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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The Aviary is the name used in the UFO literature for the intelligence, military
### The Naming
A UFO BBS text file, an encyclopedia-style account of the Moore affair whose author is not identified in the copy consulted, states that Moore and Shandera "had given them avian names and called the sources collectively 'the birds.'"[^1] [[Mark Pilkington]] wrote in 2010 that "when researcher Bill Moore was drawn into this network by [[Richard Doty]] and his colleagues at [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations|AFOSI]], he gave them the nickname the Aviary and identified them all using bird names," and described the network as "a loose-knit group of scientists, intelligence specialists and military personnel," formed in the mid-1970s, "all fascinated by the UFO subject," which had developed a distilled version of its findings that it called "the Core Story."[^2] Boylan wrote that "a small group of individuals with extremely high security clearances" had interacted unofficially since the 1970s and "gave themselves code names, using mostly bird names," numbering "roughly a dozen."[^3]
A UFO BBS text file, an encyclopedia-style account of the Moore affair whose author is not identified, states that Moore and Shandera "had given them avian names and called the sources collectively 'the birds.'"[^1] [[Mark Pilkington]] wrote in 2010 that "when researcher Bill Moore was drawn into this network by [[Richard Doty]] and his colleagues at [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations|AFOSI]], he gave them the nickname the Aviary and identified them all using bird names," and described the network as "a loose-knit group of scientists, intelligence specialists and military personnel," formed in the mid-1970s, "all fascinated by the UFO subject," which had developed a distilled version of its findings that it called "the Core Story."[^2] Boylan wrote that "a small group of individuals with extremely high security clearances" had interacted unofficially since the 1970s and "gave themselves code names, using mostly bird names," numbering "roughly a dozen."[^3]
The same account states that in September 1980, according to an account Moore gave seven years later, a caller identifying himself as being from [[Kirtland Air Force Base]] asked to meet him, that Moore and the man he would call "Falcon" met at a local restaurant, and that this "would initiate a long-running relationship" between Moore (and, beginning in 1982, Shandera) and 10 members of "a shadowy group said to be connected with military intelligence and to be opposed to the continuation of the UFO cover-up."[^1] Pilkington wrote that a Denny's restaurant "may even be where Doty and Falcon first met Bill Moore back in 1980."[^2]
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[^1]: "E B E's," parts 5, 11 and 17, UFO BBS text files UFO1024, UFO1030 and UFO1036, textfiles.com mirror, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo, .../1030.ufo and .../1036.ufo. The files carry no author line in the portions read; the text cites Moore 1989a and 1989b, Greenwood 1989 and Hastings 1989. The Greenwood quotations are as quoted in part 17. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^2]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men: A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs.* 2010, chapters on the Laughlin conference, Doty, "The Man in the White Coat" and "How to Believe Weird Things," read in a PDF copy at https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Green's statements are first-person quotations and reported speech in the book; sole source for the passages so cited. Also gives 18 October for the broadcast of UFO Cover-Up Live and says Colonel Barry Hennessey ran the AFOSI special projects unit at the Pentagon, and that Hennessey and Moore both denied he was Falcon.
[^3]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* November/December issue, year not stated in the copy consulted, reproduced with editorial interpolations at think-aboutit.com, Wayback Machine capture of August 31, 2013, http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the roster.
[^3]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* November/December issue, year not stated, reproduced with editorial interpolations at think-aboutit.com, Wayback Machine capture of August 31, 2013, http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the roster.
[^4]: Farley, C. Richard, Jr., letter to John H. Gibbons, April 29, 1995, Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 46, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/1995%2004%2029_C.%20Richard%20Farley,%20Jr.%20to%20John%20Gibbons%20-%20OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022%20-%20item%20no%2046.pdf.
[^5]: Colavito, Jason, quoting Schaeffer, Robert, and Kiviat, Robert. "Alien Autopsy Producer Sues UFO Contactee, Former CIA Scientist, and Ex-Congressman over Stalled UFO Documentary," March 23, 2019, https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/alien-autopsy-producer-sues-ufo-contactee-former-cia-scientist-and-ex-congressman-over-stalled-ufo-documentary. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^6]: Hastings, Robert. Statement of March 1, 1989, as quoted in "E B E's," part 16, UFO BBS file UFO1035, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1035.ufo. The denials by Moore and Doty and the account of the "real Falcon" are in that file's own narration, not in the Hastings quotation.
[^7]: Timothy Good, ed., *The UFO Report 1990*, "Editor's Foreword" (London, April 1989), pp. vii to viii (October 14, 1988); Barry Taff, UFO BBS file UFO135 ("When the final product aired on October 14 of that year"); Linda Moulton Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 193 to 196; Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure* ("The show finally aired on October 14, 1988"); Internet Archive upload description ("Broadcast 10/14/88"). Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men*, gives 18 October.
[^8]: Moore, William L., lecture of July 1, 1989, MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, as quoted in "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo (which cites Moore 1989b).
[^9]: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure: The Black World of UFOs* (Peregrine Communications; copyright notice 2010), introduction; Section 1, "Go west as they say," "Summits without the Cocktails, the fall of 1987," "And We Became Birds: 'The Aviary,'" "August 1988: Cloak & Dagger," "September 1988," "April 1989"; Section 2, Chapter 4 and references 4a, 4b and 5, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure (OCR text read). Collins's account is the sole source for the passages so cited.
[^10]: 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), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render names ("Dodie," "Chandere") and are corrected here. The printed version in the MUFON UFO Journal of November and December 1989 was not obtained.
[^10]: 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), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render names ("Dodie," "Chandere") and are corrected here.
[^11]: Richard C. Doty, letter of March 3, 1989, http://textfiles.com/ufo/doty.ufo
[^12]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, https://web.archive.org/web/20161028084620/http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm