Paul Bennewitz
In the late 1970's, an Albuquerque businessman named Paul Bennewitz started
to monitor unusual electromagnetic pulses from what he thought were UFOs
flying above the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility near
Kirtland Air Force Base. He came to the conclusion that these pulses may
be controlling implanted abductees, so he started attempting to decode the
pulses, and thought he was on the right path.
He contacted APRO about his theory, but they wouldn't believe him,
so he contacted AFOSI in October 1980, where he was put in touch with
RICHARD DOTY. He filled out a few forms and sent in some tapes he had
filmed of some UFOs over the Nuclear Storage Facility and Doty started to
feed Bennewitz DISINFORMATION about the US government's involvement with
the UFO phenomenon, including tales of US/alien pacts, alien bases in
various places around the world, and of experiments that the aliens carried
out with humans to create hybrids and androids.
Bennewitz believed all of it. Doty then got WILLIAM MOORE to pass on more
disinformation on to him, and Bennewitz got more and more paranoid and
eventually went insane. Bennewitz told JOHN LEAR what he had heard and
Lear took this into account when he wrote his DARK SIDE HYPOTHESIS.