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  The information in the following pages is based on my experiences and my investigation into the matters discussed. As such, everything in these pages can and should be considered my opinion. I encourage you to investigate any of the facts presented here and, as much as possible, verify all facts for yourself. What I have learned and presented is supported by information available online, eyewitness testimony, personal conversations with many of the parties involved, and documented in numerous email messages (copies of which are on file.) In the course of my work on this book, I have ensured that others viewed material and web sites I located online so that, in the event that the material was moved or removed, as can happen with online sources, its existence at the time is verifiable. Questions that arise from the information presented here have been asked in the public interest and are based on opinions that any fair-minded person could genuinely hold.

  Every effort has been made to make this book as accurate as possible. However, there may be mistakes, both typographical and in content. Therefore, this text should not be relied upon as the ultimate source describing the events depicted. Furthermore, this book contains information current only up to the printing date, since the passage of time may uncover additional clarification about these events.

  The purpose of this book is to educate and entertain. The author and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information contained in this book.

  During the years I have been interested in this strange phenomenon, and as I collected the information now in this book, I have met many others with similar interests. Some of those I met, and some I have not, may never know how much they contributed to what is in this book. I certainly want to give credit where it is due and to acknowledge all those who put good information out there where it could be found. Barry Greenwood and Larry Fawcett certainly did that with the publication of "Clear Intent," a book I still recommend highly.

  There are a number of friends and acquaintances who helped along the way and who may not realize how much I appreciated them being there. To all of them I owe my thanks. In the beginning, and throughout the 1980's, I had a great deal of assistance from Tommy Blann in submitting FOIA requests and studying documents to glean every bit of information we could. Those were interesting times. Tom Adams, always a source of new information and balanced opinions, also deserves my thanks. Dale Goudie and Jim Klotz of The Computer UFO Network also shared my interests, and as is always the case with good friends, their help has been immeasurable. To everyone else I have spoken with and who offered help…you have my gratitude.

  I cannot say enough about Ray Stanford, to whom I owe so much. He is one of the most unique human beings I have ever met, and knowing him has quite literally changed everything. What I have to show in this book is only the tip of the iceberg.

  Lastly, though he is no longer with us, I will always owe very special thanks to Paul Bennewitz for his time and friendship, for being patient with my questions, and for giving me these startling pictures of what he caught on film.

  Illustrations viii

  Glossary x

  Prologue 1

  1: Night Films 7

  2: Invitation 21

  3: The Phenomenon 29

  4: A Chance Meeting 37

  5: Beam Ship 41

  6: Shock Tunnel 45

  7: Fire Away 53

  8: TAVD 57

  9: Design Change 61

  10: The Conversation 71

  11: Fields of Force 77

  12: Weapons Research 85

  13: Need To Know 99

  14: Evidence vs. Belief 105

  Part 1 - Epilogue 113

  PART II

  Paul Bennewitz: 1979-1980 117

  15: The Archuleta Mesa 121

  16: Something On Sandia 133

  17: Counterintelligence 145

  18: Agents & Bullet Time 169

  19: Decades of Disinformation 187

  A Word About Due Diligence 189

  The Origins of Dulce and Underground Bases 192

  The Weitzel Letter 195

  The Recruitment of Bill Moore and the seeds of MJ-12 197

  NSA and Project Aquarius 206

  Linda Howe and Briefing Papers 209

  John Lear, O.H. Krill, and more on underground bases 214

  Conclusion 221

  Appendix A

  Richard Doty, John Lear, and a connection in Laos 224

  Appendix B

  Paul Bennewitz and Directed Energy Beams 256

  Appendix C

  The Socorro Sighting 267

  Appendix D

  Propulsion Concept Inspired By Mystery Aircraft 273

  Notes & References 279

  Attachments 288

  A) AFOSI Complaint Form (Signed by Richard Doty) 289

  B) Text of the “Weitzel Letter” sent anonymously to APRO in 1980. 291

  C) AFOSI Report of Doty and Miller’s visit with Paul Bennewitz 294

  D) AFOSI Report of meeting at Kirtland AFB in November of 1980. 296

  E) Ernest Edwards briefing transcript log entry 298

  F) The Aquarius Telex 300

  G) UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions 301

  H) UFOs and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot To Surprise or Deceptive Data 308

  Index 315

  About the author

  Figure 1: The Manzano Weapons Storage area and a depiction of a rooftop view from the Four Hills.

  Figure 2: New Mexico map, with insets showing the area of Kirtland Air Force Base.

