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Things to beware of in 1997:
Chernobyl. (And not just the one which already blew.)
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Message #799 - INFO.PARANET
Date : 25-Jan-91 14:00
From : Michael Corbin
To : All
Subject : EBE #1
Recently, Jerry Clark published the first of three volumes titled "UFOs in the
1980s," an invaluable research tool containing a host of information on the
who, where and what of UFOlogy. With his kind permission and the kind
permission of Apogee Publishing Company, we are reprinting an article taken
from that book -- Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. In this article, Jerry
culls all of the past history and controversy surrounding the MJ-12 controversy
and other related material that has spewed forth from the extreme side of
UFOlogy representing the ETH such as Lear, Cooper and others. Although this
might be considered by some to be "old news," Jerry's chronology of events shed
a different light on the players that have made up this compendium of scenarios
-- aliens eating humans, genetic experimentation and the gamut of
sensationalistic information that drove Paul Bennewitz to an NBD at the kind
hands of admitted-disinformant, William L. Moore.
This article is being presented here in its entirety contained in 18 messages
including this one. The entire body of these messages are copyrighted (C) 1990
by Apogee Books with license to ParaNet(sm) Information Service for
reproduction on this forum. No further reposting or copying is allowed without
express written permission of the publisher.
This file was provided by ParaNet(sm) Information Service and its network of
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this article by the copyright holder.
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P.O. Box 928 Wheatridge, CO 80034-0928
============================================================ UFOs in the 1980s
(C) 1990 by Apogee Books and Jerome Clark Pages 85 - 109
============================================================ EXTRATERRESTRIAL
BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES
Perhaps the strangest and most convoluted UFO story of the 1980s concerns
allegations from various sources, some of them individuals connected
with military and intelligence agencies, that the U.S. government not only
has communicated with but has an ongoing relationship with what are
known officially as "extraterrestrial biological entities," or EBEs.
The Emenegger/Sandler Saga: The story begins in 1973, when Robert Emenegger
and Alan Sandler, two well-connected Los Angeles businessmen, were
invited to Norton Air Force Base in California to discuss a possible
documentary film on advanced research projects. Two military officials, one
the base's head of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the
other, the audio- visual director Paul Shartle, discussed a number of
projects. One of them involved UFOs. This one sounded the most interesting and
plans were launched to go ahead with a film on the subject.
Emenegger and Sandler were told of a film taken at Holloman AFB, New Mexico,
in May 1971. In October 1988, in a national television broadcast,
Shartle would declare that he had seen the 16mm film showing "three
disc-shaped craft. One of the craft landed and two of them went away." A
door opened on the landed vehicle and three beings emerged. Shartle said,
"They were human- size. They had an odd, gray complexion and a pronounced
nose. They wore tightfitting jump suits, [and] thin headdresses that
appeared to be communication devices, and in their hands they held a
'translator.' A Holloman base commander and other Air Force officers went
out to meet them" (Howe, 1989).
Emenegger was led to believe he would be given the film for use in his
documentary. He was even taken to Norton and shown the landing site and the
building in which the spaceship had been stored and others (Buildings 383
and 1382) in which meetings between Air Force personnel and the aliens had
been conducted over the next several days. According to his sources, the
landing had taken place at 6 a.m. The extraterrestrials were "doctors,
professional types." Their eyes had vertical slits like a cat's and their
mouths were thin and slitlike, with no chins." All that Emenegger was told of
what occurred in the meetings was a single stray "fact": that the military
people said they were monitoring signals from an alien group with which they
were unfamiliar, and did their ET guests know anything about them? The ETs
said no.
Emenegger's military sources said he would be given 3200 feet of film taken
of the landing. At the last minute, however, permission was
withdrawn, although Emenegger and Sandler were encouraged to describe the
Holloman episode as something hypothetical, something that could happen or
might happen in the future. Emenegger went to Wright-Patterson AFB, where
Project Blue Book had been located until its closing in 1969, to ask Col.
George Weinbrenner one of his military contacts, what had happened.
According to Emenegger's account, the exchange took place in Weinbrenner's
office. The colonel stood up, walked to a chalkboard and complained in a
loud voice, "That damn MIG 25! Here we're so public with everything we
have. But the Soviets have all kinds of things we don't know about. We need
to know more about the MIG 25!" Moving to a bookshelf and continuing his
monologue about the Russian jet fighter, he handed Emenegger a copy of J.
