like a cat's
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and their mouths were thin and slitlike, with no chins." All that
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Emenegger was told of what occurred in the meetings was a single
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stray "fact": that the military people said they were monitoring
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signals from an alien group with which they were unfamiliar, and
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did their ET guests know anything about them? The ETs said no.
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Emenegger's military sources said he would be given 3200 feet of
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film taken of the landing. At the last minute, however,
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permission was withdrawn, although Emenegger and Sandler were
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encouraged to describe the Holloman episode as something
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hypothetical, something that could happen or might happen in the
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future. Emenegger went to Wright-Patterson AFB, where Project
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Blue Book had been located until its closing in 1969, to ask Col.
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George Weinbrenner one of his military contacts, what had
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happened. According to Emenegger's account, the exchange took
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place in Weinbrenner's office. The colonel stood up, walked to a
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chalkboard and complained in a loud voice, "That damn MIG 25!
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Here we're so public with everything we have. But the Soviets
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have all kinds of things we don't know about. We need to know
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more about the MIG 25!" Moving to a bookshelf and continuing his
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monologue about the Russian jet fighter, he handed Emenegger a
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copy of J. Allen Hynek's The UFO Experience (1972), with the
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author's signature and dedication to Weinbrenner. "It was like a
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scene from a Kafka play," Emenegger would recall , inferring from
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the colonel's odd behavior that he was confirming the reality of
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the film while making sure that no one overhearing the
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conversation realized that was what he was doing.
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The documentary film UFO's Past, Present & Future (Sandler
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Institutional Films, Inc.) was released in 1974 along with a
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paperback book of the same title. The Holloman incident is
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recounted in three pages (127-29) of the book's "Future" section.
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Elsewhere, in a section of photos and illustrations, is an
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artist's conception of what one of the Holloman entities looked
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like, though it, along with other alien figures, is described
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only as being "based on eyewitness descriptions" (Emenegger,
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1974). Emenegger's association with the military and intelligence
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he had met while doing the film would continue for years. At one
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point in the late 1980s his sources told him that He was about to
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be invited to film an interview with a live extraterrestrial in a
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Southwestern state, he says, but nothing came of it.
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The Suffern Story: On October 7, 1975, a 27-year old carpenter,
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Robert Suffern, of Bracebridge, Ontario, got a call from his
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sister who had seen a "fiery glow" near his barn and concluded it
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was on fire. Suffern drove to the spot and, after determining
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that there was no problem, got back on the road. There, he would
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testify, he encountered a large disc-shaped object resting in his
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path. "I was scared," he said. "It was right there in front of me
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with no lights and no sign of life." But even before his car
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could come to a complete stop, the object abruptly ascended out
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of sight. Suffern turned his car around and decided to head home
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rather than to his sister's place, his original intended
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destination. At that point a small figure wearing a helmet and a
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silver-gray suit stepped in front of the car, causing Suffern to
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hit the brakes and skid to a stop. The figure ran into a field.
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Then, according to Suffern, "when he got to the fence, he put his
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hands on a post and went over it with no effort at all. It was
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like he was weightless" (UFOIL, n.d.).
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Within two days Suffern's report was on the wire services, and
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Suffern was besieged by UFO investigators, journalists,
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curiosity-seekers, and others. Suffern, who made no effort to
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exploit his story and gave every appearance of believing what he
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was saying, soon tired of discussing it. A year later, however,
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Suffern and his wife told a Canadian investigator that a month
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after the encounter, they were informed that some high-ranking
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officials wished to speak with them. Around this time, so they
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claimed, they were given thorough examinations by military
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doctors. After that an appointment was set up for December 12 and
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on that day an Ontario Provincial Police cruiser arrived with
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three military officers, one Canadian, two American. They were
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carrying books and other documents. In the long conversation that
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followed, the officers apologized for the UFO landing, claiming
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it was a "mistake" caused by the malfunctioning of an
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extraterrestrial spaceship.
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The officers produced close-up pictures of UFOs, claiming that
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the U.S. and Canadian governments had had intimate knowledge of
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aliens since 1943 and were cooperating with them. The officers
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even knew the exact dates and times of two previous but
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unreported UFO sightings on the Suffern property. The Sufferns
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said the officers had answered all their questions fully and
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frankly, but they would not elaborate on what they were told.
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Reinterviewed about the matter some months later, the couple
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stuck by their story but added few further details.
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The investigator, Harry Tokarz, would remark, "Robert Suffern
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strikes one as an individual who carefully measures his thoughts.
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His sincerity comes through clearly as he slowly relates his
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concepts and ideas. His wife, a home-bred country girl, is quick
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to air her views and state unequivocally what she believes to be
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fact" (CUFORN, 1983).
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EBEs in South Dakota: On February 9, 1978, a curious document--an
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apparent carbon copy of an official U.S. Air Force incident
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report-arrived at the office of the National Enquirer in Lantana,
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Florida. Accompanying the document was an unsigned letter dated
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"29 Jan." It read: "The incident stated in the attached report
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actually occurred. The Air Force appointed a special team of
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individuals to investigate the incident. I was one of those
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individuals. I am still on active duty and so I cannot state my
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name at this time. It is not that I do not trust the Enquirer (I
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sure [sic] you would treat my name with [sic] confidence but I do
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not trust others.) The incident which occurred on 16 Nov. 77, was
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classified top secret on 2 Dec 77. At that time I obtained a copy
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of the original report. I thought at that time that the Air Force
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would probably hush the whole thing up, and they did. The Air
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Force ordered the silence on 1 Dec 77, after which, the report
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was classified. There were 16 pictures taken at the scene. I do
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not have access to the pictures at this time" (Pratt, 1984).
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The report, stamped FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, purported to be from
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the commander of the 44th Missile Security Squadron at Ellsworth
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AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota. The incident was described as
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a "Helping Hand (security violation)/Covered Wagon (security
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violation) at Lima 9 (68th SMSq Area), 7 miles SW of Nisland, SD,
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at 2100 hours on 16 Nov. 77." The recipient of the report was
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identified as "Paul D. Hinzman, SSgt, USAF, Comm/Plotter, Wing
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Security Control." Two security men, Airmen 1st Class Kenneth
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Jenkins and Wayne E. Raeke, experienced and reported the
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incident, which was investigated by Capt. Larry D. Stokes and
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TSgt. Robert E. Stewart.
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The document told an incredible story. At 10:59 on the evening
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of November 16 an alarm sounded from the Lima Nine missile site.
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Jenkins and Raeke, at tHe Lima Launch Control Facility 35 miles
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away, were dispatched to the scene. On their arrival Raeke set
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out to check the rear fence line. There he spotted a helmeted
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figure in a glowing green metallic suit. The figure pointed a
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weapon at Raeke's rifle and caused it to disintegrate, burning
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Raeke's hands and arms in the process. Raeke summoned Jenkins,
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who carried his companion back to their Security Alert Team
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vehicle. When Jenkins went to the rear fence line, he saw two
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similarly-garbed figures. He ordered them to halt, but when they
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ignored his command, he opened fire. His bullets struck one in
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the shoulder and the other in the helmet. The figures ran over a
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hill and were briefly lost to view. Jenkins pursued them and when
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he next saw them, they were entering a 20-foot-in-diameter
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saucer-shaped object, which shot away over the Horizon.
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As Raeke was air-evacuated from the scene, investigators
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discovered that the missile's nuclear components had been stolen.
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Enquirer reporters suspected a hoax but when they called Rapid
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City and Ellsworth to check on the names, they were surprised to
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learn that such persons did exist. Moreover, all were on active
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duty. The Enquirer launched an investigation, sending several
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reporters to Rapid City. Over the course of the next few days
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they found that although the individuals were real, the document
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inaccurately listed their job titles, the geography of the
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alleged incident was wrong (there was no nearby hill over which
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intruders could have run), Raeke had suffered no injuries, he and
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Jenkins did not even know each other, and no one (including Rapid
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City civilian residents and area ranchers) had heard anything
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about such an encounter. As one of the reporters, Bob Pratt,
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wrote in a subsequent account, "We found more than 20
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discrepancies or errors in the report -wrong names, numbers,
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occupations, physical layouts and so on. Had the Security Option
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alert mentioned in the report taken place, it would have involved
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all security personnel at the base and everyone at the base and
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in Rapid City (Population 45,000 plus) would have known about
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it."
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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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The William Moore/MJ-12 Maze: Late in the summer of 1979 William
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L. Moore had left a teaching job in a small Minnesota town to
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relocate in Arizona, where he hoped to pursue a writing career.
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Moore was deeply involved in the investigation of an apparent UFO
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crash in New Mexico in July 1947, a case he and Charles Berlitz
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would recount in their The Roswell Incident the following year.
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After his move to the Southwest Moore became close to Coral and
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James Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
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(APRO) and in due course Moore was asked to join the APRO board.
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The Lorenzens told him about Bennewitz's claims. Bennewitz, Jim
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Lorenzen thought, was "prone to make great leaps of logic on the
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basis of incomplete data" (Moore, 1989a).
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The Roswell Incident was published in the summer of 1980 and in
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September a debate on UFOs at the Smithsonian Institution was
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scheduled to take place. Moore set off from his Arizona home to
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Washington, D.C., to attend the debate and along the way promoted
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his new book on radio and television shows. According to an
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account he would give seven years later, an extraordinary series
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of events began while he was on this trip.
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He had done a radio show in Omaha and was in the station lobby,
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suitcase in hand, on his way to catch a plane which was to leave
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within the hour when a receptionist asked if he was Mr. Moore. He
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had a phone call. The caller was a man who claimed to be a
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colonel at nearby Offutt AFB, He said, "We think you're the only
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one we've heard who seems to know what he's talking about." He
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asked if he and Moore could meet and discuss matters further.
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Moore said that since he was leaving town in the next few
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minutes, that would not be possible, though he wrote down the
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man's phone number.
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Moore went on to Washington. On September 8, on his way back, he
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did a radio show in Albuquerque. On the way out of the studio the
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receptionist told him he had a phone call. The caller, who
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identified himself as an individual from nearby Kirtland AFB,
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said, "We think you're the only one we've heard about who seems
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to know what he's talking about." Moore said, "Where have I heard
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that before?"
