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The UFO dark Side. As more
and more researchers are coming to the conclusion

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that the government is as clueless about
UFOs as the rest of us, it's

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easy to forget how crazy things got
in ufology in the later part of the

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twentieth century. There's a cast of
characters floating around the Internet in old videos

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who told some scary stories. Their
dark tales seemed to confirm people's worst fears

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about our government, shadowy organizations,
and aliens. There were some wild claims

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made by people who had impressive backgrounds
that included military service and work with intelligence

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organizations. Their credentials seemed to have
absolved them of the need to back up

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their claims with proof in the minds
of many, and the noise they made

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is still clouding the signal today.
On January first, nineteen eighty six,

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Jim Spicer created a forum called Paranet
within a bulletin board system devoted to the

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paranormal called the Other Side. The
purpose was to bring UFO believers, skeptics,

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and those undecided together for an intelligent
exchange of ideas and offer access to

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information. It was here in nineteen
eighty seven and a newcomer to uphology.

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John Lear had a file in the
form of a press release posted containing the

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statement that quote, the United States
government has been in business with Little Gray

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extraterrestrials for about twenty years end quote. He referenced m J twelve crashes in

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New Mexico at Roswell and Aztec and
stated that m J twelve had made a

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deal with ETS. The terms of
the agreement were that the ETS would provide

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technology in exchange for a governmental lais
fair policy when it came to abductions and

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cattle mutilations. According to Lear,
the mutilations and abductions were for the purposes

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of feeding and breeding. Cattle parts
and human parts were mixed in vats in

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an underground base in Dulce, New
Mexico, to extract quote an enzyme or

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hormonal secretion end quote that the ETS
absorbed for sustenance when not used as food

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stuff. Human females were impregnated and
the resulting crossbread offspring were taken. Lear

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went on to state that in nineteen
seventy nine there was an quote altercation of

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end quote where sixty six soldiers were
killed trying to free quote our people end

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quote, who had been trapped in
the facility after learning its secrets. A

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particular interest is that Lear accuses researcher
William Moore of being a government agent working

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for m J twelve, when he
had in fact worked with Air Force Office

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of Special Investigation Agent Richard Dody as
part of a disinformation operation. Moore was

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promised inside information in exchange for his
cooperation. Lear's background was that he was

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the son of Lear Jet designer Bill
Lear, was an accomplished aviator and had

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flown missions for the quote CIA and
other government agencies end quote. A message

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from the Paranet administrator preceding Lear's file
stated that while the information had not been

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verified, Lear's identity had been and
that he was in a position to be

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able to receive such information. The
claims made by Lear had their roots in

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a quote report end quote known as
Project Beta, written by researcher Paul Benowitz.

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Benewitz had developed his conclusions while being
targeted by the a f OSI and

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an SA in a disinformation campaign executed
in part by More and Dote. Benowitz

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was fed false information about there being
an alien base in Dulcee. This was

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in order to divert his attention away
from his surveillance of Kirtland Air Force Base,

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where he believed he was observing alien
activity. While many people questioned Lear's

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claims, William Cooper, a former
Naval petty officer who claimed to have worked

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in naval intelligence, posted his own
statement on Paradet that included descriptions of projects

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involving aliens and their craft. He
listed the projects by name and described them

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in a detached, matter of fact
manner. Significantly, he stated that m

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J twelve was merely a group of
scattered scientific advisers and that the controlling group

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was a Majestic Agency for Joint Intelligence
or m a j I MAGI. Cooper

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also accused Moore, who was directly
involved in the public release of a leg

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at MJ twelve documents, of changing
some of them and forging most of them.