Allen Hynek's The UFO Experience (1972), with the author's signature and
dedication to Weinbrenner. "It was like a scene from a Kafka play," Emenegger
would recall , inferring from the colonel's odd behavior that he was confirming
the reality of the film while making sure that no one overhearing
the conversation realized that was what he was doing.
The Suffern Story: On October 7, 1975, a 27-year old carpenter, Robert
Suffern, of Bracebridge, Ontario, got a call from his sister who had seen a
"fiery glow" near his barn and concluded it was on fire. Suffern drove to the
spot and, after determining that there was no problem, got back on the road.
There, he would testify, he encountered a large disc-shaped object resting in
his path. "I was scared," he said. "It was right there in front of me with no
lights and no sign of life." But even before his car could come to a
complete stop, the object abruptly ascended out of sight. Suffern turned his
car around and decided to head home rather than to his sister's place,
his original intended destination. At that point a small figure wearing a
helmet and a silver-gray suit stepped in front of the car, causing Suffern to
hit the brakes and skid to a stop. The figure ran into a field. Then,
according to Suffern, "when he got to the fence, he put his hands on a post
and went over it with no effort at all. It was like he was weightless"
(UFOIL, n.d.).
Within two days Suffern's report was on the wire services, and Suffern
was besieged by UFO investigators, journalists, curiosity-seekers, and
others. Suffern, who made no effort to exploit his story and gave every
appearance of believing what he was saying, soon tired of discussing it. A
year later, however, Suffern and his wife told a Canadian investigator that
a month after the encounter, they were informed that some high-ranking
officials wished to speak with them. Around this time, so they claimed,
they were given thorough examinations by military doctors. After that an
appointment was set up for December 12 and on that day an Ontario Provincial
Police cruiser arrived with three military officers, one Canadian, two
American. They were carrying books and other documents. In the long
conversation that followed, the officers apologized for the UFO landing,
claiming it was a "mistake" caused by the malfunctioning of an
extraterrestrial spaceship.
The officers produced close-up pictures of UFOs, claiming that the U.S. and
Canadian governments had had intimate knowledge of aliens since 1943 and were
cooperating with them. The officers even knew the exact dates and times
of two previous but unreported UFO sightings on the Suffern property. The
Sufferns said the officers had answered all their questions fully and
frankly, but they would not elaborate on what they were told. Reinterviewed
about the matter some months later, the couple stuck by their story but
added few further details.
The investigator, Harry Tokarz, would remark, "Robert Suffern strikes one
as an individual who carefully measures his thoughts. His sincerity comes
through clearly as he slowly relates his concepts and ideas. His wife, a
home-bred country girl, is quick to air her views and state unequivocally what
she believes to be fact" (CUFORN, 1983).
EBEs in South Dakota: On February 9, 1978, a curious document--an apparent
carbon copy of an official U.S. Air Force incident report-arrived at the
office of the National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. Accompanying the document
was an unsigned letter dated "29 Jan." It read: "The incident stated in the
attached report actually occurred. The Air Force appointed a special team
of individuals to investigate the incident. I was one of those
individuals. I am still on active duty and so I cannot state my name at this
time. It is not that I do not trust the Enquirer (I sure [sic] you would treat
my name with [sic] confidence but I do not trust others.) The incident which
occurred on 16 Nov. 77, was classified top secret on 2 Dec 77. At that time I
obtained a copy of the original report. I thought at that time that the Air
Force would probably hush the whole thing up, and they did. The Air Force
ordered the silence on 1 Dec 77, after which, the report was classified.
There were 16 pictures taken at the scene. I do not have access to the
pictures at this time" (Pratt, 1984).
The report, stamped FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, purported to be from the commander
of the 44th Missile Security Squadron at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South
Dakota. The incident was described as a "Helping Hand (security
violation)/Covered Wagon (security violation) at Lima 9 (68th SMSq Area), 7
miles SW of Nisland, SD, at 2100 hours on 16 Nov. 77." The recipient of the
report was identified as "Paul D. Hinzman, SSgt, USAF, Comm/Plotter, Wing
Security Control." Two security men, Airmen 1st Class Kenneth Jenkins and
Wayne E. Raeke, experienced and reported the incident, which was
investigated by Capt. Larry D. Stokes and TSgt. Robert E. Stewart.
