Post by ronologic on Dec 16, 2011 3:49:31 GMT 1
THE MENTAL DESTRUCTION OF PAUL BENNEWITZ
compiled by Dee Finney
Richard Doty was interviewed on the Art Bell Show
2-26-05 - www.coasttocoastam.com/
I personally heard so many lies in his interview, I knew I couldn't just
let that information stand as it was. Since I have inside information on
ETVs myself because of group affiliations, friends and personal
experiences, lies and disinformation can no longer be tolerated
in the US. regarding the extraterrestrial/government agreements.
These agreements may have been allowable because of national
security when they were made, but those reasons are no longer
valid as all the other countries in the world have released the
information they were sitting on all this time.
Its time for the American people to know the truth!
Dee
Early 1980, Paul Bennewitz becomes involved in observing and filming objects which he has sighted on the ground and in the air near Kirt land AFB and the Manzano range. Reportedly his wife was also present to witness some of the first landings he witnessed and filmed in the Coyote Canyon area. Subsequently he contacts Earnest Edwards of the Kirtland Security Police who, over the period of the next few months, becomes concerned and requests the guards on the Manzano Weapons Storage Area report to him any sightings of unusual aerial lights. At the beginning of August 1980 three guards report sighting an aerial light which descends on the Sandia Military Reservation. This is the first sighting described in the complaint form signed by Richard Doty. Edwards reports the sighting to Doty unaware that Doty has already heard from Russ Curtis (Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia Security guard sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty includes these reports and several others in his Complaint Form and forwards the report to AFOSI Headquarters in Washington.
From this point on many other persons became involved. Bennewitz was called down to a meeting at Kirtland AFB at which several major Air Force officers and Sandia personnel were present, including a Brigadier General. Earnest Edwards has confirmed that the three guards under his command reported what was described, and that the meeting took place. Bennewitz has confirmed that Doty and Jerry Miller came to his home to view his materials and there is a document signed by Thomas A. Cseh, Commander of the Base Investigative Detachment, to confirm this. Finally there is the complete set of documents which were released by AFOSI Headquarters under cover of the Department of the Air Force relating to the described events.
At least one of the people who created the original Dulce story and told it to UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz have since admitted the story was disinformation.
"...Bill Moore later claimed in a "confession" that he was recruited to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by an AFOSI Agent, and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation...to Bennewitz. This disinformation included "verification" of Bennewitz' beliefs about the "grays" and the underground base at Dulce."
ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa093097.htm
In 1979 - 1980 (the record of the year is unclear), Bennewitz and a psychologist/UFOlogist named Dr. Leo Sprinkle investigated the story that a deeply troubled woman named Myrna Hansen told them. She claimed that she and her young son had seen a UFO while driving on a rural road near Cimarron, in northeastern New Mexico. With the patient's permission, Dr. Sprinkle began hypnotizing her, and over a three month period, Bennewitz and Sprinkle heard a very unusual story.
Under hypnosis, the patient said that, not only had she seen several UFOs that day, but she had seen cattle being abducted and she and her son had also been abducted by the aliens and taken to a secret underground base where they saw the cattle being mutilated and drained of their blood and saw vats containing human body parts. She further said that some sort of implants were placed in the bodies of her and her son and that the aliens could control their minds through these devices.
Bennewitz believed the woman's story, and he believed that it was connected somehow to the lights he was seeing over Manzano. He began filming the lights, amassing over 2600 feet of film. He also came to believe that he could receive signals from the craft that he observed. He built antennas and receivers to receive low-frequency electromagnetic transmissions that he believed came from the alien craft. Bennewitz called his "mission" Project Beta. Those who have seen the films and heard the tapes of the low-frequency radio transmissions say there is no doubt that Bennewitz was filming and recording real phenomena.
On 24 October 1980, Bennewitz contacted Kirtland AFB to make a report of what he felt was a real threat against Manzano Weapons Storage Area by UFOs. He first communicated with Major Ernest E. Edwards, who referred him to S.A. Richard C. Doty.
In 1979, Paul Bennewitz operated a small electronics company, Thunder Scientific Laboratory, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a physicist, and inventor, and a tinkerer. He also had an avid interest in UFOs, and was an investigator for APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization- based in Arizona), the UFO group started by Jim and Coral Lorenzen. From his home on the outskirts of Albuquerque, Bennewitz had, along with others, seen strange lights in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. The lights seemed to appear almost every evening and to fly towards Coyote Canyon, also a part of the Kirtland Air Force Base area that included Sandia National laboratory and Phillips laboratory, both of which do ultra-top-secret research.
In 1979 - 1980 (the record of the year is unclear), Bennewitz and a psychologist/UFOlogist named Dr. Leo Sprinkle investigated the story that a deeply troubled woman named Myrna Hansen told them. She claimed that she and her young son had seen a UFO while driving on a rural road near Cimarron, in northeastern New Mexico. With the patient's permission, Dr. Sprinkle began hypnotizing her, and over a three month period, Bennewitz and Sprinkle heard a very unusual story.
Under hypnosis, the patient said that, not only had she seen several UFOs that day, but she had seen cattle being abducted and she and her son had also been abducted by the aliens and taken to a secret underground base where they saw the cattle being mutilated and drained of their blood and saw vats containing human body parts. She further said that some sort of implants were placed in the bodies of her and her son and that the aliens could control their minds through these devices.
Richard Doty and Jerry Miller, Scientific Advisor for Air Force Test and Evaluation Center, Kirtland AFB, interviewed Bennewitz in his home on the edge of Manzano Base. They examined Bennewitz' films and tapes, and Miller, a former Project Bluebook investigator at Wright-Patterson AFB, determined that the films did show some type of unidentified aerial objects. They also noted the array of electronic surveillance equipment that Bennewitz had pointed at Manzano. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations declined to investigate further, but scheduled an inspection of Bennewitz' data by personnel at Wright-Patterson. AFOSI also did a background check on Bennewitz.
Taking a step that ultimately led to his later troubles, Bennewitz wrote a computer program that he claimed could translate the alien radio transmissions. He now came to believe that he was intercepting the messages that the aliens were transmitting to mind-control devices such as those that Myrna Hansen claimed had been placed in her and her son.
On 10 November 1980, Bennewitz presented his evidence again, this time to high ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena. Once again, however, the AFOSI declined to investigate the matter themselves.
Bennewitz was not to give up so easily. Besides the regular reports he was sending to APRO, he was contacting U.S. Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter Domenici, as well as other UFOlogists such as Linda Moulton Howe and John Lear.
By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz' claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former-schoolteacher-turned-writer-and-ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Moore had gained a degree of fame in the UFO field by co-authoring(with Charles Berlitz) The Philadelphia Experiment and The Roswell Incident.
By now, Bennewitz' story had become quite complicated. He told Moore that the alien transmissions he had received indicated that two types of aliens had invaded the U.S.: The peaceful "whites" and the evil "grays". The grays, who he said were responsible for cattle mutilations and the abductions of humans, had a treaty with the U.S. government that allowed them to build a secret underground base beneath Archuleta Peak on the Jicarillo Indian Reservation near Dulce, New Mexico. The aliens, however, were about to break the treaty...
Perhaps the oddest twist in this story is that Bill Moore later claimed in a "confession" that he was recruited by someone with the code name "Falcon" to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by an AFOSI Agent, and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the forged "Aquarius Document" to Bennewitz. This disinformation included "verification" of Bennewitz' beliefs about the "grays" and the underground base at Dulce.
Paul Bennewitz gradually became more and more paranoid, claiming aliens came through the walls of his house at night and injected him with chemicals. He began keeping guns and knives all over his house. Finally he had to be hospitalized for "exhaustion". It is said that he recovered and now refuses to grant interviews or to have anything to do with the subject of UFOs
Paul Bennewitz died on June 23, 2003.
Greg Bishop — The Paul Bennewitz Story
Greg Bishop speaks on his research into the story of Paul Bennewitz, who thought he had stumbled onto evidence of an alien invasion, but in the process was directing attention to secret projects at Kirtland Air Force Base, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the early 1980s. The Bennewitz episode provided the blueprint for wild UFO conspiracy tales into the next decade, and a warning to researchers not to confuse the authority of the messenger with the truth of the message. Wild alien stories cooked up by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations that were fed to Bennewitz, and which began as a simple counterintelligence operation, backfired and led to renewed calls for disclosure of government UFO secrecy.
The strangest part of the story is that Bennewitz actually had stumbled onto anomalous lights and signals that were confusing and worrying the Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Administration. Bennewitz also claimed that he had pictures of an atomic-powered aircraft crash site near Dulce, New Mexico.
The story will be told through Bennewitz’ personal notes and correspondence, as well as some of the verified disinformation that was fed to him over a period of five years, leading to his eventual breakdown and institutionalization
How Disinformation Experts Spread Fear About UFOs
Anne Strieber
Summary: Bill Moore, UFO investigator and author, has learned a great deal about the government coverup of UFO information over the years. A large part of this coverup has to do with what intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, refer to as DISINFORMATION.
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Bill Moore, UFO investigator and author, has learned a great deal about the government coverup of UFO information over the years. A large part of this coverup has to do with what intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, refer to as DISINFORMATION.
In his speech to the MUFON convention in LAs Vegas on July 1, 1989, Mr. Moore had this to say about the subject: "Disinformation is a strange and bi- zarre game. Those who play it are completely aware that an operation's success is dependent upon dropping false information upon a target or `mark', in such a way that the person will accept it as truth and will repeat, and even defend it to others as if it were true. One of the key factors in any successful disin- formation scheme is that it must contain some elements of truth in order to be credible. Once the information is believed, the work of counterintelligence is complete. They can simply withdraw in the confidence that the dirty work of spreading their poisonous seeds will be done by others."
Some of the most frightening and bizarre stories about UFOs and visitors may well be lies that originated with disinformation experts and are innocently spread by gullible people who do not bother to check facts, but who love a good story. And some of the people telling these tales may not be so innocent- they may be disinformation experts themselves.
While there is no final proof that the U.S. government has sponsored disinformation programs concerning UFOs, the circumstantial evidence is growing stronger every day. It is a matter of record that at least one individual spread disinformation in this field while working as a government employee in an intelligence-related job, and the revelations of Bill Moore and others in- dicate that false stories have been planted among UFO researchers for years.
Certainly something strange happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947, when Air Force officials retrieved some debris with properties that did not fit any known technology. According to Colonel Jesse Marcel, who gave a number of videotaped interviews before he died, and who was responsible for the recovery of this debris, the fact of its extreme strangeness was covered up by the Air Force.
This coverup took place when the cold war was just starting and America was entering a period of near-paranoia over the issue of Soviet expansionism. America's obsession with secrecy began when President Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 in order to obtain information about the threats being made by the Communists after the second world war. Ever since then, Americans have been told less and less about what is really going on in our government. As Norman Thomas, who unsuccessfully ran for President many times, said, `Where the secrets start, the republic stops.' We may live in a democracy, but we cannot have an effect on policy which we know nothing about.
When Bill Moore became a director of the now dormant APRO (Aerial Phenome- na Research Organization) in 1979, he became acquainted with the work being done by Paul Benewitz and Dr. Leo Sprinkle with a young woman who remembered being abducted and witnessing cattle mutilations. Bennewitz had become convinced that aliens had implanted some sort of communication device in the woman's head, and that they were using this device to control her actions.
