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 … Read more
Plot and Counterplot Bennewitz gleaned some of his background information, including photographs, from a USAF intelligence operative named Richard Doty, who was probably engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at Bennewitz, to encourage claims that could be easily refuted. (Doty also led documentary filmmaker Linda Moultin Howe astray in 1983, promising her access to an … Read more
Horror in New Mexico Some observers cite the mid-1960s as the period when the National Security Agency (NSA) initiated secret contact with extraterrestrials. During the 1970s, Paul Bennewitz, a New Mexico businessman who had studied physics, aggressively argued for this idea, claiming that NSA perfidy allowed aliens to impose secret agendas on humans, via electromagnetic … Read more
Conspiracies and Cover-Ups The Government Tells Lies, Earth Is Hollow, the Men in Black Are Here—and Guess Who Killed Marilyn Monroe? Conspiracy proponent and radio host Alex Jones has said, “No one is safe, do you understand that? Pure evil is running wild everywhere at the highest levels.” Jones’s interests encompass the Twin Towers disaster … Read more
Ten Notable Police Run-ins with UFOs The Lonnie Zamora case is the most dramatic and extravagantly studied of all UFO encounters involving peace officers. A touchstone of UFO studies, it is just one of many eye-opening accounts offered by law enforcement personnel. 1. August 13, 1960 Stan Scott and Charles Carson, two CHiPs officers on … Read more
UFOs vs. Law Enforcement As first responders, members of law enforcement are frequently involved in UFO incidents: investigating reports at the behest of local governments or military, taking down witness accounts, and scrutinizing apparent accidents or other anomalous physical conditions that may be linked to unidentified flying objects. Officers’ physical encounters with UFOs carry special … Read more
Gordo Gets an Eyeful U.S. aerospace engineer, Air Force test pilot, and astronaut Gordon “Gordo” Cooper went into space twice, as one of the original “Mercury 7” astronauts (1963) and as part of the Gemini project in 1965. Contrary to a long-standing erroneous assumption by some UFOlogists, Cooper did not witness UFOs during his space … Read more
Fear Under Pressure “Hard” UFO evidence—things that can be touched and held—is scarce in the world of UFOlogy. Imagine the excitement, then, generated by a man named Bob White. While in Colorado near the Utah border in 1985, White observed as a UFO ejected a 7.5-inch metallic piece—thick and bulbous at one end, and tapered … Read more
Circus Meanwhile, Woodward Derenberger pursued his own story. UFOlogists Gray Barker and John Keel were among Derenberger’s supporters, and in 1971, he collaborated with Harold W. Hubbard on a book, Visitors from Lanulos. Derenberger’s account inspired The Mothman Prophecies, a 1975 book by Keel, a popular writer who regarded UFOs as manifestations of ancient gods, … Read more
Mothman Animals are prominent in an intriguing subset of encounters. Witnesses have reported the unexpected presence of deer, wolves, ravens, owls, butterflies, and bees. Animals that roam well beyond their usual habitat, such as black panthers seen near certain North American UFO encounters, are not uncommon. Are these familiar creatures attracted to something in UFO … Read more
