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@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ On July 1, 1989 Moore told the [[MUFON]] symposium in [[Las Vegas]] that he woul
On the documents themselves Moore said in the same speech that "there is in fact a group known as MJ12 which operates at the [[White House]] National Security Council level" and that its functions were not established to be UFO related; that the Cutler-Twining memorandum was, with "reasonable certainty," authentic and "best evidence indicates that someone planted it amidst the papers of record group 341, knowing that there was a strong chance we would find it there"; that "there is still no compelling reason to believe" the Eisenhower briefing document was other than authentic, though "its authenticity remains far from proved"; that the Truman executive order of September 24, 1947 "presents the weakest case of the three"; that none of his sources knew terms such as "Magi," "Majesty," "PI40," "Plato" or "Garnet"; and that "if it's a hoax, it's extraordinarily well done," while "if it's disinformation, the equally important story of why needs to be told."[^19] He also said that those who suspected he created the documents were thanked "for the compliment," and that he could not rule out being "the innocent victim of an elaborate hoax."[^19]
[[Mark Pilkington]] wrote, citing Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks (MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2007; not obtained), that Moore, [[Bob Pratt]] and Doty planned in 1981 and 1982 a book first called "Majik 12" and then "The Aquarius Project," with Doty credited as "Ronald L. Davis," and that Pratt's notes of a January 1982 conversation with Moore record "Govt . . . UFO Project is Aquarius, classified Top Secret with access restricted to MJ 12 (MJ may be 'Majic')."[^22]
[[Mark Pilkington]] wrote, citing Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks (MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2007), that Moore, [[Bob Pratt]] and Doty planned in 1981 and 1982 a book first called "Majik 12" and then "The Aquarius Project," with Doty credited as "Ronald L. Davis," and that Pratt's notes of a January 1982 conversation with Moore record "Govt . . . UFO Project is Aquarius, classified Top Secret with access restricted to MJ 12 (MJ may be 'Majic')."[^22]
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[^13]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Document (Feb. 1981)," pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8.
[^14]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Carter Briefing Notes (Mar. '83)," p. 21, quoted in Klass, Skeptics UFO Newsletter no. 44, March 1997, p. 2.
[^15]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm
[^16]: "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; audio not reviewed).
[^16]: "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).
[^17]: James W. Moseley, ed., Saucer Smear, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, "Missives from the Masses" (letter of Richard Doty), http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (printout of June 14, 2013), pp. 6 to 7.
[^18]: William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, *The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report* (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), "The Aquarius Teletype," pp. 8 to 9, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf (scanned excerpt, read as page images).
[^19]: 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), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render some names and are corrected here. The printed version in the MUFON UFO Journal of November and December 1989 was not obtained.
[^19]: 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), from the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render some names and are corrected here.
[^20]: Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 (CIA History Staff, 1992; released June 25, 2013), chapter 2, p. 56, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/docs/U2%20-%20Chapter%202.pdf
[^21]: Curt Collins, "Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations," Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022, https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html , quoting Moore's speech at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989 (MUFON UFO Journal, November and December 1989). The speech text was not obtained.
[^21]: Curt Collins, "Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations," Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022, https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html , quoting Moore's speech at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989 (MUFON UFO Journal, November and December 1989).
[^22]: Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men* (2010), chapters "Aviary," "The ET Factor" and "MJ-12" and notes, https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf
[^23]: Timothy Good, ed., *The UFO Report 1990*, "Editor's Foreword" (April 1989), pp. vii to viii, https://archive.org/download/DavidJacobsTheUFOControversyInAmerica/Timothy%20Good%20(Ed.)%20-%20The%20UFO%20Report_djvu.txt
[^24]: Linda Moulton Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 193 to 196, https://archive.org/details/howe-l.-m.-an-alien-harvest-2nd-ed-2014

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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Taff wrote that the final program was "an amateurish attempt," with "a set of ho
[^9]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01: SAC Dallas airtel to Director, October 25, 1988; Director to FBI Dallas, teletype, December 2, 1988, https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/at_download/file
[^10]: National Personnel Records Center, Doty service record, as summarized on the Richard Doty page, citing http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/Doty-Service-Records1.pdf
[^11]: Richard C. Doty, letter of March 3, 1989 to an unnamed correspondent, http://textfiles.com/ufo/doty.ufo
[^12]: "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo, quoting Greenwood in *Just Cause*, September 1989 (author of the text not identified in the copy consulted).
[^12]: "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo, quoting Greenwood in *Just Cause*, September 1989.
[^13]: Timothy Good, ed., *The UFO Report 1990* (Sidgwick and Jackson), "Editor's Foreword" (dated London, April 1989), pp. vii to viii, and Editor's references, note 2, https://archive.org/download/DavidJacobsTheUFOControversyInAmerica/Timothy%20Good%20(Ed.)%20-%20The%20UFO%20Report_djvu.txt (OCR text read). Good also wrote that "I have been informed that their credentials, at least, are bona fide," and that "all this could be disinformation, of course."
[^14]: 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.
[^15]: Internet Archive item ufo-cover-up-live-1988, "UFO Cover Up LIVE - 1988," uploaded February 23, 2022, running time about 5,141 seconds, https://archive.org/details/ufo-cover-up-live-1988