A Collection Of Extraterrestrial Incidents And Coverups Part 5

PART 5………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Lear's Conspiracy Theory: Events on the UFO scene were taking a yet more bizarre turn that same year as even wilder tales  began to circulate. The first to tell them was John Lear, a pilot with a background in the CIA and the estranged son of aviation legend William P. Lear. Lear had surfaced two or three years earlier, but aside from his famous father there seemed little to distinguish him from any of hundreds of other UFO buffs who subscribe to the field's publications  and show up at its conferences.But then he started claiming that unnamed sources had told him of extraordinary events which made those told by Doty and the birds  soundlike bland and inconsequential anecdotes.  According to Lear, not just a few but dozens of flying saucers had  crashed over the years. In 1962 the U.S. government started Project  Redlight to find a way to fly the recovered craft, some relatively  intact. A similar project exists even now and is run out of a super-secret military installation; one is  Area 51(specifically at a facility called S4) at the Nevada Test Site and the other is set up near Dulce, New  Mexico. These areas, unfortunately, may no longer be under the control of the government or even of the human race. In the  late 1960s an official agency so secret that not even the President may know of it had made an agreement with the aliens.  In exchange for extraterrestrial technology the secret government would permit (or at least not interfere with) a limited number of abductions of human beings; the aliens, however, were to provide a list of those theyplanned to kidnap.  All went relatively well for a few years. Then in 1973 the governmentdiscovered that thousands of persons who were not on the alien's list were being abducted. The resulting tensions led to an altercation in 1978 or 1979. The aliens held and then killed 44 top scientists as well as a number of Delta force troops who had tried to free them. Ever since, frantic efforts, of which the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") is the most visible manifestation, have been made to develop a defense against the extraterrestrials, who are busy putting implants into abductees (as  many as one in 10 Americans) to control  their behavior. At some time in the near future these people will be used for some unknown, apparently sinister, alien purpose. Even worse than all this, though, is the aliens' interest in Human flesh. Sex and other organs are taken from both human beings and cattle and used to create androids in giant vats located in underground laboratories at   Area 51 and Dulce. The extraterrestrials, from an ancient race near the  end of its evolution, also use materials from human body parts as a  method of biological rejuvenation. ("In order to sustain themselves," he said, "they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the tissue that they extract from humans and animals. The secretions are then mixed with hydrogen peroxide and applied on the skin by spreading  or dipping parts of their bodies in the solution. The body absorbs the solution, then excretes the waste back through the skin" [Berk and Renzi, 1988].)  One of Lear's major sources was Bennewitz, who had first heard these scary stories from AFOSI personnel at Kirtland in the early 1980s. By this time Bennewitz had become something of a guru to a small group of  UFO enthusiasts, Linda Howe among them, who believed extraterrestrials  were mutilating cattle and had no trouble believing they might do the same thing to people. Also Lear, whose political views are far to the right of center, was linking his UFO beliefs with conspiracy theories about a malevolent secret American government which was attempting to use the aliens for its own purposes, including enslavement of the world's people through drug addiction. A considerable body of rightwing conspiracy literature, some with barely-concealed anti-Semitic  overtones, was making similar charges. Lear himself was not anti-Semitic, but he did share conspiracy beliefs with those who were.  Another of his claimed sources was an unnamed physicist  who, Lear claimed, had actually worked at S4. To the many ufologists who  rejected Lear's stories as paranoid, lunatic or fabricated (though not by the patently-sincere Lear), there was widespread skepticism about this physicist's existence. It turned out that he did indeed exist. His name is Robert Lazar, who, according to a story broken by reporter George Knapp on KLAS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, on November 11 and 13,1989, claims to have worked on alien technology projects at Area 51. Lazar, whose story is being investigated by both ufologists and  mainstream journalists, has not endorsed Lear's claims about human-alien treaties, man-eating  ETs or any of the rest and has distanced himself from Lear and his associates. His claims, while fantastic by most standards, are modest next to Lears. Cooper's Conspiracy Theory: Soon Lear was joined by someone with an  even bigger supply of fabulous yarns: one Milton William Cooper. Cooper surfaced on December 18, 1988, when his account of the fantastic  secrets he learned  while a Naval petty officer appeared on a computer network subscribed to by ufologists and others interested in anomalous phenomena. Cooper said that while working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm. Bernard Clarey, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Meet,  in the early 1970s he saw two documents, Project Grudge Special Report 13 and a Majority briefing. (In conventional UFO history, Grudge was the second public Air Force UFO project, superseding the original Sign, in early 1949 and