---
alias:
- Richard Doty
- Richard C. Doty
- Richard Charles Doty
- Rick Doty
- Sgt. Richard Doty
- Doty
category: UFO & Anomalous Phenomena
created: 2026-10-01
location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
relations:
- end: 1988-09-30
  fn: 1
  role: security police, law enforcement and special investigations; retired master
    sergeant
  start: 1968-09-17
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[U.S. Air Force]]'
- fn: 3
  role: special agent and counterintelligence technician, Kirtland AFB detachments
  start: 1979-05-29
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]]'
- fn: 2
  role: officer, later sergeant and explosive ordnance disposal team member; retired
    by February 2015
  start: 1988-12-01
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[New Mexico State Police]]'
- fn: 4
  role: interviewed Bennewitz at home on October 26, 1980; later described a disinformation
    operation against him
  start: 1980-10-24
  type: investigated
  with: '[[Paul Bennewitz]]'
- fn: 5
  role: said in 2005 that the FBI investigated him in 1988 or 1989 over the MJ-12
    documents
  type: subject_of
  with: '[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'
summary: Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent at Kirtland AFB from 1979
  who interviewed Paul Bennewitz in 1980 and in 2005 said he had run disinformation
  operations against UFO researchers on orders.
tags:
- Person
- UFO
- AFOSI
- Counterintelligence
- Disinformation
- KirtlandAFB
- MJ12
- NewMexicoStatePolice
updated: 2026-10-01
---

Richard Charles Doty served in the [U.S. Air Force](/organizations/us-air-force/) from September 17, 1968 to September 30, 1988, retiring as a master sergeant at Kirtland Air Force Base, and was commissioned an officer of the New Mexico State Police on December 1, 1988.[^1][^2] From May 29, 1979 his recorded assignments were with units of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland, where he was the special agent named in the October 1980 reports on [Paul Bennewitz](/people/paul-bennewitz/).[^3][^4] In 2005 he told the radio host Art Bell that he had given Bennewitz disinformation on orders.[^5] Robert Hastings and Philip J. Klass have named him as "Falcon," the intelligence source whom William L. Moore described as the origin of material on Project Aquarius and the [Majestic-12](/events/majestic-12/) papers; Doty and Moore have both denied it.[^6][^7]

### Service record

The National Personnel Records Center released Doty's service information to the researcher Alejandro Rojas in April 2013. The record gives his place of entry as the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and his place of separation as Kirtland. Among his decorations are the Air Force Commendation Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters, the Vietnam Service Medal with four service stars and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with palm.[^1]

A chronology of service assignments prepared on March 21, 1984 lists him as a security policeman from January 10, 1970 and a law enforcement specialist from January 1, 1971 at McChord Air Force Base in Washington State, where he became noncommissioned officer in charge of security inspections in March 1973. He was a patrolman and gateguard at Wiesbaden, Germany, from September 24, 1973, and at Lindsey Air Station, Germany, from January 2, 1976. From December 1, 1976 he was a law enforcement flight chief with the 44th Security Police Group at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota; the chronology repeats the flight chief entry as of December 5, 1977 and lists him as a law enforcement instructor there from June 19, 1978. On May 29, 1979 he was assigned as a security police investigator, counterintelligence technician, with AFOSI Detachment 1700 at Kirtland, and on February 11, 1980 as noncommissioned officer in charge of a base investigations detachment at Kirtland. That is the last entry in a chronology prepared four years later.[^3]

The release lists his military education as including an Identi-Kit training course (two weeks, April 1979), a Special Investigators Course (fourteen weeks, May 1979), a Protective Services Operations Course (three weeks, April 1980), a Counterespionage Course (six weeks, November 1983) and a Dynamics of International Terrorism course (one week, August 1984).[^3] A separate list of his organizations names AFOSI District 70 at Lindsey Air Station, an assignment that the 1984 chronology does not date.[^3] Klass wrote in 1997 that Doty was transferred to an AFOSI post in [West Germany](/places/west-germany/) in 1985, that within two years he was dismissed from AFOSI for turning in bogus claims about his activities, and that he spent the last two years before retirement as manager of the noncommissioned officers' mess hall at Kirtland, citing his own newsletter of January 1991; Klass repeated the account in a letter to the newsletter Saucer Smear in 2000.[^7][^8] The release of Doty's service information shows his separation as a retirement as a master sergeant at Kirtland and lists a 1606 Services Squadron at Kirtland among his organizations; it records no dismissal.[^1][^3]