Since Paul Bennewitz was a physicist, he had a certain amount of electronics equipment at his disposal, and he set out to determine whether he could detect the electromagnetic signals he believed aliens must be using to exercise control over their alleged victims, and to try to devise a way to shield victims from the control of these signals. He told APRO in late '79 that he believed he had succeeded in detecting low frequency signals from UFOs and had begun to make calculations about the sort of electronic and propulsion technology employed by the aliens. He also began to take pictures of strange lights maneuvering in the vicinity of the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility, which is located to the east of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Bennewitz had a perfect view of the weapons base from his home in the Four Hills section of the city.
Bill Moore says, "In early September, 1980, I was approached by a well- placed individual within the intelligence community who claimed to be directly connected to a high-level project dealing with UFOs. This individual told me that he spoke for a small group of similar indiivuals who were uncomfortable with the government's continuing cover-up of the truth and indicated that he and his group would like to help me with my research into the subject in the hope and expectation that I might be able to help them find a way to change the prevailing policy and get the facts to the public without breaking any laws in the process. The man who acted as liason between this group and myself was an Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent named Richard Doty. I knew I was being recruited, but at that point I had no idea for what."
It soon became apparent to Bill that he was expected to supply information to this individual about the activities of Paul Bennewitz and APRO in exchange for being given `sensitive' (or presumably classified) information on UFOs. Bill realized that, whatever it was Bennewitz was involved with, he was the subject of considerable interest on the part of not one but several government agencies, and that they were actively trying to defuse him by pumping as much disinformation through him as he could possibly absorb. Bill decided to play along with these government agents so he could learn more about the disinformation process by witnessing it firsthand.
Bennewitz, for his part, continued to make what seemed to be increasingly bizarre claims, most of which gave every appearance of having been influenced by a heavy blanket of disinformation mixed with a small, but significant, amount of truth. The problem was always one of keeping a level head and trying to sort the fact from fantasy - something which Paul Bennewitz was having a hard time doing.
"By 1981", according to Bill, "Paul was gathering data from a variety of sources and amalgamating it with information being fed to him by a number of government people in whom, for some reason, he seemed to have an implicit and abiding faith. The story that emerged from this melange of fact, fiction, fantasy, here-say, hard data and government disinformation was absolutely incredible! Yet somehow, Paul believed in it and set out on a one-man crusade to tell the world that malevolent aliens from space were in league with our government to take over the planet. What had begun in 1979 as an effort to learn whether the behavior of a woman who claimed she had been abducted by UFO aliens was being influenced by some sort of radio remote control had, in the space of less than three years, blossomed into a tale which rivaled the wildest science fiction scenario anyone could possibly imagine."
Bennewitz continued with his experiments regarding the radio signals he was receiving and the film footage he was getting of unusual lights. Both of these phenomena seemed to be largely connected to activities within the Kirtland AFB Sandia National Labs complex just south of the city of Albuquerque. Bill feels that Bennewitz definitely was receiving some sort of low frequency electromagnetic signal on his equipment, and is equally certain that his photos and films depicted unusual lights, most of which were filmed while hovering or maneuvering over the Kirtland/Sandia complex. The real question is whether this evidence was sufficient to conclude that either of these phenomena was directly related to UFO activity, or whether, in fact, the strange things he was witnessing had to do with some classified government research project going on near- by. Either reason would be a good explanation for the government's counterintelligence activities in this case.
Bill reports that government surveillance of Paul's activities, some of which Paul was astute enough to detect and some of which Bill learned about but Paul seemed unaware of, included wire taps and even break-ins. "Paul took these activities as proof positive that he was onto something big. Unfortunately, he seemed largely unaware that the same people who would go to such lengths to spy on him also had the capabilities to mount an effective disinformation campaign."
In any case, by mid-1982, Paul's story contained virtually all of the elements found in the current crop of rumors being circulated around the UFO community by people such as John Lear. There were two groups of aliens, one malevolent, one more friendly. The malevolent ones, which he referred to as the `greys', were really in control, and they were the ones responsible for the cattle mutilations, for human abductions and the implanting of sinister control devices in humans, for having first made and then broken a secret treaty with the U.S. government, for maintaining a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico, and for having supplied the U.S. government with alien space hardware and weapons which ultimately proved defective or which were caused to crash, thus leaving human civilization virtually defenseless against invasion.
Bill Moore says, "I know that this whole body of information if false, be- cause I was in a position to observe much of the disinformation process as it unfolded. And I can tell you it was effective, because I watched Paul become systematically more paranoid and more emotionally unstable as he tried to assimilate what was happening to him. He had guns and knives all over his house, had installed extra locks on his doors, and he swore that `they' (meaning the aliens) were coming through his walls at night and injecting him with hideous chemicals which would knock him out for long periods of time. He began to suf- fer increasing bouts of insomnia. I knew at that time that he was not far from an inevitable nervous collapse. His health had deteriorated, he had lost considerable weight, his hands shook as if from palsy, and he looked terrible. I tried to counsel him to drop the entire UFO thing before his health was completely destroyed. Not long afterward I heard he had been hospitalized and was under psychiatric care."
The disinformation campaign was also effective because it insured that no one in the mainstream media or scientific or scientific community would pay any attention to the outlandish claims that Paul Bennewitz made. Thus the elements of truth that were contained in his experiments became lost to the public forever.
Were UFOs ever actually involved with all of this? Bills says we may never really know. Perhaps Bennewitz had merely stumbled upon signals generated from some sophisticated, high-level government project whose security people hit upon UFO-related disinformation as the ultimate cover. Or perhaps he discovered a real government UFO project which elected to disinform him to protect what they were really doing. The one thing that Bill does know from first-hand experience is that there was a tremendous amount of government disinformation involved, and that a large proportion of what we are hearing today about malevolent aliens, underground bases and secret treaties with the U.S. government has its roots firmly planted in the Bennewitz affair. "The current crop of disinformation is really nothing new; it's just that a different crop of people are spreading it this time around," says Moore.
From this experience, and from his other research, Bill has come to the conclusion that the U.S. government counterintelligence people have conducted an on-again, off-again campaign of deception and disinformation against the American public about the UFO phenomenon for more than 40 years. He feels that the people who have been responsible for the operations are highly placed individuals within the intelligence community. There are several possible explanations for this situation. One, the disinformation could be a security cover for a real UFO project which exists at a very high level and is known only to an elite few. Two, it could be a security process designed to divert attention away from real, but non-UFO related, high tech research and development projects. Three, it may be a manipulation by UFO aliens themselves as part of a long term plan to gradually make human society aware of their presence here. Bill's position is that the truth is best described in terms of a combination of all of the above.
It's a fact that somebody powerful is spreading disinformation about UFOs. It would be foolish to believe any story on the basis of too little evidence. On the other hand, those people who have experienced the visitors first-hand need not allow themselves to be convinced that their experiences were mere hallucinations.
People who have encountered the visitors know the very real fear that comes from confronting the unknown. There is no reason why they should have to endure the additional terror of being inundated by sensationalized rumors about aliens that began ten years ago with a government disinformation campaign against one individual.
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 1
FACTOID: In 1947, the Air Force knew that a shiny metallic surface makes an object show up better on radar, so they used aluminum foil to make radar reflectors for their weather balloons. However, by 1955, they had forgotten this fact, so they painted the first U-2 spy planes silver, which would have made them easily detectable by radar as they flew over the U.S.S.R. on reconnaisance missions. Their silvery appearance also caused people to mistake them for UFOs, according to CIA historians. Sometime later they realized their mistake and began to paint them black, thus creating the first "stealth" aircraft.
(Uncle Phaed's UFO Investigator's Handbook)
Who is former AFOSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty?
It's not easy to find information about Doty prior to 1980. The only information available is a few scraps in various UFO books plus the information that can be gleaned from four files that are online. These files consist of Doty's reputed Air Force discharge papers, a telephone interview that Phil Klass had with Doty on 1/8/88, and two letters purportedly written by Doty (3/3/89 and 4/4/89). However, there is not a lot of information in these files.
In the transcript of the telephone interview with Klass, Doty says that his father, Edward Doty, was in the Air Force, was an investigator for Project Bluebook, was at Holloman AFB from 1962 to 1964, and was involved in the investigation of the 1964 UFO landing case at Socorro, New Mexico. However, in a letter dated 3/3/89, Doty says that it was an uncle, not his father, that was a Bluebook investigator.
In his 3/3/89 letter, Doty says:
While assigned to the AFOSI District 70 Headquarters, Weisbaden, West Germany, I performed duties as a counterespionage specialist. In 1986, I was involved in a sensitive operation where I attempted to perform certain duties which would enable our team to trap possible foreign agents working against the interests of the United States. My supervisors, however, seen my actions as being unauthorized. Therefore, I was asked to leave AFOSI, which I did voluntarily. I accepted a position at Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, NM, where my son was residing with my former spouse.
Apparently, Doty was at Kirtland at least twice. We know he was there in 1980, since that is when the Bennewitz affair took place, and here he says that he transferred back to Kirtland in 1986.
He goes on to say(someone had said he finished his Air Force service as a cook):
My last two years of service was in the Services career field, but not as a cook.
Sgt. Doty retired from the U.S. Air Force on October 1, 1988. His letters give a post office box in Grants, New Mexico as a return address. He says in one of the letters that he does not live in New Mexico, but only maintains a forwarding service there. One of his letters says that his present job involves investigations, but nothing to do with UFOs. An unverified source said that he is a New Mexico State Policeman in Grants.
The first we hear of Richard C. Doty is in the summer of 1980. He was the AFOSI officer who took Craig Weitzel's report of seeing a UFO near Kirtland. You will recall from our feature "Kirtland AFB Sightings, Part 2" that, later in 1980, APRO received an anonymous letter that embellished Weitzel's report considerably, turning it from a sighting report into a close encounter. According to Robert Hastings, analysis later showed that this letter had been typed on the same typewriter that had been used to type the original Weitzel sighting report. This report was signed "Richard C. Doty." The validity of this analysis, however, is not clear.
A short time after the Weitzel sighting, Paul Bennewitz contacted Kirtland AFB with his stories of UFOs over Manzano and of receiving low frequency alien communications. Once again, Agent Doty was the AFOSI officer assigned to investigate.
According to William Moore, by the time he was sent to investigate Bennewitz's claims in 1982, Doty had been feeding the man disinformation for two years. See the previous feature The Destruction of Paul Bennewitz for more on this. Moore further claims that he was recruited by someone who called himself Falcon to assist in feeding disinformation about UFOs to Bennewitz, and that his liason with Falcon was Doty. It appears, though, that Moore had already known Doty for at least a year, since he claims Doty gave him a copy of the Project Aquarius Document in February of 1981, according to Curtis Peebles. The information here is very sketchy, and is, as best I can tell, based entirely on statements from Moore.
Richard Doty says that, whatever he did, he did it under orders.
If so, what was the purpose of those orders? It appears almost certain that the intent was to draw attention away from the actual sightings at Manzano and Coyote Canyon. Why? What was being protected? Was the Air Force really testing UFOs at Manzano? Or were UFOs visiting Manzano? Or were top-secret SDI weapons being tested at Manzano?
One thing is for certain. Almost as soon as the relationship between Richard C. Doty and William L. Moore began, copies of purported classified government documents regarding UFOs suddenly began appearing, as we shall see in the next part of this series:
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 2
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
(Macbeth, act 5, scene vii, line 48 - William Shakespeare)
ACT I:
Late in 1972, according to Timothy Good's Alien Contact, film producers Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler were approached by U.S. Air Force officers about making a documentary on UFOs. The Air Force, it seemed, was now ready to "spill the beans", ready to throw open the doors of "Hangar 18" and the "blue room".
The two producers were, according to them, invited to the Pentagon, where they met with Air Force Colonels William Coleman and George Weinbrenner, who showed them movies and stills of gray aliens, including one who they said survived a crash and lived for three years.
