I read that they were real 'continuity of government' docs made bu those worried about who would take over in the event of a nuclear war. They filched enough to make the MJ12 pile look official, because it was for the most part and really scary sounding. Perfect thing to filch from it seems. I imagine they had a good laugh over what got added in.
Been a while since I read
Project Beta or
X-Descending but remember that the NSA was involved in the surveillance of Bennewitz also. He called the Air Force because he literally
saw a glowing UFO thing on the Manzano range which he could observe from the patio/roof of his house. He said that he saw the security patrol fail to notice it, or at least fail to react to it which it what prompted him to pick up the phone. He already was a government contractor and an electrical engineer. Apparently once AFOSI got involved in subsequent interviews revealed that he had been eavesdropping on some peculiar transmissions that he thought were extraterrestrial but were in fact related to Extremely Low Frequency transmissions used to communicate with nuclear subs. I believe they trail (or did, anyway) a several miles long wire and send/receive short bursts. That's why NSA got involved. More than a little important I'd say - one leg of our 'nuclear triad'.
Based on the nonsense that Doty has since said and the fact that he seems to enjoy being a shadowy government UFO 'expert' of some kind, I bet he simply got carried away and exceeded his mandate. I never underestimate the human penchant to screw with other humans for the thrill, the power, fun, what have you. Bennewitz had serious issues and what they did to him was criminal, IMO. I don't see Doty as anything other than one of the men who perpetrated that whole mess on someone who probably didn't deserve it.
The Valdez mention relates to a report somewhere in the southwest at approximately the same time - I'm going from memory and a lot of coffee early in the morning right now . State police officer working with several tribal officers on or near a reservation trying to track down a glowing UFO exhibiting peculiar motion with their patrol cars. They note that the low flying glowing thing - that generally bears the same description that Bennewitz applied to what he saw - that seemed to anticipate their every move. They were communicating with their police radios. ET had no problem doing that until they switched to a Native American language and then all of a sudden, ET's mind reading helmet or whatever went on the fritz. Go figure. Doesn't sound very superadvancedextraterrestrial to me.
Also from the whole Bennewitz story, mostly attributed to Chris Lambright (I think) is the mention of lightcraft. Small vehicles remotely powered by lasers ultimately intended to lift payloads into orbit. Apparently Kirtland/Manzano has tunnels that lent themselves to this sort of research. I mentioned the application of Apollo level resources to clandestine submarine/dep submergence capabilities. Imagine what we could do with that sort of funding applied to something like lightcraft. I couldn't help but wonder when I saw some of the recent Navy footage if I was looking at a more mature version of what was going on 40 years ago - which is what that
Psychology Today article was getting at.
US6488233B1 - Laser propelled vehicle - Google Patents
Biography:Leik Myrabo - HandWiki
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