Hello, my name is Norio Hayakawa of Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
For many years, I have been interested in Dulce, New Mexico, widely
known among UFO fans as the location of an alleged U.S./alien
underground bio-lab.
Of course, this sounds like a ridiculous topic.   Most so-called
conservative ufologists (if there are such entities) dismiss Dulce as
just a fairy-tale type topic.
But yet Dulce continues to be an often talked-about topic.
Even the History Channel took interest in Dulce and the goings-on in
and near Dulce.
I was there in Dulce twice last week.   So was the History Channel.  I
am so glad that the History Channel will be producing a one-hour
program on the whole Dulce controversy.
I will be hosting the first-time ever Dulce "Base" public forum on
March 29 in Dulce.
The Journal Santa Fe did a front-page story last month on the upcoming
Dulce base conference.
I welcome you to come and participate at the Dulce conference/public
forum.
Here is the article/press release:

THE DULCE BASE:  FACT OR FICTION?   Conference and Public Forum to be
held in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29, 2009

RIO RANCHO, NEW MEXICO  -  Norio Hayakawa is a resident of Rio Rancho
who believes that wild rumors may not always bring a bad name to a
community or hurt it.  Sometimes they bring curiosity seekers, and
even tourism may flourish.  Take, for example, the city of Roswell.
"Roswell has raked in quite a lot of tourist dollars all these years,
despite the lack of any tangible, solid, irrefutable evidence that an
extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed in the desert outside of the city
in July of 1947," Hayakawa noted.

And when it comes to the subject of UFOs, Hayakawa believes that there
is a much more interesting area in New Mexico than Roswell.

According to Hayakawa, Dulce, New Mexico, a sleepy little town of less
than 4000 (inhabited by the Jicarilla Apache nation), has attracted
quite a number of UFO and conspiracy buffs ever since rumors surfaced
in the mid-80s that a U.S./alien joint biological laboratory and base
exists a mile under the town's Archuleta Mesa.  "This rumor has become
so well known among UFO buffs around the world that anyone doing a
Yahoo or Google search on Dulce, New Mexico would find the bulk of
over 300,000 search results related to the alleged underground base,"
Hayakawa said.

Skeptical of such claims, Hayakawa, a retired funeral director,
visited the town of Dulce in 1990 with the crew of a Japanese
television program to attempt to document the existence of such an
alien base.
Although he was unsuccessful in locating it, Hayakawa claims that he
and the television crew were inexplicably detained by the police chief
while interviewing the citizens on the street about UFOs and cattle
mutilations.

Now, almost 19 years later, Hayakawa and a few UFO enthusiasts from
New Mexico, California and Arizona, would like to clear these
unfounded rumors.  They are planning to have a one-day public
conference in the town of Dulce next March.
It will be appropriately titled:  "The Dulce Base:  Fact or Fiction?"

Hayakawa likes to separate fact from fiction.
"There has not been any physical evidence whatsoever that there is
such a base in or near Dulce,"  Hayakawa asserted. "However, when it
comes to UFOs, many of the residents there are believers, since
beginning around the mid-1970s and lasting till the mid-1980s, the
entire town of Dulce was buzzed by frequent sightings of strange
lights in the sky."  This is fact, according to Hayakawa.

Another fact is that many ranchers in the nearby communities began to
report mysterious cattle mutilations and frequent sightings of
military helicopters during that time.
Some Dulce officials, concerned about these incidents, attended the
first Cattle Mutilations conference in Albuquerque in 1979, including
Raleigh Tafoya, who was the chief at the time. This also is fact, not
fiction.

Hayakawa believes that there could be prosaic explanations to both the
UFO sightings and cattle mutilations, although he still doesn't have
the answers.

It was during the mid-80s that wild stories of an underground alien
base surfaced - and still continue to this day - so much so that the
entire town of Dulce has almost become synonymous with the alleged
alien underground bio-lab.  The fact that Dulce is located only 100
miles northwest of Los Alamos provided additional fuel for the
conspiracy buffs.   According to Hayakawa, Los Alamos is the leading-
edge research laboratory on human genome/DNA research in the U.S.

But again, Hayakawa likes to remain skeptical when it comes to
"underground bases."

Although throughout the years the residents of Dulce seem to have
taken all these strange rumors about their community with a grain of
salt, Hayakawa says that he would like to restore some sense of
normalcy to Dulce.
This is the reason why he will host Dulce's first public conference on
the topic.
Hayakawa is intent on dispelling rumors, once and for all, that there
are such bases in or near Dulce.

Will the townsfolk of Dulce speak up at the conference? Will there be
some new revelations about Dulce?
"It will be fascinating," said Hayakawa.

One of the speakers at the conference will be Greg Bishop, author of a
book entitled PROJECT BETA. Bishop has thoroughly investigated the
claims of an Albuquerque scientist by the name of Paul Bennewitz who
was one of the initial sources behind the rumors of underground bases
at Dulce and other U.S. locations.
The one-day conference, open to the public, will be held on Sunday,
March 29, 2009 at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn in Dulce.  The entire
bar/lounge area is reserved specifically for this event.   It will
start at 10 a.m. and will conclude at 3 p.m.  Admission to the
conference is $5 at the door.
There will be some surprise guest speakers as well as many surprise
guests in attendance.
A large portion of the "conference" will be an Open Public Forum
during which the public will be given a chance to express their
thoughts and will be given an opportunity to speak out.
There will also be a special live music entertainment.
Hayakawa can be contacted at noriohayakawa@rocketmail.com

The article on the conference can also be found at:

An unusual conference in Dulce, New Mexico
http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1208/hayakawa.html

Information about the conference can also be found at
http://www.myspace.com/noriohayakawa