lasting until late 1951, when it was renamed Blue Book. Whereas Sign investigators atone time concluded UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin--a conclusion  the Air force leadership found unacceptable--Grudge, as its name suggests coincidentally or otherwise, was known for its hostility to the idea of UFOs and for its eagerness to assign conventional explanations, warranted or otherwise, to the sighting reports that came its way.) Cooper's account of what was in these reports is much like  the by-now familiar story of crashes, bodies, contacts and projects, with some elaborations. Moreover, he said the aliens were called "ALFs" (which as any television viewer knows, stands for Alien Life forms) and the "M" in MJ-12 is  for Majority not Majestic. Later he would say he had seen photographs of aliens, including atype he called the "big-nosed  grays"-like those  that  supposedly landed at Holloman in 1964 or  1971. The U.S. government was in contact with them and alien-technology projects were going on at Area 51.  If this sounded like a rehash of Moore and Lear, that was only becauseCooper had yet to pull out all the stops. On May 23, 1989, Cooper produced a 25-page document titled The Secret Government:  The Origin,Identity And  Purpose of  MJ-12. He presented it as a lecture in Las Vegas a few  weeks later. In Cooper's version of the evolving legend, the "secret government," an unscrupulous group of covert CIA  and  other intelligence operatives who keep many of their activities sealed from even the President's knowledge, runs the country. One of its first  acts was to murder one-time Secretary of Defense (and alleged early MJ-12 member) James Forrestal, the death was made to look like suicide-because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up. Nonetheless, President Truman, fearing an invasion from outer space, kept other nations, including the Soviet Union, abreast of developments. But keeping all this secret was a real problem, so an international secret  society known as the Bilderbergers, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, was formed. Soon it became a secret world government and"now controls everything,"  Cooper said.  All the while flying saucers were dropping like flies out of the heavens. In 1953 there were 10 crashes in the United States alone.  Also that year, astronomers observed huge spaceships heading toward the earth and in time entering into orbit around the  equator.  Project   Plato was  established to effect communication with these new aliens. One of the ships landed and a face-to-face meeting       took place, and plans for diplomatic relations were laid. Meanwhile a race of human-looking aliens warned the U.S. government that the new visitors were not to be trusted and that if the government got rid of its nuclear weapons, the human aliens would help us in our spiritual development, which would keep us from destroying ourselves through wars and environmental pollution. The government rejected these overtures.  The big-nosed grays, the ones who had been orbiting the equator, landed again, this time at Holloman AFB, in 1954 and reached an agreement with the U.S. government. These beings stated that they were from a dying planet that orbits Betelguese. At some point in the not too distant future, they said, they would have to leave there for good. A second meeting took place not long afterwards at Edwards AFB in California. This time President Eisenhower was there to sign a formal treaty and to meet the first alien ambassador, "His Omnipotent Highness Krlll,"pronounced Krill. He, in common with his fellow space travelers, wore a trilateral insignia on his uniform; the same design appears on   all Betelguesian spacecraft.  According to Cooper's account, the treaty's provisions were these:Neither side would interfere in the affairs of the other. The aliens would abduct humans from time to time and would return them unharmed, with no memory of the event. It would provide a list of names of those it was going to take.The U.S. government would keep the aliens' presence a secret and it would receive advanced technology from them. The two sides would exchange 16 individuals each for the purpose of learning from and teaching each other.The aliens would stay on earth and the humans would go to the other planet,then return after a specified period of time. The two sides would jointly occupy huge underground bases which would be constructed at hidden locations in the Southwest.(It should be noted that the people listed as members of MJ-12 are  largely from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. These organizations play a prominent role in conspiracy theories of the far right. In a book on the subject George Johnson  writes, "After the Holocaust of World War II, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories became repugnant to all but the fringe of the American right. Populist fears of the power of the rich became focused instead on organizations that promote international capitalism, such as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers, a group of world leaders and businesspeople who held one of their early conferences on international relations at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands" [Johnson, 1983]. According to Cooper, the trilateral emblem is taken directly from the alien flag. He adds that under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter MJ-12 became known as the 50 Committee. Under Reagan it was renamed the PI-40 Committee.)   