Then, in 1973, Emenegger and Sadler were invited to Norton AFB, California, where they met with the head of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations(AFOSI - the same department that Richard Doty worked for...) and Paul Shartle, former head of security and chief of the audiovisual program at Norton AFB. At this meeting, they were told that film existed of an April, 1964 UFO landing at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico. When the craft landed, three aliens with eyes like a cat's stepped out and communicated with the base commander and two scientists by using some sort of "translator". Emenegger and Sadker were promised the use of this film for their documentary, but the offer was withdrawn a short time later.
When interviewed in 1988, Paul Shartle would say that the Air Force had told him that the film was "theatrical footage" that had been purchased to make a training film.
In a phone interview with Phil Klass, Richard Doty purportedly said that his family was at Holloman AFB in April, 1964, presumably because his father, Edward Doty, was stationed there.
ACT II:
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."
The report and the letter described a close encounter with an alien that supposedly took place at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota on 16 November 1977.
Although the names mentioned in the report were those of actual persons on active duty at Ellsworth, even The National Enquirer thought the report was a hoax. They said:
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.
According to Doty's purported Air Force discharge papers, he was stationed at Ellsworth from 1976 to 1978. According to Jacques Vallee's Revelations, William Moore claimed that Doty admitted to him that had forged the Ellsworth Document. However, there is supposedly an Inspector General's Report on this incident that states that the perpetrator was not Doty, but someone else.
ACT III
According to Howard Blum's Out There, William Moore first became interested in UFOs when he was a teenager, after reading about the Aztec "crash" in Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers. He joined NICAP(National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena) while in college at Thiel College in Pennsylvania in the sixties, and remained a member after beginning his teaching career in New York.
In the late seventies, Bill Moore co-wrote The Philadelphia Experiment with Charles Berlitz. The book became a best-seller, and in 1979, Moore decided to quit his teaching job in Minnesota and try his hand at writing full-time, with his preferred subject being UFOs.
In Arizona, he joined the Lorenzen's Tucson-based APRO(Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), and soon became one of its directors. He was spending most of his time researching events that had occurred in 1947 in neighboring New Mexico for another book he was writing with Berlitz, The Roswell Incident. Also helping with the research on this book was a well-known UFOlogist, Stanton Friedman. The book was be released in 1980 and was also a best-seller. After this book, Moore broke with Berlitz and he and Friedman teamed up to continue investigating the Roswell case for several years.
After the book became popular, Moore appeared on several radio talk shows about Roswell and UFOs. He relates that twice, after radio appearances in the month of September, 1980, he received phone calls from someone who only said, "You're the only person we've ever heard who seems to be on the right track." The second caller suggested that they meet. Moore drove to a coffeeshop in Albuquerque and met, for the first time, the individual he refers to as the Falcon.
The Falcon, who Moore said was a well-placed individual within the intelligence community who claimed to be directly connected to a high-level government project dealing with UFOs, met with Moore several times over a period of months and then offered him a deal: He and the group he represented would help Moore in his quest for the truth about UFOs if Moore would consent to help them by feeding disinformation to, and by reporting to them on, ..... Paul Bennewitz! According to Moore, his contact during this was not be the Falcon himself, but was.... Richard C. Doty!
Moore allegedly functioned as something of a "triple agent" for about four years. He was friends with Paul Bennewitz while reporting on his activities to both APRO and to Doty, and feeding Bennewitz disinformation from Doty and/or the Falcon. Moore said later that he went along with this offer because he saw it as his only chance to get "inside" information about governmental UFO activities. See The Destruction of Paul Bennewitz for more about this.
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 3
Red Herring ...A herring that is cured by smoking turns red. It also has a strong odor, and hunting dogs were often trained to follow a scent by means of a red herring that had been dragged along the ground. On the other side of the coin, people who opposed fox hunting sometimes drew a red herring across the path of the fox; the dogs would give up on the fox and follow the scent of the herring.
(The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers)
ACT IV
In February, 1981, according to Curtis Peebles' Watch the Skies, Richard C. Doty gave Bill Moore a copy of a classified teletype document that spoke of the government's secret investigation of UFOs, of a Project Aquarius and of something called MJ-Twelve. This was the first known mention of those two terms.
The following year, Moore and a former National Enquirer reporter named Robert Pratt discussed writing a novel about the adventures of an Air Force intelligence officer and calling it The Aquarius Project. According to Peebles, the novel was actually finished, but was never published.
In the spring of 1982, a tv station, KPIX in San Francisco, hired Moore as a consultant for a UFO special. Moore, who was now living in Los Angeles, was assisted by his friends Jaime Shandera, a television producer, and Stanton Friedman, the UFOlogist. Moore gave a copy of the Aquarius teletype to KPIX, and they asked the Air Force to verify its authenticity. KPIX was told by the AFOSI that the document was a forgery, that it had several flaws that identified it as such. Moore, according to Peebles, admitted that he had retyped the document and had added an "official-looking date stamp."
Moore arranged a meeting with Doty that included Ron Lakis of KPIX and Peter Gersten, a lawyer specializing in FOIA requests for UFO documents. Doty allegedly told them that he had been investigating UFOs for several years for the AFOSI and that he had access to top-secret documents related to UFOs. Doty also allegedly told them about secret treaties with the aliens and that Project Aquarius involved contact with aliens. He reportedly said that he knew of three UFO crashes that had been recovered and that alien bodies were in the government's possession. He also mentioned that the government practiced "disinformation" and was conditioning the public to accept the aliens.
ACT V
In the spring of 1983, according to Timothy Good in Alien Contact, William Moore received a phone call from someone who said that he would be allowed to see some important information if he followed the instructions he was given. The instructions involved flying from one airport to another, getting phone instructions as to the next destination at each stop, until finally he ended up at a motel in upstate New York. At a certain time, an individual arrived at the motel room with an envelope containing eleven pages. Moore was told:
You have exactly nineteen minutes. You may do whatever you wish with the material during that time, but at the end of that time, I must have it back. After that, you are free to do what you wish.
The eleven pages were something called a TOP SECRET/ORCON document titled Executive Briefing. Subject: Project Aquarius dated June 14, 1977. Moore was allowed to photograph the documents and to read their contents into a tape recorder.
The documents detailed the recovery of a crashed alien craft and a live alien in 1949, and the recovery of a fully functioning alien craft in Utah in 1958. It detailed several "projects" involved with aliens and UFOs:
1. Project Bando: Medical studies of alien bodies recovered from crashes and of the live alien rescued from the crash in 1949 in New Mexico.
2. Project Sigma: A project to establish communications with the aliens.
3. Project Snowbird: Testing and flight of a recovered alien craft.
4. Project Pounce: An overall evaluation project.
Note the similarities of this document with the one shown to Linda Moulton Howe in the next act.
ACT VI
In April, 1983, Linda Moulton Howe, who had produced an excellent documentary about cattle mutilations called Strange Harvest, was working on a new script about UFOs for HBO. The evening before her meeting with the HBO people, Howe had dinner with an attorney named Peter Gersten. Gersten told Howe that he had met with Richard C. Doty, an AFOSI agent at Kirtland AFB, and perhaps Doty would be willing to talk on camera or in some other helpful capacity about a UFO incident that had supposedly occurred at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota in 1978. Gersten offered to call him and ask if he would be willing to meet with Howe.
Arrangements were made for Howe to fly to Albuquerque on April 9, where Doty would meet her at the airport. Doty was not there when she arrived, but he later picked her up at Jerry Miller's house. Miller, a former Project Bluebook investigator, was acquainted with Doty.
On the way from Miller's house to Kirtland AFB, Howe asked Doty, whose manner she said was both defiant and nervous, if he knew anything about the Holloman landing. Doty reportedly said it happened on April 25, 1964, just 12 hours after the famous sighting reported by policeman Lonnie Zamora in Socorro, New Mexico. 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, and were seen by Zamora.
According to Howe, when they got to Kirtland, Doty took her to a small office where he showed her a brown envelope and said, "My superiors have asked me to show you this." He withdrew several sheets of white paper from the envelope. 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 was titled Briefing Paper for the President of the United States of America. It described UFO crashes, alien bodies, and an alien who survived one of the crashes. The paper listed several government UFO projects:
Project Garnet: an investigation into human evolution.
Project Sigma: efforts to communicate with aliens.
Project Snowbird: R & D of alien technology recovered from UFO crashes.
Project Aquarius: The umbrella program involving alien contact.
Doty allegedly told Howe that she would be given several thousand feet of film taken of aliens, including the Holloman AFB landing in 1964. The film never materialized.
Howe says that Doty also promised her an interview with a Colonel who had become friends with an alien who had survived a crash and lived for three years. The offer never materialized as the interview was repeatedly set up and then cancelled. HBO told Howe that she would have to have all the evidence in her possession before they would authorize any funds. Doty finally told Howe the project was kaput and Howe's contract with HBO expired.
Doty would later deny all of this, although Howe swore out a signed affadavit that it all occurred. Doty is said to have passed a polygraph examination that supported his version of the interview.
ACT VII
In Jacques Vallee's Revelations, he tells how, in early 1985, Robert Emenegger was approached again by Colonel William Coleman (see The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 1), who was now retired and living in Florida, with yet another offer. If Emenegger could convince Allen Hynek and Vallee to get involved, then the government would be willing to release "final" evidence of UFOs. Emenegger was convinced that the offer was on the level, particularly after a meeting with General Glenn E, Miller, deputy director of the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA), but Hynek and Vallee proceeded cautiously.
Hynek was invited to Norton AFB in California to meet with General Miller and his boss, DAVA director General Robert Scott. Vallee was later invited to Norton as well. They came away with no new information, just hints and the impression that they had been talking to two wild-eyed UFO contactees rather than two Air Force officers. Vallee still puzzles over the purpose of these meetings. Were they an attempt to find out how much Hynek and Vallee knew? Were they tentative steps toward discrediting two of the top names in UFOlogy? Were they an opening gambit for piping more disinformation into the field? Meanwhile, Moore, Shandera, and Friedman were studying the MJ-12 documents....
FILE ORIGINATES FROM: <<UFONET I>>
UPLOADED BY: Tom Mickus
DATE OF UPLOAD: JAN/14/1990
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KLASDOTY.TXT [ ***] JAN/88 Interview with Klass and R. Doty
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NOTE: The file is reproduced verbatim, except for use of "(sic)".
Use of "{}" and "()" brackets, along with CAPITALIZATION and
underlining "___" are evidently the work of the author of
this transcript. Additionally, all personal comments and
characterizations contained within, are also of the author's.
"PJK:" = Phillip J. Klass
"RCD:" = Richard C. Doty
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Richard (Rick) C. Doty: Telephone interview: Jan. 8, 1988
(Highlight/Excerpts)
1. Says unable to meet with PJK this weekend, will not be in the area, returning Thursday/Friday.
2. He asked what he could do for me and I said I wanted to get him (sic) comments on allegations against him in Just Cause and in MUFOn (sic) Journal. Said he has seen both.
PJK: Are you planning to take any action?