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Soon afterwards Moore and the individual he would call "Falcon"
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met at a local restaurant. Falcon, later alleged (though denied
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by Moore) to be U.S. Air Force Sgt. Richard Doty, said he would
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be wearing a red tie. This first meeting would initiate a long-
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running relationship between Moore (and, beginning in 1982,
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partner Jaime Shandera) and 10 members of a shadowy group said to
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be connected with military intelligence and to be opposed to the
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continuation of the UFO cover-up. The story that emerged from
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this interaction goes like this:
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The first UFO crash, involving bodies of small, gray-skinned
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humanoids, occurred near Corona, New Mexico, in 1947 (the
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"Roswell incident"). Two years later a humanoid was found alive
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and it was housed at Los Alamos until its death in the early
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1950s. It was called EBE, after "extraterrestrial biological
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entity," and it was the first of three the U.S. government would
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have in its custody between then and now. An Air Force captain,
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now a retired colonel, was EBE-1's constant companion. At first
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communication with it was almost impossible; then a speech device
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which enabled the being to speak a sort of English was implanted
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in its throat. It turned out that EBE-1, the equivalent of a
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mechanic on a spaceship, related what it knew of the nature and
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purpose of the visitation.
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In response to the Roswell incident, MJ-12-the MJ stands for
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"Majestic"--as set up by executive order of President Harry
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Truman on September 24, 1947. MJ-12 operates as a policy-making
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body. Project Aquarius is an umbrella group in which all the
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various compartments dealing with ET-related issues perform their
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various functions. Project Sigma conducts electronic
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communication with the extraterrestrials, part of an ongoing
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contact project run through the National Security Agency since
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1964, following a landing at Holloman AFB in late April of that
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year.
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Nine extraterrestrial races are visiting the earth. One of these
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races, little gray-skinned people from the third planet
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surrounding Zeta Reticuli, have been here for 25,000 years and
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influenced the direction of human evolution. They also help in
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the shaping of our religious beliefs. Some important individuals
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within the cover-up want it to end and are preparing the American
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|
people for the reality of the alien presence through the vehicle
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of popular entertainment, including the films Close Encounters of
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the Third Kind, whose climax is a thinly-disguised version of the
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Holloman landing, and ET.
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At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a thick book
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called "The Bible," a compilation of all the various project
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reports.
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According to his own account, which he would not relate until
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1989, Moore cooperated with his AFOSI sources-including,
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prominently, Richard Doty-and provided them with information.
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They informed him that there was considerable interest in
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Bennewitz. Moore was made to understand that as his part of the
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bargain he was to spy on Bennewitz and also on APRO as well as,
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in Moore's words, "to a lesser extent, several other individuals"
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(Moore, 1989a). He learned that several government agencies were
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interested in Bennewitz's activities and they wanted to inundate
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him with false information-disinformation, in intelligence
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parlance-to confuse him. Moore says he was not one of those
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providing the disinformation, but he knew some of those of who
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were, such as Doty.
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Bennewitz on his own had already begun to devise a paranoid
|
|
interpretation of what he thought he was seeing and hearing, and
|
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the disinformation passed on to him built on that foundation. His
|
|
sources told him that the U.S. government and malevolent aliens
|
|
are in an uneasy alliance to control the planet, that the aliens
|
|
are killing and mutilating not only cattle but human beings,
|
|
whose organs they need to lengthen their lives, and that they are
|
|
even eating human flesh. In underground bases at government
|
|
installations in Nevada and New Mexico human and alien scientists
|
|
work together on ghastly experiments, including the creation of
|
|
soulless androids out of human and animal body parts. Aliens are
|
|
abducting as many as one American in 40 and implanting devices
|
|
which control human behavior. ClA brainwashing and other control
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|
techniques are doing the same, turning life on earth into a
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|
nightmare of violence and irrationality. It was, as Moore
|
|
remarks, "the wildest science fiction scenario anyone could
|
|
possibly imagine."
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But Bennewitz believed it. He grew ever more obsessed and tried
|
|
to alert prominent persons to the imminent threat, showing
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|
photographs which he held showed human-alien activity in the
|
|
Kirtland area but which dispassionate observers thought depicted
|
|
natural rock formations and other mundane phenomena. Eventually
|
|
Bennewitz was hospitalized, but on his release resumed his
|
|
activities, which continue to this day. Soon the ghoulish
|
|
scenario would spread into the larger UFO community and beyond
|
|
and command a small but committed band of believers. But that
|
|
would not happen until the late 1980s and it would not be
|
|
Bennewitz who would be responsible for it.
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|
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In 1981 the Lorenzens received an anonymous letter from someone
|
|
identifying himself as a "USAF Airman assigned to the 1550th
|
|
Aircrew Training and Testing Wing at Kirtland AFB." The "airman"
|
|
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.,
|
|
visiting Kirtland AFB, NM, observed a dull metallic colored UFO
|
|
flying from South to North near Pecos New Mexico. Pecos has a
|
|
secret training site for the 1550th Aircrew Training and Testing
|
|
Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM. WEITZEL was with ten other individuals,
|
|
including USAF active duty airmen, and all witnessed the
|
|
sighting. WEITZEL took some pictures of the object. WEITZEL went
|
|
closer to the UFO and observed the UFO land in a clearing
|
|
approximately 250 yds, NNW of the training area. WEITZEL observed
|
|
an individual dressed in a metallic suit depart the craft and
|
|
walk a few feet away. The individual was outside the craft for
|
|
just a few minutes. When the individual returned the craft took
|
|
off towards the NW." The letter writer said he had been with
|
|
Weitzel when the UFO flew overhead, but he had not been with him
|
|
to observe the landing.
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The letter went on to say that late on the evening of the next
|
|
day a tall, dark-featured, black-suited man wearing sunglasses
|
|
called on Weitzel at Kirtland. The stranger claimed to be "Mr.
|
|
Huck" from Sandia Laboratories, a classified Department of Energy
|
|
contractor on the base. Mr. Huck told Weitzel he had seen
|
|
something he should not have seen, a secret aircraft from Los
|
|
Alamos, and he demanded all of the photographs. Weitzel replied
|
|
that he hadn't taken any, that the photographer was an airman
|
|
whose name he did not know. "The individual warned Weitzel not to
|
|
mention the sighting to anyone or Weitzel would be in serious
|
|
trouble," the writer went on. "After the individual left
|
|
Weitzel[']s room, Weitzel wondered how the individual knew of the
|
|
sighting because Weitzel didn't report the sighting to anyone.
|
|
Weitzel became scared after thinking of the threat the individual
|
|
made. Weitzel call [sic] the Kirtland AFB Security Police and
|
|
reported the incident to them. They referred the incident to the
|
|
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), which
|
|
investigates these matters according to the security police. A
|
|
Mr. Dody [sic], a special agent with OSI, spoke with Weitzel and
|
|
took a report. Mr. Dody [sic] also obtained all the photographs
|
|
of the UFO. Dody [sic] told Weitzel he would look into the
|
|
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
|
|
have every reason to beleive [sic] the USAF is covering up
|
|
something. I spent a lot of time looking into this matter and I
|
|
know there is more to it than the USAF will say. I have heard
|
|
rumors, but serious rumors here at Kirtland that the USAF has a
|
|
crashed UFO stored in the Manzano Storage area, which is located
|
|
in a remote area of Kirtland AFB. This area is heavily guarded by
|
|
USAF Security. I have spoke [sic] with two employees of Sandia
|
|
Laboratories, who also store classified objects in Manzano, and
|
|
they told me that Sandia has examined several UFO's during the
|
|
last 20 years. One that crashed near Roswell NM in the late 50's
|
|
was examined by Sandia scientists. That craft is still being
|
|
store [sic] in Manzano.
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|
|
|
"I have reason to beleive [sic] OSI is conducting a very secret
|
|
investigation into UFO sightings. OSI took over when Project Blue
|
|
Book was closed. I was told this by my commander, COL Bruce
|
|
Purvine. COL Purvine also told me that the investigation was so
|
|
secret that most employees of OSI doesn't [sic] even know it. But
|
|
COL Purvine told me that Kirtland AFB, AFOSI District 17 has a
|
|
special secret detachment that investigates sightings around this
|
|
area. They have also investigated the cattle mutilations in New
|
|
Mexico."
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|
|
|
In 1985 investigator Benton Jamison located Craig Weitzel, who
|
|
confirmed that he had indeed seen a UFO in 1980 and reported it
|
|
to Sgt. Doty. But his sighting, while interesting, was rather
|
|
less dramatic than the CE3 reported in the letter; Weitzel saw a
|
|
silver-colored object some 10,000 to 15,000 feet overhead. After
|
|
maneuvering for a few minutes, he told Jamison, it "accelerated
|
|
like you never saw anything accelerate before" (Hastings, 1985).
|
|
He also said he knew nothing of a meeting with anyone identified
|
|
as "Mr. Huck."
|
|
|
|
In December 1982, in response to a Freedom of Information
|
|
request from Barry Greenwood of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
|
|
(CAUS), Air Force Office of Special Investigations released a
|
|
two page OSI Complaint Form stamped "For Official Use Only."
|
|
Dated September 8, 1980, it was titled "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug-3
|
|
Sept 80, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in
|
|
Restricted Test Range." The document described several sightings
|
|
of UFOs in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, at the Coyote Canyon
|
|
section of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range. One
|
|
of the reports cited was a New Mexico State Patrolman's August 10
|
|
observation of a UFO landing. (A later check with state police
|
|
sources by Larry Fawcett, a Connecticut police officer and UFO
|
|
investigator, uncovered no record of such a report. The sources
|
|
asserted that the absence of a report could only mean that no
|
|
such incident had ever happened.) This intriguing document is
|
|
signed by then OSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty.
|
|
|
|
In 1987, after comparing three documents (the anonymous letter
|
|
to APRO, the September 8, 1980, AFOSI Complaint Form, and a
|
|
purported AFOSI document dated August 14, 1980, and claiming
|
|
"frequency jamming" by UFOs in the Kirtland area), researcher
|
|
Brad Sparks concluded that Doty had written all three. In 1989
|
|
Moore confirmed that Doty had written the letter to APRO.