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Most likely the forger was actually Doughty. Cooper's post served to corroborate Lear's

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story, and the two became friends. As Lear and Cooper hit the lecture

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circuit, they found that the combination
of UFOs and dark conspiracy tales appealed to

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a wider audience than UFOs on their
own. Cooper's audiences began to include right

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wing militia members and those dedicated to
fighting the quote New World Order end quote

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allegedly controlled by a wide range of
secret societies. Cooper moved away from UFOs

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and aliens and told his audiences that
he'd been fed false information about them to

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distract his attention away from the One
World Government. Lear meanwhile became friends with

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fellow Las Vegas resident Bob Lazar,
who took him out into the Nevada Desert

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to watch a scheduled test flight of
what Lazarre claimed was an alien craft.

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Lazar said that he had been back
engineering recovered vehicles in a secret facility near

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Area fifty one called S four when
Lear saw light appear and move around in

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the sky at the time, Lazar
said it would This seemed to confirm Lazar's

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claim. Lazar went public with his
story in another military base containing aliens secrets

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was added to the list. Lear's
claims became increasingly outrageous and included stargates,

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alien structures on the Moon and Mars, and huge alien ships mining the rings

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of Saturn. By this time,
the UFO community had become divided between those

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who felt that aliens were benevolent and
those who felt they were hostile. With

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reports of intrusive abductions on the rise, aliens were looking less and less friendly.

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Then came a British ex football player, David Ike. Ike, after

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confirming that he was the son of
God before a BBC television audience, settled

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into a routine of lecturing and writing
about his belief that the world's governments had

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been infiltrated by bloodthirsty, shape shifting
reptilians. His lectures were similar to Cooper's

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earlier lectures and that they combined secret
society conspiracy theories with extraterrestrials. The difference

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is that Ike became a multi million
aut through his endeavors, while Cooper ended

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up being killed in a shootout with
Arizona law enforcement. They were attempting to

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arrest Cooper on charges of aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon during disputes with local

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residents. A man who continued the
Dulce based story was Phil Schneider. Schneider

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started lecturing to survivalist groups around nineteen
ninety four. He claimed to have been

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a geological engineer who worked on secret, underground, military based construction projects.

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Schneider told his audiences that he was
one of three survivors of a firefight between

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the military and aliens in nineteen seventy
nine. In a variation of Lear's claim,

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he said that this occurred after he
accidentally broke through into an alien basse

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at Dulce. Videos of Schneider's lectures
can be found on the Internet, where

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he shows off scars on his torso
and missing fingers as proof. Proof of

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his work with the government is not
available. However, he was found dead

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two years after beginning his lectures with
a catheter knotted around his neck in what

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was determined to be a suicide.
Dulce researcher and Mexico state policeman Gave Valdest

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supported this conclusion. More people came
forward claiming to have inside information on Dulce.

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Others appeared on the scene claiming to
have worked with crash retrieval teams.

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Meanwhile, stories around the Roswell incident
became more elaborate. As crash locations and

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alien body counts increased. The UFO
community became increasingly distrustful of the government,

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distrustful of each other, and more
and more paranoid, as did the rest

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of the world. In nineteen ninety
seven, Art bell late night paranormal radio

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host received the call that captured the
mood of the day. The caller's voice

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was desperate sounding and quavering, and
he identified himself as a former employee of

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Area fifty one. He told Belle
that there were quote extra dimensional end quote

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beings who infiltrated quote a lot of
aspects of the military end quote, including

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Area fifty one. He said there
were disasters coming that the government knew about.

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Despite their knowledge, they weren't moving
people to safety because they wanted major

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populations enters wiped out in order to
have a more controllable populace. The caller

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began sobbing, and the station mysteriously
went off the air. When it came

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back on, Belle expressed its bafflement
to a new caller who applied quote government

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end quote. As we headed into
the twenty first century, we got a

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second President Bush, and the conspiracy
theories around that family have them tied into

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everything from the Illuminati to m J
twelve. The UFO dark side seems to

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have hit its peak during that administration
and then tapered off. Maybe it's just

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this writer's point of view, but
the conversations now heard on podcasts and radio

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shows seemed to center more around enjoyment
of the mystery and less around solving it.

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Since the mystery is now over seventy
years old, that's probably a wiser

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approach. It's certainly better for the
blood pressure.