For what is certainly a picturesque area on the map, the New Mexican town of Dulce—located in the north of the county in Rio Arriba County—is steeped in mystery.
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For what is certainly a picturesque area on the map, the New Mexican town of Dulce—located in the northern Rio Arriba County—is steeped in mystery. It’s also home to around several thousand people and has a square mileage of barely thirteen. Its origins date back to the nineteenth century. It’s not what goes on at Dulce that concerns us here, though. Rather, it’s what is said to be going on far below the town—in myriad tunnels, caverns, caves, and hollowed-out chambers that are all said to be where untold numbers of dangerous and hostile aliens live.
Even worse, the U.S. government has had the fear of God (or of the aliens) put in them to such an extent that they dare not descend into that deadly, dark realm far below Dulce’s huge Archuleta Mesa.
Today, tales of underground bases—in which nefarious experimentation is widespread—are all over the Internet. Just type “Underground Base + UFOs” into any search engine, and you’ll find an endless array of tales of the controversial kind; they are overflowing with paranoia and tales of menace. Such tales were far less told in the 1970s, which is when the Dulce stories began to surface, specifically in the latter part of the decade.
What makes the Dulce story so notable is that the initial rumors about the vast alien facility miles below ground level came not from wide-eyed conspiracy theorists but from a number of people who worked deep in the clandestine worlds of counterintelligence and disinformation. The latter is described as “false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth,” while counterintelligence is defined as “organized activity of an intelligence service designed to block an enemy’s sources of information, to deceive the enemy, to prevent sabotage, and to gather political and military information.” In other words, we’re talking about spies, secret agents, lies that might be truths, and truths that might be lies.
As for the Dulce story, it suggests that when a violent, deadly altercation occurred in the Dulce base at some point in 1979, the U.S. military—along with numerous scientists and engineers—were forced to flee for their lives. What had begun as a fairly amicable arrangement between the aliens of the black-eyed “Gray” type and the government team was now over. Irreversibly so. The Dulce base was now in the hands of a band of extraterrestrials who were done with the human race. This, you won’t fail to note, is very similar to the story told to Bob Lazar in the latter part of 1988 but that in the scenario given to him, it was at S- 4, rather than at Dulce, where the deadly confrontation occurred. Unless both stories are true (which is unlikely because they are almost identical in nature), then it is highly likely that somewhere, deceit was at work.
Back in the 1970s, Paul Bennewitz—who died in 2003 in Albuquerque, New Mexico—had his own company that stood adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base. Its name was Thunder Scientific. All was good, as Bennewitz had a number of good contracts with the military, and living and working so close to the base made things comfortable and handy for Bennewitz. It was the perfect relationship. Until, that is, it wasn’t. In shockingly quick time, Bennewitz’s life began to fragment in chaotic fashion, but how and why did such a thing happen?
It’s important to note that by the late 1970s, Bennewitz had been interested in UFOs not just for years but for decades. He had a large library of books and subscribed to a number of newsletters and magazines on the subject. On occasion, Bennewitz had seen—late at night and in the early hours of the morning—strange, unidentified objects flying over Kirtland Air Force Base and the nearby, huge Manzano Mountains. They could have been early, dronelike craft being tested secretly, but for Bennewitz, they were alien craft. Bennewitz’s head spun: he came to believe that aliens were in league with the U.S. Air Force and that much of the secret program was run out of Kirtland.
He shared his views with the staff at Kirtland, the CIA, the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, his senator, his congressmen, and just about anyone and everyone in a position of power and influence. It was all but inevitable that by firing off lengthy letters about a secret alien–human operation at Kirtland, someone would take notice. That’s exactly what they did. While one school of thought suggests that Bennewitz was indeed tracking the movements of UFOs in the skies over Kirtland, another suggests that Bennewitz had actually stumbled on test flights of new and radical aircraft of the aforementioned drone kind.
In the latter scenario, the government (as a collective term for all of those agencies and individuals that Bennewitz approached) decided to first politely, but quietly, request that Bennewitz bring his research to a halt. This was like a red rag to a bull. Bennewitz would hear none of it. He was primed and ready to go after the U.S. government and to confirm what he saw as the dark and sinister truth of Uncle Sam’s liaisons with aliens. One man against the government? It was clear who was going to win, although Bennewitz couldn’t envisage such a thing at all.