### Ellsworth Air Force Base and the National Enquirer letter

On February 9, 1978 the National Enquirer received at its Florida offices an anonymous letter mailed from Rapid City, South Dakota, enclosing what appeared to be a carbon copy of an incident report dated November 16, 1977 from the commander of the 44th Missile Security Squadron at Ellsworth. The report described a security policeman at a missile launch site who met an individual in a glowing green metallic uniform whose weapon disintegrated his rifle and burned his hands, a security team member who shot two similarly dressed figures who then rose and left in a saucer-shaped object, and the later discovery that the missile's nuclear components were missing. The reporter Bob Pratt and colleagues spent nine days in Rapid City, were told by the base information officer, Major Arthur Jungwirth, that nothing of that nature had ever happened, and found more than twenty discrepancies in names, identity numbers, occupations and physical layouts. Pratt wrote in the MUFON UFO Journal in January 1984 that he could "say positively that it never happened," and that a researcher had later been told by an AFOSI agent, whom he did not name, that the incident was real, and that he had been told the agent had since admitted it never happened.[^9]

Doty's service chronology places him at Ellsworth as a law enforcement flight chief from December 1976 and as an instructor from June 1978 until his assignment to Kirtland in May 1979.[^3] In their 1990 report for the Fund for UFO Research, Moore and Jaime Shandera wrote that the Ellsworth document had been officially fabricated as part of a government counterintelligence and disinformation operation, that Doty was serving with the 44th Security Police Group at the time and was in his second year as law enforcement flight chief in December 1977, and that Doty had admitted to them he was aware of the Enquirer operation but claimed to have been only peripherally involved. They added that Doty's handwriting samples had no point in common with the longhand notations on the document, that its typeface and that of its cover letter differed from the typeface of the Weitzel letter described below, and that men from Washington, possibly from the [Central Intelligence Agency](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/), had been involved in a counterintelligence and disinformation training exercise at Ellsworth in late 1977 and early 1978.[^10]

Moore asked Doty about the Ellsworth document in late 1981; according to Moore and Shandera, Doty replied that the event had never occurred, that security regulations barred further comment except to say that what little truth there was had been loosely based on a sighting by a local sheriff's deputy that had not involved a landing, and that he had not created the document.[^10] Hastings wrote in 1989 that, according to Bruce Maccabee, Moore had acknowledged that Doty confessed to forging the Ellsworth document, and that Doty apparently claimed the incident had actually occurred and that he typed the report to bring it to public attention.[^6]

### Kirtland, Schmitt and Bennewitz

On April 20, 1979 Senator Harrison Schmitt of [New Mexico](/places/new-mexico/) and U.S. Attorney R. E. Thompson directed a conference in Albuquerque on cattle mutilations, attended by about 180 people, at which Schmitt said he had conferred with Attorney General [Griffin Bell](/people/griffin-bell/) and that the [Federal Bureau of Investigation](/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation/) had been designated to handle the matter; a New Mexico State Police officer from Dulce, Gabe Valdez, reported on ninety dead cattle and six horses.[^11] Thirty-nine days later, on May 29, 1979, Doty's chronology shows his counterintelligence assignment at Kirtland.[^3] Doty said in 2005 that in "early 1979" he "was briefed in to this counter intelligence program" and given access to the history of earth's visitation by extraterrestrials.[^5]

On October 24, 1980 Bennewitz, the owner of Thunder Scientific in Albuquerque, contacted Doty through Major Ernest E. Edwards, commander of the 1608th Security Police Squadron, with what an AFOSI form of October 28, 1980 records as knowledge and evidence of threats against the Manzano Weapons Storage Area. On October 26 Doty and Jerry Miller, chief scientific advisor of the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center and a former [Project Blue Book](/programs/project-blue-book/) investigator, interviewed Bennewitz at his home. Bennewitz produced photographs, more than 2,600 feet of 8mm film and electronic recording tapes from fifteen months of independent research; the form is signed by Major Thomas A. Cseh, commander of the Base Investigative Detachment.[^4]

