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   SUBJECT: E B E's                                             FILE: UFO1023   
      
   PART 4   
      
   The  Bennewitz  Affair:  In the late  1970s  Paul  Bennewitz,  an   
   Albuquerque businessman trained as a physicist, became  convinced   
   that   he   was   monitoring   electromagnetic   signals    which   
   extraterrestrials   were  using  to  control  persons  they   had   
   abducted. Bennewitz tried to decode these signals and believed he   
   was succeeding. At the same time he began to see what he  thought   
   were UFOs maneuvering around the Manzano Nuclear Weapons  Storage   
   Facility  and the Coyote Canyon test area, located near  Kirtland   
   AFB, and he filmed them.   
      
    Bennewitz reported all this to the Tucson-based Aerial Phenomena   
   Research  Organization (APRO), whose directors were  unimpressed,   
   judging  Bennewitz  to be deluded. But at  Kirtland,  Bennewitz's   
   claims,  or  at  least  some  of  them,  were  being  taken  more   
   seriously.  On  October 24, 1980, Bennewitz contacted  Air  Force   
   Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Sgt. Richard  Doty   
   (whose  previous tour of duty had been at Ellsworth) after  being   
   referred  to him by Maj. Ernest Edwards, head of  base  security,   
   and  related  that  he had evidence  that  something  potentially   
   threatening  was going on in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area.  A   
   "Multipurpose  Internal OSI Form," signed by Maj. Thomas A.  Cseh   
   (Commander  of the Base Investigative Detachment), dated  October   
   28,  1980,  and  subsequently  released  under  the  Freedom   of   
   Information Act, states:   
      
    "On  26 Oct 80, SA [Special Agent] Doty, with the assistance  of   
   JERRY MILLER, GS-15, Chief, Scientific Advisor for Air Force Test   
   and  Evaluation Center, KAFB , interviewed Dr. BENNEWITZ  at  his   
   home in the Four Hills section of Albuquerque, which is  adjacent   
   to  the  northern boundary of Manzano Base. (NOTE:  MILLER  is  a   
   former  Project Blue Book USAF Investigator who was  assigned  to   
   Wright-Patterson  AFB (W-PAFB), OH, with FTD [Foreign  Technology   
   Division].  Mr.  MILLER  is one of  the  most  knowledgeable  and   
   impartial investigators of Aerial Objects in the southwest.)  Dr.   
   BENNEWITZ  has been conducting independent research  into  Aerial   
   Phenomena  for  the last 15 months. Dr. BENNEWITZ  also  produced   
   several  electronic  recording  tapes,  allegedly  showing   high   
   periods of electrical magnetism being emitted from Manzano/Coyote   
   Canyon  area. Dr. BENNEWITZ also produced several photographs  of   
   flying  objects taken over the general Albuquerque area.  He  has   
   several  pieces of electronic surveillance equipment  pointed  at   
   Manzano  and  is attempting to record high  frequency  electrical   
   beam  pulses. Dr. BENNEWITZ claims these Aerial  Objects  produce   
   these  pulses.  . . . After analyzing the data collected  by  Dr.   
   BENNEWITZ, Mr MILLER related the evidence clearly shows that some   
   type of unidentified aerial objects were caught on film; however,   
   no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a  threat   
   to  Manzano/Coyote Canyon areas. Mr MILLER felt the  electronical   
   [sic]  recording  tapes  were inconclusive and  could  have  been   
   gathered  from several conventional sources. No sightings,  other   
   than these, have been reported in the area."   
      
    On November 10 Bennewitz was invited to the base to present  his   
   findings to a small group of officers and scientists. Exactly one   
   week later Doty informed Bennewitz that AFOSI had decided against   
   further  consideration of the matter. Subsequently Doty  reported   
   receiving a call from then-New Mexico Sen. Harrison Schmitt,  who   
   wanted  to know what AFOSI was planning to do  about  Bennewitz's   
   allegations.  When  informed that no investigation  was  planned,   
   Schmitt spoke with Brig. Gen. William Brooksher of base security.   
   The  following  July New Mexico's other senator,  Pete  Domenici,   
   looked into the matter, meeting briefly with Doty before  dashing   
   off to talk with Bennewitz personally. Domenici subsequently lost   
   interest and dropped the issue.   
      
    Bennewitz  was also aware of supposed cattle  mutilations  being   
   reported  in  the western United States. At one point  he  met  a   
   young mother who told him that one evening in May 1980, after she   
   and  her  six-year-old son saw several UFOs in a  field  and  one   
   approached them, they suffered confusion and disorientation, then   
   a period of amnesia which lasted as long as four hours. Bennewitz   
   brought  the  two to University of Wyoming  psychologist  R.  Leo   
   Sprinkle, who hypnotized them and got a detailed abduction  story   
   from  the mother and a sketchy one from the little boy. Early  in   
   the  course  of the abduction they observed aliens  take  a  calf   
   aboard the UFO and mutilate it while it was still alive, removing   
   the   animal's  genitals.  At  one  point  during   the   alleged   
   experience,  the  mother said, they were taken via  UFO  into  an   
   underground  area  which  she believed was  in  New  Mexico.  She   
   briefly  escaped  her captors and fled into an area  where  there   
   were  tanks  of water. She looked into one of them and  saw  body   
   parts  such  as tongues, hearts and internal  organs,  apparently   
   from  cattle.  But  she also observed a human  arm  with  a  hand   
   attached.  There  was also the "top of a bald  head,"  apparently   
   from  one of the hairless aliens, but before she could  find  out   
   for  sure,  she was dragged away. The objects in  the  tank,  she   
   said, "horrified me and made me sick and frightened me to  death"   
   (Howe, 1989). Later she wondered about the other tanks and  about   
   their contents.   
   end of part 4   
      
                
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