  Figure 3: Computer generated aerial image of the entire region surrounding the MWSA with locations of interest.

  Figure 4: Illustration of four vehicles lifting off from the grounds of the MWSA.

  Figure 5: Actual image from Bennewitz film showing launch of 18’ vehicle (enhanced).

  Figure 6: Three frames from Bennewitz film showing vehicles at different stages (enhanced).

  Figure 7: Actual image of larger 36’ vehicle from Bennewitz film (enhanced).

  Figure 8: Enlargement of 18’ vehicle in flight (enhanced).

  Figure 9: Aerial view showing distance and field-of-view from the Four Hills to the MWSA.

  Figure 10: Diagram and illustration showing elevations in the MWSA, with flight path.

  Figure 11: Computer generated aerial image looking eastward over the MWSA into Coyote Canyon and Lurance Canyon.

  Figure 12: Recreation of one vehicle as seen in film taken by Ray Stanford, with diagrams indicating intere
sting details.

  Figure 13: Illustration showing comparative views of the vehicle in Stanford’s film and Lightcraft vehicle as conceived by Myrabo.

  Figure 14: Chronological timeline showing change in laser Lightcraft design and integration of Directed Energy Air Spike concept after 1988.

  Figure 15: Paul Bennewitz, the first Polaroid photo, and a map showing the Archuleta Mesa.

  Figure 16: Lima Site 20A in Laos.

  Figure 17: Illustration of the vehicle seen by Lonnie Zamora in Socorro, New Mexico.

  Figure 18: Zamora’s indications of the shape, position, and the symbol on the Socorro vehicle.

  AFOSI: Air Force Office of Special Investigations—Provides the AF police function in conducting criminal investigations and other functions on military bases. OSI Special Agents are also trained in intelligence and counterintelligence work and OSI has been involved in investigating sightings of aerial objects over military installations for many years.

  AFOSP: Air Force Office of Security Police—Headquartered at Kirtland AFB in 1980; among its functions it was responsibility for security inside the perimeter fence surrounding the four hills of the Manzano Weapon Storage Area.

  AFRL: Air Force Research Laboratory—Formed from a consolidation of previously separate laboratories, it now oversees various directorates including the Space Vehicles Directorate and Beamed Energy Directorate at Kirtland AFB, and the Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson/Edwards AFB.

  AFTEC: Air Force Test and Evaluation Center—Formed at Kirtland AFB to oversee operational testing of newly developed aircraft and systems. It was later renamed the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC).

  AFWL: Air Force Weapons Laboratory—Formed in 1963 at Kirtland AFB, it later became part of Phillips Labs, which then became the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate in the mid-1990’s.

  BDM: BDM Corporation—Formed in 1959 by three Fordham University phycists, Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, BDM was a major defense contractor headquartered in McLean, Virginia with a major operating location in Albuquerque, NM. Acquired by TRW in 1997, BDM was subsequently acquired by Northrop-Grumman.

  DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency—Part of the overall U.S. Intelligence Community, DIA is a combat support agency of the Department of Defense. It is headquartered at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. with operational activities at locations in Washington and Maryland and at the Missile and Space intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

  DOE: Department of Energy—Created in 1977, it brought together most government energy programs as well as science and technology programs to ensure national energy and security capabilities. DOE responsibility for the design, construction, and testing of nuclear weapons now includes protection of the nuclear weapons stockpile today.

  ISBEP: International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion—An annual meeting held by the International Society for Beamed Energy Propulsion. It provides a forum for the presentation of papers on a variety of ideas and research topics dealing with the potential uses of beamed energy.

  KAFB: Kirtland Air Force Base—Home to the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, the Space Development and Test Wing, Sandia National Laboratories, the Directed Energy Directorate and the Space Vehicles Directorate of AFRL, and others. It is located in Albuquerque, NM.

  MWSA: Manzano Weapons Storage Area—Located on Manzano Mountains east of Albuquerque, in the early 1980’s nuclear weapons were stored in bunkers tunneled into the hillside and the entire 3-mile long range was surrounded by an electrified fence. It was one of the most secure facilities in the country prior to being deactivated in 1992.

  NSA: National Security Agency—The national cryptologic organization. Perhaps the most secretive of all the Intelligence Community agencies, its mission is to protect sensitive U.S. information resources and codes while at the same time searching for weaknesses in foreign and enemy systems.

  RPI: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—An academic and research institution located in Troy, N.Y. RPI’s distinguished School of Engineering has partnerships with a number of companies and organizations including NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy.