A second AFOSI form, dated November 26, 1980, covers a meeting on November 10 in the 1606th Air Base Wing conference room attended by Brigadier General William Brooksher, other officers, Dr. Lehman of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, and Bennewitz, who presented film and photographs and said he had documented proof of contact with the beings flying the objects. On November 17 Doty told Bennewitz that AFOSI would not become involved. On November 26 Doty received a telephone call from a person who identified himself as Senator "Schmidt" of New Mexico (the form's spelling) and asked about AFOSI's role; Doty said AFOSI was not investigating, and the caller said he would ask the Secretary of the Air Force which agency should. Bennewitz had spoken with the senator for months, and the senator had telephoned Brooksher about the Security Police role at Manzano.[^12] On July 30, 1981 Senator Pete Domenici asked to speak with Doty; he was in the inspector general's office, left immediately to meet Bennewitz, and his aide was told that AFOSI had conducted no formal investigation of Bennewitz, according to a communication signed by Colonel Frank M. Huey.[^13]

### The Weitzel letter

In July 1980 the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization received an anonymous letter, reproduced as Appendix B to the Moore and Shandera report, from a writer who said he was an airman of the 1550th Aircrew Training and Testing Wing at Kirtland. It described a sighting near Pecos, New Mexico, on July 16, 1980 by a Civil Air Patrol cadet, Craig R. Weitzel, a visit the next night by a man calling himself Mr. Huck of [Sandia Laboratories](/organizations/sandia-national-laboratories/) who demanded Weitzel's photographs, and a report to "a Mr. Dody, a special agent with OSI" who took the photographs; the writer said Dody later disavowed any knowledge of them. Its closing paragraphs said that two Sandia employees had told the writer a crashed UFO, including one that crashed near [Roswell](/events/roswell-incident/) in the late 1950s, was stored in the Manzano storage area; that the writer's commander, Colonel Bruce Purvine, had said OSI took over UFO investigations when Project Blue Book closed; and that AFOSI District 17 had a special secret detachment investigating sightings and cattle mutilations in the area.[^14] Moore, who was the APRO board member in charge of special investigations, told the 1989 MUFON symposium in [Las Vegas](/places/las-vegas/) that the letter was written by Doty and was "bait": AFOSI knew Bennewitz had close ties with APRO and wanted to recruit someone in the organization to report on Bennewitz. Moore said the letter was passed to him, that it was not long afterward that he came to know Doty, and that he began giving Doty information about the Bennewitz case.[^15] The 1990 report adds that Moore's cooperation with AFOSI derived from his meeting in October 1980 with the source codenamed Falcon, who designated Doty as middle-man, and that the stylistic differences between the Ellsworth documents and the Weitzel letter indicated two distinct writers.[^15]

Hastings reported that Craig Weitzel, found by the researcher Benton Jamison in 1985, said he had reported a sighting to Doty in 1980 but that the event did not resemble the one in the letter, and that, in Hastings's words, a typeface analysis by Brad Sparks showed the letter was "almost certainly" typed on the same typewriter as Doty's 1980 AFOSI complaint form, an analysis Hastings called incomplete.[^6]

### The Aquarius message

The text printed as Appendix C of the Moore and Shandera report, presented as the Aquarius document, is a one-page message marked secret, "for AFOSI only," dated November 17, 1980, from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling Air Force Base to the AFOSI district at Kirtland, analyzing five items of negative and film. It states that the policy and results of "Project Aquarius" were classified top secret with restricted access to "MJ Twelve" and that the Bennewitz case was being monitored by "NASA/INS."[^16] On December 5, 1983 the Air Force Intelligence Service told Peter L. Clarke of KOB-TV in Albuquerque that its files held only a copy of a message of unknown origin that mentioned Bennewitz, that the purported originator, AFOSI, had reviewed it and confirmed it was a hoax, and that the Intelligence Service had no record of receiving it from AFOSI.[^17]

Moore wrote in 1989 that the Aquarius document was a retyped version of a real AFOSI message with a few spurious additions, apparently created by AFOSI, and handed to him so that he would pass it to Bennewitz. In the 1990 report Moore and Shandera corrected the date of delivery to March 2, 1981, when Falcon showed him an original, and said Moore later received a retyped version at a meeting in Albuquerque with Falcon and Doty. Moore gave Bennewitz a marked copy in June 1981 and told him it might be a set-up. The text in Appendix C is, according to the report, a reconstruction: in late 1988 Moore worked from the retyped copy and his 1981 notes, then took the result to Doty, who supplied a few additional changes; Falcon took no part.[^18] Klass wrote that the term "MJ Twelve" first appeared in this teletype, which Doty provided to Moore in early 1981.[^7]

