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The Form D of Futurism, LLC ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]; Delaware file number 5743300) was signed by "Alexander Klokus," title chief executive officer, on December 19, 2016. It lists Klokus and [[Dan Sutera]] as executive officers and directors and "Johnson Bryan" and [[Michael G. Clark]] as directors (first name "Johnson," last name "Bryan," as entered on the form; the filing gives no middle name or other identifier). It reports a total offering and amount sold of 6,000,652 dollars, one investor, first sale November 22, 2016, and exemption Rule 506(b). It is the only filing under the company's [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] number.[^1] The 15 calendar days after a first sale allowed by 17 CFR 230.503(a)(1) for filing a Form D ran to December 7, 2016; the form was filed 27 days after the first sale.[^1][^4]
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An archived copy of futurism.com/about dated June 16, 2017 lists Klokus as chief executive officer, with Dan Sutera as president, and lists [[Peter Diamandis]] of the [[XPRIZE Foundation]] among its "Experts."[^5] A press release of July 26, 2021 by [[Recurrent Ventures]] is titled "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from [[Singularity University]]" and does not name Klokus in the text read.[^6] The speaker biography for Klokus on the [[SALT Conference]] website states that he "built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity."[^7]
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An archived copy of futurism.com/about dated June 16, 2017 lists Klokus as chief executive officer, with Dan Sutera as president, and lists [[Peter Diamandis]] of the [[XPRIZE Foundation]] among its "Experts."[^5] A press release of July 26, 2021 by [[Recurrent Ventures]] is titled "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from [[Singularity University]]" and does not name Klokus in the text.[^6] The speaker biography for Klokus on the [[SALT Conference]] website states that he "built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity."[^7]
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### Theo Rewards and portfolio companies
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### Government and advisory roles
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Loeb told *[[The Harvard Crimson]]* in July 2026 that he had previously served on the [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] under [[Donald Trump]], that the director of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] visited his home after taking office, and that government officials had approached him several times over the previous five years. He announced the [[UAP Science Advisory Council]] in mid-June 2026 after a representative of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited him at home; he told the Crimson the [[White House]] gave him a "free hand" in choosing members, that the council has no budget, and that he did not inform Harvard's president [[Alan Garber]] before agreeing to serve. He was also quoted: "I'm supporting the prosperity of the United States and the science I'm pursuing, and I'm not doing it on behalf of a political agenda."[^16] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^17] [[Charles Alcock]], director of the Center for Astrophysics, was listed on the Galileo Project's Scientific Advisory Board.[^18] A draft paper dated March 7, 2023, "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," listed [[Sean Kirkpatrick]] as director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Loeb as head of the Galileo Project.[^19]
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Loeb told *[[The Harvard Crimson]]* in July 2026 that he had previously served on the [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] under [[Donald Trump]], that the director of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] visited his home after taking office, and that government officials had approached him several times over the previous five years. He announced the [[UAP Science Advisory Council]] in mid-June 2026 after a representative of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited him at home; he told the Crimson the [[White House]] gave him a "free hand" in choosing members, that the council has no budget, and that he did not inform Harvard's president [[Alan Garber]] before agreeing to serve. He was also quoted: "I'm supporting the prosperity of the United States and the science I'm pursuing, and I'm not doing it on behalf of a political agenda."[^16] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it.[^17] [[Charles Alcock]], director of the Center for Astrophysics, was listed on the Galileo Project's Scientific Advisory Board.[^18] A draft paper dated March 7, 2023, "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," listed [[Sean Kirkpatrick]] as director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Loeb as head of the Galileo Project.[^19]