RCD: I've already taken action. I've an attorney that last summer took some action on my behalf regarding the allegation that I allegedly had leaked these documents. {{PJK Note: But that allegation would not (sic) made publicly by Greenwood until Sept. 1987}} And Greenwood, Gersten, Moore and a couple other people were involved. WELL, I HAVE AN AFFIDAVIT SIGNED BY BILL MOORE THAT WAS EXECUTED IN COURT WITH MY ATTORNEY PRESENT THAT SAYS THAT BILL MOORE NEVER, EVER RECEIVED ANYTHING FROM ME OTHER THAN SOME BITS AND PIECES ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED AT KIRTLAND IN 1980. {{PJK doubts this could have occurred in the few months since allegations were made public.}}
"HE GAVE THE PERSON'S NAME IN THE AFFIDAVIT THAT HE RECEIVED THE DOCUMENTS FROM, AND THIS PERSON--I DON'T KNOW HIM--THIS PERSON IS IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND MY ATTORNEY WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C. AND SPOKE TO THIS PERSON AND HE DENIED EVER GIVING BILL MOORE ANYTHING ALTHOUGH HE SAID HE HAD REGULAR CONTACT WITH BILL MOORE. {{PJK: Very doubtful claim}}
So, allegedly, Peter Gersten was given this information and then apologized saying that they never had any concrete information that I had given him anything anyways, but they had kind of put two and two together and thought that it must have come from me.
PJK: You say that Moore signed an affidavit. Have you made that affidavit public?
RCD: No, no I haven't.
PJK: Do you plan to?
RCD: I don't know. It's up to the attorney. Again, this happened last year and I have had (sic) any further contact with MUFON or the CAUS
people. {He later changes this story.} When that article came I was inundated with phone calls and letters and people trying to interview me
saying they want to know what this is all about. And I don't even know, I didn't know, I didn't see these documents until October or November.
{NOTE: he is referring to the MJ-12 papers, which were first made public in late May/early June, 1987}
And I too (sic) one look at them and said, these are phony. (Laughs) These aren't even credible documents. What I was shown had some legitimate documents in that was obtained FOIA but these other ones that were released--apparently Bill Moore released it in some kind of a news release.
He claimed to have gotten these in (PJK: In December, 1984). Well I wasn't even in the country, nor would anyone have had access to me in
1984. All these things were started in the lawyer's--I can't remember what the legal term was he used--but the court document refuting the claim
that I gave him.
PJK: Would you be willing to give me the name of your lawyer?
RCD: Ah, I can give him your name and he can contact you. But why would you want to know that?
PJK: (Explains I am long-time UFO skeptic/investigator, that if MJ-12 papers were authentic, it would be biggest story for AW&ST. So I dug
into MJ-12, found evidence to indicate they are a hoax.)
RCD: Yeah, you just have to look at them. A fifth grader could tell they're not properly classified and down grade instructions. I've been
working in classified for 20 years, from all levels. When my lawyer showed me copies of them--and my lawyer is retired military, of course,
and he could tell they're phony.
Apparently Gersten's crew knew they were phony.
PJK: (Explains prevailing view among UFO believers is that MJ-12 is a hoax, but question is who is responsible for producing them.)
RCD: WELL, THE FBI KNOWS THAT. THE FBI KNOWS WHO DID IT. THAT INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED TO THE FBI, THE FBI INTERVIEWED THIS PERSON AND OF COURSE THIS PERSON DENIED HE EVER GAVE THEM TO HIM (Moore).
But I think what this person did was he created the documents--I don't know if Bill Moore was actually involved in it, I don't think he was,
but it's a possibility.
The FBI never pursued it, I don't know why, unless they just couldn't. I don't know if there was any law that this guy broke. I don't if that is public record or not, but you'd have to go to the FBI to find out.BUT I KNOW FOR A FACT THEY INTERVIEWED HIM--THIS PERSON IN WASHINGTON D.C.
PJK: And about when would that have been?
RCD: Ah, gee, last year (ie. 1987)
PJK: How would the FBI have located this person in Washington--I'll call him Mr. X--
RCD: As a matter of fact that's what William Moore called him, Mr. X.
PJK: Are you suggesting that Moore told the FBI who X is?
RCD: I don't. To tell you the truth I don't remember how--and I don't even know if I was privvy (sic) to that information as to how the FBI found ought (sic) who this guy was, but I think that after this stuff came out the Justice Dept. investigated it or made some inquiries or something and then found out, I don't know how. I don't have that information.
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PJK then raises allegations made by CAUS and reads the first: "In 1984, Linda Moulton Howe, who produced the well-known cattle mutilation film STRANGE HARVEST, was contacted by a government source {{CAUS later identifies this source as Doty}} to aid in producing a UFO documentary, essentially providing the answer to UFOs. She was invited by the source, briefed on the story, then sworn to secrecy about it until the film's eventual release. The deal was never completed. Details of the story given to her match the MJ-12 tale, along with much extra detail about contacts with 'EBES' {{Extraterrestrial Biological Entities}}, Nordic type aliens called 'Highs' and conflicting alien factions."
What can you tell me about your contact with her?
RCD: (Laughs) OK. In my duties, in my official government duties I made contact with her AND I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY, I made contact with her for information that she had that she was willing to share with us. The information had nothing to do with UFOs, absolutely nothing to do with UFOs. {{PJK note: Howe is a slightly wacky free-lance TV producer who focuses on UFOs, cattle mutilations, UFO-abductions, etc.
--What kind of info would she have that Doty would seek "in an official" capacity--and which is so sensitive he could not tell me??}}
When she found out I was with a government agency and I was the same one that had investigated the (UFO) incident (at Kirtland) in 1980, she started asking me questions about UFOs, about what I thought about UFOs, and what my beliefs were about them, and if I could tell her anything about what the government had. And I told her, I don't know very much. I can tell you what happened at Kirtland, because I investigated it. Probably it can be explained away.
She said that she had been involved with Budd Hopkins and a number of people who claimed to have been abducted (by UFOs) and then she gives me this whole story about aliens abducting people, and they're called EBES, and then she said she had a contact--I later found out who
it was--that had showed her some government documents pertaining to MJ-12 and all this other stuff.
But I never, ever originated any contact regarding UFOs with her. Because of our continuing interest in what she was doing--NOT UFOs but
to something else--she would ask me questions like what do you think about this, what do you thing (sic) about that?
I can tell you that in 1985, excuse me in May, 1986, I TOOK AN EXTENSIVE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION PERTAINING TO AN ALLEGATION SHE HAD MADE AND I PASSED IT, A GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERED POLYGRAPH, SHOWING I WAS THE ONE TELLING THE TRUTH AND SHE WAS THE ONE LYING.
PJK asks if Howe took a Polygraph test and he says no.
RCD: There was another person involved in this who took a polygraph test and failed it. That's why I say I know where she got the information from. Because this person REFUSED (??) AND QUIT GOVERNMENT SERVICE AT THE TIME. Anyway, she would sit down and talk to me for hours about UFOs, but she would do all the talking. She had everything already figured out. She claimed that well I know there's a ship FLYING ABOVE THE ARCTIC THAT ARE COLLECTING SOULS AND THERE'S ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SOULS AND THEY HAVE TO BE REGENERATED. JUST INCREDIBLE STUFF. SHE BELIEVES ALL THESE ABDUCTEES...
I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND I HAVE NOTHING TO BACK THIS UP, STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL, BUT I WAS TOLD THAT THE GOVERNMENT AFTER HOPKINS WORTE HIS (first) BOOK, CALLED MISSING TIME, THAT THE GOVERNMENT WENT TO THESE PEOPLE (i.e. "abductees") AND ASKED THEM IF THEY WOULD PROVIDE THE SAME INFORMATION TO THE GOVERNMENT AND SOME OF THESE PEOPLE REPUDIATED WHAT THEY TOLD HOPKINS. NOW THAT'S WHAT I WAS TOLD.
Anyway, I never told her and showed her anything, except what we were doing on the other project. She just made that up, she exaggerated...
she's jsut so hung up you can't talk about anything else (with her).
PJK: Then reads a second allegation: "CAUS Director, Peter Gersten, in a visit with a military intelligence source at Kirtland AFB in 1983 {{later identified as Doty}} was informed of a wide range of bizarre UFO stories. Included were comments on a briefing paper on UFOs for President
Carter, the Cash/Landrum (incident) being a government exploitation of UFO technology- ...Bill Moore being 'right on' with Roswell (crashed
saucer), and an admission that the original Project Acquarius (sic) cable (TWX) ...was retyped and not an original cable. This cable was the
first mention anywhere of MJ-12 and Project Acquarius (sic)."
RCD: (Laughs) Gersten came out, I don't even remember when it was, and somebody from California, some television official from California.
Gersten had spoke to me on the telephone several days before and said he'd like to get in touch with me about this 1980 Kirtland incident.
So I agreed to meet with him.
And he sat there and asked me a number of questions about UFOs and I answered him LIKE I WAS TOLD TO ANSWER HIM. The meeting was official insofar as my capacity.
PJK: Do you have a tape recording of that meeting?
RCD: Oh yes.
PJK: Where would that be, in OSI files?
RCD: I can't disclose. I'm not going to comment on that. But when I confronted Peter Gersten some time later, after my attorney did, he shut right up, suspecting that it was recorded and knowing that he's lying. I told him if he wants to go to court--I told him in a telephone conversation I did--if you want to go to court, I've got the evidence to prove you wrong. And he just shut his mouth.
Now I'm not going to go into that because there's another aspect involved that I can't discuss. {{RCD FREQUENTLY IMPLIES THAT HE CANNOT DISCUSS SOMETHING BECAUSE OF SENSITIVITY, I.E. SECURITY.}} The only conversation I had with Gersten was RIGHT OUTSIDE A HOTEL. HE WANTED TO MEET ME ALONE, GETTING BACK TO THE CONVERSATION IN THE RESTAURANT. IT WAS STRICTLY HIM ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND ME DENYING THEM. "I don't know what you're talking about. No, I don't know about this, or that."
He asked me about the UFO in Texas that exploded and hurt somebody [PJK: The Cash-Landrum case]. I said I know nothing about that. HE was the one who said I understand it was a recovered alien craft, flown by the government--his source had told him that. I said, well, I don't know. {{PJK: Gersten was the lawyer for Ms. Cash and Ms. Landrum who sued USAF for $10 million for alleged injuries.}}
Anyways, he asked me, well I don't remember now. But he asked me a lot of questions but I never once provided, not one bit of information to him, or to anyone else. (laughs) Come on now, I wouldn't be fool enough to do that. Well, anyway he said he wanted to meet me later near his hotel where he was staying and I agreed with that. {{Strange behaviour if RCD could not or did not want to answer Gersten's questions.}} The coversation (sic) wasn't recorded.
He showed me a document that was allegedly a teletype message that was sent from ah, I think it was sent from Washington to OSI Detachment or district headquarters at Kirtland, I believe that was the routing. Any way, (sic) I looked at the document and said gee this is an inaccurate document. And he said, why? And I said, well in a classified document each paragraph is classified and in this document the paragraphs were not classified. The top marking said it was supposedly secret.
And he said, well read it, and I read it and said well it appears to me that somebody retyped this and typed this up. And he said, do you think it's based on an actual document, and I said, well, I said, it could be based on an actual document but I'm not going to say it was. Now, years later, it was based on an actual document that was typed. However, SOMEBODY ADDED A LOT OF FABRICATION TO IT, A LOT OF JUNK TO IT.
Now, who I think did it is Richard Todd {{A UFOlogist in Penn. or N.J. who is active investigator using FOIA) ...He sent documents to the government which were forged and he said in his letter, these are forged documents, don't you think they're great. I mean they had all sorts of code words in them, unbelieveable. And I think that somebody provided some information to Todd or Gersten and then they exaggerated all the rest of it. Probably from the FOIA documents that were released in 1980, or whenever they were released.
