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Back in July of 1989, the UFO scene was turned on its head when Bill Moore, the same guy who co-wrote *The Roswell Incident* and was considered one of the more credible researchers at the time, and then he stood up at the MUFON Symposium in Las Vegas and basically dropped a bombshell, admitting he’d been working with U.S. intelligence, feeding disinformation into the UFO community, and most notably, targeting fellow researcher Paul Bennewitz. Bennewitz was convinced he’d stumbled onto evidence of alien activity around Kirtland Air Force Base, but instead of help, what he got was a carefully crafted campaign to twist his perception and, ultimately, break him down.

Moore’s “confession” didn’t just tarnish his own reputation, it shook the entire field. Suddenly, people had to ask: if one of the community’s leading voices had been playing both sides, how much of the information floating around was tainted? Was Moore a victim caught in a bigger intelligence game, or was he fully complicit? That moment blurred the already messy line between fact and fabrication, leaving ufology with one of its most infamous scandals.

I think this video is important now more than ever since people are still falling for the same tricks they have been playing for 70 years.