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The documents in the library date the chain as follows. On May 23, 2017 (EFTA01047005) Masha Drokova told Epstein that Futurism, which she described as media "in the intersection of science and futurism," was run by a founder whose LinkedIn page she linked (Klokus). On September 18, 2017 an in-person "Interview w/Futurism Editor, Alex Klokus" appears on Epstein's schedule at 1:30 p.m., prepared by his assistant [[Lesley Groff]] (EFTA02223354 and others). On October 2, 2017 (EFTA00999952) Drokova forwarded to Epstein a note from Klokus: "I was sitting with Bryan Johnson today, who was telling me about everything he's working on at Kernel ... Bryan is building a neural implant that is intended to enhance cognition." Epstein answered "always interested." At 8:39 p.m. that evening, Klokus wrote to Johnson and Drokova, in a message quoted in EFTA02227011: "Bryan is building Kernel, and today I spoke with Masha about the potential value of him and Jeffrey chatting." On October 3 Johnson wrote that he was "in town until Wednesday afternoon and have a really tight schedule but would like to meet up with Jeffery if possible" (EFTA02227025); Epstein wrote that he was "in florida until friday" (EFTA01000443), and a message signed "Lesley" asked whether a call could be coordinated instead (EFTA02225373). Groff and Kernel's executive assistant arranged a video call for Friday, October 6, 2017; Epstein told Groff to "move barry abd sarah to 4 can we do bryan at 5 instead" (EFTA00460518), Groff's schedule for the day listed "5:00pm ZOOM Interview w/Bryan Johnson and possibly Masha" (EFTA00460043), Epstein chose "zoom" over a regular call (EFTA02225564, invitation "Sync: Bryan/Jeffrey/Masha," host kernel-hi.zoom.us), and Groff asked Johnson to delay it to 5:15 p.m. because Epstein was running late (EFTA02226959). A message from Drokova quoted in EFTA02226363 reads: "I managed to free up earlier and join Jeffrey and Bryan too." No document read records that the call took place or what was said; the schedule moved it from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and then to 5:15 p.m., and Drokova's 5:14 p.m. message says she had freed up time to join. The September 18, 2017 meeting with Klokus is likewise recorded only as a scheduled entry.[^3]
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Later items in the same files: a July 20, 2018 message from a "Bryan Johnson" with the subject "Becoming a zero detective" (EFTA02294943, body not present in the release page read), and the October 26, 2018 mass mailing from a Kernel address addressed to Groff (EFTA00484119). No payment, investment, in-person meeting or later exchange between Epstein and Johnson, Kernel or OS Fund appears in the documents read.[^10][^3]
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Later items in the same files: a July 20, 2018 message from a "Bryan Johnson" with the subject "Becoming a zero detective" (EFTA02294943), and the October 26, 2018 mass mailing from a Kernel address addressed to Groff (EFTA00484119). No payment, investment, in-person meeting or later exchange between Epstein and Johnson, Kernel or OS Fund appears in the documents.[^10][^3]
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A Form D of Futurism, LLC ([[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]]) filed on December 19, 2016, signed by Klokus as chief executive officer, lists as related persons Klokus and [[Dan Sutera]] (executive officers and directors) and two further directors, [[Michael G. Clark|Michael Clark]] and a person entered with first name "Johnson" and last name "Bryan"; it reports 6,000,652 dollars sold to one investor, first sale November 22, 2016. The filing gives no other identifying detail for that director.[^14]
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[^1]: Technori Staff, "How Bryan Johnson Has Taken Braintree to Explosive Growth in Three Years," Technori, December 19, 2010, https://technori.com/2010/12/4506-how-bryan-johnson-has-taken-braintree-to-explosive-growth-in-three-years/sethkravitz/
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[^2]: Kirsten Grind, "Bryan Johnson's efforts to not die include control via confidentiality agreements," New York Times, March 21, 2025 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-blueprint-confidentiality-agreements.html), as republished by the Salt Lake Tribune, https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/03/30/bryan-johnson-efforts-not-die ; the republished text was read, not the Times page.
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[^2]: Kirsten Grind, "Bryan Johnson's efforts to not die include control via confidentiality agreements," New York Times, March 21, 2025 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-blueprint-confidentiality-agreements.html), as republished by the Salt Lake Tribune, https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/03/30/bryan-johnson-efforts-not-die .
