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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 353
Tuesday, January 29th 1991
Today's Topics:
EBE #6
EBE #7
EBE #8
EBE #9
EBE #10
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From: Michael.Corbin@f9.n310.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: EBE #6
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:07:00 GMT
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"I have reason to beleive [sic] OSI is conducting a very secret
investigation into UFO sightings. OSI took over when Project Blue
Book was closed. I was told this by my commander, COL Bruce
Purvine. COL Purvine also told me that the investigation was so
secret that most employees of OSI doesn't [sic] even know it. But
COL Purvine told me that Kirtland AFB, AFOSI District 17 has a
special secret detachment that investigates sightings around this
area. They have also investigated the cattle mutilations in New
Mexico."
In 1985 investigator Benton Jamison located Craig Weitzel, who
confirmed that he had indeed seen a UFO in 1980 and reported it
to Sgt. Doty. But his sighting, while interesting, was rather
less dramatic than the CE3 reported in the letter; Weitzel saw a
silver-colored object some 10,000 to 15,000 feet overhead. After
maneuvering for a few minutes, he told Jamison, it "accelerated
like you never saw anything accelerate before" (Hastings, 1985).
He also said he knew nothing of a meeting with anyone identified
as "Mr. Huck."
In December 1982, in response to a Freedom of Information
request from Barry Greenwood of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
(CAUS), Air Force Office of Special Investigations released a
two page OSI Complaint Form stamped "For Official Use Only."
Dated September 8, 1980, it was titled "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug-3
Sept 80, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in
Restricted Test Range." The document described several sightings
of UFOs in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, at the Coyote Canyon
section of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range. One
of the reports cited was a New Mexico State Patrolman's August 10
observation of a UFO landing. (A later check with state police
sources by Larry Fawcett, a Connecticut police officer and UFO
investigator, uncovered no record of such a report. The sources
asserted that the absence of a report could only mean that no
such incident had ever happened.) This intriguing document is
signed by then OSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty.
In 1987, after comparing three documents (the anonymous letter
to APRO, the September 8, 1980, AFOSI Complaint Form, and a
purported AFOSI document dated August 14, 1980, and claiming
"frequency jamming" by UFOs in the Kirtland area), researcher
Brad Sparks concluded that Doty had written all three. In 1989
Moore confirmed that Doty had written the letter to APRO.
"Essentially it was 'bait,'" he says. "AFOSI knew that Bennewitz
had close ties with APRO at the time, and they were interested in
recruiting someone within . . . APRO . . . who would be in a
position to provide them with feedback on Bennewitz'[s]
activities and communications. Since I was the APRO Board member
in charge of Special Investigations in 1980, the Weitzel letter
was passed to me for action shortly after it had been received."
According to Bruce Maccabee, Doty admitted privately that he had
written the Ellsworth AFB document, basing it on a real incident
which he wanted to bring to public attention. Doty has made no
public comment on any of these allegations. Moore says Doty "was
almost certainly a part of [the Ellsworth report], but not in a
capacity where he would have been responsible for creating the
documents involved" (Moore, 1989a).
Doty was also the source of an alleged AFOSI communication dated
November 17, 1980, and destined to become known as the "Aquarius
document." Allegedly sent from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB
in Washington, D.C., to the AFOSI District 17 office at Kirtland,
it mentions, in brief and cryptic form, analyses of negatives
from a UFO film apparently taken the previous month. The version
that circulated through the UFO community states in its
penultimate paragraph: "USAF NO LONGER PUBLICLY ACTIVE IN UFO
RESEARCH, HOWEVER USAF STILL HAS INTEREST IN ALL UFO SIGHTINGS
OVER USAF INSTALLATION/TEST RANGES. SEVERAL OTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES, LED BY NASA, ACTIVELY INVESTIGATES [sic] LEGITIMATE
SIGHTINGS THROUGH COVERT COVER.... ONE SUCH COVER IS UFO
REPORTING CENTER, US COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, ROCKVILLE, MD
20852, NASA FILTERS RESULTS OF SIGHTINGS TO APPROPRIATE MILITARY
DEPARTMENTS WITH INTEREST IN THAT PARTICULAR SIGHTING. THE
OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT POLICY AND RESULTS OF PROJECT AQUARIUS IS
[sic] STILL CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET WITH NO DISEMINATION [sic]
OUTSIDE OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS AND WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS
TO 'MJ TWELVE'."
