Edmund Gomez and Dulce
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| Date | 23 October 1988 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | Edmund Gomez, Gabe Valdez, Paul Bennewitz, John Lear, Kenneth Rommel |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 102 |
| Year | 1988 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1988 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
Edmund Gomez is a rancher from Dulce, New Mexico, whose family's cattle were among the most frequent victims of the cattle mutilations of the 1970s and early 1980s. He took part in a 1988 expedition to nearby Archuleta Mesa, the supposed site of a secret underground base, and an account of that trip attributed to him reports of troops and a crashed aircraft.[1][2][3]
The mutilations
Gomez's family had ranched near Dulce for about a century. The mutilations began in the mid-1970s, when he was 21; the family lost 23 cows, two bulls and a yearling filly, and said it received threatening calls and suffered break-ins while gathering evidence. The losses forced them to sell the ranch in 1985. New Mexico State Police officer Gabe Valdez investigated the cases; in 1976, after a mutilation reported by Edmund's brother Manuel, he described marks of an unusual three-legged craft that had landed twice and scorched the grass.[1][4]
The 1988 trip
A report titled "Recollections and impressions of visit to Dulce, New Mexico, October 23, 24, 1988", written by a researcher using the name "Jason Bishop III", describes a camping trip onto Archuleta Mesa with Valdez, his sons, Edmund and Manuel Gomez and others. In it Gomez is quoted as saying that most of the region's mutilations from 1975 to 1983 took place on his ranch, costing about $100,000, that combat-ready troops had repeatedly been seen in remote areas, and that "hundreds of troops" appeared when an experimental aircraft went down in 1983. The report also describes a boomerang-shaped light seen by the group.[2]
The Dulce base legend
The idea of a joint human–alien base beneath Archuleta Mesa grew out of the beliefs of Albuquerque businessman Paul Bennewitz, who was fed disinformation by Air Force investigators in the early 1980s, and was spread by John Lear and others. The writer behind "Jason Bishop III", Thomas Allen LeVesque, later admitted fabricating Dulce stories, which makes his report of the 1988 trip unreliable.[3]
Gomez's own view
In a 2019 interview Gomez said he believed the mutilations were carried out by the government or other humans, not aliens, and linked them to Project Gasbuggy, a 1967 underground nuclear test near Dulce. Valdez likewise "pointed toward the government". Researcher Norio Hayakawa, who has visited the mesa, says there is no evidence of a base there.[1][4]
People and topics
- Dulce — A New Mexico town linked to legends of an underground alien base.
- Edmund Gomez — Rancher near Dulce, New Mexico, who reported cattle mutilations.
- Gabe Valdez — New Mexico State Police officer who investigated cattle mutilations near Dulce.
- Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
- Paul Bennewitz — Albuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
- John Lear — Pilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — The U.S. federal police agency, which helped check flying disc reports from 1947 to 1950.
- Kenneth Rommel — Former FBI agent whose 1980 report attributed most cattle mutilations to natural causes.
On the Timeline
- Kit Green on MJ-12 (1988) (23 October 1988) — Kit Green tells Vallée that 'MJ12' was real.
- Norton AFB diamond-shaped craft claim (1988) (12 November 1988) — A researcher claims a diamond-shaped craft was tested at Norton AFB.
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References
- Amanda Push, "Welcome to Dulce", DGO Magazine (Feb 2019) · dgomag.com · archived copy
- "Recollections and impressions of visit to Dulce, New Mexico, October 23, 24, 1988", thinkaboutit.site (archived) · web.archive.org · archived copy
- Dulce Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Gabe Valdez — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Cattle mutilation — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- thinkaboutit.site · thinkaboutit.site · archived copy
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