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Richard Doty — Richard C. Doty is a retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent who, while stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico in the late 1970s and 1980s, fed false information about UFOs and aliens to researchers, most notably physicist Paul Bennewitz. He has acknowledged spreading disinformation, though he has also claimed that some of what he passed on was true. His story is central to the 2010 book and 2013 documentary Mirage Men. (Full article…)
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Did you know…
- … about Kevin Randle: roswell researcher and author of many books on crash-retrieval claims?
- … about Disclosure Project: Steven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference?
- … about Charles Hickson: shipyard worker in the 1973 Pascagoula abduction case?
- … about Ryan Wood: researcher who published the Majestic documents with his father Robert Wood?
- … about Ed Balocco: marine fighter pilot who chased a red-lit object near Edenton, North Carolina, in 1953?
- … about Thomas Conrow: Air Force intelligence officer who investigated the 1960 Ekuk, Alaska, sighting?
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