This is the first mention of "MJ-12" in an allegedly official
government document. Moore describes it as an "example of some of
the disinformation produced in connection with the Bennewitz
case. The document is a retyped version of a real AFOSI message
with a few spurious additions." Among the most significant
additions, by Moore's account, are the bogus references to the
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and to NASA, which he says was NSA
(National Security Agency) in the original.
According to Moore, Doty got the document "right off the
teletype" (Moore, 1990) and showed it to Moore almost
immediately. Later Doty came by with what purported to be a copy
of it, but Moore noticed that it was not exactly the same;
material had been added to it. Doty said he wanted Moore to give
the doctored copy to Bennewitz. Reluctant to involve himself in
the passing of this dubious document, Moore sat on it for a
while, then finally worried that the sources he was developing,
the ones who were telling him about the U.S. government's alleged
interactions with EBEs, would dry up if he did not cooperate. So
eventually he gave the document to Bennewitz but urged him not to
publicize it. Bennewitz agreed and kept his promise.
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From: Michael.Corbin@f9.n310.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: EBE #7
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:08:00 GMT
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As of September 1982 Moore knew of three copies of the document:
the one Bennewitz had, one Moore had in safekeeping, and one he
had in his briefcase during a trip he made that month to meet
someone in San Francisco. He met the man in the morning and that
afternoon someone broke into his car and stole his briefcase.
Four months later a copy of the document showed up in the hands
of a New York lawyer interested in UFOs, and soon the document
was circulating widely. Moore himself had little to say on the
subject until he delivered a controversial and explosive speech
to the annual conference of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Las
Vegas in 1989.
In late 1982, "during," he says, "one of the many friendly
conversations I had with Richard Doty," Moore mentioned that he
was looking into the old (and seemingly discredited) story that a
UFO had crashed in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. This tale was the
subject of Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.
(Moore's long account of his investigation into the affair, which
he found to be an elaborate hoax, would appear in the 1985 MUFON
symposium proceedings.) Doty said he had never heard the story
and asked for details, taking notes as Moore spoke.
On January 10 and 11, 1983, attorney Peter Gersten, director of
CAUS, met with Doty in New Mexico. There were two meetings, the
first of them also attended by Moore and San Francisco television
producer Ron Lakis, the second by Gersten alone. During the first
meeting Doty was guarded in his remarks. But at the second he
spoke openly about what ostensibly were extraordinary secrets. He
said the Ellsworth case was the subject of an investigation by
AFOSI and the FBI; nuclear weapons were involved. The National
Enquirer investigation, which had concluded the story was bogus,
was "amateurish." At least two civilians, a farmer and a deputy
sheriff, had been involved, but were warned not to talk. The
government knows why UFOs appear in certain places, Doty said,
but he would not elaborate. He added, however, that "beyond a
shadow of a doubt they're extraterrestrial" (Greenwood, 1988) and
from 50 light years from the earth. He knew of at least three UFO
crashes, the Roswell incident and two others, one from the 1950s,
the other from the 196Os. Bodies had been recovered. A
spectacular incident, much like the one depicted in the ending of
the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, took place in 1966
The NSA was involved in communications with extraterrestrials;
the effort is called Project Aquarius. Inside the UFO
organizations government moles are collecting information and
spreading disinformation. Doty discussed the Aquarius document
and said the really important documents are impossible to get out
of the appropriate files. Some are protected in such a way that
they will disintegrate within five seconds' exposure to air.
These documents tell of agreements between the U.S. government
and extraterrestrials under which the latter are free to conduct
animal mutilations (especially of cattle) and to land at a
certain base, in exchange for information about advanced UFO
technology. Doty also claimed that via popular entertainment the
American people are being prepared to accept the reality of
visitation by benevolent beings from other worlds.
