The fact that the data was all coming to him from verifiable insider sources impressed Bennewitz and led him to believe their every word.…
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
In ingenious fashion—but from the perspective of Bennewitz, in terrible fashion—a plot was initiated to, in essence, give Bennewitz exactly what he wanted to hear, so well-placed government agents, intelligence operatives, and experts in the fields of counterintelligence and disinformation all fed Bennewitz fictitious tales of dangerous E.T.s, of thousands of people abducted and mind controlled in slavelike fashion by the aliens, of terrible experiments undertaken on people held below the Dulce base, and of a looming confrontation between the human race and the deadly creatures from another galaxy.
The fact that the data was all coming to him from verifiable insider sources impressed Bennewitz and led him to believe their every word—which is precisely what the government was gambling on. The government then tightened the noose even more around Bennewitz’s neck: they fed him more and more horror stories of the alien variety, and slowly and bit by bit, Bennewitz’s paranoia grew. If anyone walked casually past the family home, they just had to be government agents. If the phone rang but stopped ringing before he had a chance to get to it, then that was a sign of intimidation from them. He couldn’t sleep, he became stressed to the point where he required medication, and eventually, he had a nervous collapse and was hospitalized. The result: he walked away from UFOs, secret projects, and cosmic conspiracies as a crushed man, which may well have been the intent of the government, anyway.
Although the saga of Paul Bennewitz began in the latter part of the 1970s and was pretty much over by the early to mid-1980s, the story of the Dulce base developed legs. They are legs that still walk to this very day primarily because so many people within ufology find the tales of the underground base exciting— it really is that simple—and the government has—to a degree—continued to encourage the wilder and darker side of ufology as a means to further darken the waters of what it is really up to when it comes to new and advanced aircraft that many might perceive as UFOs. That said, though, some people absolutely stand by the claims that a huge, underground installation exists below Dulce. In many respects, the newer tales are even stranger and more horrifying than those that Bennewitz had shoved down his throat in the early eighties.
Admittedly, it’s intriguing to note that Dulce is indeed saturated in weirdness—some of which occurred years before Bennewitz was on the scene. More than a decade before Bennewitz came to believe that the awful rumors of Dulce were true, the U.S. government already had a stake in the area.
A contingent from the Atomic Energy Commission rode into town and set up what was called Project Gasbuggy. It was a subproject of a much bigger project called Plowshare. The plan was to detonate—way below Dulce—a small nuclear device as a means to try to extract natural gas. The operation went ahead on December 10, 1967—and it worked all too well. The bomb was detonated at a depth of more than four thousand feet.
Years later, however, researchers suggested that the natural gas scenario was a cover for something else. You may already see where this is all going. Ufology enduringly believes that the nuke was actually used by a panicked government to try to wipe out the alien base, and the extraterrestrials are said to live deep within it. Even to this day, it is illegal to dig in the area on the orders of the Atomic Energy Commission—the AEC having deep ties to Area 51.
Moving on, from 1975 to 1979, the town of Dulce was hit by numerous cattle mutilations: black helicopters soared across the skies of town by night— sometimes, incredibly, silently. Strange lights were seen flitting around Dulce’s huge Archuleta Mesa. Cows were found with organs removed and blood drained from their corpses.
The incisions looked as if they were the work of lasers. For those who might find all of this to be just too incredible, it’s worth noting that the FBI was heavily involved in the investigation of the mutilations at Dulce and has now placed its files on the mystery on its website, The Vault. It’s a file that reads like science fiction and runs to more than one hundred pages and, as we have seen, strong evidence exists that the silent, black helicopters had their origins at Area 51.
In the post-Bennewitz era, other figures came forward with their very own tales of Dulce and its subterranean nightmare. Whether they were telling the truth or were fed lies and disinformation by government agents is very much open to interpretation.