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   PART 6   
      
    In 1981 the Lorenzens received an anonymous letter from  someone   
   identifying  himself  as a "USAF Airman assigned  to  the  1550th   
   Aircrew Training and Testing Wing at Kirtland AFB." The  "airman"   
   said,  "On July 16, 1980, at between 10:30-10:45 A.M.,  Craig  R.   
   Weitzel.  ..  a  Civil Air Patrol Cadet from  Dobbins  AFB,  Ga.,   
   visiting  Kirtland AFB, NM, observed a dull metallic colored  UFO   
   flying  from  South to North near Pecos New Mexico. Pecos  has  a   
   secret training site for the 1550th Aircrew Training and  Testing   
   Wing,  Kirtland AFB, NM. WEITZEL was with ten other  individuals,   
   including  USAF  active  duty  airmen,  and  all  witnessed   the   
   sighting. WEITZEL took some pictures of the object. WEITZEL  went   
   closer  to  the  UFO  and observed the UFO  land  in  a  clearing   
   approximately 250 yds, NNW of the training area. WEITZEL observed   
   an  individual  dressed in a metallic suit depart the  craft  and   
   walk  a few feet away. The individual was outside the  craft  for   
   just  a few minutes. When the individual returned the craft  took   
   off  towards  the NW." The letter writer said he  had  been  with   
   Weitzel when the UFO flew overhead, but he had not been with  him   
   to observe the landing.   
      
    The  letter went on to say that late on the evening of the  next   
   day  a tall, dark-featured, black-suited man  wearing  sunglasses   
   called  on Weitzel at Kirtland. The stranger claimed to  be  "Mr.   
   Huck" from Sandia Laboratories, a classified Department of Energy   
   contractor  on  the  base.  Mr. Huck told  Weitzel  he  had  seen   
   something  he  should not have seen, a secret aircraft  from  Los   
   Alamos,  and he demanded all of the photographs. Weitzel  replied   
   that  he  hadn't taken any, that the photographer was  an  airman   
   whose name he did not know. "The individual warned Weitzel not to   
   mention  the  sighting to anyone or Weitzel would be  in  serious   
   trouble,"  the  writer  went  on.  "After  the  individual   left   
   Weitzel[']s room, Weitzel wondered how the individual knew of the   
   sighting  because Weitzel didn't report the sighting  to  anyone.   
   Weitzel became scared after thinking of the threat the individual   
   made.  Weitzel  call [sic] the Kirtland AFB Security  Police  and   
   reported the incident to them. They referred the incident to  the   
   Air  Force  Office  of  Special  Investigations  (AFOSI),   which   
   investigates  these matters according to the security  police.  A   
   Mr. Dody [sic], a special agent with OSI, spoke with Weitzel  and   
   took  a report. Mr. Dody [sic] also obtained all the  photographs   
   of  the  UFO.  Dody [sic] told Weitzel he  would  look  into  the   
   matter. That was the last anyone heard of the incident."   
      
    But that was not all the correspondent had to say. He added,  "I   
   have  every  reason  to beleive [sic] the  USAF  is  covering  up   
   something.  I spent a lot of time looking into this matter and  I   
   know  there  is more to it than the USAF will say. I  have  heard   
   rumors,  but serious rumors here at Kirtland that the USAF has  a   
   crashed UFO stored in the Manzano Storage area, which is  located   
   in a remote area of Kirtland AFB. This area is heavily guarded by   
   USAF  Security. I have spoke [sic] with two employees  of  Sandia   
   Laboratories,  who also store classified objects in Manzano,  and   
   they  told me that Sandia has examined several UFO's  during  the   
   last 20 years. One that crashed near Roswell NM in the late  50's   
   was  examined  by Sandia scientists. That craft  is  still  being   
   store [sic] in Manzano.   
      
    "I have reason to beleive [sic] OSI is conducting a very  secret   
   investigation into UFO sightings. OSI took over when Project Blue   
   Book  was  closed.  I was told this by my  commander,  COL  Bruce   
   Purvine.  COL Purvine also told me that the investigation was  so   
   secret that most employees of OSI doesn't [sic] even know it. But   
   COL  Purvine told me that Kirtland AFB, AFOSI District 17  has  a   
   special secret detachment that investigates sightings around this   
   area.  They have also investigated the cattle mutilations in  New   
   Mexico."   
      
    In  1985 investigator Benton Jamison located Craig Weitzel,  who   
   confirmed  that he had indeed seen a UFO in 1980 and reported  it   
   to  Sgt.  Doty. But his sighting, while interesting,  was  rather   
   less dramatic than the CE3 reported in the letter; Weitzel saw  a   
   silver-colored object some 10,000 to 15,000 feet overhead.  After   
   maneuvering  for a few minutes, he told Jamison, it  "accelerated   
   like you never saw anything accelerate before" (Hastings,  1985).   
   He also said he knew nothing of a meeting with anyone  identified   
   as "Mr. Huck."   
      
    In  December  1982,  in response to  a  Freedom  of  Information   
   request  from  Barry Greenwood of Citizens  Against  UFO  Secrecy   
   (CAUS),  Air  Force Office of Special Investigations  released  a   
   two  page  OSI Complaint Form stamped "For  Official  Use  Only."   
   Dated September 8, 1980, it was titled "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug-3   
   Sept  80,  Alleged  Sightings of Unidentified  Aerial  Lights  in   
   Restricted Test Range." The document described several  sightings   
   of UFOs in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, at the Coyote Canyon   
   section  of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range.  One   
   of the reports cited was a New Mexico State Patrolman's August 10   
   observation  of a UFO landing. (A later check with  state  police   
   sources  by Larry Fawcett, a Connecticut police officer  and  UFO   
   investigator,  uncovered no record of such a report. The  sources   
   asserted  that  the absence of a report could only mean  that  no   
   such  incident  had ever happened.) This intriguing  document  is   
   signed by then OSI Special Agent Richard C. Doty.   
      
    In  1987, after comparing three documents (the anonymous  letter   
   to  APRO,  the  September 8, 1980, AFOSI Complaint  Form,  and  a   
   purported  AFOSI  document dated August 14,  1980,  and  claiming   
   "frequency  jamming"  by UFOs in the Kirtland  area),  researcher   
   Brad  Sparks concluded that Doty had written all three.  In  1989   
   Moore  confirmed  that  Doty  had written  the  letter  to  APRO.   
   "Essentially it was 'bait,'" he says. "AFOSI knew that  Bennewitz   
   had close ties with APRO at the time, and they were interested in   
   recruiting  someone  within . . . APRO . . . who would  be  in  a   
   position   to  provide  them  with  feedback   on   Bennewitz'[s]   
   activities and communications. Since I was the APRO Board  member   
   in  charge of Special Investigations in 1980, the Weitzel  letter   
   was passed to me for action shortly after it had been  received."   
   According to Bruce Maccabee, Doty admitted privately that he  had   
   written the Ellsworth AFB document, basing it on a real  incident   
   which  he wanted to bring to public attention. Doty has  made  no   
   public comment on any of these allegations. Moore says Doty  "was   
   almost  certainly a part of [the Ellsworth report], but not in  a   
   capacity  where he would have been responsible for  creating  the   
   documents involved" (Moore, 1989a).   
   end of part 6   
      
                
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