At one point in the conversation Doty asked Gersten, "How do you
know that I'm not here to either give you misinformation or to
give you information which is part of the programming, knowing
you are going to go out and spread it around?" (Howe, 1989).
In the 1970s, as director of special projects for the Denver
CBS-TV affiliate, Linda Moulton Howe had produced 12
documentaries, most of them dealing with scientific,
environmental and health issues. But the one that attracted the
most attention was Strange Harvest, which dealt with the then-
widespread reports that cattle in Western and Midwestern states
were being killed and mutilated by persons or forces unknown.
Most veterinary pathologists said the animals were dying of
unknown causes. Farmers, ranchers and some law-enforcement
officers thought the deaths were mysterious. Some even speculated
that extraterrestrials were responsible. This possibility
intrigued Howe, who had a lifelong interest in UFOs, and Strange
Harvest argues for a UFO mutilation link.
In the fall of 1982, as Howe was working on a documentary on an
unrelated matter, she got a call from Home Box Office (HBO). The
caller said the HBO people had been impressed with Strange
Harvest and wanted to know if Howe would do a film on UFOs. In
March 1983 she went to New York to sign a contract with HBO for a
show to be titled UFOs-The ET Factor.
The evening before her meeting with the HBO people, Howe had
dinner with Gersten and science writer Patrick Huyghe. Gersten
told Howe that he had met with Sgt. Doty, an AFOSI agent at
Kirtland AFB, and perhaps Doty would be willing to talk on camera
or in some other helpful capacity about the incident at
Ellsworth. Gersten would call him and ask if he would be willing
to meet with Howe.
Subsequently arrangements were made for Howe to fly to
Albuquerque on April 9. Doty would meet her at the airport. But
when she arrived that morning, no one was waiting. She called his
home. A small boy answered and said his father was not there.
Howe then phoned Jerry Miller, Chief of Reality Weapons Testing
at Kirtland and a former Blue Book investigator. (He is mentioned
in the October 28, 1980, "Multipurpose Internal OSI Form"
reporting on Doty and Miller's meeting with Bennewitz.) She knew
Miller from an earlier telephone conversation, when she had
called to ask him about Bennewitz's claims, in which she had a
considerable interest. Miller asked for a copy of Strange
Harvest. Later he had given Howe his home phone number and said
to contact him if she ever found herself in Albuquerque. So she
called and asked if he would pick her up at the airport.
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Subject: EBE #8
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:13:00 GMT
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Miller drove Howe to his house. On the way Howe asked him a
number of questions but got little in the way of answers. One
question he did not answer was whether he is the "Miller"
mentioned in the Aquarius document. When they got to Miller's
residence, Miller called Doty at his home, and Doty arrived a few
minutes later, responding aggressively to Howe's question about
where he had been. He claimed to have been at the airport all
along; where had she been? "Perhaps," Howe would write, "he had
decided he didn't want to go through with the meeting, and it was
acceptable in his world to leave me stranded at the airport-until
Jerry Miller called his house" (Howe, 1989).
On the way to Kirtland, Howe asked Doty, whose manner remained
both defiant and nervous, if he knew anything about the Holloman
landing. Doty said it happened but that Robert Emenegger had the
date wrong; it was not May 1971 but April 25, 1964-12 Hours after
a much-publicized CE3 reported by Socorro, New Mexico, policeman
Lonnie Zamora. (Zamora said he had seen an egg-shaped object on
the ground. Standing near it were two child-sized beings in white
suits.) Military and scientific personnel at the base knew a
landing was coming, but "someone blew the time and coordinates"
and an "advance military scout ship" had come down at the wrong
time and place, to be observed by Zamora. When three UFOs
appeared at Holloman at six o'clock the following morning, one
landed while the other two hovered overhead. During the meeting
between the UFO beings and a government party, the preserved
bodies of dead aliens had been given to the aliens , who in turn
had returned something unspecified. Five ground and aerial
cameras recorded this event.