The document told an incredible story. At 10:59 on the evening of November
16 an alarm sounded from the Lima Nine missile site. Jenkins and Raeke, at
tHe Lima Launch Control Facility 35 miles away, were dispatched to the scene.
On their arrival Raeke set out to check the rear fence line. There he
spotted a helmeted figure in a glowing green metallic suit. The figure
pointed a weapon at Raeke's rifle and caused it to disintegrate, burning
Raeke's hands and arms in the process. Raeke summoned Jenkins, who carried
his companion back to their Security Alert Team vehicle. When Jenkins
went to the rear fence line, he saw two similarly-garbed figures. He ordered
them to halt, but when they ignored his command, he opened fire. His bullets
struck one in the shoulder and the other in the helmet. The figures ran over
a hill and were briefly lost to view. Jenkins pursued them and when he next
saw them, they were entering a 20-foot-in-diameter saucer-shaped object,
which shot away over the Horizon.
As Raeke was air-evacuated from the scene, investigators discovered
that the missile's nuclear components had been stolen.
Enquirer reporters suspected a hoax but when they called Rapid City and
Ellsworth to check on the names, they were surprised to learn that such
persons did exist. Moreover, all were on active duty. The Enquirer launched
an investigation, sending several reporters to Rapid City. Over the course
of the next few days they found that although the individuals were real, the
document inaccurately listed their job titles, the geography of the
alleged incident was wrong (there was no nearby hill over which intruders
could have run), Raeke had suffered no injuries, he and Jenkins did not even
know each other, and no one (including Rapid City civilian residents and area
ranchers) had heard anything about such an encounter. As one of the
reporters, Bob Pratt, wrote in a subsequent account, "We found more
than 20 discrepancies or errors in the report -wrong names, numbers,
occupations, physical layouts and so on. Had the Security Option alert
mentioned in the report taken place, it would have involved all security
personnel at the base and everyone at the base and in Rapid City (Population
45,000 plus) would have known about it."
The Bennewitz Affair: In the late 1970s Paul Bennewitz, an Albuquerque
businessman trained as a physicist, became convinced that he was
monitoring electromagnetic signals which extraterrestrials were using
to control persons they had abducted. Bennewitz tried to decode these
signals and believed he was succeeding. At the same time he began to see what
he thought were UFOs maneuvering around the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage
Facility and the Coyote Canyon test area, located near Kirtland AFB, and he
filmed them.
Bennewitz reported all this to the Tucson-based Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization (APRO), whose directors were unimpressed, judging Bennewitz to
be deluded. But at Kirtland, Bennewitz's claims, or at least some of
them, were being taken more seriously. On October 24, 1980, Bennewitz
contacted Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Sgt.
Richard Doty (whose previous tour of duty had been at Ellsworth) after being
referred to him by Maj. Ernest Edwards, head of base security, and related
that he had evidence that something potentially threatening was going on
in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area. A "Multipurpose Internal OSI Form,"
signed by Maj. Thomas A. Cseh (Commander of the Base Investigative
Detachment), dated October 28, 1980, and subsequently released under the
Freedom of Information Act, states:
"On 26 Oct 80, SA [Special Agent] Doty, with the assistance of JERRY MILLER,
GS-15, Chief, Scientific Advisor for Air Force Test and Evaluation Center,
KAFB , interviewed Dr. BENNEWITZ at his home in the Four Hills section of
Albuquerque, which is adjacent to the northern boundary of Manzano Base.
(NOTE: MILLER is a former Project Blue Book USAF Investigator who was
assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB (W-PAFB), OH, with FTD [Foreign Technology
Division]. Mr. MILLER is one of the most knowledgeable and impartial
investigators of Aerial Objects in the southwest.) Dr. BENNEWITZ has been
conducting independent research into Aerial Phenomena for the last 15
months. Dr. BENNEWITZ also produced several electronic recording tapes,
allegedly showing high periods of electrical magnetism being emitted from
Manzano/Coyote Canyon area. Dr. BENNEWITZ also produced several photographs
of flying objects taken over the general Albuquerque area. He has several
pieces of electronic surveillance equipment pointed at Manzano and is
attempting to record high frequency electrical beam pulses. Dr. BENNEWITZ
claims these Aerial Objects produce these pulses. . . . After analyzing the
data collected by Dr. BENNEWITZ, Mr MILLER related the evidence clearly shows
that some type of unidentified aerial objects were caught on film; however, no
conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat to
Manzano/Coyote Canyon areas. Mr MILLER felt the electronical [sic] recording
tapes were inconclusive and could have been gathered from several
conventional sources. No sightings, other than these, have been reported in
the area."