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[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library (Epstein Files Transparency Act release): EFTA01047005, Data Set 9, Masha Drokova to "Jeffrey E.," May 23, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01047005.pdf; EFTA00999952, Data Set 9, Epstein to Drokova, "Re: From Futurism," October 2, 2017 (quoting Drokova's forward of the Klokus note), https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00999952.pdf; EFTA01000443, Data Set 9, same thread, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01000443.pdf; EFTA02227011, Data Set 11, Drokova to Johnson, October 3, 2017, quoting Klokus's message of October 2, 8:39 p.m., https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02227011.pdf; EFTA02227025, Data Set 11, Johnson to Drokova and Klein, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02227025.pdf; EFTA02225373, Data Set 11, message signed "Lesley" to Johnson, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02225373.pdf; EFTA00460518, Data Set 9, Epstein to Groff, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00460518.pdf; EFTA00460043, Data Set 9, Groff schedule, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00460043.pdf; EFTA02225564, Data Set 11, Groff and Epstein on Zoom, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02225564.pdf; EFTA02226959, Data Set 11, Groff to Johnson, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02226959.pdf; EFTA02226363, Data Set 11, message quoted as from Drokova, October 6, 2017, 5:14 p.m., https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02226363.pdf; EFTA00391312, Data Set 9, Groff and Diamandis, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391312.pdf; EFTA02223354, Data Set 11, Groff and Drokova, September 18, 2017 (Klokus named as the Futurism editor expected at 1:30 p.m.), https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02223354.pdf. Texts read from the PDFs.
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[^4]: Braintree, Inc., Form D, filed July 13, 2011, SEC accession 0001524770-11-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1524770/000152477011000001/primary_doc.xml ; second Form D filed November 21, 2011 (CIK 0001524770, EDGAR full-text index).
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[^5]: Leena Rao, Sarah Perez and Ingrid Lunden, "eBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash," TechCrunch, September 26, 2013, https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-gateway-braintree-for-800m-in-cash
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[^1]: "Who did not kill Christine Van Hees?" *De Morgen,* September 22, 1998.
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[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf
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[^3]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview
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[^5]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 *The Observer* gives her age as fifteen in its account of Louf's description, and this page earlier gave fourteen from a source not now identified.
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[^5]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 *The Observer* gives her age as fifteen in its account of Louf's description.
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[^4]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000.
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[^6]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/
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[^7]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/).
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[^8]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/ (sole source for the statement, made on camera to James Fox; Vice could not verify).
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[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Foreword by Christopher Mellon, dated May 16, 2024, pp. xiii to xxii. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
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[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Foreword by Christopher Mellon, dated May 16, 2024, pp. xiii to xxii. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage.
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[^10]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 180 to 185 (Semivan at pp. 180 to 182 and 184 to 185; Mellon's visit at pp. 183 to 185).
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[^11]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 222 to 224 (deputy staff director at p. 222; the special operations command bill at p. 224).
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[^12]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 199 to 209 (CDs at p. 199; Kean at pp. 203 to 204; TTSA at pp. 204 to 205; Bender at p. 209; Mellon leaving TTSA at p. 220).
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[^1]: "Leopold Lippens, the baron-mayor of Knokke, dies at 79." *The Brussels Times,* February 20, 2021, archived March 2, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210302173436/https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/155873/leopold-lippens-mayor-knokke-dies-at-79-congo-baron-michelin-kennedy-trump-leukaemia/
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[^2]: "Mayor Leopold Lippens of Knokke-Heist has died aged 79." *VRT NWS,* February 19, 2021, archived February 20, 2021.
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[^3]: Goedgebeur, Helen. "Is Leopold Lippens schuldig aan belangenvermenging? Parket voert onderzoek naar burgemeester Knokke-Heist." *VRT NWS,* January 7, 2020, citing *De Standaard;* translated from the Dutch. https://web.archive.org/web/20200108234511/https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020/01/07/is-leopold-lippens-schuldig-aan-belangenvermenging-parket-voert/
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[^4]: Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck, and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck. *De X-dossiers.* Epo, 1999, and the leaked summary of the X-file investigation published by WikiLeaks in 2009; neither examined directly. The witness attributions were located through the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics compilation "Belgian X-Dossiers of the Dutroux Affair: the Accused," used as a finding aid only.