|
|
"Essentially it was 'bait,'" he says. "AFOSI knew that Bennewitz
|
|
had close ties with APRO at the time, and they were interested in
|
|
recruiting someone within . . . APRO . . . who would be in a
|
|
position to provide them with feedback on Bennewitz'[s]
|
|
activities and communications. Since I was the APRO Board member
|
|
in charge of Special Investigations in 1980, the Weitzel letter
|
|
was passed to me for action shortly after it had been received."
|
|
According to Bruce Maccabee, Doty admitted privately that he had
|
|
written the Ellsworth AFB document, basing it on a real incident
|
|
which he wanted to bring to public attention. Doty has made no
|
|
public comment on any of these allegations. Moore says Doty "was
|
|
almost certainly a part of [the Ellsworth report], but not in a
|
|
capacity where he would have been responsible for creating the
|
|
documents involved" (Moore, 1989a).
|
|
|
|
Doty was also the source of an alleged AFOSI communication dated
|
|
November 17, 1980, and destined to become known as the "Aquarius
|
|
document." Allegedly sent from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB
|
|
in Washington, D.C., to the AFOSI District 17 office at Kirtland,
|
|
it mentions, in brief and cryptic form, analyses of negatives
|
|
from a UFO film apparently taken the previous month. The version
|
|
that circulated through the UFO community states in its
|
|
penultimate paragraph: "USAF NO LONGER PUBLICLY ACTIVE IN UFO
|
|
RESEARCH, HOWEVER USAF STILL HAS INTEREST IN ALL UFO SIGHTINGS
|
|
OVER USAF INSTALLATION/TEST RANGES. SEVERAL OTHER GOVERNMENT
|
|
AGENCIES, LED BY NASA, ACTIVELY INVESTIGATES [sic] LEGITIMATE
|
|
SIGHTINGS THROUGH COVERT COVER.... ONE SUCH COVER IS UFO
|
|
REPORTING CENTER, US COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, ROCKVILLE, MD
|
|
20852, NASA FILTERS RESULTS OF SIGHTINGS TO APPROPRIATE MILITARY
|
|
DEPARTMENTS WITH INTEREST IN THAT PARTICULAR SIGHTING. THE
|
|
OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT POLICY AND RESULTS OF PROJECT AQUARIUS IS
|
|
[sic] STILL CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET WITH NO DISEMINATION [sic]
|
|
OUTSIDE OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS AND WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS
|
|
TO 'MJ TWELVE'."
|
|
|
|
This is the first mention of "MJ-12" in an allegedly official
|
|
government document. Moore describes it as an "example of some of
|
|
the disinformation produced in connection with the Bennewitz
|
|
case. The document is a retyped version of a real AFOSI message
|
|
with a few spurious additions." Among the most significant
|
|
additions, by Moore's account, are the bogus references to the
|
|
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and to NASA, which he says was NSA
|
|
(National Security Agency) in the original.
|
|
|
|
According to Moore, Doty got the document "right off the
|
|
teletype" (Moore, 1990) and showed it to Moore almost
|
|
immediately. Later Doty came by with what purported to be a copy
|
|
of it, but Moore noticed that it was not exactly the same;
|
|
material had been added to it. Doty said he wanted Moore to give
|
|
the doctored copy to Bennewitz. Reluctant to involve himself in
|
|
the passing of this dubious document, Moore sat on it for a
|
|
while, then finally worried that the sources he was developing,
|
|
the ones who were telling him about the U.S. government's alleged
|
|
interactions with EBEs, would dry up if he did not cooperate. So
|
|
eventually he gave the document to Bennewitz but urged him not to
|
|
publicize it. Bennewitz agreed and kept his promise.
|
|
|
|
As of September 1982 Moore knew of three copies of the document:
|
|
the one Bennewitz had, one Moore had in safekeeping, and one he
|
|
had in his briefcase during a trip he made that month to meet
|
|
someone in San Francisco. He met the man in the morning and that
|
|
afternoon someone broke into his car and stole his briefcase.
|
|
Four months later a copy of the document showed up in the hands
|
|
of a New York lawyer interested in UFOs, and soon the document
|
|
was circulating widely. Moore himself had little to say on the
|
|
subject until he delivered a controversial and explosive speech
|
|
to the annual conference of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Las
|
|
Vegas in 1989.
|
|
|
|
In late 1982, "during," he says, "one of the many friendly
|
|
conversations I had with Richard Doty," Moore mentioned that he
|
|
was looking into the old (and seemingly discredited) story that a
|
|
UFO had crashed in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. This tale was the
|
|
subject of Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.
|
|
(Moore's long account of his investigation into the affair, which
|
|
he found to be an elaborate hoax, would appear in the 1985 MUFON
|
|
symposium proceedings.) Doty said he had never heard the story
|
|
and asked for details, taking notes as Moore spoke.
|
|
|
|
On January 10 and 11, 1983, attorney Peter Gersten, director of
|
|
CAUS, met with Doty in New Mexico. There were two meetings, the
|
|
first of them also attended by Moore and San Francisco television
|
|
producer Ron Lakis, the second by Gersten alone. During the first
|
|
meeting Doty was guarded in his remarks. But at the second he
|
|
spoke openly about what ostensibly were extraordinary secrets. He
|
|
said the Ellsworth case was the subject of an investigation by
|
|
AFOSI and the FBI; nuclear weapons were involved. The National
|
|
Enquirer investigation, which had concluded the story was bogus,
|
|
was "amateurish." At least two civilians, a farmer and a deputy
|
|
sheriff, had been involved, but were warned not to talk. The
|
|
government knows why UFOs appear in certain places, Doty said,
|
|
but he would not elaborate. He added, however, that "beyond a
|
|
shadow of a doubt they're extraterrestrial" (Greenwood, 1988) and
|
|
from 50 light years from the earth. He knew of at least three UFO
|
|
crashes, the Roswell incident and two others, one from the 1950s,
|
|
the other from the 196Os. Bodies had been recovered. A
|
|
spectacular incident, much like the one depicted in the ending of
|
|
the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, took place in 1966
|
|
The NSA was involved in communications with extraterrestrials;
|
|
the effort is called Project Aquarius. Inside the UFO
|
|
organizations government moles are collecting information and
|
|
spreading disinformation. Doty discussed the Aquarius document
|
|
and said the really important documents are impossible to get out
|
|
of the appropriate files. Some are protected in such a way that
|
|
they will disintegrate within five seconds' exposure to air.
|
|
These documents tell of agreements between the U.S. government
|
|
and extraterrestrials under which the latter are free to conduct
|
|
animal mutilations (especially of cattle) and to land at a
|
|
certain base, in exchange for information about advanced UFO
|
|
technology. Doty also claimed that via popular entertainment the
|
|
American people are being prepared to accept the reality of
|
|
visitation by benevolent beings from other worlds.
|
|
|
|
At one point in the conversation Doty asked Gersten, "How do you
|
|
know that I'm not here to either give you misinformation or to
|
|
give you information which is part of the programming, knowing
|
|
you are going to go out and spread it around?" (Howe, 1989).
|
|
|
|
In the 1970s, as director of special projects for the Denver
|
|
CBS-TV affiliate, Linda Moulton Howe had produced 12
|
|
documentaries, most of them dealing with scientific,
|
|
environmental and health issues. But the one that attracted the
|
|
most attention was Strange Harvest, which dealt with the then-
|
|
widespread reports that cattle in Western and Midwestern states
|
|
were being killed and mutilated by persons or forces unknown.
|
|
Most veterinary pathologists said the animals were dying of
|
|
unknown causes. Farmers, ranchers and some law-enforcement
|
|
officers thought the deaths were mysterious. Some even speculated
|
|
that extraterrestrials were responsible. This possibility
|
|
intrigued Howe, who had a lifelong interest in UFOs, and Strange
|
|
Harvest argues for a UFO mutilation link.
|
|
|
|
In the fall of 1982, as Howe was working on a documentary on an
|
|
unrelated matter, she got a call from Home Box Office (HBO). The
|
|
caller said the HBO people had been impressed with Strange
|
|
Harvest and wanted to know if Howe would do a film on UFOs. In
|
|
March 1983 she went to New York to sign a contract with HBO for a
|
|
show to be titled UFOs-The ET Factor.
|
|
|
|
The evening before her meeting with the HBO people, Howe had
|
|
dinner with Gersten and science writer Patrick Huyghe. Gersten
|
|
told Howe that he had met with Sgt. Doty, an AFOSI agent at
|
|
Kirtland AFB, and perhaps Doty would be willing to talk on camera
|
|
or in some other helpful capacity about the incident at
|
|
Ellsworth. Gersten would call him and ask if he would be willing
|
|
to meet with Howe.
|
|
|
|
Subsequently arrangements were made for Howe to fly to
|
|
Albuquerque on April 9. Doty would meet her at the airport. But
|
|
when she arrived that morning, no one was waiting. She called his
|
|
home. A small boy answered and said his father was not there.
|
|
Howe then phoned Jerry Miller, Chief of Reality Weapons Testing
|
|
at Kirtland and a former Blue Book investigator. (He is mentioned
|
|
in the October 28, 1980, "Multipurpose Internal OSI Form"
|
|
reporting on Doty and Miller's meeting with Bennewitz.) She knew
|
|
Miller from an earlier telephone conversation, when she had
|
|
called to ask him about Bennewitz's claims, in which she had a
|
|
considerable interest. Miller asked for a copy of Strange
|
|
Harvest. Later he had given Howe his home phone number and said
|
|
to contact him if she ever found herself in Albuquerque. So she
|
|
called and asked if he would pick her up at the airport.
|
|
|
|
Miller drove Howe to his house. On the way Howe asked him a
|
|
number of questions but got little in the way of answers. One
|
|
question he did not answer was whether he is the "Miller"
|
|
mentioned in the Aquarius document. When they got to Miller's
|
|
residence, Miller called Doty at his home, and Doty arrived a few
|
|
minutes later, responding aggressively to Howe's question about
|
|
where he had been. He claimed to have been at the airport all
|
|
along; where had she been? "Perhaps," Howe would write, "he had
|
|
decided he didn't want to go through with the meeting, and it was
|
|
acceptable in his world to leave me stranded at the airport-until
|
|
Jerry Miller called his house" (Howe, 1989).