On November 10 Bennewitz was invited to the base to present his findings to a
small group of officers and scientists. Exactly one week later Doty informed
Bennewitz that AFOSI had decided against further consideration of the matter.
Subsequently Doty reported receiving a call from then-New Mexico Sen. Harrison
Schmitt, who wanted to know what AFOSI was planning to do about Bennewitz's
allegations. When informed that no investigation was planned, Schmitt spoke
with Brig. Gen. William Brooksher of base security. The following July New
Mexico's other senator, Pete Domenici, looked into the matter, meeting
briefly with Doty before dashing off to talk with Bennewitz personally.
Domenici subsequently lost interest and dropped the issue.
Bennewitz was also aware of supposed cattle mutilations being reported in
the western United States. At one point he met a young mother who told him
that one evening in May 1980, after she and her six-year-old son saw several
UFOs in a field and one approached them, they suffered confusion and
disorientation, then a period of amnesia which lasted as long as four hours.
Bennewitz brought the two to University of Wyoming psychologist R. Leo
Sprinkle, who hypnotized them and got a detailed abduction story from the
mother and a sketchy one from the little boy. Early in the course of the
abduction they observed aliens take a calf aboard the UFO and mutilate it
while it was still alive, removing the animal's genitals. At one point
during the alleged experience, the mother said, they were taken via UFO
into an underground area which she believed was in New Mexico. She
briefly escaped her captors and fled into an area where there were tanks
of water. She looked into one of them and saw body parts such as tongues,
hearts and internal organs, apparently from cattle. But she also observed
a human arm with a hand attached. There was also the "top of a bald
head," apparently from one of the hairless aliens, but before she could find
out for sure, she was dragged away. The objects in the tank, she said,
"horrified me and made me sick and frightened me to death" (Howe, 1989). Later
she wondered about the other tanks and about their contents.
The William Moore/MJ-12 Maze: Late in the summer of 1979 William L. Moore
had left a teaching job in a small Minnesota town to relocate in Arizona,
where he hoped to pursue a writing career. Moore was deeply involved in the
investigation of an apparent UFO crash in New Mexico in July 1947, a case he
and Charles Berlitz would recount in their The Roswell Incident the following
year. After his move to the Southwest Moore became close to Coral and James
Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and in due
course Moore was asked to join the APRO board. The Lorenzens told him about
Bennewitz's claims. Bennewitz, Jim Lorenzen thought, was "prone to make great
leaps of logic on the basis of incomplete data" (Moore, 1989a).
The Roswell Incident was published in the summer of 1980 and in September a
debate on UFOs at the Smithsonian Institution was scheduled to take place.
Moore set off from his Arizona home to Washington, D.C., to attend the debate
and along the way promoted his new book on radio and television shows.
According to an account he would give seven years later, an extraordinary
series of events began while he was on this trip.
He had done a radio show in Omaha and was in the station lobby, suitcase in
hand, on his way to catch a plane which was to leave within the hour when a
receptionist asked if he was Mr. Moore. He had a phone call. The caller was
a man who claimed to be a colonel at nearby Offutt AFB, He said, "We think
you're the only one we've heard who seems to know what he's talking about."
He asked if he and Moore could meet and discuss matters further. Moore
said that since he was leaving town in the next few minutes, that
would not be possible, though he wrote down the man's phone number.
Moore went on to Washington. On September 8, on his way back, he did a radio
show in Albuquerque. On the way out of the studio the receptionist told him
he had a phone call. The caller, who identified himself as an individual
from nearby Kirtland AFB, said, "We think you're the only one we've heard
about who seems to know what he's talking about." Moore said, "Where have I
heard that before?"
Soon afterwards Moore and the individual he would call "Falcon" met at a
local restaurant. Falcon, later alleged (though denied by Moore) to be U.S.