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[^4]: Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck, and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck. *De X-dossiers.* Epo, 1999, and the leaked summary of the X-file investigation published by WikiLeaks in 2009. The witness attributions were located through the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics compilation "Belgian X-Dossiers of the Dutroux Affair: the Accused," used as a finding aid only.
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[^1]: "Maurice Lippens rompt le silence." *VRT NWS,* September 19, 2009, archived October 16, 2019; translated from the French. https://web.archive.org/web/20191016073837/https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/2009/09/19/maurice_lippens_romptlesilence-1-600628/
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[^2]: Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck, and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck. *De X-dossiers.* Epo, 1999, and the leaked summary of the X-file investigation published by WikiLeaks in 2009; neither examined directly. The witness attributions were located through the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics compilation "Belgian X-Dossiers of the Dutroux Affair: the Accused," used as a finding aid only.
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[^2]: Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck, and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck. *De X-dossiers.* Epo, 1999, and the leaked summary of the X-file investigation published by WikiLeaks in 2009. The witness attributions were located through the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics compilation "Belgian X-Dossiers of the Dutroux Affair: the Accused," used as a finding aid only.
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[^3]: "Did Maurice Lippens deceive small investors?" *VRT NWS,* September 21, 2013, archived September 20, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190920101737/https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2013/09/21/did_maurice_lippensdeceivesmallinvestors-1-1734811/
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McDonald died on June 13, 1971, at the age of 51, according to the American Meteorological Society and Physics Today.[^2][^5] Battan wrote that his UFO investigation "brought him into conflict with certain scientists and engineers," that "he found few allies in this scientific quest," and that he "was a man of integrity and great courage."[^2] Neither obituary states a cause of death. The [[Pima County, Arizona|Pima County]] record was not available for this draft.
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McDonald died on June 13, 1971, at the age of 51, according to the American Meteorological Society and Physics Today.[^2][^5] Battan wrote that his UFO investigation "brought him into conflict with certain scientists and engineers," that "he found few allies in this scientific quest," and that he "was a man of integrity and great courage."[^2] Neither obituary states a cause of death.
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The Tucson Daily Citizen of Monday, June 14, 1971 reported under the headline "UA Physicist Found Dead In Desert" that McDonald, 51, was found dead on Sunday, June 13, in a desert area north of [[Tucson]], and that the death was "apparently a suicide, according to sheriff's deputies." According to the paper, an autopsy had been performed and no report was immediately available. It quoted Sheriff Waldon V. Burr as saying a note and a .38 revolver were found beside the body and that there was a bullet wound in the head. The paper reported that Frank Flores, of 127 E. Lee Street, said he and his children were hiking about noon on Sunday when they found the body at Canyon del Oro near Ina Road and Interstate 10, and that McDonald reportedly took a cab from a downtown motel to the area. It gave his address as 3461 E. 3rd Street, and stated that he was blinded when he shot himself in the head on April 9, according to police reports, and had begun going to his office for several hours a day only the previous week. University of Arizona president [[Richard A. Harvill]] was quoted as calling him an "exceptionally able teacher" and "well-known throughout the United States as a brilliant scholar," and Louis J. Battan, associate director of the Institute, credited him with contributions to cloud physics and weather modification research. The article also summarized his Condon Report opposition and his SST campaign, and described him as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a statement the 1968 hearing biography does not support.[^8]
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Dean [[Daniel C. Tosteson]] convened a "Special Faculty Committee" in the summer of 1994 under the chairmanship of [[Arnold Relman]]. In the [[Baltimore Sun]]'s account of August 4, 1995, Tosteson had told Mack the previous Friday that the review had ended; Harvard counsel [[Anne Taylor]], a member of the committee, said that Mack remained a full member of the faculty "with no adverse action taken," and Relman said the committee never considered revoking his tenure. The same report states that the committee's preliminary report, drafted earlier in 1995, "chastised Dr. Mack for 'affirming the delusions' of his many patients" and found him "in violation of the standards of conduct expected of a member of the faculty of Harvard University," and that Mack's lawyer, [[Eric MacLeish]], contested the findings.[^10] [[Alan Dershowitz]] criticized the inquiry in the [[The Harvard Crimson|Harvard Crimson]] on June 30, 1995; Relman replied there on September 13, 1995 that the committee's work was confidential, that Mack's right to research abduction was never challenged, and that the committee was critical because Mack "wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem."[^11] Whether Rockefeller or the [[Human Potential Foundation]] intervened with Harvard is not documented in any record opened.