|
|
|
|
On the way to Kirtland, Howe asked Doty, whose manner remained
|
|
both defiant and nervous, if he knew anything about the Holloman
|
|
landing. Doty said it happened but that Robert Emenegger had the
|
|
date wrong; it was not May 1971 but April 25, 1964-12 Hours after
|
|
a much-publicized CE3 reported by Socorro, New Mexico, policeman
|
|
Lonnie Zamora. (Zamora said he had seen an egg-shaped object on
|
|
the ground. Standing near it were two child-sized beings in white
|
|
suits.) Military and scientific personnel at the base knew a
|
|
landing was coming, but "someone blew the time and coordinates"
|
|
and an "advance military scout ship" had come down at the wrong
|
|
time and place, to be observed by Zamora. When three UFOs
|
|
appeared at Holloman at six o'clock the following morning, one
|
|
landed while the other two hovered overhead. During the meeting
|
|
between the UFO beings and a government party, the preserved
|
|
bodies of dead aliens had been given to the aliens , who in turn
|
|
had returned something unspecified. Five ground and aerial
|
|
cameras recorded this event.
|
|
|
|
At the Kirtland gate Doty waved to the guard and was let
|
|
through. They went to a small white and gray building. Doty took
|
|
her to what he described as "my - boss' office." Doty seemed
|
|
unwilling to discuss the Ellsworth case, the ostensible reason
|
|
for the interview, but had much to say about other matters. First
|
|
he asked Howe to move from the chair on which she was sitting to
|
|
another in the middle of the room. Howe surmised that this was to
|
|
facilitate the surreptitious recording of their conversation, but
|
|
Doty said only, "Eyes can see through windows."
|
|
|
|
"My superiors have asked me to show you this," he said. He
|
|
produced a brown envelope he had taken from a drawer in the desk
|
|
at which he was sitting and withdrew several sheets of white
|
|
paper. As he handed them to Howe, he warned her that they could
|
|
not be copied; all she could do was read them in his presence and
|
|
ask questions.
|
|
|
|
The document gave no indication anywhere as to which government,
|
|
military or scientific agency (if any) had prepared the report,
|
|
titled A Briefing Paper for the President of the United States on
|
|
the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The title did not
|
|
specify which President it had in mind, nor did the document list
|
|
a date (so far as Howe recalls today) which would have linked it
|
|
to a particular administration.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The first paragraph, written--as was everything that followed--
|
|
in what Howe characterizes as "dry bureaucratese," listed dates
|
|
and locations of crashes and retrievals of UFOs and their
|
|
occupants. The latter were invariably described as 3 1/2 to four
|
|
feet tall, gray-skinned and hairless, with oversized heads, large
|
|
eyes and no noses. It was now known, the document stated on a
|
|
subsequent page, that these beings, from a nearby solar system,
|
|
have been here for many thousands of years. Through genetic
|
|
manipulation they influenced the course of human evolution and in
|
|
a sense created us. They had also helped shape our religious
|
|
beliefs.
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The July 1947 Roswell crash was mentioned; so, however, was
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another one at Roswell in 1949. Investigators at the site found
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five bodies and one living alien, who was taken to a safe house
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at the Los Alamos National Laboratory north of Albuquerque. The
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aliens, small gray-skinned humanoids, were known as
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"extraterrestrial biological entities" and the living one was
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called "EBE" (ee-buh). EBE was befriended (if that was the word)
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by an Air Force officer, but the being died of unknown causes on
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June 18, 1952. (EBE's friend, by 1964 a colonel, was among those
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who were there to greet the aliens who landed at Holloman.)
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Subsequently, it would be referred to as EBE-1, since in later
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years another such being, EBE-2, would take up residence in a
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safe house. After that, a third, EBE-3, appeared on the scene and
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was now living in secret at an American base.
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The briefing paper said other crashes had occurred one near
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Kingman, Arizona, another just south of Texas in northern Mexico.
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It also mentioned the Aztec crash- The wreckage and bodies had
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been removed to such facilities as Los Alamos laboratory and
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Wright-Patterson AFB. A number of highly classified projects
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dealt with these materials. They included Snowbird (research and
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development from the study of an intact spacecraft left by the
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aliens as a gift) and Aquarius (the umbrella operation under
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|
which the research and contact efforts were coordinated). Project
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Sigma was the ongoing electronic communications effort. There was
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|
also a defunct project Garnet, intended to investigate
|
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extraterrestrial influence on human evolution. According to the
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document, extraterrestrials have appeared at various intervals in
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human history-25,000, 15,000, 5000 and 2500 years ago as well as
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now--to manipulate human and other DNA.
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One paragraph stated briefly, "Two thousand years ago
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extraterrestrials created a being" who was placed here to teach
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peace and love. Elsewhere a passing mention was made of another
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group of EBEs, called the "Talls."
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The paper said Project Blue Book had existed solely to take heat
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off the Air Force and to draw attention away from the real
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projects. Doty mentioned an "MJ-12," explaining that "MJ" stood
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for "Majority." It was a policy-making body whose membership
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consisted of 12 very high-ranking government scientists, military
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officers and intelligence officials. These were the men who made
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the decisions governing the cover-up and the contacts.
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Doty said Howe would be given thousands of feet of film of
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crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1 and the Holloman landing and
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meeting. She could use this material in her documentary to tell
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the story of how U.S. officials learned that the earth is being
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visited and what they have done about it. "We want you to do the
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film," Howe quotes him as saying.
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When Howe asked why she, not the New York Times, the Washington
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|
Post or 60 Minutes, was getting this, the story of the
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millennium, Doty replied bluntly that an individual media person
|
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is easier to manipulate and discredit than a major organization
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|
with expensive attorneys. He said that another plan to release
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the information, through Emenegger and Sandler, had been halted
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because political conditions were not right.
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Over the next weeks Howe had a number of phone conversations
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with Doty, mostly about technical problems related to converting
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old film to videotape. She spoke on several occasions with three
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other men but did not meet them personally.
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Doty suggested that eventually she might be allowed to film an
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interview with EBE-3. But the current film project was to have a
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historical emphasis; it would deal with events between 1949 and
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1964. If at some point she did meet EBE-3, however, there was no
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|
way she could prepare herself for the "shock and fear" of meeting
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an alien being.
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|
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Howe, of course, had informed her HBO contacts, Jean Abounader
|
|
and her superior Bridgett Potter, of these extraordinary
|
|
developments. Howe urged them to prepare themselves, legally and
|
|
otherwise, for the repercussions that would surely follow the
|
|
release of the film. The HBO people told her she would have to
|
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secure a letter of intent from the U.S. government with a
|
|
legally-binding commitment to release the promised film footage.
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When Howe called Doty about it, he said, "I'll work on it." He
|
|
said he would mail the letter directly to HBO.
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|
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Then HBO told her it would not authorize funds for the film
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|
production until all the evidence was in hand and, as Potter put
|
|
it, Howe had the "President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
|
|
State and Joint Chiefs of Staff to back it up" (Howe, 1989). But
|
|
proceed anyway, Howe was told. Now she was furious at both HBO
|
|
and Doty.
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|
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When she called him at the base, he remarked that he had good
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news and bad news. She and a small crew would soon be able to
|
|
interview the retired colonel (then a captain) who had spent
|
|
three years with EBE-1. The bad news was that it would be three
|
|
months before the thousands of feet of film of EBE-1 and the
|
|
Holloman landing/contact would be available. Meanwhile, before
|
|
she could screen the footage, Howe would have to sign three
|
|
security oaths and undergo a background check. She would also
|
|
have to supply photographs of all the technical assistants who
|
|
would accompany her to the interview.
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|
|
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The interview was repeatedly set up and canceled. Then in June
|
|
Doty called to say he was officially out of the project. This was
|
|
a blow because Doty was the only one she could call. She did not
|
|
know how to get in touch with the others and always had to wait
|
|
for them to contact her.
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By October the contacts had decreased. The same month her
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|
contract with HBO expired. All she had was the name of the
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|
Washington contact. In March 1984 this individual called her
|
|
office three times, although she was out of town working on a
|
|
non-UFO story at the time. "Upon returning home," she writes, "I
|
|
learned the man was contacting me to explain there would be
|
|
further delays in the film project after the November 1984
|
|
election" (Howe, 1989).
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|
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For Howe that was the end of the matter, except for a brief
|
|
sequel. On March 5, 1988, Doty wrote ufologist Larry W. Bryant,
|
|
who had unsuccessfully sought access to Doty's military records
|
|
through the Freedom of Information Act, and denied that he had
|
|
ever discussed government UFO secrets or promised footage of
|
|
crashed discs, bodies and live EBEs. Howe responded by making a
|
|
sworn statement about the meeting an producing copies of her
|
|
correspondence from the period with both Doty and HBO.
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In 1989 Moore said that "in early 1983 I became aware that Rick
|
|
[Doty] was involved with a team of several others, including one
|
|
fellow from Denver that I knew of and at least one who was
|
|
working out of Washington, D.C., in playing an elaborate
|
|
disinformation scheme against a prominent UfO researcher who, at
|
|
the time, had close connections with a major television film
|
|
company interested in doing a UFO documentary." He was referring
|
|
to Howe, of course. The episode was a counterintelligence sting
|
|
operation, part of the "wall of disinformation" intended to
|
|
"confuse" the Bennewitz issue and to "call his credibility into
|
|
question." Because of Howe's interest in Bennewitz's work,
|
|
according to Moore, "certain elements within the intelligence
|
|
community were concerned that the story of his having intercepted
|
|
low frequency electromagnetic emissions from the Coyote Canyon
|
|
area of the Kirtland/Sandia complex would end up as part of a
|
|
feature film. Since this in turn might influence others (possibly
|
|
even the Russians) to attempt similar experiments, someone in a
|
|
control position apparently felt it had to be stopped before it
|
|
got out of hand." In his observation, Moore said, "the government
|
|
seemed hell bent on severing the ties that existed between [Howe]
|
|
and [HBO]" (Moore, 1989b).