By 1955, during the Eisenhower years, Cooper charged, officials learned for certain what they had already begun to suspect a year earlier: that the aliens had broken the treaty before the ink on it  had time to dry. They were killing and mutilating both human beings  and animals, failing to supply a complete list of abductees, and not returning some of those they had taken. On top of that, they were conspiring with the Soviets, manipulating society through occultism, witchcraft, religion and secret organizations. Eisenhower prepared a secret executive memo, NSC 5411, ordering a study group of 35 top  members (the  "Jason Society") associated with the Council on Foreign  Relations to "examine all the facts, evidence, lies, and deceptions and discover the truth of the alien question" (Cooper, 1989). Because the resulting meetings were held at Quantico Marine Base, they were called the Quantico meetings. Those participating included Edward Teller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and  Nelson Rockefeller.  The group decided that the danger to established social, economic, religious and political institutions was so grave that no one must know about the aliens, not even Congress. That meant that alternative sources of funding would have to be found. It also concluded that the aliens were using human organs and tissue to replenish their deteriorating genetic structure.Further, according to Cooper, overtures were made to the Soviet Union and other nations so that all the earth could join together to deal with the alien menace. Research into sophisticated new weapons systems commenced. Intelligence sources penetrated the Vatican hoping to learn the Fatima prophecy which had been kept secret ever since 1917. It was suspected that the Fatima, Portugal, "miracle" was an episode of alien manipulation. As it turned out, the prophecy stated that in 1992 a child would unite the world under the banner of a false religion. By 1995 people would figure out that he was the Anti-Christ. That same year World War III would begin when an alliance of Arab nations invaded Israel. This would lead to nuclear war in 1999. The next four years would see horrible death and suffering all over the planet. Christ would return in 2011. (note the year has passed and WW-III did not culminate.  If the Fatima event were of a legitimate god event, you would not be reading this today).  When confronted about this, claimed Cooper, the aliens candidly acknowledged that it was true. They knew it because they had traveled into the future via time machine and observed it with their own eyes.   They added that they created us through genetic manipulation. Later the Americans and the Soviets also developed time travel and confirmed the Fatima/ET vision of the future.(Keep in mind, if you know what will cause a bad event in the future then you will be able to change the outcome of that future)  In 1957 the Jason group met again, by order of Eisenhower, to decide what to do. It came up with three alternatives: (l) Use nuclear bombs to blow holes in the stratosphere so that pollution could escape into space. (This scenario is absolutely ridiculous.  The stratosphere is not a membrane that holds in our atmosphere).  (2) Build a huge network of tunnels under the earth and save enough human beings of varying cultures, occupations and talents so that the race could reemergeafter the nuclear and environmental catastrophes to come. Everybody else- i.e., the rest of humanity would be left on the surface presumably to die. (3) Employ alien and terrestrial technology to leave earth and colonize the moon (code name "Adam") and Mars ("Eve"). The first alternative was deemed impractical, (as well as an absolutely ludicrous scenario) so the Americans and the Soviets started working on the other two. (The actual answer was to not even push the buttons!)  Meanwhile they decided that the population would have to be controlled, which could be done most easily by killing off as many "undesirables" as possible. Thus AIDS and other deadly diseases were introduced into the population. Another idea to raise needed funds was quickly acted on: sell drugs on a massive scale.  An ambitious young member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Texas oil-company president namedGeorge Bush, was put in charge of the project, with the aid of the CIA. "The plan worked better than anyone had thought " Cooper said. "The CIA now controls all the worlds [sic] illegal drug markets" (Cooper, 1989).  Unknown to just about everybody, a secret American/Soviet/alien space  base existed on the dark (far) side of the moon. By the early 1960s  human colonies were thriving on the surface of Mars. All the while the naive people of the earth were led to believe the Soviets and the Americans were something other than the closest allies. But Cooper's story got even more bizarre and byzantine.  He claimed that in 1963, when President Kennedy found out some of  what was going on, he gave an ultimatum to MJ-12: get out of the drug business. He also declared that in 1964 he would tell the American people about the alien visitations. Agents of MJ-12 ordered  his assassination. Kennedy was murdered in full view of many hundreds of onlookers, none of whom apparently noticed, by the Secret Service agent driving the President's car in the motorcade.  In 1969, reported Cooper, a confrontation between human scientistsand aliens at the Dulce laboratory resulted in the former's being taken hostage by the latter. Soldiers who tried to free the scientists were killed, unable to overcome the superior alien weapons. The incident led  to a two-year rupture in relations. The alliance was resumed in 1971 and continues to this day, even as a vast invisible financial empire run by the CIA, the NSA and the Council on Foreign Relations runs drugs, launders money and encourages massive street crime so that Americans will be susceptible to gun-control legislation. The CIA has gone so far as to employ drugs and hypnosis to cause mentally-unstable individuals to commit mass murder of schoolchildren and other innocents, the point being to encourage anti-gun hysteria. All of this is part of the plot, aided and abetted by the mass media (also under the secret government's control), to so scare Americans that they will soon accept the declaration of martial law and when that happens, people will be rounded up and put in concentration camps that are already in place. From there they will be flown to the moon and Mars to work as slave labor in the space colonies.   