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Dean [[Daniel C. Tosteson]] convened a "Special Faculty Committee" in the summer of 1994 under the chairmanship of [[Arnold Relman]]. In the [[Baltimore Sun]]'s account of August 4, 1995, Tosteson had told Mack the previous Friday that the review had ended; Harvard counsel [[Anne Taylor]], a member of the committee, said that Mack remained a full member of the faculty "with no adverse action taken," and Relman said the committee never considered revoking his tenure. The same report states that the committee's preliminary report, drafted earlier in 1995, "chastised Dr. Mack for 'affirming the delusions' of his many patients" and found him "in violation of the standards of conduct expected of a member of the faculty of Harvard University," and that Mack's lawyer, [[Eric MacLeish]], contested the findings.[^10] [[Alan Dershowitz]] criticized the inquiry in the [[The Harvard Crimson|Harvard Crimson]] on June 30, 1995; Relman replied there on September 13, 1995 that the committee's work was confidential, that Mack's right to research abduction was never challenged, and that the committee was critical because Mack "wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem."[^11] Whether Rockefeller or the [[Human Potential Foundation]] intervened with Harvard is not documented in any record.
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[^2]: Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, Chapter 7, "Government Knowledge," pp. 137 to 162 and Appendix 4, same URL. First-person account; sole source for the passages so cited except where another note is given.
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[^3]: Philip J. Klass, *Skeptics UFO Newsletter* no. 44, March 1997, p. 3 (Howe's account "published in the December 1987 issue of Just Cause"; Doty's letter of March 3, 1988 published in the June 1988 issue), https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN44.pdf
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[^4]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, Wayback Machine capture of October 28, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161028084620/http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm. Howe's statements reach the page through Hastings's telephone conversation with her.
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[^5]: William L. Moore, 1989b, as quoted in "E B E's," part 11, UFO BBS file UFO1030, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1030.ufo (author not identified in the copy consulted).
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[^5]: William L. Moore, 1989b, as quoted in "E B E's," part 11, UFO BBS file UFO1030, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1030.ufo.
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[^6]: "Greg Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with host Art Bell," transcript of the broadcast of February 27, 2005, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf, (transcript read; Doty's statements on Howe at the passages beginning "Linda was going to air" and "Paul Bennewitz, Linda Howe, and two other groups of people that we had an operation against").
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[^7]: William L. Moore, address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, from the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po (video of the Ron Regehr recording, Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon); names corrected from mis-rendered captions.
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[^1]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements. https://www.senate.be
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[^2]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850
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[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying accounts are Louf, Regina, *Zwijgen is voor daders* (1998), and Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), neither of which was seen.
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[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying accounts are Louf, Regina, *Zwijgen is voor daders* (1998), and Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999).