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|
|
|
Doty's assertion that Howe had misrepresented their meeting was
|
|
not to be taken seriously, according to Moore, since Doty was
|
|
bound by a security oath and could not discuss the matter freely
|
|
Moore said that the Aztec crash, known beyond reasonable doubt
|
|
never to have occurred, was something Doty had added to the
|
|
document after learning from Moore of his recent investigation of
|
|
the hoax.
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|
|
|
In December 1984, in the midst of continuing contact with their
|
|
own sources (Doty and a number of others) who claimed to be
|
|
leaking the secret of the cover-up, Moore's associate Jaime
|
|
Shandera received a roll of 35mm film containing, it turned out
|
|
what purported to be a briefing paper dated November 18, 1952,
|
|
and intended for president-elect Eisenhower. The purported
|
|
author, Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, reported that an "Operation
|
|
Majestic-12," consisting of a dozen top scientists, military
|
|
officers and intelligence specialists, had been set up by
|
|
presidential order on September 24, 1947, to study the Roswell
|
|
remains and the four humanoid bodies that had been recovered
|
|
nearby. The document report that the team directed by MJ12 member
|
|
and physiologist Detlev Bronk "has suggested the term 'Extra-
|
|
terrestrial Biological Entities', or 'EBEs', be adopted as the
|
|
standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as
|
|
a more definitive designation can be agreed upon." Brief mention
|
|
is also made of a December 6, 1950, crash along the Texas-Mexico
|
|
border. Nothing is said, however, about live aliens or
|
|
communications with them.
|
|
|
|
In July 1985 Moore and Shandera, acting on tips from their
|
|
sources, traveled to Washington and spent a few days going
|
|
through recently declassified documents in Record Group 341,
|
|
including Top Secret Air Force intelligence files from USAF
|
|
Headquarters. In the 126th box whose contents they examined, they
|
|
found a brief memo dated July 14, 1954, from Robert Cutler,
|
|
Special Assistant to the President, to Gen. Nathan Twining. It
|
|
says "The president has decided that the MJ-12/SSP [Special
|
|
Studies Project] briefing should take place during the already
|
|
scheduled White House meeting of July 16 rather than following it
|
|
as previously intended. More precise arrangements will be
|
|
explained to you upon your arrival. Your concurrence in the above
|
|
change of arrangements is assumed" (Friedman, 1987).
|
|
|
|
The Cutler/Twining memo, as it would be called in the
|
|
controversies that erupted after Moore released the MJ-12
|
|
document to the world in the spring of 1987, is the only official
|
|
document-not to be confused with such disputed ones as the
|
|
November 17, 1980, Aquarius document-to mention MJ-12. (Several
|
|
critics of the MJ-12 affair have questioned the memo's
|
|
authenticity as well, but so far without unambiguous success.)
|
|
The memo does not, of course, say what the MJ12 Special Studies
|
|
Project was.
|
|
|
|
MJ-12 Goes Public: Just prior to Moore's release of the MJ-12
|
|
briefing paper, another copy was leaked to British ufologist
|
|
Timothy Good, who took his copy to the press. The first newspaper
|
|
article on it appeared in the London Observer of May 31, 1987,
|
|
and soon it was the subject of pieces in the New York Times,
|
|
Washington Post and ABC-TV's Nightline. It was also denounced,
|
|
not altogether persuasively, both by professional debunkers and
|
|
by many ufologists. The dispute would rage without resolution
|
|
well into 1989, when critics discovered that President Truman's
|
|
signature on the September 24, 1947, executive order (appended to
|
|
the briefing paper) was exactly like his signature on an
|
|
undisputed, UFO-unrelated October 1, 1947, letter to his science
|
|
adviser (and supposed MJ-12 member) Vannevar Bush. To all
|
|
appearances a forger had appended a real signature to a fake
|
|
letter. The MJ-12 document began to look like another
|
|
disinformation scheme.
|
|
|
|
Although acutely aware of the mass of disinformation circulating
|
|
throughout the UFO community, Moore remained convinced that at
|
|
least some of the information his own sources were giving him was
|
|
authentic. In 1988 he provided two of his sources, "Falcon" (Sgt.
|
|
Doty according to some) and "Condor" (later claimed to be former
|
|
U.S. Air Force Capt. Robert Collins), to a television production
|
|
company. (Moore and Shandera had given them avian names and
|
|
called the sources collectively "the birds.") UFO Cover-up . . .
|
|
Live, a two-hour program, aired in October 1988, with Falcon and
|
|
Condor, their faces shaded, their voices altered, relating the
|
|
same tales with which they had regaled Moore and Shandera. The
|
|
show, almost universally judged a laughable embarrassment, was
|
|
most remembered for the informants' statements that the aliens
|
|
favored ancient Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream. Critics
|
|
found the latter allegation especially hilarious.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lear's Conspiracy Theory: Events on the UFO scene were taking a
|
|
yet more bizarre turn that same year as even wilder tales began
|
|
to circulate. The first to tell them was John Lear, a pilot with
|
|
a background in the CIA and the estranged son of aviation legend
|
|
William P. Lear. Lear had surfaced two or three years earlier,
|
|
but aside from his famous father there seemed little to
|
|
distinguish him from any of hundreds of other UFO buffs who
|
|
subscribe to the field's publications and show up at its
|
|
conferences. But then he started claiming that unnamed sources
|
|
had told him of extraordinary events which made those told by
|
|
Doty and the birds sound like bland and inconsequential
|
|
anecdotes.
|
|
|
|
According to Lear, not just a few but dozens of flying saucers
|
|
had crashed over the years. In 1962 the U.S. government started
|
|
Project Redlight to find a way to fly the recovered craft, some
|
|
relatively intact. A similar project exists even now and is run
|
|
out of supersecret military installation; one is Area 51
|
|
(specifically at a facility called S4) at the Nevada Test Site
|
|
and the other is set up near Dulce, New Mexico. These areas,
|
|
unfortunately, may no longer be under the control of the
|
|
government or even of the human race. In the late 1960s an
|
|
official agency so secret that not even the President may know of
|
|
it had made an agreement with the aliens. In exchange for
|
|
extraterrestrial technology the secret government would permit
|
|
(or at least not interfere with) a limited number of abductions
|
|
of human beings; the aliens, however, were to provide a list of
|
|
those they planned to kidnap.
|
|
|
|
All went relatively well for a few years. Then in 1973 the
|
|
government discovered that thousands of persons who were not on
|
|
the alien's list were being abducted. The resulting tensions led
|
|
to an altercation in 1978 or 1979. The aliens held and then
|
|
killed 44 top scientists as well as a number of Delta force
|
|
troops who had tried to free them. Ever since, frantic efforts,
|
|
of which the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") is the
|
|
most visible manifestation, have been made to develop a defense
|
|
against the extraterrestrials, who are busy putting implants into
|
|
abductees (as many as one in 10 Americans) to control their
|
|
behavior. At some time in the near future these people will be
|
|
used for some unknown, apparently sinister, alien purpose. Even
|
|
worse than all this, though, is the aliens' interest in Human
|
|
flesh. Sex and other organs are taken from both human beings and
|
|
cattle and used to create androids in giant vats located in
|
|
underground laboratories at Area 51 and Dulce. The
|
|
extraterrestrials, from an ancient race near the end of its
|
|
evolution, also use materials from human body parts as a method
|
|
of biological rejuvenation. ("In order to sustain themselves," he
|
|
said, "they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the
|
|
tissue that they extract from humans and animals. The secretions
|
|
are then mixed with hydrogen peroxide and applied on the skin by
|
|
spreading or dipping parts of their bodies in the solution. The
|
|
body absorbs the solution, then excretes the waste back through
|
|
the skin" [Berk and Renzi, 1988].)
|
|
|
|
One of Lear's major sources was Bennewitz, who had first heard
|
|
these scary stories from AFOSI personnel at Kirtland in the early
|
|
1980s. By this time Bennewitz had become something of a guru to a
|
|
small group of UFO enthusiasts, Linda Howe among them, who
|
|
believed extraterrestrials were mutilating cattle and had no
|
|
trouble believing they might do the same thing to people. Also
|
|
Lear, whose political views are far to the right of center, was
|
|
linking his UFO beliefs with conspiracy theories about a
|
|
malevolent secret American government which was attempting to use
|
|
the aliens for its own purposes, including enslavement of the
|
|
world's people through drug addiction. A considerable body of
|
|
rightwing conspiracy literature, some with barely-concealed anti-
|
|
Semitic overtones, was making similar charges. Lear himself was
|
|
not anti-Semitic, but he did share conspiracy beliefs with those
|
|
who were.
|
|
|
|
Another of his claimed sources was an unnamed physicist who,
|
|
Lear claimed, had actually worked at S4. To the many ufologists
|
|
who rejected Lear's stories as paranoid, lunatic or fabricated
|
|
(though not by the patently-sincere Lear), there was widespread
|
|
skepticism about this physicist's existence. It turned out that
|
|
he did indeed exist. His name is Robert Lazar, who, according to
|
|
a story broken by reporter George Knapp on KLAS-TV, the ABC
|
|
affiliate in Las Vegas, on November 11 and 13, 1989, claims to
|
|
have worked on alien technology projects at Area 51. Lazar, whose
|
|
story is being investigated by both ufologists and mainstream
|
|
journalists, has not endorsed Lear's claims about human-alien
|
|
treaties, man-eating ETs or any of the rest and has distanced
|
|
himself from Lear and his associates. His claims, while fantastic
|
|
by most standards, are modest next to Lears.