So that was it. And then about a month later Gersten called me back and said HEY, CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME MORE INFORMATION. AND I SAID, NO I GAVE YOU--HE WANTED ME TO COMMENT MORE ON THE DOCUMENT, THE MJ-12 AND ACQUARIUS. AND THEN HE PROBABLY CALLED ME SEVERAL
compiled by Dee Finney
Richard Doty was interviewed on the Art Bell Show
2-26-05 - www.coasttocoastam.com/
I personally heard so many lies in his interview, I knew I couldn't just
let that information stand as it was. Since I have inside information on
ETVs myself because of group affiliations, friends and personal
experiences, lies and disinformation can no longer be tolerated
in the US. regarding the extraterrestrial/government agreements.
These agreements may have been allowable because of national
security when they were made, but those reasons are no longer
valid as all the other countries in the world have released the
information they were sitting on all this time.
Its time for the American people to know the truth!
Dee
Early 1980, Paul Bennewitz becomes involved in observing and filming objects which he has sighted on the ground and in the air near Kirt land AFB and the Manzano range. Reportedly his wife was also present to witness some of the first landings he witnessed and filmed in the Coyote Canyon area. Subsequently he contacts Earnest Edwards of the Kirtland Security Police who, over the period of the next few months, becomes concerned and requests the guards on the Manzano Weapons Storage Area report to him any sightings of unusual aerial lights. At the beginning of August 1980 three guards report sighting an aerial light which descends on the Sandia Military Reservation. This is the first sighting described in the complaint form signed by Richard Doty. Edwards reports the sighting to Doty unaware that Doty has already heard from Russ Curtis (Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia Security guard sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty includes these reports and several others in his Complaint Form and forwards the report to AFOSI Headquarters in Washington.
From this point on many other persons became involved. Bennewitz was called down to a meeting at Kirtland AFB at which several major Air Force officers and Sandia personnel were present, including a Brigadier General. Earnest Edwards has confirmed that the three guards under his command reported what was described, and that the meeting took place. Bennewitz has confirmed that Doty and Jerry Miller came to his home to view his materials and there is a document signed by Thomas A. Cseh, Commander of the Base Investigative Detachment, to confirm this. Finally there is the complete set of documents which were released by AFOSI Headquarters under cover of the Department of the Air Force relating to the described events.
At least one of the people who created the original Dulce story and told it to UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz have since admitted the story was disinformation.
"...Bill Moore later claimed in a "confession" that he was recruited to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by an AFOSI Agent, and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation...to Bennewitz. This disinformation included "verification" of Bennewitz' beliefs about the "grays" and the underground base at Dulce."
ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa093097.htm
In 1979 - 1980 (the record of the year is unclear), Bennewitz and a psychologist/UFOlogist named Dr. Leo Sprinkle investigated the story that a deeply troubled woman named Myrna Hansen told them. She claimed that she and her young son had seen a UFO while driving on a rural road near Cimarron, in northeastern New Mexico. With the patient's permission, Dr. Sprinkle began hypnotizing her, and over a three month period, Bennewitz and Sprinkle heard a very unusual story.
Under hypnosis, the patient said that, not only had she seen several UFOs that day, but she had seen cattle being abducted and she and her son had also been abducted by the aliens and taken to a secret underground base where they saw the cattle being mutilated and drained of their blood and saw vats containing human body parts. She further said that some sort of implants were placed in the bodies of her and her son and that the aliens could control their minds through these devices.
Bennewitz believed the woman's story, and he believed that it was connected somehow to the lights he was seeing over Manzano. He began filming the lights, amassing over 2600 feet of film. He also came to believe that he could receive signals from the craft that he observed. He built antennas and receivers to receive low-frequency electromagnetic transmissions that he believed came from the alien craft. Bennewitz called his "mission" Project Beta. Those who have seen the films and heard the tapes of the low-frequency radio transmissions say there is no doubt that Bennewitz was filming and recording real phenomena.
On 24 October 1980, Bennewitz contacted Kirtland AFB to make a report of what he felt was a real threat against Manzano Weapons Storage Area by UFOs. He first communicated with Major Ernest E. Edwards, who referred him to S.A. Richard C. Doty.
In 1979, Paul Bennewitz operated a small electronics company, Thunder Scientific Laboratory, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a physicist, and inventor, and a tinkerer. He also had an avid interest in UFOs, and was an investigator for APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization- based in Arizona), the UFO group started by Jim and Coral Lorenzen. From his home on the outskirts of Albuquerque, Bennewitz had, along with others, seen strange lights in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. The lights seemed to appear almost every evening and to fly towards Coyote Canyon, also a part of the Kirtland Air Force Base area that included Sandia National laboratory and Phillips laboratory, both of which do ultra-top-secret research.
In 1979 - 1980 (the record of the year is unclear), Bennewitz and a psychologist/UFOlogist named Dr. Leo Sprinkle investigated the story that a deeply troubled woman named Myrna Hansen told them. She claimed that she and her young son had seen a UFO while driving on a rural road near Cimarron, in northeastern New Mexico. With the patient's permission, Dr. Sprinkle began hypnotizing her, and over a three month period, Bennewitz and Sprinkle heard a very unusual story.
Under hypnosis, the patient said that, not only had she seen several UFOs that day, but she had seen cattle being abducted and she and her son had also been abducted by the aliens and taken to a secret underground base where they saw the cattle being mutilated and drained of their blood and saw vats containing human body parts. She further said that some sort of implants were placed in the bodies of her and her son and that the aliens could control their minds through these devices.
Richard Doty and Jerry Miller, Scientific Advisor for Air Force Test and Evaluation Center, Kirtland AFB, interviewed Bennewitz in his home on the edge of Manzano Base. They examined Bennewitz' films and tapes, and Miller, a former Project Bluebook investigator at Wright-Patterson AFB, determined that the films did show some type of unidentified aerial objects. They also noted the array of electronic surveillance equipment that Bennewitz had pointed at Manzano. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations declined to investigate further, but scheduled an inspection of Bennewitz' data by personnel at Wright-Patterson. AFOSI also did a background check on Bennewitz.
Taking a step that ultimately led to his later troubles, Bennewitz wrote a computer program that he claimed could translate the alien radio transmissions. He now came to believe that he was intercepting the messages that the aliens were transmitting to mind-control devices such as those that Myrna Hansen claimed had been placed in her and her son.
On 10 November 1980, Bennewitz presented his evidence again, this time to high ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena. Once again, however, the AFOSI declined to investigate the matter themselves.
Bennewitz was not to give up so easily. Besides the regular reports he was sending to APRO, he was contacting U.S. Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter Domenici, as well as other UFOlogists such as Linda Moulton Howe and John Lear.
By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz' claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former-schoolteacher-turned-writer-and-ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Moore had gained a degree of fame in the UFO field by co-authoring(with Charles Berlitz) The Philadelphia Experiment and The Roswell Incident.
By now, Bennewitz' story had become quite complicated. He told Moore that the alien transmissions he had received indicated that two types of aliens had invaded the U.S.: The peaceful "whites" and the evil "grays". The grays, who he said were responsible for cattle mutilations and the abductions of humans, had a treaty with the U.S. government that allowed them to build a secret underground base beneath Archuleta Peak on the Jicarillo Indian Reservation near Dulce, New Mexico. The aliens, however, were about to break the treaty...
Perhaps the oddest twist in this story is that Bill Moore later claimed in a "confession" that he was recruited by someone with the code name "Falcon" to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by an AFOSI Agent, and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the forged "Aquarius Document" to Bennewitz. This disinformation included "verification" of Bennewitz' beliefs about the "grays" and the underground base at Dulce.
Paul Bennewitz gradually became more and more paranoid, claiming aliens came through the walls of his house at night and injected him with chemicals. He began keeping guns and knives all over his house. Finally he had to be hospitalized for "exhaustion". It is said that he recovered and now refuses to grant interviews or to have anything to do with the subject of UFOs
Paul Bennewitz died on June 23, 2003.
Greg Bishop — The Paul Bennewitz Story
Greg Bishop speaks on his research into the story of Paul Bennewitz, who thought he had stumbled onto evidence of an alien invasion, but in the process was directing attention to secret projects at Kirtland Air Force Base, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the early 1980s. The Bennewitz episode provided the blueprint for wild UFO conspiracy tales into the next decade, and a warning to researchers not to confuse the authority of the messenger with the truth of the message. Wild alien stories cooked up by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations that were fed to Bennewitz, and which began as a simple counterintelligence operation, backfired and led to renewed calls for disclosure of government UFO secrecy.
The strangest part of the story is that Bennewitz actually had stumbled onto anomalous lights and signals that were confusing and worrying the Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Administration. Bennewitz also claimed that he had pictures of an atomic-powered aircraft crash site near Dulce, New Mexico.
The story will be told through Bennewitz’ personal notes and correspondence, as well as some of the verified disinformation that was fed to him over a period of five years, leading to his eventual breakdown and institutionalization
How Disinformation Experts Spread Fear About UFOs
Anne Strieber
Summary: Bill Moore, UFO investigator and author, has learned a great deal about the government coverup of UFO information over the years. A large part of this coverup has to do with what intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, refer to as DISINFORMATION.
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Bill Moore, UFO investigator and author, has learned a great deal about the government coverup of UFO information over the years. A large part of this coverup has to do with what intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, refer to as DISINFORMATION.
In his speech to the MUFON convention in LAs Vegas on July 1, 1989, Mr. Moore had this to say about the subject: "Disinformation is a strange and bi- zarre game. Those who play it are completely aware that an operation's success is dependent upon dropping false information upon a target or `mark', in such a way that the person will accept it as truth and will repeat, and even defend it to others as if it were true. One of the key factors in any successful disin- formation scheme is that it must contain some elements of truth in order to be credible. Once the information is believed, the work of counterintelligence is complete. They can simply withdraw in the confidence that the dirty work of spreading their poisonous seeds will be done by others."
Some of the most frightening and bizarre stories about UFOs and visitors may well be lies that originated with disinformation experts and are innocently spread by gullible people who do not bother to check facts, but who love a good story. And some of the people telling these tales may not be so innocent- they may be disinformation experts themselves.
While there is no final proof that the U.S. government has sponsored disinformation programs concerning UFOs, the circumstantial evidence is growing stronger every day. It is a matter of record that at least one individual spread disinformation in this field while working as a government employee in an intelligence-related job, and the revelations of Bill Moore and others in- dicate that false stories have been planted among UFO researchers for years.
Certainly something strange happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947, when Air Force officials retrieved some debris with properties that did not fit any known technology. According to Colonel Jesse Marcel, who gave a number of videotaped interviews before he died, and who was responsible for the recovery of this debris, the fact of its extreme strangeness was covered up by the Air Force.
This coverup took place when the cold war was just starting and America was entering a period of near-paranoia over the issue of Soviet expansionism. America's obsession with secrecy began when President Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 in order to obtain information about the threats being made by the Communists after the second world war. Ever since then, Americans have been told less and less about what is really going on in our government. As Norman Thomas, who unsuccessfully ran for President many times, said, `Where the secrets start, the republic stops.' We may live in a democracy, but we cannot have an effect on policy which we know nothing about.
When Bill Moore became a director of the now dormant APRO (Aerial Phenome- na Research Organization) in 1979, he became acquainted with the work being done by Paul Benewitz and Dr. Leo Sprinkle with a young woman who remembered being abducted and witnessing cattle mutilations. Bennewitz had become convinced that aliens had implanted some sort of communication device in the woman's head, and that they were using this device to control her actions.
Since Paul Bennewitz was a physicist, he had a certain amount of electronics equipment at his disposal, and he set out to determine whether he could detect the electromagnetic signals he believed aliens must be using to exercise control over their alleged victims, and to try to devise a way to shield victims from the control of these signals. He told APRO in late '79 that he believed he had succeeded in detecting low frequency signals from UFOs and had begun to make calculations about the sort of electronic and propulsion technology employed by the aliens. He also began to take pictures of strange lights maneuvering in the vicinity of the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility, which is located to the east of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Bennewitz had a perfect view of the weapons base from his home in the Four Hills section of the city.