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[^4]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview
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Moore said in 1989 that he had been a high school teacher for fourteen years in [[Minnesota]] and, concurrently for ten years, a part-time labor relations expert with the [[Minnesota Education Association]]; that in 1979, after publishing *The Philadelphia Experiment* with Berlitz, he resigned his teaching position and moved with his family to [[Arizona]] to write full time; and that he came away from a divorce in 1983 with virtually nothing and went through bankruptcy soon afterward.[^2] A text circulated on the [[UFO BBS]] in 1991, an encyclopedia-style account whose author is not identified in the copy consulted, places the teaching post in a small Minnesota town.[^4] From about August 1979 to mid-1987 Moore kept post office box 189 in [[Dewey, Arizona]], as a correspondence address, and moved to [[California]] in early 1983.[^6] A promotional biography prepared for the 1988 television program [[UFO Cover-Up Live]] describes him as the author of two international bestsellers, with investigations that had taken him 200,000 miles to 38 states, [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]], and living in [[Los Angeles]].[^7] Moore said in 1989 that the APRO directors [[Coral Lorenzen]] and [[James Lorenzen]] of [[Tucson]] invited him to the APRO board after his move, and wrote in 1990 that in 1980 he was the board member in charge of Special Investigations.[^2][^5] He told the audience in 1989 that he lived in a rented house, drove a 1977 car and a 1979 motorcycle, had dropped his health insurance, and that "as for my being on the government's payroll, I can only say that I wish I was."[^2]
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Moore said in 1989 that he had been a high school teacher for fourteen years in [[Minnesota]] and, concurrently for ten years, a part-time labor relations expert with the [[Minnesota Education Association]]; that in 1979, after publishing *The Philadelphia Experiment* with Berlitz, he resigned his teaching position and moved with his family to [[Arizona]] to write full time; and that he came away from a divorce in 1983 with virtually nothing and went through bankruptcy soon afterward.[^2] A text circulated on the [[UFO BBS]] in 1991, an encyclopedia-style account, places the teaching post in a small Minnesota town.[^4] From about August 1979 to mid-1987 Moore kept post office box 189 in [[Dewey, Arizona]], as a correspondence address, and moved to [[California]] in early 1983.[^6] A promotional biography prepared for the 1988 television program [[UFO Cover-Up Live]] describes him as the author of two international bestsellers, with investigations that had taken him 200,000 miles to 38 states, [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]], and living in [[Los Angeles]].[^7] Moore said in 1989 that the APRO directors [[Coral Lorenzen]] and [[James Lorenzen]] of [[Tucson]] invited him to the APRO board after his move, and wrote in 1990 that in 1980 he was the board member in charge of Special Investigations.[^2][^5] He told the audience in 1989 that he lived in a rented house, drove a 1977 car and a 1979 motorcycle, had dropped his health insurance, and that "as for my being on the government's payroll, I can only say that I wish I was."[^2]
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On January 10 and 11, 1983 Moore attended the first of two meetings in [[New Mexico]] between Doty and the attorney [[Peter Gersten]] of [[Citizens Against UFO Secrecy]] (CAUS), with the [[San Francisco]] television producer [[Ron Lakis]]; the second meeting, at which Doty spoke of Project Aquarius, Ellsworth and extraterrestrial contact, was attended by Gersten alone.[^4][^13] Moore consulted for the San Francisco station [[KPIX-TV]] in 1982 and gave its program producer a copy of the November 1980 teletype, according to [[Philip J. Klass]].[^14]
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Pilkington wrote that in late 1981 and early 1982 Moore and the [[National Enquirer]] writer [[Bob Pratt]] planned a book on the material Doty was supplying, with Doty credited as "Ronald L. Davis," and that Pratt's recorded telephone calls show Moore at first insisting it be non-fiction before agreeing to a novel, first titled *Majik 12* and then *The Aquarius Project*. Pilkington cites [[Barry Greenwood]] and [[Brad Sparks]], "The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12" (MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2007), for this; that paper was not obtained for this page.[^8][^15] Collins wrote in 2005 that the book *[[Exempt from Disclosure]]* "has the same title as the book Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera intended to publish."[^16]
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Pilkington wrote that in late 1981 and early 1982 Moore and the [[National Enquirer]] writer [[Bob Pratt]] planned a book on the material Doty was supplying, with Doty credited as "Ronald L. Davis," and that Pratt's recorded telephone calls show Moore at first insisting it be non-fiction before agreeing to a novel, first titled *Majik 12* and then *The Aquarius Project*. Pilkington cites [[Barry Greenwood]] and [[Brad Sparks]], "The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12" (MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2007), for this.[^8][^15] Collins wrote in 2005 that the book *[[Exempt from Disclosure]]* "has the same title as the book Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera intended to publish."[^16]
