Rebellion
A poorly armed uprising of captive humans and rebel reptilian workers (green, rather than the white or beige varieties) at Dulce was crushed by American Delta Force troops working with the Draco; some sixty rebels died in the fight. As with the dates of Castello’s employment at Dulce Base, the date of this uprising is impossible to pin down, though Philip Schneider, an American explosives engineer who claims to have worked at the base, gives the date as 1979.
Unfortunately, Schneider cannot elaborate because he is said to have committed suicide.
In the late 1980s, a UK UFO-research group, Quest International, revealed the so-called Dulce Papers, which discuss the science and biology behind the Dulce disc and breeding programs. Included with the papers were about two dozen black-and-white photographs of the base interior, and a silent, six-minute videotaped “tour” of the facility.
Thomas Edwin Castello disappeared shortly after the appearance of the Dulce Papers. Some Dulce theorists claim he was murdered by the U.S. government; others claim that Castello went into hiding alone, without his immediate family, all of whom were killed. One UFO chat forum, alien-ufos.com, reports that Castello was alive in 2009, but had terminal cancer, and likely died sometime during 2010–2011.
Bennewitz’s Dulce Base account has outlived him, and enjoys some life in pop culture. In “Dukakis and the Aliens,” a 1992 alternate-history short story by Robert Sheckley, President Michael Dukakis has special interest in Dulce because Dukakis is an alien. (That may explain the ineptitude of Dukakis’s real- world 1988 presidential campaign.) Elements of the fictional television series V (1984–85 and 2009) reflected (according to some sources) elements of the Dulce story. Colony, a 2016 series produced by USA Network, is predicated on human cooperation with ETs.
The Dulce story has received lightweight coverage on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura; Ancient Aliens; Unsealed: Alien Files; and other cable-TV infotainment programs. An April 2014 Huffington Post article about the purported rebellion and massacre, did not regard the rebellion, the public disclosure, or much else about Dulce Base with seriousness. The piece is cheekily titled “That Time Subterranean Aliens Killed 60 People in New Mexico.” The unnamed writer closes the article with this: “The truth is out there . . . or is it? It is. Maybe. But, probably not. Or it could be.”
Incident at Rendlesham Forest
Today, nearly forty years after the incident, this is the official stance of Britain’s Ministry of Defence:
No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out. No further information has come to light which alters our view that the sightings of these lights was of no defence significance.
And so the MoD writes off “Britain’s Roswell,” the December 26–27 and 28, 1980, sightings that, in the minds of many, resist easy explanation.
