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SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE "PHOENIX PROJECT" BY PARANET FILE: UFO2495
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PART 1
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Filename: Par-Adv1.Inv
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Type : Investigations
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Author : Michael Corbin
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Date : 08/16/92 (Aprox)
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Desc. : Investigation into Phoenix Project Publishers
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Note : See also; PAR-ADVx.ZIP
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Review of the "Phoenix Project" by ParaNet
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A few weeks ago, ParaNet received on-line copies of several documents
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which purported to come from a previously unknown organization called
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"The Phoenix Project". The project is described in the documents as a
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"private, civilian, research organization" which was "formed in 1952 to
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investigate and correlate information" concerning UFOs and ETs.
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According to the information contained in the documents, for a small
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price one can receive printed copies of the project's reports, complete
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with maps, magnetometer readings, and a host of other supporting charts
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and diagrams which serve to make the whole endeavor look scientific and
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legitimate.
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The documents we received were formulated as investigative reports on
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two of the hottest and most controversial issues within the UFO
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research community: the underground alien bases which are said to exist
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at numerous locations around the United States, and the cluster of
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alleged UFO-related projects sometimes referred to collectively as
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"Operation Majestic Twelve". Specifically, the material consisted of
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three separate documents:
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(1) "The Ultimate Secret", originally dated 4 August 1989 and revised
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most recently 5 May 1992, purporting to lay bare the inner workings
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of the government's secret UFO projects, including the recovery of
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alien technology and bodies from crashed UFOs, the exploitation of
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this technology by a number of code-named government projects, and
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the involvement of NASA and the SDI program in preparing for
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conflict with alien invaders;
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(2) "The Dulce Report", dated 27 May 1992, describing an on-site
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investigation of the Dulce and Archuleta Mesa area in New Mexico,
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which purportedly proved beyond any doubt that there is nothing
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there of any interest to UFO researchers despite persistent reports
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to the contrary; and
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(3) "The K-2 Report", originally dated 28 July 1989 and revised 27 June
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1992, which purports to document the discovery of a genuine
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"secret alien base" in the Pilot Peak area of Plumas County,
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California.
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ParaNet quickly reviewed this material and posted it in its entirety
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for our subscribers, pursuant to the permissions attached to the
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material by the publisher. We also posted a preliminary evaluation
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which warned that the material might contain inaccuracies or deliberate
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disinformation. This evaluation was based on a number of factors:
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(1) much of the information in "The Ultimate Secret" about Operation
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Majestic Twelve and associated projects is clearly related to,
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and probably derived from, earlier material which has been
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dismissed as worthless by almost all reputable UFO researchers;
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(2) much of the information in "The Dulce Report" about Dulce and the
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Archuleta Mesa contradicts information already provided to ParaNet
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by other capable investigators;
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(3) some of the information in "The K-2 Report" is intrinsically
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implausible (although, admittedly, not impossible), such as the
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claim that a seasoned military intelligence operative "forgot"
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his camera when rushing to document a UFO landing site, or that
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by the next day that same landing site had been re-sodded by the
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aliens to obliterate all the evidence.
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ParaNet received the three documents as uploads from a Mr. Jack L.
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Mathias of Carson City, Nevada, who represented himself as the sole
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public spokesman for the Project. But the reports themselves name
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neither the authors of the documents nor the principals of the Phoenix
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Project. Instead, they cryptically state that they are the work of
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"former military personnel who have all been associated with
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intelligence activities, and have knowledge of covert government
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operations concerning UFO's". Given the sorry history of anonymous
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documents and "former" government agents in the UFO community, ParaNet
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felt it necessary to start its own investigation in an effort to
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determine just who was behind the Phoenix Project and what their
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motives might be.
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First we sent a letter to the post office box listed in the documents,
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asking for further information about the group; but the letter was not
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answered. We corresponded by electronic mail with Mr. Mathias, who
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represents himself as an agent for the group, but he refused to provide
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any of the information we requested. So much for the direct approach.