### Falcon, Condor and the Howe meeting

Linda Moulton Howe told Hastings that when Doty invited her to his office at Kirtland in early April 1983 and showed her a document, he identified himself by the code name Falcon and said Moore had given it to him. She signed an affidavit; Doty did not. Hastings wrote that the document, as Howe described it, was a "Briefing Paper for the President" containing a catalog of crashed UFO cases including one near Aztec, New Mexico, and that Doty confirmed to her the existence of a secret government group called MJ-12.[^6] According to Howe, quoted by Klass, Doty said she was being shown a "briefing paper" because the government intended to release to her several thousand feet of film of crashed discs and bodies for a Home Box Office documentary; she received no film.[^7] Doty wrote to Barry Greenwood, editor of the Just Cause newsletter, on March 3, 1988 that he knew "of no secret Government investigation of UFOs" and had "never heard of MJ-12."[^7] In 2005 Doty said on the radio that Howe had been invited to Kirtland and shown a document, that he was the primary agent with two others, and that the operation was carried out on orders.[^5]

Hastings wrote that in early December 1988 a member of the production team of the television program UFO Cover-Up? Live, whom he did not name, identified Doty as Falcon and the program's second source, "Condor," as Robert Collins, a recently retired Air Force captain assigned to a plasma physics group at Sandia. Hastings wrote that both Doty and Collins denied involvement.[^6] Moore denied that Doty was Falcon; Klass wrote that there was good reason to believe he was.[^7]

### The FBI inquiry of 1988 and 1989

On September 15, 1988 a special agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, whose name is redacted, contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Dallas with a possible classified document concerning Operation Majestic-12. FBI Dallas reported on October 25, 1988 that the document had been received from a person, whose name is redacted, who said an individual "at the school," whom he would not name, had given it to him as something received in the mail, and that there had been two radio talk-show appearances on "Operation Majestic-12" in the previous six weeks. The file reproduces the November 18, 1952 Eisenhower briefing document with "BOGUS" written across its pages. On November 30 OSI advised that the document was fabricated, and FBI headquarters wrote on December 2, 1988 that it was "completely bogus" and told Dallas to close the case.[^19] Doty told Bell in 2005 that the FBI had investigated him in 1988 or 1989 because it thought he had disclosed the documents, that Klass had raised the matter, and that he told the FBI and Air Force officials to take him to the Pentagon, where he said the documents were.[^5] In July 2000 he wrote that he "went through two Government investigations regarding the MJ-12 documents," that both had cleared him, and that he was not involved in any conspiracy with Moore to create documents; the editor of Saucer Smear added that Doty claimed to have passed two lie detector tests.[^8] The FBI file as released does not name him; he retired from the Air Force on September 30, 1988, according to the National Personnel Records Center, or October 1, according to Hastings.[^1][^6]

### New Mexico State Police

On November 30, 1988 the chief of the New Mexico State Police told Officer Richard C. Doty that he was commissioned effective December 1, 1988 as a junior patrolman at an annual salary of $19,279, assigned to Grants.[^2] The personnel file released in 2021 under the state Inspection of Public Records Act, 321 pages, records a Hazardous Materials Safety Board Level I certificate issued in June 1989, a notice that he was not selected for the explosive ordnance disposal team in May 1991, his appointment as a team member on December 1, 1994, and his appointment as temporary commander of the unit on December 27, 1999. On April 25, 2000 the chief assigned four other officers to report to Sergeant Doty in Albuquerque on April 28 for explosive ordnance disposal support to the [Secret Service](/organizations/united-states-secret-service/) during Vice President Al Gore's visit. He was removed from the team effective July 2, 2005, per correspondence submitted by his lieutenant and himself. A benefits record dated February 9, 2015 gives December 1, 1988 as his date of hire, February 13, 2015 as the end of coverage, and "Employee retired" as the reason. The state withheld his military discharge, disciplinary records and performance appraisals. The requester's description of the file as beginning "circa August of 1988 as a Staff Sergeant" does not match the commission letter.[^2]