Air Force Sgt. Richard Doty, said he would be wearing a red tie. This first
meeting would initiate a long- running relationship between Moore (and,
beginning in 1982, partner Jaime Shandera) and 10 members of a shadowy group
said to be connected with military intelligence and to be opposed to the
continuation of the UFO cover-up. The story that emerged from this
interaction goes like this:
The first UFO crash, involving bodies of small, gray-skinned humanoids,
occurred near Corona, New Mexico, in 1947 (the "Roswell incident"). Two
years later a humanoid was found alive and it was housed at Los Alamos until
its death in the early 1950s. It was called EBE, after "extraterrestrial
biological entity," and it was the first of three the U.S. government would
have in its custody between then and now. An Air Force captain, now a
retired colonel, was EBE-1's constant companion. At first communication with
it was almost impossible; then a speech device which enabled the being to speak
a sort of English was implanted in its throat. It turned out that EBE-1, the
equivalent of a mechanic on a spaceship, related what it knew of the nature
and purpose of the visitation.
In response to the Roswell incident, MJ-12-the MJ stands for
"Majestic"--as set up by executive order of President Harry Truman on
September 24, 1947. MJ-12 operates as a policy-making body. Project Aquarius
is an umbrella group in which all the various compartments dealing with
ET-related issues perform their various functions. Project Sigma
conducts electronic communication with the extraterrestrials, part of an
ongoing contact project run through the National Security Agency since
1964, following a landing at Holloman AFB in late April of that year.
Nine extraterrestrial races are visiting the earth. One of these races,
little gray-skinned people from the third planet surrounding Zeta
Reticuli, have been here for 25,000 years and influenced the direction of
human evolution. They also help in the shaping of our religious beliefs. Some
important individuals within the cover-up want it to end and are preparing the
American people for the reality of the alien presence through the vehicle of
popular entertainment, including the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
whose climax is a thinly-disguised version of the Holloman landing, and ET.
At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a thick book called "The
Bible," a compilation of all the various project reports.
According to his own account, which he would not relate until 1989, Moore
cooperated with his AFOSI sources-including, prominently, Richard
Doty-and provided them with information. They informed him that there
was considerable interest in Bennewitz. Moore was made to understand that
as his part of the bargain he was to spy on Bennewitz and also on APRO as
well as, in Moore's words, "to a lesser extent, several other individuals"
(Moore, 1989a). He learned that several government agencies were interested in
Bennewitz's activities and they wanted to inundate him with false
information-disinformation, in intelligence parlance-to confuse him.
Moore says he was not one of those providing the disinformation, but he
knew some of those of who were, such as Doty.
Bennewitz on his own had already begun to devise a paranoid
interpretation of what he thought he was seeing and hearing, and 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 techniques are doing the same, turning life
on earth into a nightmare of violence and irrationality. It was, as
Moore remarks, "the wildest science fiction scenario anyone could
possibly imagine."
But Bennewitz believed it. He grew ever more obsessed and tried to alert
prominent persons to the imminent threat, showing 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.
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. 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.
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."
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.
"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."
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.
The July 1947 Roswell crash was mentioned; so, however, was another one
at Roswell in 1949. Investigators at the site found five bodies and one
living alien, who was taken to a safe house at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory north of Albuquerque. The aliens, small gray-skinned
humanoids, were known as "extraterrestrial biological entities" and
the living one was called "EBE" (ee-buh). EBE was befriended (if that was the
word) by an Air Force officer, but the being died of unknown causes on June
18, 1952. (EBE's friend, by 1964 a colonel, was among those who were there
to greet the aliens who landed at Holloman.) Subsequently, it would be
referred to as EBE-1, since in later years another such being, EBE-2, would
take up residence in a safe house. After that, a third, EBE-3, appeared on
the scene and was now living in secret at an American base.
The briefing paper said other crashes had occurred one near Kingman,
Arizona, another just south of Texas in northern Mexico. It also mentioned the
Aztec crash- The wreckage and bodies had been removed to such facilities as
Los Alamos laboratory and Wright-Patterson AFB. A number of highly
classified projects dealt with these materials. They included Snowbird
(research and development from the study of an intact spacecraft left by
the aliens as a gift) and Aquarius (the umbrella operation under which the
research and contact efforts were coordinated). Project Sigma was the ongoing
electronic communications effort. There was also a defunct project
Garnet, intended to investigate extraterrestrial influence on human
evolution. According to the document, extraterrestrials have appeared at
various intervals in human history-25,000, 15,000, 5000 and 2500 years ago as
well as now--to manipulate human and other DNA.
One paragraph stated briefly, "Two thousand years ago
extraterrestrials created a being" who was placed here to teach peace and
love. Elsewhere a passing mention was made of another group of EBEs, called
the "Talls."