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Each document formally states that the Phoenix Project logo is a
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registered trademark (presumably in the state of Nevada, since that is
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where their mailing address is located), so we tried a query to the
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Nevada trademark office in Carson City. That office informed us that
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the state of Nevada has no record of any current trademarks under the
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"Phoenix Project" name. They did say that articles of incorporation
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were filed under the name of the Phoenix Project on 25 August 1988 by a
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Mr. Thomas Naylor of Las Vegas, Nevada. However, the corporation failed
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to file the names and addresses of its officers by 1 July 1989 as
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required by Nevada law, as a result of which the incorporation was
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revoked by the Nevada Secretary of State. And so we reached another
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apparent dead end, except for one bit of trivia uncovered by a ParaNet
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investigator in Las Vegas: An attorney named Thomas C. Naylor had
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recently moved into an office building at 2810 West Charleston in Las
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Vegas.
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Next we contacted the U.S. Postal Service in Carson City, Nevada to
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determine the box holder for the Phoenix Project's publisher, Advent
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Publishing Company. We were told that the box was registered to a
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Richard T. Miller, whose address was given as a mobile-home park in
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Carson City. Following this, we contacted the Clerk and Recorder's
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office in Carson City, and determined that a Richard Miller is listed
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with them as the legal owner of Advent Publishing. However, the
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telephone number they gave us for Mr. Miller has been disconnected, and
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directory assistance was unable to provide a new one. Another brick
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wall.
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To this point, all attempts to verify the Phoenix Project's legitimacy
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using conventional methods had proved futile, so we decided to try a
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different approach. The Phoenix Project explicitly and emphatically
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disclaims affiliation with any other groups using the name "Phoenix".
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And just to make sure everyone gets the message, each document states
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at the beginning that "[i]n particular, there is no affiliation with a
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publisher known as America West, any of its publications, or the
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individuals known as George and Desiree Green". Unfortunately, ParaNet
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has uncovered evidence that these disclaimers may be intended to
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conceal rather than to illuminate.
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America West, it turns out, is the publisher of a magazine called the
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Phoenix Liberator, which carries large quantities of channelled
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material alleged to originate with an entity from the Pleiades known as
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"Hatonn". The Phoenix Liberator has come under fire recently from some
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in the UFO community as anti-Semitic and neo-fascist. (See, for
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example, "Hatonn's World: A Neo-Nazi ET?" by Don Ecker in the
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July/August 1992 issue of UFO Magazine.) But "Hatonn" and his defenders
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vehemently deny the charge, and the whole affair has been widely and
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rather nastily trumpeted both on the net and in print.
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It seems that until recently America West Publishers and the Phoenix
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Liberator were operated out of Tehachapi, California. But a few days
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ago one of ParaNet's subscribers uploaded a response from "Hatonn" to
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Don Ecker, which he said he had pulled down from the Phoenix Liberator
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BBS; and with it he posted a new address for the Liberator. That
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address was all too familiar: 2810 West Charleston Boulevard, Las
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Vegas, Nevada--the same building, it seems, where an attorney named
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Thomas Naylor also has his new office.
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And then another strange coincidence: A posting coming across the
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Internet stated that before "Hatonn" channelled through his current
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host, he used to convey his messages through a Mr. Richard Miller, who
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started an organization which was known as the Solar Cross and which
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was apparently a forerunner of the Phoenix Liberator. Is this the same
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Richard Miller who owns the Phoenix Project's publisher, Advent
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Publishing Company?
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We do not yet know if the Thomas Naylor who tried to incorporate the
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Phoenix Project is the same Thomas Naylor who apparently shares 2810
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West Charleston with the new offices of the Phoenix Liberator. We do
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not yet know if the Richard Miller who owns Advent Publishing is the
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same Richard Miller who reportedly once channelled "Hatonn". In short,
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we do not yet know if the Phoenix Project is truly an independent
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organization, or merely another incarnation of America West Publishers
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and the Phoenix Liberator. But the coincidences are certainly striking
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and suggestive. And in light of this we again urge extreme caution in
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dealing with the Phoenix Project material, until such time as a
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definitive assessment of the Project's motives and reliability can be
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made.
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ParaNet will keep you advised of our findings as they become available.
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If you have any information about the Phoenix Project, especially
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regarding its possible relationship with the Phoenix Liberator or
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America West Publishers, please send it to Michael Corbin by Internet
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mail to mcorbin@paranet.org; by Fidonet to 1:104/422; by U.S. Mail to
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P.O. Box 172, Wheat Ridge, CO 80034- 0172;
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