The conspirators already run the world. As Cooper put it, "Even a cursory investigation by the most inexperienced researcher will show that the members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral commission control the major foundations, all of the major media and publishing interests, the largest banks, all the major corporations, the upper echelons of the government, and many other vital interests."(This explains how a Marxist nobody got supposedly elected to the presidency in 2008). Reaction to Lear and Cooper: Whereas Lear had felt some obligationto name a source or two, or at least to mutter something about "unnamed sources," Cooper told his lurid and outlandish tale as if it were so self-evidently true that sources or supporting data were irrelevant. And to the enthusiastic audiences flocking to Cooper's lectures, no evidence was necessary. By the fall of the year Cooper was telling his stories--whose sources were, in fact, flying-saucer folklore, AFOSI disinformation unleashed during the Bennewitz episode, conspiracy literature, and outright fiction--to large crowds of Californians  willing to pay $l0 or $15 apiece for the thrill of being scared silly.  Lear and Cooper soon were joined by two other tellers of tales of the UFO horrors and Trilateral conspiracies, William English and John Grace (who goes under the pseudonym "Val Valarian" and heads the Nevada Aerial Research Group in Las Vegas).Few if any mainstream ufologists took these stories seriously and at first treated them as something of a bad joke. But when it became clear  that Lear, Cooper and company were commanding significant media  attention and finding a following among the larger public interested in ufology's fringes, where a claim's inherent improbability had never been seen as an obstacle to believe in it, the leaders of the UFO community grew ever more alarmed. One leader who was not immediately alarmed was Walter H. Andrus, Jr., director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the two largest UFO organizations in the United States (the other being the J. Allen HynekCenter for UFO Studies [CUFOS]. In 1987, before Lear had proposed what some wags would call the Dark Side Hypothesis, he had offered to host the 1989 MUFON conference in Las Vegas. Andrus agreed. But as Lear's true beliefs became known, leading figures within MUFON expressed concern about Lear's role in the conference. When Andrus failed to  respond quickly, MUFON officials were infuriated.  Facing a possible palace revolt, Andrus informed Lear that Cooper, whom Lear had invited to speak at the conference, was not an acceptable choice. But to the critics on the MUFON board and elsewhere in the organization, this was hardly enough. One of them, longtime ufologist  Richard Hall, said this was "like putting a Band-Aid on a hemorrhage" (Hall, 1989). In a heated telephone exchange Andrus called Hall's objections to Lear "just one man's opinion" and claimed support, which turned out not to exist, from other MUFON notables. In a widely distributed open letter to Andrus, Hall wrote, "Having Lear run the symposium and be a major speaker at it is comparable to NICAP in the 1960’s having George Adamski run a NICAP conference!" (NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of whichHall was executive secretary in the late 1950s and much of the 1960s,   was a conservative UFO-research organization which attacked as fraudulent the claims of Adamski, who wrote books about his meetings with Venusians and distributed photographs of what he said were their spaceships.) Hall went on, "You seem to be going for the colorful and the spectacular rather than for the critical-minded approach of science; you even expressed the view- in effect-that having a panel to question Lear critically  would be good show biz and the 'highlight' of the symposium. Maybe so, but it obviously would dominate the entire program, grab off all major news media attention, and put UFO research in the worst possible light." Hall declared, "I am hereby resigning from the MUFON Board and I request that my name be removed from allMUFON publications or papers that indicate me to be a Board Member." Fearing more resignations, Andrus moved to make Lear barely more than a guest at his own conference. He was not to lecture there, as previously planned, and hosting duties would be handled, for the most part, by others. Lear ended up arranging an "alternative conference" at which he, Cooper, English and Don Ecker presented the latest elaborations on the Dark Side Hypothesis. Meanwhile another storm was brewing. On March 1, 1989, an Albuquerqueufologist, Robert Hastings, issued a 13-page statement, with 37 pages of appended documents, and mailed it to many of ufology's most prominent individuals. Hastings opened with these remarks:  "First, it has been established that 'Falcon,' one of the principle[sic] sources of the MJ-12 material, is  Richard C. Doty, formerly attached to District 17 Air Force Office of Special Investigations(AFOSI) at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sgt. Doty retired from the U.S. Air Force on October 1, 1988. "How do I know that Doty is 'Falcon?” During a recent telephone conversation, Linda Moulton Howe told me that when Sgt. Doty invited her to his office at Kirtland AFB in early April 1983, and showed her a purportedly authentic U.S. government document on UFOs, he identified himself as code-name 'Falcon' and stated that it was Bill Moore who had given him that name."Also, in  early December 1988, a ranking member of the productionteam responsible for the 'UFO Cover Up?