|
|
|
|
Cooper's Conspiracy Theory: Soon Lear was joined by someone with
|
|
an even bigger supply of fabulous yarns: one Milton William
|
|
Cooper. Cooper surfaced on December 18, 1988, when his account of
|
|
the fantastic secrets he learned while a Naval petty officer
|
|
appeared on a computer network subscribed to by ufologists and
|
|
others interested in anomalous phenomena. Cooper said that while
|
|
working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bernard Clarey, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Meet, in the
|
|
early 1970s he saw two documents, Project Grudge Special Report
|
|
13 and a Majority briefing. (In conventional UFO history, Grudge
|
|
was the second public Air Force UFO project, superseding the
|
|
original Sign, in early 1949 and lasting until late 1951, when it
|
|
was renamed Blue Book. Whereas Sign investigators at one time
|
|
concluded UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin--a conclusion the
|
|
Air force leadership found unacceptable--Grudge, as its name
|
|
suggests coincidentally or otherwise, was known for its hostility
|
|
to the idea of UFOs and for its eagerness to assign conventional
|
|
explanations, warranted or otherwise, to the sighting reports
|
|
that came its way.) Cooper's account of what was in these reports
|
|
is much like the by-now familiar story of crashes, bodies,
|
|
contacts and projects, with some elaborations. Moreover, he said
|
|
the aliens were called "ALFs" (which as any television viewer
|
|
knows, stands for Alien Life forms) and the "M" in MJ-12 is for
|
|
Majority not Majestic. Later he would say he had seen photographs
|
|
of aliens, including a type he called the "big-nosed grays"-like
|
|
those that supposedly landed at Holloman in 1964 or 1971. The
|
|
U.S. government was in contact with them and alien-technology
|
|
projects were going on at Area 51.
|
|
|
|
If this sounded like a rehash of Moore and Lear, that was only
|
|
because Cooper had yet to pull out all the stops. On May 23,
|
|
1989, Cooper produced a 25-page document titled The Secret
|
|
Government: The Origin, Identity And Purpose of MJ-12. He
|
|
presented it as a lecture in Las Vegas a few weeks later. In
|
|
Cooper's version of the evolving legend, the "secret government,"
|
|
an unscrupulous group of covert CIA and other intelligence
|
|
operatives who keep many of their activities sealed from even the
|
|
President's knowledge, runs the country. One of its first acts
|
|
was to murder one-time Secretary of Defense (and alleged early
|
|
MJ-12 member) James Forrestal the death was made to look like
|
|
suicide-because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up.
|
|
Nonetheless, President Truman, fearing an invasion from outer
|
|
space, kept other nations, including the Soviet Union, abreast of
|
|
developments. But keeping all this secret was a real problem, so
|
|
an international secret society known as the Bilderbergers,
|
|
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, was formed. Soon it became
|
|
a secret world government and "now controls everything," Cooper
|
|
said.
|
|
|
|
All the while flying saucers were dropping like flies out of the
|
|
heavens. In 1953 there were 10 crashes in the United States
|
|
alone. Also that year, astronomers observed huge spaceships
|
|
heading toward the earth and in time entering into orbit around
|
|
the equator. Project Plato was established to effect
|
|
communication with these new aliens. One of the ships landed and
|
|
a face-to-face meeting took place, and plans for diplomatic
|
|
relations were laid. Meanwhile a race of human-looking aliens
|
|
warned the U.S. government that the new visitors were not to be
|
|
trusted and that if the government got rid of its nuclear
|
|
weapons, the human aliens would help us in our spiritual
|
|
development, which would keep us from destroying ourselves
|
|
through wars and environmental pollution. The government rejected
|
|
these overtures.
|
|
|
|
The big-nosed grays, the ones who had been orbiting the equator,
|
|
landed again, this time at Holloman AFB, in 1954 and reached an
|
|
agreement with the U.S. government. These beings stated that they
|
|
were from a dying planet that orbits Betelguese. At some point in
|
|
the not too distant future, they said, they would have to leave
|
|
there for good. A second meeting took place not long afterwards
|
|
at Edwards AFB in California. This time President Eisenhower was
|
|
there to sign a formal treaty and to meet the first alien
|
|
ambassador, "His Omnipotent Highness Krlll," pronounced Krill.
|
|
He, in common with his fellow space travelers, wore a trilateral
|
|
insignia on his uniform; the same design appears on all
|
|
Betelguese spacecraft.
|
|
|
|
According to Cooper's account, the treaty's provisions were
|
|
these: Neither side would interfere in the affairs of the other.
|
|
The aliens would abduct humans from time to time and would return
|
|
them unharmed, with no memory of the event. It would provide a
|
|
list of names of those it was going to take. The U.S. government
|
|
would keep the aliens' presence a secret and it would receive
|
|
advanced technology from them. The two sides would exchange 16
|
|
individuals each for the purpose of learning from and teaching
|
|
each other. The aliens would stay on earth and the humans would
|
|
go to the other planet, then return after a specified period of
|
|
time. The two sides would jointly occupy huge underground bases
|
|
which would be constructed at hidden locations in the Southwest.
|
|
|
|
(It should be noted that the people listed as members of MJ-12
|
|
are largely from the Council on Foreign Relations and the
|
|
Trilateral Commission. These organizations play a prominent role
|
|
in conspiracy theories of the far right. In a book on the subject
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George Johnson writes, "After the Holocaust of World War II,
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anti-Semitic conspiracy theories became repugnant to all but the
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fringe of the American right. Populist fears of the power of the
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rich became focused instead on organizations that promote
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international capitalism, such as the Trilateral Commission, the
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Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers, a group of
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world leaders and businesspeople who held one of their early
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conferences on international relations at the Bilderberg Hotel in
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the Netherlands" [Johnson, 1983]. According to Cooper, the
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trilateral emblem is taken directly from the alien flag. He adds
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that under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter MJ-12 became known
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as the 50 Committee. Under Reagan it was renamed the PI-40
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Committee.)
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By 1955, during the Eisenhower years, Cooper charged, officials
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learned for certain what they had already begun to suspect a year
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earlier: that the aliens had broken the treaty before the ink on
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it had time to dry. They were killing and mutilating both human
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beings and animals, failing to supply a complete list of
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abductees, and not returning some of those they had taken. On top
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of that, they were conspiring with the Soviets, manipulating
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society through occultism, witchcraft, religion and secret
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organizations. Eisenhower prepared a secret executive memo, NSC
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5411, ordering a study group of 35 top members (the "Jason
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Society") associated with the Council on Foreign Relations to
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"examine aIl the facts, evidence, lies, and deception and
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discover the truth of the alien question" (Cooper, 1989). Because
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the resulting meetings were held at Quantico Marine Base, they
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were called the Quantico meetings. Those participating included
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Edward Teller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Nelson
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Rockefeller.
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The group decided that the danger to established social,
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economic, religious and political institutions was so grave that
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no one must know about the aliens, not even Congress. That meant
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that alternative sources of funding would have to be found. It
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also concluded that the aliens were using human organs and tissue
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to replenish their deteriorating genetic structure.
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Further, according to Cooper, overtures were made to the Soviet
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Union and other nations so that all the earth could join together
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to deal with the alien menace. Research into sophisticated new
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weapons systems commenced. Intelligence sources penetrated the
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Vatican hoping to learn the Fatima prophecy which had been kept
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secret ever since 1917. It was suspected that the Fatima,
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Portugal, "miracle" was an episode of alien manipulation. As it
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turned out, the prophecy stated that in 1992 a child would unite
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the world under the banner of a false religion. By 1995 people
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would figure out that he was the Anti-Christ. That same year
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World War III would begin when an alliance of Arab nations
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invaded Israel. This would lead to nuclear war in 1999. The next
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four years would see horrible death and suffering all over the
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planet. Christ would return in 2011.
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When confronted about this, claimed Cooper, the aliens candidly
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acknowledged it was true. They knew it because they had traveled
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into the future via time machine and observed it with their own
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eyes. They added that they created us through genetic
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manipulation. Later the Americans and the Soviets also developed
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time travel and confirmed the Fatima/ET vision of the future.
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In 1957 the Jason group met again, by order of Eisenhower, to
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decide what to do. It came up with three alternatives: (l) Use
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nuclear bombs to blow holes in the stratosphere so that pollution
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could escape into space. (2) Build a huge network of tunnels
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under the earth and save enough human beings of varying cultures,
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occupations and talents so that the race could reemerge after the
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nuclear and environmental catastrophes to come. Everybody else-
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i.e., the rest of humanity--would be left on the surface
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presumably to die. (3) Employ alien and terrestrial technology to
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leave earth and colonize the moon (code name "Adam") and Mars
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("Eve"). The first alternative was deemed impractical, so the
|
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Americans and the Soviets started working on the other two.
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Meanwhile they decided that the population would have to be
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controlled, which could be done most easily by killing off as
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many "undesirables" as possible. Thus AIDS and other deadly
|
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diseases were introduced into the population. Another idea to
|
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raise needed funds was quickly acted on: sell drugs on a massive
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scale. An ambitious young member of the Council on Foreign
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Relations, a Texas oil-company president named George Bush, was
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put in charge of the project, with the aid of the CIA. "The plan
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worked better than anyone had thought " CooPer said. "The CIA now
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controls all the worlds [sic] illegal drug markets" (Cooper,
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1989).
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Unknown to just about everybody, a secret American/Soviet/alien
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space base existed on the dark side of the moon. By the early
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|
1960s human colonies were thriving on the surface of Mars. All
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the while the naive people of the earth were led to believe the
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Soviets and the Americans were something other than the closest
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allies. But Cooper's story got even more bizarre and byzantine.
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He claimed that in 1963, when President Kennedy found out some
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of what was going on, he gave an ultimatum to MJ-12: get out of
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the drug business. He also declared that in 1964 he would tell
|
|
the American people about the alien visitation. Agents of MJ-12
|
|
ordered his assassination. Kennedy was murdered in full view of
|
|
many hundreds of onlookers, none of whom apparently noticed, by
|
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the Secret Service agent driving the President's car in the
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motorcade.
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In 1969, reported Cooper, a confrontation between human
|
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scientists and aliens at the Dulce laboratory resulted in the
|
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former's being taken hostage by the latter. Soldiers who tried to
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free the scientists were killed, unable to overcome the superior
|
|
alien weapons. The incident led to a two-year rupture in
|
|
relations. The alliance was resumed in 1971 and continues to this
|
|
day, even as a vast invisible financial empire run by the CIA,
|
|
the NSA and the Council on Foreign Relations runs drugs, launders
|
|
money and encourages massive street crime so that Americans will
|
|
be susceptible to gun-control legislation. The CIA has gone so
|
|
far as to employ drugs and hypnosis to cause mentally-unstable
|
|
individuals to commit mass murder of schoolchildren and other
|
|
innocents, the point being to encourage anti-gun hysteria. All of
|
|
this is part of the plot, aided and abetted by the mass media
|
|
(also under the secret government's control), to so scare
|
|
Americans that they will soon accept the declaration of martial
|
|
law when that happens, people will be rounded up and put in
|
|
concentration camps already in place. From there they will be
|
|
flown to the moon and Mars to work as slave labor in the space
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|
colonies.