Bill Moore says, "In early September, 1980, I was approached by a well- placed individual within the intelligence community who claimed to be directly connected to a high-level project dealing with UFOs. This individual told me that he spoke for a small group of similar indiivuals who were uncomfortable with the government's continuing cover-up of the truth and indicated that he and his group would like to help me with my research into the subject in the hope and expectation that I might be able to help them find a way to change the prevailing policy and get the facts to the public without breaking any laws in the process. The man who acted as liason between this group and myself was an Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent named Richard Doty. I knew I was being recruited, but at that point I had no idea for what."
It soon became apparent to Bill that he was expected to supply information to this individual about the activities of Paul Bennewitz and APRO in exchange for being given `sensitive' (or presumably classified) information on UFOs. Bill realized that, whatever it was Bennewitz was involved with, he was the subject of considerable interest on the part of not one but several government agencies, and that they were actively trying to defuse him by pumping as much disinformation through him as he could possibly absorb. Bill decided to play along with these government agents so he could learn more about the disinformation process by witnessing it firsthand.
Bennewitz, for his part, continued to make what seemed to be increasingly bizarre claims, most of which gave every appearance of having been influenced by a heavy blanket of disinformation mixed with a small, but significant, amount of truth. The problem was always one of keeping a level head and trying to sort the fact from fantasy - something which Paul Bennewitz was having a hard time doing.
"By 1981", according to Bill, "Paul was gathering data from a variety of sources and amalgamating it with information being fed to him by a number of government people in whom, for some reason, he seemed to have an implicit and abiding faith. The story that emerged from this melange of fact, fiction, fantasy, here-say, hard data and government disinformation was absolutely incredible! Yet somehow, Paul believed in it and set out on a one-man crusade to tell the world that malevolent aliens from space were in league with our government to take over the planet. What had begun in 1979 as an effort to learn whether the behavior of a woman who claimed she had been abducted by UFO aliens was being influenced by some sort of radio remote control had, in the space of less than three years, blossomed into a tale which rivaled the wildest science fiction scenario anyone could possibly imagine."
Bennewitz continued with his experiments regarding the radio signals he was receiving and the film footage he was getting of unusual lights. Both of these phenomena seemed to be largely connected to activities within the Kirtland AFB Sandia National Labs complex just south of the city of Albuquerque. Bill feels that Bennewitz definitely was receiving some sort of low frequency electromagnetic signal on his equipment, and is equally certain that his photos and films depicted unusual lights, most of which were filmed while hovering or maneuvering over the Kirtland/Sandia complex. The real question is whether this evidence was sufficient to conclude that either of these phenomena was directly related to UFO activity, or whether, in fact, the strange things he was witnessing had to do with some classified government research project going on near- by. Either reason would be a good explanation for the government's counterintelligence activities in this case.
Bill reports that government surveillance of Paul's activities, some of which Paul was astute enough to detect and some of which Bill learned about but Paul seemed unaware of, included wire taps and even break-ins. "Paul took these activities as proof positive that he was onto something big. Unfortunately, he seemed largely unaware that the same people who would go to such lengths to spy on him also had the capabilities to mount an effective disinformation campaign."
In any case, by mid-1982, Paul's story contained virtually all of the elements found in the current crop of rumors being circulated around the UFO community by people such as John Lear. There were two groups of aliens, one malevolent, one more friendly. The malevolent ones, which he referred to as the `greys', were really in control, and they were the ones responsible for the cattle mutilations, for human abductions and the implanting of sinister control devices in humans, for having first made and then broken a secret treaty with the U.S. government, for maintaining a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico, and for having supplied the U.S. government with alien space hardware and weapons which ultimately proved defective or which were caused to crash, thus leaving human civilization virtually defenseless against invasion.
Bill Moore says, "I know that this whole body of information if false, be- cause I was in a position to observe much of the disinformation process as it unfolded. And I can tell you it was effective, because I watched Paul become systematically more paranoid and more emotionally unstable as he tried to assimilate what was happening to him. He had guns and knives all over his house, had installed extra locks on his doors, and he swore that `they' (meaning the aliens) were coming through his walls at night and injecting him with hideous chemicals which would knock him out for long periods of time. He began to suf- fer increasing bouts of insomnia. I knew at that time that he was not far from an inevitable nervous collapse. His health had deteriorated, he had lost considerable weight, his hands shook as if from palsy, and he looked terrible. I tried to counsel him to drop the entire UFO thing before his health was completely destroyed. Not long afterward I heard he had been hospitalized and was under psychiatric care."
The disinformation campaign was also effective because it insured that no one in the mainstream media or scientific or scientific community would pay any attention to the outlandish claims that Paul Bennewitz made. Thus the elements of truth that were contained in his experiments became lost to the public forever.
Were UFOs ever actually involved with all of this? Bills says we may never really know. Perhaps Bennewitz had merely stumbled upon signals generated from some sophisticated, high-level government project whose security people hit upon UFO-related disinformation as the ultimate cover. Or perhaps he discovered a real government UFO project which elected to disinform him to protect what they were really doing. The one thing that Bill does know from first-hand experience is that there was a tremendous amount of government disinformation involved, and that a large proportion of what we are hearing today about malevolent aliens, underground bases and secret treaties with the U.S. government has its roots firmly planted in the Bennewitz affair. "The current crop of disinformation is really nothing new; it's just that a different crop of people are spreading it this time around," says Moore.
From this experience, and from his other research, Bill has come to the conclusion that the U.S. government counterintelligence people have conducted an on-again, off-again campaign of deception and disinformation against the American public about the UFO phenomenon for more than 40 years. He feels that the people who have been responsible for the operations are highly placed individuals within the intelligence community. There are several possible explanations for this situation. One, the disinformation could be a security cover for a real UFO project which exists at a very high level and is known only to an elite few. Two, it could be a security process designed to divert attention away from real, but non-UFO related, high tech research and development projects. Three, it may be a manipulation by UFO aliens themselves as part of a long term plan to gradually make human society aware of their presence here. Bill's position is that the truth is best described in terms of a combination of all of the above.
It's a fact that somebody powerful is spreading disinformation about UFOs. It would be foolish to believe any story on the basis of too little evidence. On the other hand, those people who have experienced the visitors first-hand need not allow themselves to be convinced that their experiences were mere hallucinations.
People who have encountered the visitors know the very real fear that comes from confronting the unknown. There is no reason why they should have to endure the additional terror of being inundated by sensationalized rumors about aliens that began ten years ago with a government disinformation campaign against one individual.
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 1
FACTOID: In 1947, the Air Force knew that a shiny metallic surface makes an object show up better on radar, so they used aluminum foil to make radar reflectors for their weather balloons. However, by 1955, they had forgotten this fact, so they painted the first U-2 spy planes silver, which would have made them easily detectable by radar as they flew over the U.S.S.R. on reconnaisance missions. Their silvery appearance also caused people to mistake them for UFOs, according to CIA historians. Sometime later they realized their mistake and began to paint them black, thus creating the first "stealth" aircraft.
(Uncle Phaed's UFO Investigator's Handbook)
Who is former AFOSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty?
It's not easy to find information about Doty prior to 1980. The only information available is a few scraps in various UFO books plus the information that can be gleaned from four files that are online. These files consist of Doty's reputed Air Force discharge papers, a telephone interview that Phil Klass had with Doty on 1/8/88, and two letters purportedly written by Doty (3/3/89 and 4/4/89). However, there is not a lot of information in these files.
In the transcript of the telephone interview with Klass, Doty says that his father, Edward Doty, was in the Air Force, was an investigator for Project Bluebook, was at Holloman AFB from 1962 to 1964, and was involved in the investigation of the 1964 UFO landing case at Socorro, New Mexico. However, in a letter dated 3/3/89, Doty says that it was an uncle, not his father, that was a Bluebook investigator.
In his 3/3/89 letter, Doty says:
While assigned to the AFOSI District 70 Headquarters, Weisbaden, West Germany, I performed duties as a counterespionage specialist. In 1986, I was involved in a sensitive operation where I attempted to perform certain duties which would enable our team to trap possible foreign agents working against the interests of the United States. My supervisors, however, seen my actions as being unauthorized. Therefore, I was asked to leave AFOSI, which I did voluntarily. I accepted a position at Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, NM, where my son was residing with my former spouse.
Apparently, Doty was at Kirtland at least twice. We know he was there in 1980, since that is when the Bennewitz affair took place, and here he says that he transferred back to Kirtland in 1986.
He goes on to say(someone had said he finished his Air Force service as a cook):
My last two years of service was in the Services career field, but not as a cook.
Sgt. Doty retired from the U.S. Air Force on October 1, 1988. His letters give a post office box in Grants, New Mexico as a return address. He says in one of the letters that he does not live in New Mexico, but only maintains a forwarding service there. One of his letters says that his present job involves investigations, but nothing to do with UFOs. An unverified source said that he is a New Mexico State Policeman in Grants.
The first we hear of Richard C. Doty is in the summer of 1980. He was the AFOSI officer who took Craig Weitzel's report of seeing a UFO near Kirtland. You will recall from our feature "Kirtland AFB Sightings, Part 2" that, later in 1980, APRO received an anonymous letter that embellished Weitzel's report considerably, turning it from a sighting report into a close encounter. According to Robert Hastings, analysis later showed that this letter had been typed on the same typewriter that had been used to type the original Weitzel sighting report. This report was signed "Richard C. Doty." The validity of this analysis, however, is not clear.
A short time after the Weitzel sighting, Paul Bennewitz contacted Kirtland AFB with his stories of UFOs over Manzano and of receiving low frequency alien communications. Once again, Agent Doty was the AFOSI officer assigned to investigate.
According to William Moore, by the time he was sent to investigate Bennewitz's claims in 1982, Doty had been feeding the man disinformation for two years. See the previous feature The Destruction of Paul Bennewitz for more on this. Moore further claims that he was recruited by someone who called himself Falcon to assist in feeding disinformation about UFOs to Bennewitz, and that his liason with Falcon was Doty. It appears, though, that Moore had already known Doty for at least a year, since he claims Doty gave him a copy of the Project Aquarius Document in February of 1981, according to Curtis Peebles. The information here is very sketchy, and is, as best I can tell, based entirely on statements from Moore.
Richard Doty says that, whatever he did, he did it under orders.
If so, what was the purpose of those orders? It appears almost certain that the intent was to draw attention away from the actual sightings at Manzano and Coyote Canyon. Why? What was being protected? Was the Air Force really testing UFOs at Manzano? Or were UFOs visiting Manzano? Or were top-secret SDI weapons being tested at Manzano?
One thing is for certain. Almost as soon as the relationship between Richard C. Doty and William L. Moore began, copies of purported classified government documents regarding UFOs suddenly began appearing, as we shall see in the next part of this series:
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 2
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
(Macbeth, act 5, scene vii, line 48 - William Shakespeare)
ACT I:
Late in 1972, according to Timothy Good's Alien Contact, film producers Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler were approached by U.S. Air Force officers about making a documentary on UFOs. The Air Force, it seemed, was now ready to "spill the beans", ready to throw open the doors of "Hangar 18" and the "blue room".
The two producers were, according to them, invited to the Pentagon, where they met with Air Force Colonels William Coleman and George Weinbrenner, who showed them movies and stills of gray aliens, including one who they said survived a crash and lived for three years.