At the Kirtland gate Doty waved to the guard and was let
through. They went to a small white and gray building. Doty took
her to what he described as "my - boss' office." Doty seemed
unwilling to discuss the Ellsworth case, the ostensible reason
for the interview, but had much to say about other matters. First
he asked Howe to move from the chair on which she was sitting to
another in the middle of the room. Howe surmised that this was to
facilitate the surreptitious recording of their conversation, but
Doty said only, "Eyes can see through windows."
"My superiors have asked me to show you this," he said. He
produced a brown envelope he had taken from a drawer in the desk
at which he was sitting and withdrew several sheets of white
paper. As he handed them to Howe, he warned her that they could
not be copied; all she could do was read them in his presence and
ask questions.
The document gave no indication anywhere as to which government,
military or scientific agency (if any) had prepared the report,
titled A Briefing Paper for the President of the United States on
the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The title did not
specify which President it had in mind, nor did the document list
a date (so far as Howe recalls today) which would have linked it
to a particular administration.
The first paragraph, written--as was everything that followed--
in what Howe characterizes as "dry bureaucratese," listed dates
and locations of crashes and retrievals of UFOs and their
occupants. The latter were invariably described as 3 1/2 to four
feet tall, gray-skinned and hairless, with oversized heads, large
eyes and no noses. It was now known, the document stated on a
subsequent page, that these beings, from a nearby solar system,
have been here for many thousands of years. Through genetic
manipulation they influenced the course of human evolution and in
a sense created us. They had also helped shape our religious
beliefs.
The July 1947 Roswell crash was mentioned; so, however, was
another one at Roswell in 1949. Investigators at the site found
five bodies and one living alien, who was taken to a safe house
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory north of Albuquerque. The
aliens, small gray-skinned humanoids, were known as
"extraterrestrial biological entities" and the living one was
called "EBE" (ee-buh). EBE was befriended (if that was the word)
by an Air Force officer, but the being died of unknown causes on
June 18, 1952. (EBE's friend, by 1964 a colonel, was among those
who were there to greet the aliens who landed at Holloman.)
Subsequently, it would be referred to as EBE-1, since in later
years another such being, EBE-2, would take up residence in a
safe house. After that, a third, EBE-3, appeared on the scene and
was now living in secret at an American base.
The briefing paper said other crashes had occurred one near
Kingman, Arizona, another just south of Texas in northern Mexico.
It also mentioned the Aztec crash- The wreckage and bodies had
been removed to such facilities as Los Alamos laboratory and
Wright-Patterson AFB. A number of highly classified projects
dealt with these materials. They included Snowbird (research and
development from the study of an intact spacecraft left by the
aliens as a gift) and Aquarius (the umbrella operation under
which the research and contact efforts were coordinated). Project
Sigma was the ongoing electronic communications effort. There was
also a defunct project Garnet, intended to investigate
extraterrestrial influence on human evolution. According to the
document, extraterrestrials have appeared at various intervals in
human history-25,000, 15,000, 5000 and 2500 years ago as well as
now--to manipulate human and other DNA.
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Subject: EBE #9
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:13:00 GMT
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One paragraph stated briefly, "Two thousand years ago
extraterrestrials created a being" who was placed here to teach
peace and love. Elsewhere a passing mention was made of another
group of EBEs, called the "Talls."
The paper said Project Blue Book had existed solely to take heat
off the Air Force and to draw attention away from the real
projects. Doty mentioned an "MJ-12," explaining that "MJ" stood
for "Majority." It was a policy-making body whose membership
consisted of 12 very high-ranking government scientists, military
officers and intelligence officials. These were the men who made
the decisions governing the cover-up and the contacts.
Doty said Howe would be given thousands of feet of film of
crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1 and the Holloman landing and
meeting. She could use this material in her documentary to tell
the story of how U.S. officials learned that the earth is being
visited and what they have done about it. "We want you to do the
film," Howe quotes him as saying.