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The conspirators already run the world. As Cooper put it, "Even
|
|
a cursory investigation by the most inexperienced researcher will
|
|
show that the members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
|
|
Trilateral commission control the major foundations, all of the
|
|
major media and publishing interests, the largest banks, all the
|
|
major corporations, the - upper echelons of the government, and
|
|
many other vital interests."
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|
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Reaction to Lear and Cooper: Whereas Lear had felt some
|
|
obligation to name a source or two, or at least to mutter
|
|
something about "unnamed sources," Cooper told his lurid and
|
|
outlandish tale as if it were so self-evidently true that sources
|
|
or supporting data were irrelevant. And to the enthusiastic
|
|
audiences flocking to Cooper's lectures, no evidence was
|
|
necessary. By the fall of the year Cooper was telling his
|
|
stories--whose sources were, in fact, flying-saucer folklore,
|
|
AFOSI disinformation unleashed during the Bennewitz episode,
|
|
conspiracy literature, and outright fiction--to large crowds of
|
|
Californians willing to pay $l0 or $15 apiece for the thrill of
|
|
being scared silly.
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|
|
|
Lear and Cooper soon were joined by two other tellers of tales
|
|
of UFO horrors and Trilateral conspiracies, William English and
|
|
John Grace (who goes under the pseudonym "Val Valarian" and heads
|
|
the Nevada Aerial Research Group in Las Vegas).
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|
|
|
Few if any mainstream ufologists took these stories seriously
|
|
and at first treated them as something of a bad joke. But when it
|
|
became clear that Lear, Cooper and company were commanding
|
|
significant media attention and finding a following among the
|
|
larger public interested in ufology's fringes, where a claim's
|
|
inherent improbability had never been seen as an obstacle to
|
|
believe in it, the leaders of the UFO community grew ever more
|
|
alarmed.
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|
|
|
One leader who was not immediately alarmed was Walter H. Andrus,
|
|
Jr., director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the two
|
|
largest UFO organizations in the United States (the other being
|
|
the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies [CUFOS]). In 1987,
|
|
before Lear had proposed what some wags would call the Dark Side
|
|
Hypothesis, he had offered to host the 1989 MUFON conference in
|
|
Las Vegas. Andrus agreed. But as Lear's true beliefs became
|
|
known, leading figures within MUFON expressed concern about
|
|
Lear's role in the conference. When Andrus failed to respond
|
|
quickly, MUFON officials were infuriated.
|
|
|
|
Facing a possible palace revolt, Andrus informed Lear that
|
|
Cooper, whom Lear had invited to speak at the conference, was not
|
|
an acceptable choice. But to the critics on the MUFON board and
|
|
elsewhere in the organization, this was hardly enough. One of
|
|
them, longtime ufologist Richard Hall, said this was "like
|
|
putting a Band-Aid on a hemorrhage" (Hall, 1989). In a heated
|
|
telephone exchange Andrus called Hall's objections to Lear "just
|
|
one man's opinion" and claimed support, which turned out not to
|
|
exist, from other MUFON notables. In a widely-distributed open
|
|
letter to Andrus, Hall wrote, "Having Lear run the symposium and
|
|
be a major speaker at it is comparable to NICAP in the 1960's
|
|
having George Adamski run a NICAP conference! " (NICAP, the
|
|
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of which
|
|
Hall was executive secretary in the late 1950s and much of the
|
|
1960s, was a conservative UFO-research organization which
|
|
attacked as fraudulent the claims of Adamski, who wrote books
|
|
about his meetings with Venusians and distributed photographs of
|
|
what he said were their spaceships.) Hall went on, "You seem to
|
|
be going for the colorful and the spectacular rather than for the
|
|
critical-minded approach of science; you even expressed the view-
|
|
in effect-that having a panel to question Lear critically would
|
|
be good show biz and the 'highlight' of the symposium. Maybe so,
|
|
but it obviously would dominate the entire program, grab off all
|
|
major news media attention, and put UFO research in the worst
|
|
possible light." Hall declared, "I am hereby resigning from the
|
|
MUFON Board and I request that my name be removed from all MUFON
|
|
publications or papers that indicate me to be a Board Member."
|
|
|
|
Fearing more resignations, Andrus moved to make Lear barely more
|
|
than a guest at his own conference. He was not to lecture there,
|
|
as previously planned, and hosting duties would be handled, for
|
|
the most part, by others. Lear ended up arranging an "alternative
|
|
conference" at which he, Cooper, English and Don Ecker presented
|
|
the latest elaborations on the Dark Side Hypothesis.
|
|
Meanwhile another storm was brewing. On March 1, 1989, an
|
|
Albuquerque ufologist, Robert Hastings, issued a 13-page
|
|
statement, with 37 pages of appended documents, and mailed it to
|
|
many of ufology's most prominent individuals. Hastings opened
|
|
with these remarks:
|
|
|
|
"First, it has been established that 'Falcon,' one of the
|
|
principle [sic] sources of the MJ-12 material, is Richard C.
|
|
Doty, formerly attached to District 17 Air Force Office of
|
|
Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland Air Force Base,
|
|
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sgt. Doty retired from the U.S. Air
|
|
Force on October 1, 1988.
|
|
|
|
|
|
"How do I know that Doty is 'Falcon?' During a recent telephone
|
|
conversation, Linda Moulton Howe told me that when Sgt. Doty
|
|
invited her to his office at Kirtland AFB in early April 1983,
|
|
and showed her a purportedly authentic U.S. government document
|
|
on UFOs, he identified himself as code-name 'Falcon' and stated
|
|
that it was Bill Moore who had given him that name.
|
|
|
|
"Also, in early December 1988, a ranking member of the
|
|
production team responsible for the 'UFO Cover Up?-Live'
|
|
television documentary confirmed that Doty is 'Falcon.' This same
|
|
individual also identified the second MJ-12 source who appeared
|
|
on the program, 'Condor' as Robert Collins who was, until
|
|
recently, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Like Doty, he was
|
|
stationed at KAFB when he left the service late last year."
|
|
(Collins, a scientist, was assigned to the plasma physics group
|
|
at Sandia National Laboratories on the Kirtland Air Force Base.
|
|
Following his retirement he moved to Indiana and remains actively
|
|
interested in UFOs.)
|
|
|
|
Hastings reviewed evidence of Doty's involvement in the
|
|
concoction of various questionable documents and stories,
|
|
including the Ellsworth tale and the Weitzel affair. He also
|
|
noted important discrepancies between the paper Howe saw and the
|
|
MJ-12 briefing document. For example, while the first mentioned
|
|
the alleged Aztec crash, the second said nothing about it at all.
|
|
Hastings wondered, "[I]f the briefing paper that Sgt. Doty showed
|
|
to Linda Howe was genuine, what does that say about the accuracy
|
|
(and authenticity) of the Eisenhower document? If, on the other
|
|
hand, the former was bogus and was meant to mislead Howe for some
|
|
reason, what does that say about Richard 'Falcon' Doty's
|
|
reliability as a source for MJ-12 material as a whole?"
|
|
(Hastings, 1989). Hastings also had much critical to say about
|
|
Moore, especially about an incident in which Moore had flashed a
|
|
badge in front of ufologist/cover-up investigator Lee Graham and
|
|
indicated he was working with the government on a project to
|
|
release UFO information. (Moore would characterize this as a
|
|
misguided practical joke.)
|
|
|
|
Both Moore and Doty denied that the latter was Falcon. They
|
|
claimed Doty had been given that pseudonym long after the 1983
|
|
meeting with Howe. Howe, however, stuck by her account. Moore and
|
|
Doty said the real Falcon, an older man than Doty had been in the
|
|
studio audience as the video of his interview was being broadcast
|
|
on UFO Cover-up. . . Live. Doty himself was in New Mexico
|
|
training with the state police.
|
|
|
|
Moore's Confession: By mid-1989 the two most controversial
|
|
figures in ufology were Moore and Lear. Moore's MUFON lecture on
|
|
July 1 did nothing to quiet his legion of critics. On his arrival
|
|
in Las Vegas, Moore checked into a different hotel from the one
|
|
at which the conference was being held. He already had refused to
|
|
submit his paper for publication in the symposium proceedings, so
|
|
no one knew what he would say. He had also stipulated that he
|
|
would accept no questions from the floor.
|
|
|
|
Moore's speech stunned and angered much of the audience. At one
|
|
point the shouts and jeers of Lear's partisans brought
|
|
proceedings to a halt until order was restored. Moore finished
|
|
and exited immediately. He left Las Vegas not long afterwards.
|
|
|
|
In his lecture Moore spoke candidly, for the first time, of his
|
|
part in the counterintelligence operation against Bennewitz. "My
|
|
role in the affair," he said, "was largely that of a freelancer
|
|
providing information on Paul's current thinking and activities."
|
|
Doty, "faithfully carrying out orders which he personally found
|
|
distasteful," was one of those involved in the effort to confuse
|
|
and discredit Bennewitz. Because of his success at this effort,
|
|
Moore suggested, Doty was chosen by the real "Falcon" as "liaison
|
|
person, although I really don't know. Frankly, I don't believe
|
|
that Doty does either. In my opinion he was simply a pawn in a
|
|
much larger game, just as I was."