Then, in 1973, Emenegger and Sadler were invited to Norton AFB, California, where they met with the head of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations(AFOSI - the same department that Richard Doty worked for...) and Paul Shartle, former head of security and chief of the audiovisual program at Norton AFB. At this meeting, they were told that film existed of an April, 1964 UFO landing at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico. When the craft landed, three aliens with eyes like a cat's stepped out and communicated with the base commander and two scientists by using some sort of "translator". Emenegger and Sadker were promised the use of this film for their documentary, but the offer was withdrawn a short time later.
When interviewed in 1988, Paul Shartle would say that the Air Force had told him that the film was "theatrical footage" that had been purchased to make a training film.
In a phone interview with Phil Klass, Richard Doty purportedly said that his family was at Holloman AFB in April, 1964, presumably because his father, Edward Doty, was stationed there.
ACT II:
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."
The report and the letter described a close encounter with an alien that supposedly took place at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota on 16 November 1977.
Although the names mentioned in the report were those of actual persons on active duty at Ellsworth, even The National Enquirer thought the report was a hoax. They said:
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.
According to Doty's purported Air Force discharge papers, he was stationed at Ellsworth from 1976 to 1978. According to Jacques Vallee's Revelations, William Moore claimed that Doty admitted to him that had forged the Ellsworth Document. However, there is supposedly an Inspector General's Report on this incident that states that the perpetrator was not Doty, but someone else.
ACT III
According to Howard Blum's Out There, William Moore first became interested in UFOs when he was a teenager, after reading about the Aztec "crash" in Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers. He joined NICAP(National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena) while in college at Thiel College in Pennsylvania in the sixties, and remained a member after beginning his teaching career in New York.
In the late seventies, Bill Moore co-wrote The Philadelphia Experiment with Charles Berlitz. The book became a best-seller, and in 1979, Moore decided to quit his teaching job in Minnesota and try his hand at writing full-time, with his preferred subject being UFOs.
In Arizona, he joined the Lorenzen's Tucson-based APRO(Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), and soon became one of its directors. He was spending most of his time researching events that had occurred in 1947 in neighboring New Mexico for another book he was writing with Berlitz, The Roswell Incident. Also helping with the research on this book was a well-known UFOlogist, Stanton Friedman. The book was be released in 1980 and was also a best-seller. After this book, Moore broke with Berlitz and he and Friedman teamed up to continue investigating the Roswell case for several years.
After the book became popular, Moore appeared on several radio talk shows about Roswell and UFOs. He relates that twice, after radio appearances in the month of September, 1980, he received phone calls from someone who only said, "You're the only person we've ever heard who seems to be on the right track." The second caller suggested that they meet. Moore drove to a coffeeshop in Albuquerque and met, for the first time, the individual he refers to as the Falcon.
The Falcon, who Moore said was a well-placed individual within the intelligence community who claimed to be directly connected to a high-level government project dealing with UFOs, met with Moore several times over a period of months and then offered him a deal: He and the group he represented would help Moore in his quest for the truth about UFOs if Moore would consent to help them by feeding disinformation to, and by reporting to them on, ..... Paul Bennewitz! According to Moore, his contact during this was not be the Falcon himself, but was.... Richard C. Doty!
Moore allegedly functioned as something of a "triple agent" for about four years. He was friends with Paul Bennewitz while reporting on his activities to both APRO and to Doty, and feeding Bennewitz disinformation from Doty and/or the Falcon. Moore said later that he went along with this offer because he saw it as his only chance to get "inside" information about governmental UFO activities. See The Destruction of Paul Bennewitz for more about this.
The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 3
Red Herring ...A herring that is cured by smoking turns red. It also has a strong odor, and hunting dogs were often trained to follow a scent by means of a red herring that had been dragged along the ground. On the other side of the coin, people who opposed fox hunting sometimes drew a red herring across the path of the fox; the dogs would give up on the fox and follow the scent of the herring.
(The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers)
ACT IV
In February, 1981, according to Curtis Peebles' Watch the Skies, Richard C. Doty gave Bill Moore a copy of a classified teletype document that spoke of the government's secret investigation of UFOs, of a Project Aquarius and of something called MJ-Twelve. This was the first known mention of those two terms.
The following year, Moore and a former National Enquirer reporter named Robert Pratt discussed writing a novel about the adventures of an Air Force intelligence officer and calling it The Aquarius Project. According to Peebles, the novel was actually finished, but was never published.
In the spring of 1982, a tv station, KPIX in San Francisco, hired Moore as a consultant for a UFO special. Moore, who was now living in Los Angeles, was assisted by his friends Jaime Shandera, a television producer, and Stanton Friedman, the UFOlogist. Moore gave a copy of the Aquarius teletype to KPIX, and they asked the Air Force to verify its authenticity. KPIX was told by the AFOSI that the document was a forgery, that it had several flaws that identified it as such. Moore, according to Peebles, admitted that he had retyped the document and had added an "official-looking date stamp."
Moore arranged a meeting with Doty that included Ron Lakis of KPIX and Peter Gersten, a lawyer specializing in FOIA requests for UFO documents. Doty allegedly told them that he had been investigating UFOs for several years for the AFOSI and that he had access to top-secret documents related to UFOs. Doty also allegedly told them about secret treaties with the aliens and that Project Aquarius involved contact with aliens. He reportedly said that he knew of three UFO crashes that had been recovered and that alien bodies were in the government's possession. He also mentioned that the government practiced "disinformation" and was conditioning the public to accept the aliens.
ACT V
In the spring of 1983, according to Timothy Good in Alien Contact, William Moore received a phone call from someone who said that he would be allowed to see some important information if he followed the instructions he was given. The instructions involved flying from one airport to another, getting phone instructions as to the next destination at each stop, until finally he ended up at a motel in upstate New York. At a certain time, an individual arrived at the motel room with an envelope containing eleven pages. Moore was told:
You have exactly nineteen minutes. You may do whatever you wish with the material during that time, but at the end of that time, I must have it back. After that, you are free to do what you wish.
The eleven pages were something called a TOP SECRET/ORCON document titled Executive Briefing. Subject: Project Aquarius dated June 14, 1977. Moore was allowed to photograph the documents and to read their contents into a tape recorder.
The documents detailed the recovery of a crashed alien craft and a live alien in 1949, and the recovery of a fully functioning alien craft in Utah in 1958. It detailed several "projects" involved with aliens and UFOs:
1. Project Bando: Medical studies of alien bodies recovered from crashes and of the live alien rescued from the crash in 1949 in New Mexico.
2. Project Sigma: A project to establish communications with the aliens.
3. Project Snowbird: Testing and flight of a recovered alien craft.
4. Project Pounce: An overall evaluation project.
Note the similarities of this document with the one shown to Linda Moulton Howe in the next act.
ACT VI
In April, 1983, Linda Moulton Howe, who had produced an excellent documentary about cattle mutilations called Strange Harvest, was working on a new script about UFOs for HBO. The evening before her meeting with the HBO people, Howe had dinner with an attorney named Peter Gersten. Gersten told Howe that he had met with Richard C. Doty, an AFOSI agent at Kirtland AFB, and perhaps Doty would be willing to talk on camera or in some other helpful capacity about a UFO incident that had supposedly occurred at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota in 1978. Gersten offered to call him and ask if he would be willing to meet with Howe.
Arrangements were made for Howe to fly to Albuquerque on April 9, where Doty would meet her at the airport. Doty was not there when she arrived, but he later picked her up at Jerry Miller's house. Miller, a former Project Bluebook investigator, was acquainted with Doty.
On the way from Miller's house to Kirtland AFB, Howe asked Doty, whose manner she said was both defiant and nervous, if he knew anything about the Holloman landing. Doty reportedly said it happened on April 25, 1964, just 12 hours after the famous sighting reported by policeman Lonnie Zamora in Socorro, New Mexico. 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, and were seen by Zamora.
According to Howe, when they got to Kirtland, Doty took her to a small office where he showed her a brown envelope and said, "My superiors have asked me to show you this." He withdrew several sheets of white paper from the envelope. 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 was titled Briefing Paper for the President of the United States of America. It described UFO crashes, alien bodies, and an alien who survived one of the crashes. The paper listed several government UFO projects:
Project Garnet: an investigation into human evolution.
Project Sigma: efforts to communicate with aliens.
Project Snowbird: R & D of alien technology recovered from UFO crashes.
Project Aquarius: The umbrella program involving alien contact.
Doty allegedly told Howe that she would be given several thousand feet of film taken of aliens, including the Holloman AFB landing in 1964. The film never materialized.
Howe says that Doty also promised her an interview with a Colonel who had become friends with an alien who had survived a crash and lived for three years. The offer never materialized as the interview was repeatedly set up and then cancelled. HBO told Howe that she would have to have all the evidence in her possession before they would authorize any funds. Doty finally told Howe the project was kaput and Howe's contract with HBO expired.
Doty would later deny all of this, although Howe swore out a signed affadavit that it all occurred. Doty is said to have passed a polygraph examination that supported his version of the interview.
ACT VII
In Jacques Vallee's Revelations, he tells how, in early 1985, Robert Emenegger was approached again by Colonel William Coleman (see The Falcon and the Snow-Job, Part 1), who was now retired and living in Florida, with yet another offer. If Emenegger could convince Allen Hynek and Vallee to get involved, then the government would be willing to release "final" evidence of UFOs. Emenegger was convinced that the offer was on the level, particularly after a meeting with General Glenn E, Miller, deputy director of the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA), but Hynek and Vallee proceeded cautiously.
Hynek was invited to Norton AFB in California to meet with General Miller and his boss, DAVA director General Robert Scott. Vallee was later invited to Norton as well. They came away with no new information, just hints and the impression that they had been talking to two wild-eyed UFO contactees rather than two Air Force officers. Vallee still puzzles over the purpose of these meetings. Were they an attempt to find out how much Hynek and Vallee knew? Were they tentative steps toward discrediting two of the top names in UFOlogy? Were they an opening gambit for piping more disinformation into the field? Meanwhile, Moore, Shandera, and Friedman were studying the MJ-12 documents....
FILE ORIGINATES FROM: <<UFONET I>>
UPLOADED BY: Tom Mickus
DATE OF UPLOAD: JAN/14/1990
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KLASDOTY.TXT [ ***] JAN/88 Interview with Klass and R. Doty
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NOTE: The file is reproduced verbatim, except for use of "(sic)".
Use of "{}" and "()" brackets, along with CAPITALIZATION and
underlining "___" are evidently the work of the author of
this transcript. Additionally, all personal comments and
characterizations contained within, are also of the author's.
"PJK:" = Phillip J. Klass
"RCD:" = Richard C. Doty
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Richard (Rick) C. Doty: Telephone interview: Jan. 8, 1988
(Highlight/Excerpts)
1. Says unable to meet with PJK this weekend, will not be in the area, returning Thursday/Friday.
2. He asked what he could do for me and I said I wanted to get him (sic) comments on allegations against him in Just Cause and in MUFOn (sic) Journal. Said he has seen both.
PJK: Are you planning to take any action?
