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### Books and Arizona
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]
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]
### Falcon, 1980
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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]
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]
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]
### The Graham badge, 1986 and 1987
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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]
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]
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]
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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### Footnotes
[^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
[^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.
[^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.
[^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).
[^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.
[^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)
[^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
[^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
[^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.
[^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.
[^16]: Collins and Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure*, introduction, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure
[^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.
[^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;
[^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
[^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.