The paper said Project Blue Book had existed solely to take heat off the Air
Force and to draw attention away from the real projects. Doty mentioned
an "MJ-12," explaining that "MJ" stood for "Majority." It was a
policy-making body whose membership consisted of 12 very high-ranking
government scientists, military officers and intelligence officials. These were
the men who made the decisions governing the cover-up and the contacts.
Doty said Howe would be given thousands of feet of film of crashed
discs, bodies, EBE-1 and the Holloman landing and meeting. She could
use this material in her documentary to tell the story of how U.S. officials
learned that the earth is being visited and what they have done about it. "We
want you to do the film," Howe quotes him as saying.
When Howe asked why she, not the New York Times, the Washington Post or 60
Minutes, was getting this, the story of the millennium, Doty replied
bluntly that an individual media person is easier to manipulate and discredit
than a major organization with expensive attorneys. He said that another plan
to release the information, through Emenegger and Sandler, had been halted
because political conditions were not right.
Over the next weeks Howe had a number of phone conversations with Doty,
mostly about technical problems related to converting old film to videotape.
She spoke on several occasions with three other men but did not meet them
personally.
Doty suggested that eventually she might be allowed to film an interview
with EBE-3. But the current film project was to have a historical emphasis;
it would deal with events between 1949 and 1964. If at some point she did meet
EBE-3, however, there was no way she could prepare herself for the "shock and
fear" of meeting an alien being.
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 secure a letter of intent from the U.S. government
with a legally-binding commitment to release the promised film footage. When
Howe called Doty about it, he said, "I'll work on it." He said he would mail
the letter directly to HBO.
Then HBO told her it would not authorize funds for the film 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.
When she called him at the base, he remarked that he had good 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.
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.
By October the contacts had decreased. The same month her contract
with HBO expired. All she had was the name of the 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).
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.
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).
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.
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 George Johnson writes, "After the Holocaust
of World War II, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories became repugnant to all
but the fringe of the American right. Populist fears of the power of the rich
became focused instead on organizations that promote international
capitalism, such as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign
Relations, and the Bilderbergers, a group of world leaders and
businesspeople who held one of their early conferences on international
relations at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands" [Johnson, 1983].
According to Cooper, the trilateral emblem is taken directly from the alien
flag. He adds that under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter MJ-12 became
known as the 50 Committee. Under Reagan it was renamed the PI-40
Committee.)
By 1955, during the Eisenhower years, Cooper charged, officials learned for
certain what they had already begun to suspect a year earlier: that the aliens
had broken the treaty before the ink on it had time to dry. They were killing
and mutilating both human beings and animals, failing to supply a
complete list of abductees, and not returning some of those they had taken.
On top of that, they were conspiring with the Soviets, manipulating
society through occultism, witchcraft, religion and secret
organizations. Eisenhower prepared a secret executive memo, NSC 5411,
ordering a study group of 35 top members (the "Jason Society")
associated with the Council on Foreign Relations to "examine aIl the
facts, evidence, lies, and deception and discover the truth of the alien
question" (Cooper, 1989). Because the resulting meetings were held at Quantico
Marine Base, they were called the Quantico meetings. Those participating
included Edward Teller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Nelson
Rockefeller.
The group decided that the danger to established social, economic,
religious and political institutions was so grave that no one must know about
the aliens, not even Congress. That meant that alternative sources of funding
would have to be found. It also concluded that the aliens were using human
organs and tissue to replenish their deteriorating genetic structure.
Further, according to Cooper, overtures were made to the Soviet Union and
other nations so that all the earth could join together to deal with the alien
menace. Research into sophisticated new weapons systems commenced.
Intelligence sources penetrated the Vatican hoping to learn the Fatima
prophecy which had been kept secret ever since 1917. It was suspected
that the Fatima, Portugal, "miracle" was an episode of alien manipulation.
As it turned out, the prophecy stated that in 1992 a child would unite the
world under the banner of a false religion. By 1995 people would figure out
that he was the Anti-Christ. That same year World War III would begin
when an alliance of Arab nations invaded Israel. This would lead to nuclear
war in 1999. The next four years would see horrible death and suffering all
over the planet. Christ would return in 2011.