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Moore said that after the broadcast of UFO Cover-Up Live "the FBI showed up and began asking questions about it," arranged a private showing in the office of the producer [[Michael Seligman]], and interviewed ufologists on both coasts including Shandera, while avoiding him; and that a [[Freedom of Information Act]] response of July 1988 admitted that the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] held nearly sixty pages of material on him, all classified for reasons of national security. Of the program he said: "I'm convinced that at least some of that information falls under the category of disinformation. I'm equally convinced that some of it is true," and that the sources knew they would be identified on the show as confidential government informants.[^2]
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Moore's closing positions, as spoken, were that a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization is visiting Earth and "actively manipulating our awareness of their presence"; that elements of at least two government intelligence agencies know this and run classified projects; that counterintelligence personnel have conducted "an on-again off-again campaign of deception and disinformation about the UFO phenomenon for more than 40 years," including phony documents and informants, for five possible reasons, among them use of the phenomenon by "trilateralists" seeking world unity against an unknown threat from space; that a group designated MJ-12 operates at the [[White House]] [[National Security Council]] level; that there was a Project Aquarius, "possibly two of them," one in 1971 to 1973 and one in 1976 to 1985, with contract and report numbers obtained; that the Cutler-Twining memorandum was, in his view, "reasonable certainty" authentic and had been planted among the papers of Record Group 341 for them to find; that there was "no compelling reason to believe" the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] briefing document was other than authentic, though its authenticity was not proved; and that "our group is euphemistically called the aviary and each individual uses a code name of a bird." He closed that there is "an extraterrestrial presence here on planet Earth" and that a small number of government people know it. Pilkington called the closing section Moore's "Estimate of the Situation."[^2][^8] The UFO BBS text, citing a printed Moore text of 1989 that was not obtained, adds that Moore named as subjects of intelligence interest between 1980 and 1984 [[Len Stringfield]], [[Pete Mazzola]], Gersten, [[Larry Fawcett]], James and Coral Lorenzen, and [[Larry W. Bryant]], and said four other prominent ufologists had been doing "the same thing," two of them still active.[^4]
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Moore's closing positions, as spoken, were that a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization is visiting Earth and "actively manipulating our awareness of their presence"; that elements of at least two government intelligence agencies know this and run classified projects; that counterintelligence personnel have conducted "an on-again off-again campaign of deception and disinformation about the UFO phenomenon for more than 40 years," including phony documents and informants, for five possible reasons, among them use of the phenomenon by "trilateralists" seeking world unity against an unknown threat from space; that a group designated MJ-12 operates at the [[White House]] [[National Security Council]] level; that there was a Project Aquarius, "possibly two of them," one in 1971 to 1973 and one in 1976 to 1985, with contract and report numbers obtained; that the Cutler-Twining memorandum was, in his view, "reasonable certainty" authentic and had been planted among the papers of Record Group 341 for them to find; that there was "no compelling reason to believe" the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] briefing document was other than authentic, though its authenticity was not proved; and that "our group is euphemistically called the aviary and each individual uses a code name of a bird." He closed that there is "an extraterrestrial presence here on planet Earth" and that a small number of government people know it. Pilkington called the closing section Moore's "Estimate of the Situation."[^2][^8] The UFO BBS text, citing a printed Moore text of 1989, adds that Moore named as subjects of intelligence interest between 1980 and 1984 [[Len Stringfield]], [[Pete Mazzola]], Gersten, [[Larry Fawcett]], James and Coral Lorenzen, and [[Larry W. Bryant]], and said four other prominent ufologists had been doing "the same thing," two of them still active.[^4]
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Citizens Against UFO Secrecy devoted most of its September 1989 *[[Just Cause]]* to the speech. Barry Greenwood wrote that Moore "reported the effects of the false information regularly to some of the very same people who were 'doing it' to Paul," and, of the television program, that "here we have a fair portion of the last hour wasted in presenting what Moore admits to be false data."[^4]
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[^1]: Open Library catalogue records, *The Roswell Incident* (Grosset & Dunlap, 1980; Berkley, 1988) and *The Philadelphia Experiment* (Grosset & Dunlap, 1979), https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3384724W
