The UFO dark Side. As more and more researchers are coming to the conclusion
that the government is as clueless about UFOs as the rest of us, it's
easy to forget how crazy things got in ufology in the later part of the
twentieth century. There's a cast of characters floating around the Internet in old videos
who told some scary stories. Their dark tales seemed to confirm people's worst fears
about our government, shadowy organizations, and aliens. There were some wild claims
made by people who had impressive backgrounds that included military service and work with intelligence
organizations. Their credentials seemed to have absolved them of the need to back up
their claims with proof in the minds of many, and the noise they made
is still clouding the signal today. On January first, nineteen eighty six,
Jim Spicer created a forum called Paranet within a bulletin board system devoted to the
paranormal called the Other Side. The purpose was to bring UFO believers, skeptics,
and those undecided together for an intelligent exchange of ideas and offer access to
information. It was here in nineteen eighty seven and a newcomer to uphology.
John Lear had a file in the form of a press release posted containing the
statement that quote, the United States government has been in business with Little Gray
extraterrestrials for about twenty years end quote. He referenced m J twelve crashes in
New Mexico at Roswell and Aztec and stated that m J twelve had made a
deal with ETS. The terms of the agreement were that the ETS would provide
technology in exchange for a governmental lais fair policy when it came to abductions and
cattle mutilations. According to Lear, the mutilations and abductions were for the purposes
of feeding and breeding. Cattle parts and human parts were mixed in vats in
an underground base in Dulce, New Mexico, to extract quote an enzyme or
hormonal secretion end quote that the ETS absorbed for sustenance when not used as food
stuff. Human females were impregnated and the resulting crossbread offspring were taken. Lear
went on to state that in nineteen seventy nine there was an quote altercation of
end quote where sixty six soldiers were killed trying to free quote our people end
quote, who had been trapped in the facility after learning its secrets. A
particular interest is that Lear accuses researcher William Moore of being a government agent working
for m J twelve, when he had in fact worked with Air Force Office
of Special Investigation Agent Richard Dody as part of a disinformation operation. Moore was
promised inside information in exchange for his cooperation. Lear's background was that he was
the son of Lear Jet designer Bill Lear, was an accomplished aviator and had
flown missions for the quote CIA and other government agencies end quote. A message
from the Paranet administrator preceding Lear's file stated that while the information had not been
verified, Lear's identity had been and that he was in a position to be
able to receive such information. The claims made by Lear had their roots in
a quote report end quote known as Project Beta, written by researcher Paul Benowitz.
Benewitz had developed his conclusions while being targeted by the a f OSI and
an SA in a disinformation campaign executed in part by More and Dote. Benowitz
was fed false information about there being an alien base in Dulcee. This was
in order to divert his attention away from his surveillance of Kirtland Air Force Base,
where he believed he was observing alien activity. While many people questioned Lear's
claims, William Cooper, a former Naval petty officer who claimed to have worked
in naval intelligence, posted his own statement on Paradet that included descriptions of projects
involving aliens and their craft. He listed the projects by name and described them
in a detached, matter of fact manner. Significantly, he stated that m
J twelve was merely a group of scattered scientific advisers and that the controlling group
was a Majestic Agency for Joint Intelligence or m a j I MAGI. Cooper
also accused Moore, who was directly involved in the public release of a leg
at MJ twelve documents, of changing some of them and forging most of them.
Most likely the forger was actually Doughty. Cooper's post served to corroborate Lear's
story, and the two became friends. As Lear and Cooper hit the lecture
circuit, they found that the combination of UFOs and dark conspiracy tales appealed to
a wider audience than UFOs on their own. Cooper's audiences began to include right
wing militia members and those dedicated to fighting the quote New World Order end quote
allegedly controlled by a wide range of secret societies. Cooper moved away from UFOs
and aliens and told his audiences that he'd been fed false information about them to
distract his attention away from the One World Government. Lear meanwhile became friends with
fellow Las Vegas resident Bob Lazar, who took him out into the Nevada Desert
to watch a scheduled test flight of what Lazarre claimed was an alien craft.
Lazar said that he had been back engineering recovered vehicles in a secret facility near
Area fifty one called S four when Lear saw light appear and move around in
the sky at the time, Lazar said it would This seemed to confirm Lazar's
claim. Lazar went public with his story in another military base containing aliens secrets
was added to the list. Lear's claims became increasingly outrageous and included stargates,
alien structures on the Moon and Mars, and huge alien ships mining the rings
of Saturn. By this time, the UFO community had become divided between those
who felt that aliens were benevolent and those who felt they were hostile. With
reports of intrusive abductions on the rise, aliens were looking less and less friendly.
Then came a British ex football player, David Ike. Ike, after
confirming that he was the son of God before a BBC television audience, settled
into a routine of lecturing and writing about his belief that the world's governments had
been infiltrated by bloodthirsty, shape shifting reptilians. His lectures were similar to Cooper's
earlier lectures and that they combined secret society conspiracy theories with extraterrestrials. The difference
is that Ike became a multi million aut through his endeavors, while Cooper ended
up being killed in a shootout with Arizona law enforcement. They were attempting to
arrest Cooper on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon during disputes with local
residents. A man who continued the Dulce based story was Phil Schneider. Schneider
started lecturing to survivalist groups around nineteen ninety four. He claimed to have been
a geological engineer who worked on secret, underground, military based construction projects.
Schneider told his audiences that he was one of three survivors of a firefight between
the military and aliens in nineteen seventy nine. In a variation of Lear's claim,
he said that this occurred after he accidentally broke through into an alien basse
at Dulce. Videos of Schneider's lectures can be found on the Internet, where
he shows off scars on his torso and missing fingers as proof. Proof of
his work with the government is not available. However, he was found dead
two years after beginning his lectures with a catheter knotted around his neck in what
was determined to be a suicide. Dulce researcher and Mexico state policeman Gave Valdest
supported this conclusion. More people came forward claiming to have inside information on Dulce.
Others appeared on the scene claiming to have worked with crash retrieval teams.
Meanwhile, stories around the Roswell incident became more elaborate. As crash locations and
alien body counts increased. The UFO community became increasingly distrustful of the government,
distrustful of each other, and more and more paranoid, as did the rest
of the world. In nineteen ninety seven, Art bell late night paranormal radio
host received the call that captured the mood of the day. The caller's voice
was desperate sounding and quavering, and he identified himself as a former employee of
Area fifty one. He told Belle that there were quote extra dimensional end quote
beings who infiltrated quote a lot of aspects of the military end quote, including
Area fifty one. He said there were disasters coming that the government knew about.
Despite their knowledge, they weren't moving people to safety because they wanted major
populations enters wiped out in order to have a more controllable populace. The caller
began sobbing, and the station mysteriously went off the air. When it came
back on, Belle expressed its bafflement to a new caller who applied quote government
end quote. As we headed into the twenty first century, we got a
second President Bush, and the conspiracy theories around that family have them tied into
everything from the Illuminati to m J twelve. The UFO dark side seems to
have hit its peak during that administration and then tapered off. Maybe it's just
this writer's point of view, but the conversations now heard on podcasts and radio
shows seemed to center more around enjoyment of the mystery and less around solving it.
Since the mystery is now over seventy years old, that's probably a wiser
approach. It's certainly better for the blood pressure.