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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bennewitz.md

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Moore wrote in FOCUS in 1989 that in September 1982 there were, as far as he kne
 
 The Albuquerque Tribune of Friday, April 8, 1983 printed on page 6, as a jump from page A-1 under the headline "U.S. reports tell of sightings," an account of Air Force reports on Kirtland. It described Bennewitz as "president of a local electronics firm" living adjacent to the northern boundary of the Manzano base, and reported that he said he saw four "saucer or hat-shaped objects lined up behind the outside fence" of the Manzano area on February 2, 1980, and filmed them from about 2,500 yards. It quoted an Air Force report written months later as saying he produced still photographs and 2,600 feet of 8mm film "depicting unidentified aerial objects flying over and around Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon Test Area," and reported that the investigator, Miller, a former Project Blue Book investigator, concluded only that "no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat to Manzano-Coyote Canyon areas." It reported that on November 19 (1980) Bennewitz was told the Air Force would not investigate and "was not in a position to evaluate the information and photographs he has collected," and that former Senator [[Harrison Schmitt]] had inquired why the Air Force declined; the AFOSI forms above date the corresponding statement to Doty and November 17, 1980.[^17]
 
-The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17] A search of the newspaper archive also lists an [[Albuquerque Journal]] item of April 9, 1983, page 5, and an [[Alamogordo Daily News]] item of April 11, 1983, page 12, which were not read.
+The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17]
 
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