When Howe asked why she, not the New York Times, the Washington
Post or 60 Minutes, was getting this, the story of the
millennium, Doty replied bluntly that an individual media person
is easier to manipulate and discredit than a major organization
with expensive attorneys. He said that another plan to release
the information, through Emenegger and Sandler, had been halted
because political conditions were not right.
Over the next weeks Howe had a number of phone conversations
with Doty, mostly about technical problems related to converting
old film to videotape. She spoke on several occasions with three
other men but did not meet them personally.
Doty suggested that eventually she might be allowed to film an
interview with EBE-3. But the current film project was to have a
historical emphasis; it would deal with events between 1949 and
1964. If at some point she did meet EBE-3, however, there was no
way she could prepare herself for the "shock and fear" of meeting
an alien being.
Howe, of course, had informed her HBO contacts, Jean Abounader
and her superior Bridgett Potter, of these extraordinary
developments. Howe urged them to prepare themselves, legally and
otherwise, for the repercussions that would surely follow the
release of the film. The HBO people told her she would have to
secure a letter of intent from the U.S. government with a
legally-binding commitment to release the promised film footage.
When Howe called Doty about it, he said, "I'll work on it." He
said he would mail the letter directly to HBO.
Then HBO told her it would not authorize funds for the film
production until all the evidence was in hand and, as Potter put
it, Howe had the "President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
State and Joint Chiefs of Staff to back it up" (Howe, 1989). But
proceed anyway, Howe was told. Now she was furious at both HBO
and Doty.
When she called him at the base, he remarked that he had good
news and bad news. She and a small crew would soon be able to
interview the retired colonel (then a captain) who had spent
three years with EBE-1. The bad news was that it would be three
months before the thousands of feet of film of EBE-1 and the
Holloman landing/contact would be available. Meanwhile, before
she could screen the footage, Howe would have to sign three
security oaths and undergo a background check. She would also
have to supply photographs of all the technical assistants who
would accompany her to the interview.
The interview was repeatedly set up and canceled. Then in June
Doty called to say he was officially out of the project. This was
a blow because Doty was the only one she could call. She did not
know how to get in touch with the others and always had to wait
for them to contact her.
By October the contacts had decreased. The same month her
contract with HBO expired. All she had was the name of the
Washington contact. In March 1984 this individual called her
office three times, although she was out of town working on a
non-UFO story at the time. "Upon returning home," she writes, "I
learned the man was contacting me to explain there would be
further delays in the film project after the November 1984
election" (Howe, 1989).
For Howe that was the end of the matter, except for a brief
sequel. On March 5, 1988, Doty wrote ufologist Larry W. Bryant,
who had unsuccessfully sought access to Doty's military records
through the Freedom of Information Act, and denied that he had
ever discussed government UFO secrets or promised footage of
crashed discs, bodies and live EBEs. Howe responded by making a
sworn statement about the meeting an producing copies of her
correspondence from the period with both Doty and HBO.
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Date: 25 Jan 91 21:14:00 GMT
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In 1989 Moore said that "in early 1983 I became aware that Rick
[Doty] was involved with a team of several others, including one
fellow from Denver that I knew of and at least one who was
working out of Washington, D.C., in playing an elaborate
disinformation scheme against a prominent UfO researcher who, at
the time, had close connections with a major television film
company interested in doing a UFO documentary." He was referring
to Howe, of course. The episode was a counterintelligence sting
operation, part of the "wall of disinformation" intended to
"confuse" the Bennewitz issue and to "call his credibility into
question." Because of Howe's interest in Bennewitz's work,
according to Moore, "certain elements within the intelligence
community were concerned that the story of his having intercepted
low frequency electromagnetic emissions from the Coyote Canyon
area of the Kirtland/Sandia complex would end up as part of a
feature film. Since this in turn might influence others (possibly
even the Russians) to attempt similar experiments, someone in a
control position apparently felt it had to be stopped before it
got out of hand." In his observation, Moore said, "the government
seemed hell bent on severing the ties that existed between [Howe]
and [HBO]" (Moore, 1989b).