-Live' television documentary confirmed that Doty is 'Falcon.' This same individual also identified the second MJ-12 source who appeared on the program, 'Condor' as RobertCollins who was until recently, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. LikeDoty, he was stationed at KAFB when he left the service late last year." (Collins, a scientist, was assigned to the plasma physics group at Sandia National Laboratories on the Kirtland Air Force Base. Following his retirement he moved to Indiana and remains actively interested in UFOs.) Hastings reviewed evidence of Doty's involvement in the concoction of various questionable documents and stories, including the Ellsworth tale and the Weitzel affair. He also noted important discrepancies between the paper Howe saw and the MJ-12 briefing document. For example, while the first mentioned the alleged Aztec crash, the second said nothing about it at all. Hastings wondered, "[I]f the briefing paper that Sgt. Doty showed to Linda Howe was genuine, what does that say about the accuracy (and authenticity) of the Eisenhower document? If, on the other hand, the former was bogus and was meant to mislead Howe for some reason, what does that say about Richard 'Falcon'   Doty's reliability as a source for MJ-12 material as a whole?" (Hastings,1989). Hastings also had much critical to say aboutMoore, especially about an incident in which Moore had flashed a badge in front of ufologist/cover-up investigator Lee Graham and indicated  he was working with the government on a project to release UFO  information. (Moore would characterize this as a misguided practical joke.)Both Moore and Doty denied that the latter was Falcon. They claimed  Doty had been given that pseudonym long after the 1983 meeting with Howe. Howe, however stuck by her account. Moore and Doty said the real Falcon, an older man than Doty had been in the studio audience as the video of his interview was being broadcast on UFO Cover-up.  .  . Live. Doty himself was in  New Mexico training with the state police. Moore's Confession: By  mid-1989 the two most controversial figures inufology were Moore and Lear. Moore's MUFON lecture on July 1 did nothing to quiet his legion of critics. On his arrival in Las Vegas, Moore checked into a different hotel from the one at which the conference was being held. He already had refused to submit his paper for publication in the symposium proceedings, so no one knew what he would say. He had also stipulated that he would accept no questions from the floor. Moore's speech stunned and angered much of the audience. At one point   the shouts and jeers of Lear's partisans brought proceedings to a halt until order was restored. Moore finished and exited immediately. He left Las Vegas not long afterwards.  In his lecture Moore spoke candidly, for the first time, of his part in the counterintelligence operation against Bennewitz. "My role in the affair," he said, "was largely that of a freelancer providing information on Paul's current thinking and activities." Doty, "faithfully carrying out orders which he personally found distasteful," was one of those involved in the effort to confuse and discredit Bennewitz. Because of his success at this effort, Moore suggested, Doty was chosen by the real "Falcon" as "liaison person, although Ireally don't know. Frankly, I don't believe that Doty does either. In my opinion he was simply a pawn in a much larger game, just as I was."  From disinformation passed on by AFOSI sources, and his own observations and guesses, according to Moore, "by  mid-1982" Bennewitz had put together a story that "contained virtually all of the  elements  found in the current crop of rumors being circulated around the UFO community." Moore was referring to the outlandish tales Lear and Cooper were telling. Moore said that "when I first ran into the disinformation operation . . .  being run on Bennewitz . . . it seemed to me I was in a rather unique position. There I was with my foot in the door of a secret counterintelligence game that gave every appearance of being  somehow directly connected to a high-level government UFO project, and, judging by the positions of the people I knew to be directly involved with it, definitely had something to do with national security! There was no way I was going to allow the opportunity to pass me by without learning at least something about what was going on.. . . I would play the disinformation game, get my hands dirty just often enough to lead those directing the process into believing that Iwas doing exactly what they wanted me to do, and all the while continue to burrow my way into the matrix so as to learn as much as possible  about who was directing it and why." Some of the same people who were passing alleged UFO secrets on to Moore were also involved in the operation against Bennewitz. Moore knew that some of the material he was getting--essentially a mild version of the Bennewitz scenario, without the horror, paranoia and conspiracy--was false, but he (along with Jaime Shandera and Stanton Friedman, to whom he confided the cover-up story in June 1982; Friedman, however, would not learn of Moore's role in the Bennewitz episode until seven years later) felt that some of it was probably true, since an invariable characteristic  of disinformation is that it contains some facts. Moore also said that Linda Howe had been the victim of one of Doty's disinformation operations. To be continued……………..