RCD: I've already taken action. I've an attorney that last summer took some action on my behalf regarding the allegation that I allegedly had leaked these documents. {{PJK Note: But that allegation would not (sic) made publicly by Greenwood until Sept. 1987}} And Greenwood, Gersten, Moore and a couple other people were involved. WELL, I HAVE AN AFFIDAVIT SIGNED BY BILL MOORE THAT WAS EXECUTED IN COURT WITH MY ATTORNEY PRESENT THAT SAYS THAT BILL MOORE NEVER, EVER RECEIVED ANYTHING FROM ME OTHER THAN SOME BITS AND PIECES ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED AT KIRTLAND IN 1980. {{PJK doubts this could have occurred in the few months since allegations were made public.}}
"HE GAVE THE PERSON'S NAME IN THE AFFIDAVIT THAT HE RECEIVED THE DOCUMENTS FROM, AND THIS PERSON--I DON'T KNOW HIM--THIS PERSON IS IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND MY ATTORNEY WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C. AND SPOKE TO THIS PERSON AND HE DENIED EVER GIVING BILL MOORE ANYTHING ALTHOUGH HE SAID HE HAD REGULAR CONTACT WITH BILL MOORE. {{PJK: Very doubtful claim}}
So, allegedly, Peter Gersten was given this information and then apologized saying that they never had any concrete information that I had given him anything anyways, but they had kind of put two and two together and thought that it must have come from me.
PJK: You say that Moore signed an affidavit. Have you made that affidavit public?
RCD: No, no I haven't.
PJK: Do you plan to?
RCD: I don't know. It's up to the attorney. Again, this happened last year and I have had (sic) any further contact with MUFON or the CAUS
people. {He later changes this story.} When that article came I was inundated with phone calls and letters and people trying to interview me
saying they want to know what this is all about. And I don't even know, I didn't know, I didn't see these documents until October or November.
{NOTE: he is referring to the MJ-12 papers, which were first made public in late May/early June, 1987}
And I too (sic) one look at them and said, these are phony. (Laughs) These aren't even credible documents. What I was shown had some legitimate documents in that was obtained FOIA but these other ones that were released--apparently Bill Moore released it in some kind of a news release.
He claimed to have gotten these in (PJK: In December, 1984). Well I wasn't even in the country, nor would anyone have had access to me in
1984. All these things were started in the lawyer's--I can't remember what the legal term was he used--but the court document refuting the claim
that I gave him.
PJK: Would you be willing to give me the name of your lawyer?
RCD: Ah, I can give him your name and he can contact you. But why would you want to know that?
PJK: (Explains I am long-time UFO skeptic/investigator, that if MJ-12 papers were authentic, it would be biggest story for AW&ST. So I dug
into MJ-12, found evidence to indicate they are a hoax.)
RCD: Yeah, you just have to look at them. A fifth grader could tell they're not properly classified and down grade instructions. I've been
working in classified for 20 years, from all levels. When my lawyer showed me copies of them--and my lawyer is retired military, of course,
and he could tell they're phony.
Apparently Gersten's crew knew they were phony.
PJK: (Explains prevailing view among UFO believers is that MJ-12 is a hoax, but question is who is responsible for producing them.)
RCD: WELL, THE FBI KNOWS THAT. THE FBI KNOWS WHO DID IT. THAT INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED TO THE FBI, THE FBI INTERVIEWED THIS PERSON AND OF COURSE THIS PERSON DENIED HE EVER GAVE THEM TO HIM (Moore).
But I think what this person did was he created the documents--I don't know if Bill Moore was actually involved in it, I don't think he was,
but it's a possibility.
The FBI never pursued it, I don't know why, unless they just couldn't. I don't know if there was any law that this guy broke. I don't if that is public record or not, but you'd have to go to the FBI to find out.BUT I KNOW FOR A FACT THEY INTERVIEWED HIM--THIS PERSON IN WASHINGTON D.C.
PJK: And about when would that have been?
RCD: Ah, gee, last year (ie. 1987)
PJK: How would the FBI have located this person in Washington--I'll call him Mr. X--
RCD: As a matter of fact that's what William Moore called him, Mr. X.
PJK: Are you suggesting that Moore told the FBI who X is?
RCD: I don't. To tell you the truth I don't remember how--and I don't even know if I was privvy (sic) to that information as to how the FBI found ought (sic) who this guy was, but I think that after this stuff came out the Justice Dept. investigated it or made some inquiries or something and then found out, I don't know how. I don't have that information.
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PJK then raises allegations made by CAUS and reads the first: "In 1984, Linda Moulton Howe, who produced the well-known cattle mutilation film STRANGE HARVEST, was contacted by a government source {{CAUS later identifies this source as Doty}} to aid in producing a UFO documentary, essentially providing the answer to UFOs. She was invited by the source, briefed on the story, then sworn to secrecy about it until the film's eventual release. The deal was never completed. Details of the story given to her match the MJ-12 tale, along with much extra detail about contacts with 'EBES' {{Extraterrestrial Biological Entities}}, Nordic type aliens called 'Highs' and conflicting alien factions."
What can you tell me about your contact with her?
RCD: (Laughs) OK. In my duties, in my official government duties I made contact with her AND I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY, I made contact with her for information that she had that she was willing to share with us. The information had nothing to do with UFOs, absolutely nothing to do with UFOs. {{PJK note: Howe is a slightly wacky free-lance TV producer who focuses on UFOs, cattle mutilations, UFO-abductions, etc.
--What kind of info would she have that Doty would seek "in an official" capacity--and which is so sensitive he could not tell me??}}
When she found out I was with a government agency and I was the same one that had investigated the (UFO) incident (at Kirtland) in 1980, she started asking me questions about UFOs, about what I thought about UFOs, and what my beliefs were about them, and if I could tell her anything about what the government had. And I told her, I don't know very much. I can tell you what happened at Kirtland, because I investigated it. Probably it can be explained away.
She said that she had been involved with Budd Hopkins and a number of people who claimed to have been abducted (by UFOs) and then she gives me this whole story about aliens abducting people, and they're called EBES, and then she said she had a contact--I later found out who
it was--that had showed her some government documents pertaining to MJ-12 and all this other stuff.
But I never, ever originated any contact regarding UFOs with her. Because of our continuing interest in what she was doing--NOT UFOs but
to something else--she would ask me questions like what do you think about this, what do you thing (sic) about that?
I can tell you that in 1985, excuse me in May, 1986, I TOOK AN EXTENSIVE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION PERTAINING TO AN ALLEGATION SHE HAD MADE AND I PASSED IT, A GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERED POLYGRAPH, SHOWING I WAS THE ONE TELLING THE TRUTH AND SHE WAS THE ONE LYING.
PJK asks if Howe took a Polygraph test and he says no.
RCD: There was another person involved in this who took a polygraph test and failed it. That's why I say I know where she got the information from. Because this person REFUSED (??) AND QUIT GOVERNMENT SERVICE AT THE TIME. Anyway, she would sit down and talk to me for hours about UFOs, but she would do all the talking. She had everything already figured out. She claimed that well I know there's a ship FLYING ABOVE THE ARCTIC THAT ARE COLLECTING SOULS AND THERE'S ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SOULS AND THEY HAVE TO BE REGENERATED. JUST INCREDIBLE STUFF. SHE BELIEVES ALL THESE ABDUCTEES...
I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND I HAVE NOTHING TO BACK THIS UP, STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL, BUT I WAS TOLD THAT THE GOVERNMENT AFTER HOPKINS WORTE HIS (first) BOOK, CALLED MISSING TIME, THAT THE GOVERNMENT WENT TO THESE PEOPLE (i.e. "abductees") AND ASKED THEM IF THEY WOULD PROVIDE THE SAME INFORMATION TO THE GOVERNMENT AND SOME OF THESE PEOPLE REPUDIATED WHAT THEY TOLD HOPKINS. NOW THAT'S WHAT I WAS TOLD.
Anyway, I never told her and showed her anything, except what we were doing on the other project. She just made that up, she exaggerated...
she's jsut so hung up you can't talk about anything else (with her).
PJK: Then reads a second allegation: "CAUS Director, Peter Gersten, in a visit with a military intelligence source at Kirtland AFB in 1983 {{later identified as Doty}} was informed of a wide range of bizarre UFO stories. Included were comments on a briefing paper on UFOs for President
Carter, the Cash/Landrum (incident) being a government exploitation of UFO technology- ...Bill Moore being 'right on' with Roswell (crashed
saucer), and an admission that the original Project Acquarius (sic) cable (TWX) ...was retyped and not an original cable. This cable was the
first mention anywhere of MJ-12 and Project Acquarius (sic)."
RCD: (Laughs) Gersten came out, I don't even remember when it was, and somebody from California, some television official from California.
Gersten had spoke to me on the telephone several days before and said he'd like to get in touch with me about this 1980 Kirtland incident.
So I agreed to meet with him.
And he sat there and asked me a number of questions about UFOs and I answered him LIKE I WAS TOLD TO ANSWER HIM. The meeting was official insofar as my capacity.
PJK: Do you have a tape recording of that meeting?
RCD: Oh yes.
PJK: Where would that be, in OSI files?
RCD: I can't disclose. I'm not going to comment on that. But when I confronted Peter Gersten some time later, after my attorney did, he shut right up, suspecting that it was recorded and knowing that he's lying. I told him if he wants to go to court--I told him in a telephone conversation I did--if you want to go to court, I've got the evidence to prove you wrong. And he just shut his mouth.
Now I'm not going to go into that because there's another aspect involved that I can't discuss. {{RCD FREQUENTLY IMPLIES THAT HE CANNOT DISCUSS SOMETHING BECAUSE OF SENSITIVITY, I.E. SECURITY.}} The only conversation I had with Gersten was RIGHT OUTSIDE A HOTEL. HE WANTED TO MEET ME ALONE, GETTING BACK TO THE CONVERSATION IN THE RESTAURANT. IT WAS STRICTLY HIM ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND ME DENYING THEM. "I don't know what you're talking about. No, I don't know about this, or that."
He asked me about the UFO in Texas that exploded and hurt somebody [PJK: The Cash-Landrum case]. I said I know nothing about that. HE was the one who said I understand it was a recovered alien craft, flown by the government--his source had told him that. I said, well, I don't know. {{PJK: Gersten was the lawyer for Ms. Cash and Ms. Landrum who sued USAF for $10 million for alleged injuries.}}
Anyways, he asked me, well I don't remember now. But he asked me a lot of questions but I never once provided, not one bit of information to him, or to anyone else. (laughs) Come on now, I wouldn't be fool enough to do that. Well, anyway he said he wanted to meet me later near his hotel where he was staying and I agreed with that. {{Strange behaviour if RCD could not or did not want to answer Gersten's questions.}} The coversation (sic) wasn't recorded.
He showed me a document that was allegedly a teletype message that was sent from ah, I think it was sent from Washington to OSI Detachment or district headquarters at Kirtland, I believe that was the routing. Any way, (sic) I looked at the document and said gee this is an inaccurate document. And he said, why? And I said, well in a classified document each paragraph is classified and in this document the paragraphs were not classified. The top marking said it was supposedly secret.
And he said, well read it, and I read it and said well it appears to me that somebody retyped this and typed this up. And he said, do you think it's based on an actual document, and I said, well, I said, it could be based on an actual document but I'm not going to say it was. Now, years later, it was based on an actual document that was typed. However, SOMEBODY ADDED A LOT OF FABRICATION TO IT, A LOT OF JUNK TO IT.
Now, who I think did it is Richard Todd {{A UFOlogist in Penn. or N.J. who is active investigator using FOIA) ...He sent documents to the government which were forged and he said in his letter, these are forged documents, don't you think they're great. I mean they had all sorts of code words in them, unbelieveable. And I think that somebody provided some information to Todd or Gersten and then they exaggerated all the rest of it. Probably from the FOIA documents that were released in 1980, or whenever they were released.
So that was it. And then about a month later Gersten called me back and said HEY, CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME MORE INFORMATION. AND I SAID, NO I GAVE YOU--HE WANTED ME TO COMMENT MORE ON THE DOCUMENT, THE MJ-12 AND ACQUARIUS. AND THEN HE PROBABLY CALLED ME SEVERAL