Doty's assertion that Howe had misrepresented their meeting was
not to be taken seriously, according to Moore, since Doty was
bound by a security oath and could not discuss the matter freely
Moore said that the Aztec crash, known beyond reasonable doubt
never to have occurred, was something Doty had added to the
document after learning from Moore of his recent investigation of
the hoax.
In December 1984, in the midst of continuing contact with their
own sources (Doty and a number of others) who claimed to be
leaking the secret of the cover-up, Moore's associate Jaime
Shandera received a roll of 35mm film containing, it turned out
what purported to be a briefing paper dated November 18, 1952,
and intended for president-elect Eisenhower. The purported
author, Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, reported that an "Operation
Majestic-12," consisting of a dozen top scientists, military
officers and intelligence specialists, had been set up by
presidential order on September 24, 1947, to study the Roswell
remains and the four humanoid bodies that had been recovered
nearby. The document report that the team directed by MJ12 member
and physiologist Detlev Bronk "has suggested the term 'Extra-
terrestrial Biological Entities', or 'EBEs', be adopted as the
standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as
a more definitive designation can be agreed upon." Brief mention
is also made of a December 6, 1950, crash along the Texas-Mexico
border. Nothing is said, however, about live aliens or
communications with them.
In July 1985 Moore and Shandera, acting on tips from their
sources, traveled to Washington and spent a few days going
through recently declassified documents in Record Group 341,
including Top Secret Air Force intelligence files from USAF
Headquarters. In the 126th box whose contents they examined, they
found a brief memo dated July 14, 1954, from Robert Cutler,
Special Assistant to the President, to Gen. Nathan Twining. It
says "The president has decided that the MJ-12/SSP [Special
Studies Project] briefing should take place during the already
scheduled White House meeting of July 16 rather than following it
as previously intended. More precise arrangements will be
explained to you upon your arrival. Your concurrence in the above
change of arrangements is assumed" (Friedman, 1987).
The Cutler/Twining memo, as it would be called in the
controversies that erupted after Moore released the MJ-12
document to the world in the spring of 1987, is the only official
document-not to be confused with such disputed ones as the
November 17, 1980, Aquarius document-to mention MJ-12. (Several
critics of the MJ-12 affair have questioned the memo's
authenticity as well, but so far without unambiguous success.)
The memo does not, of course, say what the MJ12 Special Studies
Project was.
MJ-12 Goes Public: Just prior to Moore's release of the MJ-12
briefing paper, another copy was leaked to British ufologist
Timothy Good, who took his copy to the press. The first newspaper
article on it appeared in the London Observer of May 31, 1987,
and soon it was the subject of pieces in the New York Times,
Washington Post and ABC-TV's Nightline. It was also denounced,
not altogether persuasively, both by professional debunkers and
by many ufologists. The dispute would rage without resolution
well into 1989, when critics discovered that President Truman's
signature on the September 24, 1947, executive order (appended to
the briefing paper) was exactly like his signature on an
undisputed, UFO-unrelated October 1, 1947, letter to his science
adviser (and supposed MJ-12 member) Vannevar Bush. To all
appearances a forger had appended a real signature to a fake
letter. The MJ-12 document began to look like another
disinformation scheme.
Although acutely aware of the mass of disinformation circulating
throughout the UFO community, Moore remained convinced that at
least some of the information his own sources were giving him was
authentic. In 1988 he provided two of his sources, "Falcon" (Sgt.
Doty according to some) and "Condor" (later claimed to be former
U.S. Air Force Capt. Robert Collins), to a television production
company. (Moore and Shandera had given them avian names and
called the sources collectively "the birds.") UFO Cover-up . . .
Live, a two-hour program, aired in October 1988, with Falcon and
Condor, their faces shaded, their voices altered, relating the
same tales with which they had regaled Moore and Shandera. The
show, almost universally judged a laughable embarrassment, was
most remembered for the informants' statements that the aliens
favored ancient Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream. Critics
found the latter allegation especially hilarious.
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