### Statements in 2000

In June 2000 the publisher James W. Moseley reported in Saucer Smear, after telephone interviews, that Doty told him he had visited [Area 51](/places/area-51/) and had been told alien technology was kept there, though his clearance was not high enough to see it, and that Doty said he told Bennewitz years afterward that he had been hoaxed.[^20] In a letter to the July 2000 issue Doty wrote that Moore "was a coded source for OSI," "was paid for his information" and "was used to provide disinformation to Ufologists"; that "two alien spacecrafts crashed in the desert of New Mexico in the summer of 1947" and the government recovered five bodies and one live alien that lived until 1952; that "we don't have any UFOs at Area 51"; and that "during my OSI days, I did perform disinformation operations against many different targets, but everything I did was sanctioned by our Government." Moore wrote in the same issue that he could confirm Doty's comments about Bennewitz and the "energy balls," one of which he had seen briefly in Bennewitz's home.[^8]

### Statements in 2005

On Coast to Coast AM on February 27, 2005 Doty, with the author Greg Bishop, said he was "the counter intelligence officer for the base," that Bennewitz's equipment could tap sensitive communications at Kirtland, which housed what he called probably the largest nuclear storage area in the southwest, and that AFOSI convinced Bennewitz that what he was picking up was alien in origin. Asked by Bell whether he had dispensed disinformation, Doty answered "That is absolutely true." He said that when Bennewitz claimed an alien base lay under Archuleta Peak near Dulce, New Mexico, AFOSI "fortified his thought" with a fence, Army helicopters from Fort Carson and "things planted onto the ground," and that this was easier than obtaining a search warrant and seizing Bennewitz's equipment, which would have produced publicity. He said he visited Bennewitz and Bennewitz's son against his commander's orders to say the stories were untrue, named four such operations, two of them against Bennewitz and Howe, and said: "I followed orders. Everything we did was following orders." He said that disinformation was a primary tactic of [United States](/places/united-states/) intelligence in the 1960s, 1970s and into the 1980s, that he "was trained" in it at a counterintelligence and counterespionage school, and that the [National Security Agency](/organizations/nsa/) had become involved in the Bennewitz matter because of its interest in his equipment.[^5]

On the same broadcast Doty said he was briefed in a room at the Air Force special security office on a recovery at Roswell by a colonel and a civilian, with a classified 16mm film, and that his 1979 briefing included the statement that in the early 1950s the government had placed Air Force intelligence personnel as advisers to motion picture companies, beginning with a film he named as The Day the Earth Stood Still, to condition the public for a release. He also said that he learned after leaving OSI, in a room with six or seven retired intelligence officers, that a government operation from 1977 or 1978 until 1982 had taken organs from cattle, horses, elk and deer for a biological agent prevention system, and that it had been arranged so that the public would attribute the mutilations to aliens; he said he had no official knowledge of it at the time.[^5]

On July 11, 2013 Rojas wrote to the Air Force asking whether Doty had acted under orders when, as Doty has said according to Rojas, he lied to two senators, broke into a civilian's home and distributed forged documents. AFOSI released records on Rojas's [Freedom of Information Act](/events/freedom-of-information-act/) request on August 2, 2013; Rojas wrote that its public affairs office then stopped speaking with him and that he had received no answer. Rojas wrote that Gabe Valdez of the New Mexico State Police told him he was present when Doty flew Bennewitz over Dulce, that Doty told Bishop and retired Army Colonel [John B. Alexander](/people/john-b-alexander/) of the break-in, and that Doty says he was demoted at one point, which the military records Rojas obtained do not show.[^21]

