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behind the scenes of UFO cover-up live

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part 2 by Charles Lear in last week's

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blog we introduced two people Richard

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Dodie's self-professed Air Force office

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of special investigations disinformation

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agent and William Moore a UFO researcher

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and co-author of the 1980 book the

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Roswell incident who had a profound

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influence on the UFO narrative in the

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1980s that culminated in a television

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presentation UFO cover-up live what was

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discussed scripted on the show was the

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now familiar Narrative of Gray's flying

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saucers government recovery of Crash

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debris in alien bodies and subsequent

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cover-up more indotive since come

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forward as having been Partners in what

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they claimed was a government

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disinformation program targeting

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ufologists we closed with the hypothesis

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that Dodie was acting on his own and

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that more played along because he had a

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need to believe and stood to make some

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money from the inside information that

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Dodie was feeding him and his fellow

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researchers this week we'll look at

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evidence to support that hypothesis

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because Dodie has never confessed acting

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on his own when he spread disinformation

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throughout the UFO community and the Air

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Force has never confirmed nor denied

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that he was acting on orders the

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following should be looked at as

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speculation or a thought experiment to

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begin we need to explore the backgrounds

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of Dodie and more more had a history of

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promoting fantastic stories based on

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questionable anecdotal evidence and one

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in particular based on a tale told by a

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man who later confessed he made the

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story up before the Roswell incident

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Moore and berlitz co-authored the 1979

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book The Philadelphia Experiment more is

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listed before berlitz in the byline the

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story is that there was an experiment in

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Philadelphia Waters the Delaware River

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where U.S Navy ship was instantly

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transported from in stock in

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Philadelphia to a dock in the Norfolk

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Newport News Portsmouth area the story

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comes from a letter presented in the

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book with the date given As Days Later

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after a previous letter dated January 13

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1956 the letters are from Carl Allen

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also known as Carlos alende to Morris K

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Jessup and are the Genesis of the story

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that more in berlitz support with

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anecdotal and circumstantial evidence I

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went Allende walked into the

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headquarters of the aerial phenomena

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research organization in 1969 and

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confessed that the letters were a hoax

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and this was reported in the July August

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1969 apro Borden there's mention of this

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in chapter 6 of the book where it is

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described as a so-called confession

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Dodie's background can be examined by

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looking at his U.S Air Force service

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records and New Mexico State Police

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personnel file his Air Force Duty

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history shows he worked in law

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enforcement for his entire military

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career and spent his final year as a

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Food Services specialist this seems like

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an odd assignment for a CIA trained

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disinformation agent with highly

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classified information about UFOs his

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personnel file from his time with the

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state police shows nothing unusual and

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includes a reprimand for an accident

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involving a department vehicle and two

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notices of suspensions without pay one

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in two days respectively for the

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accident mentioned in the reprimand and

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an additional accident Dodie doesn't

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seem to have received any preferential

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treatment from the Department one thing

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to consider about Dodie's claim of being

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a CIA trained afosi disinformation agent

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is that a person in such a position

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would be compromising such a program or

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future similar efforts and would be

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likely breaking a secrecy Oath by

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revealing their covert activities in a

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public forum the reader is now invited

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to consider the following events from

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the perspective that Dodie was acting on

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his own and feeding more information he

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invented and that more was less than

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diligent in his research and possibly

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culpable in promoting a hoax that put

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private UFO Research into a tailspin at

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the 2009 mufon Symposium Brad Sparks and

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Barry Greenwood presented a paper titled

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the secret Pratt tapes and the origins

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of mj-12 the paper begins with the

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information that Robert Pratt a reporter

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author and former mufon journal editor

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recorded phone conversations with more

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without telling him they were working on

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a book that would reveal information

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more was getting from Dodie Pratt

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suggested it be fictionalized and more

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begrudgingly went along with that idea

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their work on the book fizzled out by

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1984 and nothing from it was published

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they were discussing Moore's recent

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meetings with Dodie Sparks in Greenwood

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describe more being in contact with the

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mysterious Air Force Colonel codenamed

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Falcon and that Dodie codenamed Sparrow

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was acting as the middleman according to

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Sparks Moore told him he was passing to

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Dodie every scrap of information he and

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his fellow Roswell investigator nuclear

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physicist Stanton T Friedman collected

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on their Roswell investigations and on

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UFO research and ufologists the readers

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told that evidently Dodie the colonel

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and the afosi set up a feedback loop

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where they gave forged documents to more

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that supported the information Moore

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gave to Dodie what was being developed

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in this Loop was the story that the

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government had recovered crash saucers

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live and dead aliens and that there was

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a secret group known as mj-12 that

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prepared briefings for every U.S

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president since Harry Truman the first

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briefing document was said to have been

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updated for each president and one

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reportedly prepared by mj-12 according

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to the cover page for Jimmy Carter in

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June 1977 was called the Aquarius

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document because the subject of the

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briefing is identified as project

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Aquarius the document is included in the

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paper and contains this Revelation Ebe

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reported that two thousand years ago his

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ancestors planted a human creature on

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earth to assist the inhabitants of Earth

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in developing a civilization one thing

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to notice is that Earth is used as a

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proper noun in this context and is not

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capitalized in the document there are

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also two punctuation errors in the

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briefing in the form of a missing

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apostrophe where aliens is being used in

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the possessive air years like these have

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been noted throughout the documents

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related to mk12 by various researchers

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such as Jacques valet there is also an

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aquarius teletype dated November 80.

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near the bottom of section 2 just before

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section 4 there is no Section 3 for some

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reason there is this line the official

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U.S government policy and results of

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project Aquarius is note the grammar

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error still classified top secret with

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no dissemination outside official

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intelligence channels and with

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restricted access to mj-12 this was a

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very early mention of mj-12 and possibly

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the first seen by researchers as the

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teletype made the rounds before the

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briefing document Kevin Randall

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describes the teletypes provenance

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according to Randall Moore said he had

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seen the original document and that he

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had been handed a retyped version of the

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document on March 2nd 1981 and told to

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give it to researcher Paul benowitz

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benowitz never showed the document to

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anyone so his having it didn't serve any

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purpose the document made its way into

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the UFO community Through Peter gersten

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of citizens against UFO secrecy Moore

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claimed that he had three copies and

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that one was in a briefcase that was

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stolen from his car in San Francisco

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after he had had a meeting with Kirsten

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according to Moore he never received a

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satisfactory explanation of how he

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gersten received the document this was

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the beginning of the mj-12 Mythos and

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just before the Majestic 12 documents

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hit the scene these caused a great deal

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of excitement among UFO researchers if

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these could be shown to be real they

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would prove that the government had

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recovered saucers and aliens and was

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hiding this from the public the first

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indication that the documents were

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forged is that they came in an envelope

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with a postmark from Albuquerque home of

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Kirtland Air Force Base where Dodie was

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thank you