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[^2]: William L. Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, video recorded by Ron Regehr (Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon, https://archive.org/details/bill-moore-1989-mufon) and read here from the automatic caption transcript of a YouTube upload titled "Full, infamous 1989 disinformation confession speech by Bill Moore," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po. The captions mis-render names ("Dodie," "Chandere," "Benowitz," "Muon"), which are corrected here; quotations follow the caption wording and could differ in small details from the printed version in the MUFON UFO Journal of November and December 1989, which was not obtained. The text of the speech is the sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: William L. Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, video recorded by Ron Regehr (Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon, https://archive.org/details/bill-moore-1989-mufon) and read here from the automatic caption transcript of a YouTube upload titled "Full, infamous 1989 disinformation confession speech by Bill Moore," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po. The captions mis-render names ("Dodie," "Chandere," "Benowitz," "Muon"), which are corrected here; quotations follow the caption wording and could differ in small details from the printed version in the MUFON UFO Journal of November and December 1989. The text of the speech is the sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^3]: William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, *The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report* (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf (scanned excerpt, read as page images).
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[^4]: "E B E's," UFO BBS files UFO1023 to UFO1036, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo (part 5), .../1027.ufo (part 8), .../1030.ufo (part 11), .../1036.ufo (part 17). The files were distributed through ParaNet in January 1991 and carry no author line; the text cites Moore 1989a and 1989b, Greenwood 1989 and Howe 1989. Sole source for the Offutt call, the Minnesota teaching post and the speech logistics.
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[^5]: Moore and Shandera, *MJ-12 Documents*, "The Weitzel Letter (July, 1980)," pp. 6 to 7, quoting Moore's paper of July 1, 1989, same excerpt as note 3.
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[^12]: James W. Moseley, ed., *Saucer Smear*, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, letter of Richard Doty, https://web.archive.org/web/2008id_/http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (Wayback Machine capture; the live domain no longer serves the issue)
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[^13]: Linda Moulton Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 137 to 139 (Gersten's report of January 10 and 11, 1983), https://archive.org/details/howe-l.-m.-an-alien-harvest-2nd-ed-2014
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[^14]: Philip J. Klass, *Skeptics UFO Newsletter* no. 44, March 1997, p. 2, https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN44.pdf
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[^15]: Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks, "The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12," MUFON Symposium Proceedings 2007, as cited in Pilkington, *Mirage Men*, chapter notes. Not obtained.
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[^15]: Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks, "The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12," MUFON Symposium Proceedings 2007, as cited in Pilkington, *Mirage Men*, chapter notes.
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[^16]: Collins and Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure*, introduction, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure
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[^17]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, "Moore Questions," Wayback Machine capture of October 28, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161028084620/http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm. Graham's account reaches the page through Hastings only; Graham's letters were not obtained.
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[^17]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, "Moore Questions," Wayback Machine capture of October 28, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161028084620/http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm. Graham's account reaches the page through Hastings only;
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[^18]: Kate MacGregor, "Government's Battle with New Mexico UFO Witnesses," *Lincoln County News* (Carrizozo, New Mexico), August 30, 1990 (Sunmount Syndicate), reposted as UFO BBS file UFO1943, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1943.ufo
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[^19]: Collins and Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure*, Section 2, Chapter 4 addendum and reference 4a (Rositzke named "according to Bill Moore and known by Rick Doty"; Parks statement of July 20, 2012), https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure. The archive copy is dated 2010 in its metadata but cites 2012 material.
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