  SNL: Sandia National Laboratories—Located within the Sandia military Reservation, SNL’s mission is to meet a broad range of needs encompassing defense systems, national security, energy, and nuclear weapons. It is a government owned, but contractor operated, laboratory currently managed by Sandia Corporation, which is owned by Lockheed Martin Company.

  We live in a middle ground, a thin plane bordered by deep oceans and the edge of space. However comfortable we are, however sure we are in what we know and believe, the fact remains that we live our lives surrounded by vast unknowns. We can feel it at times. When dark shapes rise from the ocean depths and strange sounds reach out from the deep woods, the unknown grips us. And yet, as frightening as those experiences are, they are at least familiar. They come from our domain, our reality, and we know our place. But, when strange things descend from the sky—whose reality is it then? Of all the mysteries in our human experience, none fascinates and frightens us quite like the phenomenon called Unidentified Flying Objects.

  The UFO phenomenon has held world-wide interest since at least the beginning of the modern era. Any number of UFO groups now hold regular conferences, and their investigators collect and investigate reports of sightings. However, with little more than a collective shrug, science and government have left each of us to fend for ourselves in the search for answers. On television and late night radio, scores of popular personalities give the impression that they are searching for evidence of these unidentified flying objects. Sadly, the truth is that for all the enthusiasts, researchers, and experts who claim to be searching, virtually none of them are searching for the actual objects—the objects that are the phenomenon. The fact that real evidence, the kind that will change minds, is not likely to come from anywhere else seems to be ignored for the most part. Years ago I might have gone along with the argument that the nature of the phenomenon makes searching for the objects themselves impractical, but not now. I have seen some of the results, and as incredible as it may seem there have been spectacular successes. This book is about two of those successes.

  This is an account of my personal experiences and the issues that have been raised by two specific films. Many of my observations, developed over the past thirty-five years, are also included. More than anything I want this to be informative and eye-opening for those of you who know little about this phenomenon or the background of the events described. For those of you who, like me, have been at this a long time, I am convinced this book also contains new information that may offer new leads on the technology and secrecy involved.

  At the outset let me make a distinction between the UFO phenomenon and so-called UFO phenomena. Too much is illogically lumped under the term “phenomena” that has no relationship at all to the cause of the phenomenon itself. At its core the phenomenon still rests on the strange vehicles that have been seen and on what the evidence implies. That is what this book is about.

  It may have been my stubborn determination to find things out for myself that led me to two men and their films—films that leave no doubt about the reality within the UFO phenomenon. What I learned from these films and from connections I have seen has also revealed troubling ties to military and defense agencies and their ongoing efforts to keep the truth from the public.

  For many years the most widely publicized and popular aspect of what is called ‘Ufology’, a catch-all term for the study of unidentified flying objects, has been the effort to expose government secrecy about the phenomenon. Though I wonder how effective this may actually be in answering the real questions about this phenomenon, it can be an intriguing game in itself. Poring over declassified documents, sifting through information, piecing it all together looking for clues—it may not be spying or espionage in a literal sense but it is definitely an intelligence game. Nevertheless, for every enticing bit of inf
ormation that occasionally turns up, in the end what do we really learn? Unfortunately for the public, even the Freedom of Information Act is no guarantee you are getting the truth—if you get anything at all.

  I had hoped that the facts about these two films could come out in a way that avoided the stigma of “unidentified flying objects”. What are shown in these films are not objects, they are definitely vehicles. They may be flying, but they are certainly not flying by any conventional or trivial means (if it can even be called flying). Lastly, they are far more than simply “unidentified”…they are structured vehicles of a decidedly unknown origin and each has identifiable visible characteristics. Each of these films also comes with a story unique to itself.

  The first of these two films resulted in an elaborate operation to discredit the man who took the film and to hide the existence of an incredible technology. The fallout from this case has lasted for over thirty years. Intelligence and counterintelligence agencies became involved and to this day the truth of what happened remains in question, with no one held accountable.

  The second film, though virtually unknown to the public, has had a more profound impact. For over ten years I have said virtually nothing about what I know, though all along I felt certain it needed to be told. In a number of ways things are much clearer with this film, but they grew far more complex in the years after it was taken. I have no doubt it is evidence of an advanced technology; a technology beyond what can be accounted for within our own science. Incredibly, and somewhat ironically, evidence of the technology was validated by pure science and experimental methodology clearly demonstrating that the technology is well beyond that of which we are capable. It is a serious claim to be sure, so it is crucial for the moment that you check your beliefs at the door and focus only on the facts. In the end, the evidence will speak for itself.