When confronted about this, claimed Cooper, the aliens candidly acknowledged
it was true. They knew it because they had traveled into the future via time
machine and observed it with their own eyes. They added that they
created us through genetic manipulation. Later the Americans and the
Soviets also developed time travel and confirmed the Fatima/ET vision of the
future.
In 1957 the Jason group met again, by order of Eisenhower, to decide what
to do. It came up with three alternatives: (l) Use nuclear bombs to blow
holes in the stratosphere so that pollution could escape into space. (2)
Build a huge network of tunnels under the earth and save enough human beings
of varying cultures, occupations and talents so that the race could reemerge
after the nuclear and environmental catastrophes to come. Everybody else-
i.e., the rest of humanity--would be left on the surface presumably to
die. (3) Employ alien and terrestrial technology to leave earth and colonize
the moon (code name "Adam") and Mars ("Eve"). The first alternative was
deemed impractical, so the Americans and the Soviets started working on
the other two. Meanwhile they decided that the population would have to
be controlled, which could be done most easily by killing off as many
"undesirables" as possible. Thus AIDS and other deadly diseases were
introduced into the population. Another idea to raise needed funds was
quickly acted on: sell drugs on a massive scale. An ambitious young member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Texas oil-company president named
George Bush, was put in charge of the project, with the aid of the CIA. "The
plan worked better than anyone had thought " CooPer said. "The CIA now controls
all the worlds [sic] illegal drug markets" (Cooper, 1989).
Unknown to just about everybody, a secret American/Soviet/alien space base
existed on the dark side of the moon. By the early 1960s human colonies were
thriving on the surface of Mars. All the while the naive people of the earth
were led to believe the Soviets and the Americans were something other than
the closest allies. But Cooper's story got even more bizarre and byzantine.
He claimed that in 1963, when President Kennedy found out some of what was
going on, he gave an ultimatum to MJ-12: get out of 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 the Secret Service agent driving the President's car in the motorcade.
In 1969, reported Cooper, a confrontation between human scientists
and aliens at the Dulce laboratory resulted in the former's being taken
hostage by the latter. Soldiers who tried to 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 colonies.
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."
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.
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).
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.
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 telling the truth as he knows it possibly
suggested a degree of substance to recurrent rumors about developments in
Area 51 and S4. Even Moore's critics were puzzled by the extraordinary
interest of intelligence operatives in ufologists and the UFO phenomenon,
going back in time long before Bennewitz's interception of
low-frequency signals at Kirtland and ahead to the present. Why go to all
this trouble and expense, with so many persons over such a period of time, if
there are no real UFO secrets to protect?
Moore says he is still working with the "birds," who are as active as
ever. The birds tell him, he says, that disinformation is used not only
against ufologists but even against those insiders like themselves who are
privy to the cover-up. Those in charge are "going to great lengths to mislead
their own people." At one point the birds were told that there is no
substance to abduction reports, only to learn later, by accident, that a major
high-level study had been done. "Even people with a need to know didn't know
about it," he says. "The abduction mess caused a lot of trouble. There may
have been an official admission of the cover-up by now if the abductions had
not come into prominence in the 1980s."
As for the stories of ongoing contact between the U.S. government
and extraterrestrial biological entities, he says there is, in his
observation, a "pretty good possibility, better than three to one," that such
a thing is happening. "But I don't think we can communicate with them.
Perhaps we only intercept their communications. Or maybe they communicate
with us."
He thinks he has found MJ-12. "It's not in a place anybody looked," he
says. "Not an agency one would have expected. But when you think about it, it
fits there" (Moore, 1990).
Doty, now a New Mexico State Police officer, was decertified as an AFOSI
agent on July 15, 1986, for "misconduct" related to an incident (not
concerned with UFOs) that occurred while he was stationed in West Germany.
In August Doty requested a discharge from the Air Force and was sent to New
Jersey to be separated from the service. But then, Doty says, the
Senior Enlisted Advisor for AFOSI made a trip to the Military Personnel Center
at Randolph AFB, Texas, and asked that Doty be reassigned to Kirtland,
where his son lived. In September Col. Richard Law, Commander of AFOSI
District 70, rescinded Doty's decertification and assigned him to Kirtland
as a services career specialist (i.e., an Air Force recruiter). When he
left the Air Force in October 1988, he was superintendent of the 1606
Services Squadron. Doty remains close to Moore and uncommunicative with
nearly everyone else. All he will say is that one day a book will tell his
side of the story and back it up with "Official Government Documents"
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