|
|
|
|
From disinformation passed on by AFOSI sources, and his own
|
|
observations and guesses, according to Moore, "by mid-1982"
|
|
Bennewitz had put together a story that "contained virtually all
|
|
of the elements found in the current crop of rumors being
|
|
circulated around the UFO community." Moore was referring to the
|
|
outlandish tales Lear and Cooper were telling. Moore said that
|
|
"when I first ran into the disinformation operation . . . being
|
|
run on Bennewitz . . . [i)t seemed to me . . . I was in a rather
|
|
unique position. There I was with my foot . . . in the door of a
|
|
secret counterintelligence game that gave every appearance of
|
|
being somehow directly connected to a high-level government UFO
|
|
project, and, judging by the positions of the people I knew to be
|
|
directly involved with it, definitely had something to do with
|
|
national security! There was no way I was going to allow the
|
|
opportunity to pass me by without learning at least something
|
|
about what was going on. . . . I would play the disinformation
|
|
game, get my hands dirty just often enough to lead those
|
|
directing the process into believing that I was doing exactly
|
|
what they wanted me to do, and all the while continue to burrow
|
|
my way into the matrix so as to learn as much as possible about
|
|
who was directing it and why." Some of the same people who were
|
|
passing alleged UFO secrets on to Moore were also involved in the
|
|
operation against Bennewitz. Moore knew that some of the material
|
|
he was getting--essentially a mild version of the Bennewitz
|
|
scenario, without the horror, paranoia and conspiracy--was false,
|
|
but he (along with Jaime Shandera and Stanton Friedman, to whom
|
|
he confided the cover-up story in June 1982; Friedman, however,
|
|
would not learn of Moore's role in the Bennewitz episode until
|
|
seven years later) felt that some of it was probably true, since
|
|
an invariable characteristic of disinformation is that it
|
|
contains some facts. Moore also said that Linda Howe had been the
|
|
victim of one of Doty's disinformation operations.
|
|
|
|
Before he stopped cooperating with such schemes in 1984, Moore
|
|
said, he had given "routine information" to AFOSI about certain
|
|
other individuals in the UFO community. Subsequently he claimed
|
|
that during this period this emphasis) "three other members of
|
|
the UFO community . . . were actively doing the same thing. I
|
|
have since learned of a fourth. . . . All four are prominent
|
|
individuals whose identities, if disclosed, would cause
|
|
considerable controversy in the UFO community and bring serious
|
|
embarrassment to two of its major organizations. To the best of
|
|
my knowledge, at least two of these people are still actively
|
|
involved" (Moore, 1989b).
|
|
|
|
Although he would not reveal the identities of the government
|
|
informants within ufology, Moore gave the names of several
|
|
persons "who were the subject of intelligence community interest
|
|
between 1980 and 1984." They were:
|
|
|
|
(1) Len Stringfield, a ufologist known for his interest in
|
|
crashed-disc stories; in 1980 he had been set up by a
|
|
counterintelligence operative who gave him phony pictures of what
|
|
purported to be humanoids in cold storage.
|
|
|
|
(2) The late Pete Mazzola, whose knowledge of film footage from
|
|
a never-publicized Florida UFO case was of great interest to
|
|
counterintelligence types. Moore was directed to urge Mazzola to
|
|
send the footage to ufologist Kal Korff (who knew nothing of the
|
|
scheme) for analysis; then Moore would make a copy and pass it on
|
|
to Doty. But Mazzola never got the film, despite promises, and
|
|
the incident came to nothing. "I was left with the impression,"
|
|
Moore wrote, "that the file had been intercepted and the
|
|
witnesses somehow persuaded to cease communication with Mazzola."
|
|
|
|
(3) Peter Gersten, legal counsel for Citizens Against UFO
|
|
Secrecy (CAUS), who had spearheaded a (largely unsuccessful)
|
|
legal suit against the NSA seeking UFO information.
|
|
|
|
(4) Larry Fawcett, an official of CAUS and coauthor of a book on
|
|
the cover-up, Clear Intent (1984).
|
|
|
|
(5) James and Coral Lorenzen, the directors of the Aerial
|
|
Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) periodically "subjects of
|
|
on-again, off again interest . . . mostly passive monitoring
|
|
rather than active meddling," according to Moore. Between 1980
|
|
and 1982 APRO employed a "cooperative" secretary who passed on
|
|
confidential material to counterintelligence personnel.
|
|
|
|
(6) Larry W. Bryant, who was battling without success in the
|
|
courts to have UFO secrets revealed. Moore said, "His name came
|
|
up often in discussions but I never had any direct involvement in
|
|
whatever activities revolved around him."
|
|
|
|
These revelations sent shock waves through the UFO community. In
|
|
September CAUS devoted virtually all of an issue of its magazine
|
|
Just Cause to a harshly critical review of Moore's activities.
|
|
Barry Greenwood declared that the "outrageousness" of Moore's
|
|
conduct "cannot be described. Moore, one of the major critics of
|
|
government secrecy on UFOs, had covertly informed on people who
|
|
thought he was their friend and colleague. Knowing full well that
|
|
the government people with whom he was dealing were active
|
|
disinformants, Moore pursued a relationship with them and
|
|
observed the deterioration of Paul Bennewitz'[s] physical and
|
|
mental health. . . . Moore reported the effects of the false
|
|
information regularly to some of the very same people who were
|
|
'doing it' to Paul. And Moore boasted in his speech as to how
|
|
effective it was" (Greenwood, 1989). Greenwood complained further
|
|
about Moore's admission that on the disastrous Cover-up . . .
|
|
Live show Falcon and Condor had said things that they knew were
|
|
untrue. "In the rare situation where two hours of prime time
|
|
television are given over to a favorable presentation of UFOs,
|
|
here we have a fair portion of the last hour wasted in presenting
|
|
what Moore admits to be false data. . . . Yet he saw fit to go
|
|
ahead and carry on a charade, making UFO research look ridiculous
|
|
in the process. Remarks by Falcon and Condor about the aliens'
|
|
lifestyle and preference for Tibetan music and strawberry ice
|
|
cream were laughable." So far as Greenwood and CAUS, skeptical of
|
|
the MJ-12 briefing document from the first, were concerned, "July
|
|
1, 1989, may well be remembered in the history of UFO research as
|
|
the day when the 'Majestic 12' story came crashing to Earth in a
|
|
heap of rubble. Cause of death: Suicide!"
|
|
|
|
Nonetheless it seemed unlikely that MJ-12, EBEs, and other
|
|
cover-up matters would pass away soon. The Dark Siders appeared
|
|
well on their way to starting a new occult movement in America
|
|
and elsewhere. Among movie conservative ufologists many
|
|
legitimate questions about conceivably more substantive matters
|
|
remained to be answered. A reinvestigation of the Roswell
|
|
incident by Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle of CUFOS produced
|
|
what appeared to be solid new evidence of a UFO crash and cover
|
|
up. The emergence of Robert Lazar, who even a mainstream
|
|
journalist such as television reporter George Knapp concluded is
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telling the truth as he knows it possibly suggested a degree of
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substance to recurrent rumors about developments in Area 51 and
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S4. Even Moore's critics were puzzled by the extraordinary
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interest of intelligence operatives in ufologists and the UFO
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phenomenon, going back in time long before Bennewitz's
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interception of low-frequency signals at Kirtland and ahead to
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the present. Why go to all this trouble and expense, with so many
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persons over such a period of time, if there are no real UFO
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secrets to protect?
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Moore says he is still working with the "birds," who are as
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active as ever. The birds tell him, he says, that disinformation
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is used not only against ufologists but even against those
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insiders like themselves who are privy to the cover-up. Those in
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charge are "going to great lengths to mislead their own people."
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At one point the birds were told that there is no substance to
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abduction reports, only to learn later, by accident, that a major
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high-level study had been done. "Even people with a need to know
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didn't know about it," he says. "The abduction mess caused a lot
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of trouble. There may have been an official admission of the
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cover-up by now if the abductions had not come into prominence in
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the 1980s."
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As for the stories of ongoing contact between the U.S.
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government and extraterrestrial biological entities, he says
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there is, in his observation, a "pretty good possibility, better
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than three to one," that such a thing is happening. "But I don't
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think we can communicate with them. Perhaps we only intercept
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their communications. Or maybe they communicate with us."
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He thinks he has found MJ-12. "It's not in a place anybody
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looked," he says. "Not an agency one would have expected. But
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when you think about it, it fits there" (Moore, 1990).
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Doty, now a New Mexico State Police officer, was decertified as
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an AFOSI agent on July 15, 1986, for "misconduct" related to an
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incident (not concerned with UFOs) that occurred while he was
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stationed in West Germany. In August Doty requested a discharge
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from the Air Force and was sent to New Jersey to be separated
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from the service. But then, Doty says, the Senior Enlisted
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Advisor for AFOSI made a trip to the Military Personnel Center at
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Randolph AFB, Texas, and asked that Doty be reassigned to
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Kirtland, where his son lived. In September Col. Richard Law,
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Commander of AFOSI District 70, rescinded Doty's decertification
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and assigned him to Kirtland as a services career specialist
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(i.e., an Air Force recruiter). When he left the Air Force in
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October 1988, he was superintendent of the 1606 Services
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Squadron. Doty remains close to Moore and uncommunicative with
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nearly everyone else. All he will say is that one day a book will
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tell his side of the story and back it up with "Official
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Government Documents" (Doty, 1989).
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Sources:
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Berk, Lynn, and David Renzi. "Former CIA
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Pilot, Others Say Aliens Are Among Us." Las Vegas Sun (May 22,
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1988).
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Cannon, Martin. "Earth Versus the Flying Saucers: THe Amazing
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Story of John Lear." UFO Universe 9 (MarcH 1990): 8-12.
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Clark, Jerome. "Editorial: Flying Saucer Fascism." International
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UFO Reporter 14, 4 (July/August 1989): 3, 22-23.
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Cooper, Milton William. The Secret Government: The Origin,
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Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12. Fullerton, CA: The Author, May
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23, 1989.
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Doty, RicHard. Letter to Philip J. Klass (May 24, 1989).
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Emenegger, Robert. UFO's Past, Present and Future. New York:
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Ballantine Books, 1974.
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Friedman, Stanton T. "MJ-12: THe Evidence So Far." International
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UFO Reporter 12, 5 (September/October 1987): 13-20.
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Govt. -Alien Liaison? Top-Secret Documents. New Brunswick, NJ:
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UFO Investigators League, D.d.
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Greenwood, Barry. "A Majestic Deception." Just Cause 20
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(September 1989): 1-14.
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Greenwood, Barry. "Notes on Peter Gersten's Meeting witH SA
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Hall, RicHard H. Letter to Walter H. Andrus, Jr. (MarcH 18,
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