[^1]: National Personnel Records Center, "Information Releasable Under the Freedom of Information Act" (NA Form 13164), decorations list, and cover letter of April 26, 2013 to Alejandro Rojas, request no. 2-11444310069, Richard C. Doty, pp. 2 to 4 of the 8-page release, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/Doty-Service-Records1.pdf
[^2]: New Mexico Department of Public Safety, response of March 29, 2021 to John Greenewald under the Inspection of Public Records Act and personnel file of Richard C. Doty (321 pages), including the memorandum of Chief Neil W. Curran of November 30, 1988 (Appointment and Assignment), the Hazardous Materials Safety Board letter of July 3, 1989, the explosive ordnance disposal team letters of May 10, 1991, November 30, 1994, December 27, 1999, April 25, 2000 and June 29, 2005, and the benefits record of February 9, 2015, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/richarddoty-personnelfile.pdf
[^3]: National Personnel Records Center, "Chronology of Service Assignments" prepared March 21, 1984 (master personnel records of Doty, Richard C., page 204), "Organization, Command, Location" list, and "Military Education" entries, in the release of April 2013, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/Doty-Service-Records1.pdf, pp. 5, 6 and 8.
[^4]: AFOSI Form 96, Multipurpose Internal OSI Form, file 8017D93-0/29, "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug - 3 Sep 80, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in Restricted Test Range," transmittal date October 28, 1980, signed Thomas A. Cseh, reproduced as Appendix E, p. 93, of William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report (Fund for UFO Research, 1990); copy at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S1-Bennewitz-AFOSI-Visit-Oct-80.pdf
[^5]: "Greg Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with host Art Bell," transcript of the broadcast of February 27, 2005, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf (transcript; the audio was not reviewed).
[^6]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, reproduced on the UFONET bulletin board and at https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm
[^7]: Philip J. Klass, Skeptics UFO Newsletter no. 44, March 1997, pp. 1 to 5, https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN44.pdf
[^8]: James W. Moseley, ed., Saucer Smear, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, "Missives from the Masses" (letters of Richard Doty, William Moore and Philip J. Klass), http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (printout of June 14, 2013), pp. 6 to 7.
[^9]: Bob Pratt, "Ellsworth," MUFON UFO Journal, January 1984, repost at http://www.mufon.com/bob_pratt/ellsworth.html (printed June 13, 2013).
[^10]: William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), "The Ellsworth Document (Dec. 1977)," pp. 4 to 6, excerpt at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf
[^11]: FBI Albuquerque, airtel to Director and letterhead memorandum "Cattle Mutilations," April 25, 1979, on the conference of April 20, 1979, FBI Vault, Animal Mutilation, Part 04, https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%2004/view
[^12]: AFOSI Form 96, file 8017D93-0/29, transmittal date November 26, 1980, Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, Appendix E, pp. 95 to 96, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S3-Bennewitz-Kirtland-Bennewitz-Meeting-Nov-80.pdf
[^13]: AFOSI Form 158, AFOSI Communication, "Dr. Paul Fredrick Bennewitz, Congressional Inquiry," July 30, 1981, AFOSI District 17/CC, signed Frank M. Huey, Appendix E, p. 97, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S4-Bennewitz-AFOSI-Domenici-July-81.pdf
[^14]: Anonymous letter to APRO, reproduced as Appendix B, pp. 81 to 82, of Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S17-Weitzel-Letter.pdf
[^15]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Weitzel Letter (July, 1980)," pp. 6 to 7, quoting Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," read at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, excerpt at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf
[^16]: Message R 171130Z NOV 80, FM HQ AFOSI Bolling AFB DC/IVOE to AFOSI Dist 17 Kirtland AFB NM/BID, info 7602 AINTELG Ft Belvoir, "Subject Case Nr: 8017D93-126," Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, Appendix C, p. 83, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S18-Aquarius-Document.pdf
[^17]: Susan Cooksey, Freedom of Information Manager, Air Force Intelligence Service, letter to Peter L. Clarke, KOB Television, December 5, 1983 (reply to request of November 18, 1983), printout of a reproduction at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/KOB-TV-Bennewitz-FOIA.pdf
[^18]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Document (Feb. 1981)" and "The Aquarius Teletype," pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8.
[^19]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01, 24 pages: SAC Dallas airtel to Director, October 25, 1988; Director to FBI Dallas, teletype, December 2, 1988; https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/at_download/file
[^20]: James W. Moseley, "The Paul Bennewitz Case Revisited," Saucer Smear, vol. 47, June 15, 2000, http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000615.htm (printout of June 7, 2013), pp. 1 to 3.
[^21]: Alejandro Rojas, "Open letter to the U.S. Air Force regarding allegations of UFO disinformation," Open Minds, May 6, 2014 (letter sent July 11, 2013; AFOSI FOIA case 2013-03291-F), https://openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/ ; Rojas, "Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies," HuffPost, May 13, 2014, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exair-force-law-enforceme_b_5312650