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   PART 16   
      
    One leader who was not immediately alarmed was Walter H. Andrus,   
   Jr.,  director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the  two   
   largest  UFO organizations in the United States (the other  being   
   the  J.  Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies  [CUFOS]).  In  1987,   
   before Lear had proposed what some wags would call the Dark  Side   
   Hypothesis,  he had offered to host the 1989 MUFON conference  in   
   Las  Vegas.  Andrus  agreed. But as Lear's  true  beliefs  became   
   known,  leading  figures  within MUFON  expressed  concern  about   
   Lear's  role  in the conference. When Andrus  failed  to  respond   
   quickly, MUFON officials were infuriated.   
      
    Facing  a  possible  palace revolt, Andrus  informed  Lear  that   
   Cooper, whom Lear had invited to speak at the conference, was not   
   an  acceptable choice. But to the critics on the MUFON board  and   
   elsewhere  in  the organization, this was hardly enough.  One  of   
   them,  longtime  ufologist  Richard Hall,  said  this  was  "like   
   putting  a  Band-Aid on a hemorrhage" (Hall, 1989). In  a  heated   
   telephone exchange Andrus called Hall's objections to Lear  "just   
   one  man's opinion" and claimed support, which turned out not  to   
   exist,  from other MUFON notables. In a  widely-distributed  open   
   letter to Andrus, Hall wrote, "Having Lear run the symposium  and   
   be  a  major speaker at it is comparable to NICAP in  the  1960's   
   having  George  Adamski  run a NICAP conference!  "  (NICAP,  the   
   National  Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of  which   
   Hall  was executive secretary in the late 1950s and much  of  the   
   1960s,   was  a  conservative  UFO-research  organization   which   
   attacked  as  fraudulent the claims of Adamski, who  wrote  books   
   about his meetings with Venusians and distributed photographs  of   
   what  he said were their spaceships.) Hall went on, "You seem  to   
   be going for the colorful and the spectacular rather than for the   
   critical-minded approach of science; you even expressed the view-   
   in  effect-that having a panel to question Lear critically  would   
   be good show biz and the 'highlight' of the symposium. Maybe  so,   
   but it obviously would dominate the entire program, grab off  all   
   major  news  media attention, and put UFO research in  the  worst   
   possible  light." Hall declared, "I am hereby resigning from  the   
   MUFON Board and I request that my name be removed from all  MUFON   
   publications or papers that indicate me to be a Board Member."   
      
    Fearing more resignations, Andrus moved to make Lear barely more   
   than a guest at his own conference. He was not to lecture  there,   
   as  previously planned, and hosting duties would be handled,  for   
   the most part, by others. Lear ended up arranging an "alternative   
   conference" at which he, Cooper, English and Don Ecker  presented   
   the latest elaborations on the Dark Side Hypothesis.   
    Meanwhile  another  storm  was brewing. On  March  1,  1989,  an   
   Albuquerque   ufologist,  Robert  Hastings,  issued   a   13-page   
   statement, with 37 pages of appended documents, and mailed it  to   
   many  of  ufology's most prominent individuals.  Hastings  opened   
   with these remarks:   
      
    "First,  it  has  been established that  'Falcon,'  one  of  the   
   principle  [sic]  sources of the MJ-12 material,  is  Richard  C.   
   Doty,  formerly  attached  to District 17  Air  Force  Office  of   
   Special  Investigations  (AFOSI)  at  Kirtland  Air  Force  Base,   
   Albuquerque,  New  Mexico. Sgt. Doty retired from  the  U.S.  Air   
   Force on October 1, 1988.   
      
      
    "How do I know that Doty is 'Falcon?' During a recent  telephone   
   conversation,  Linda  Moulton Howe told me that  when  Sgt.  Doty   
   invited  her to his office at Kirtland AFB in early  April  1983,   
   and  showed her a purportedly authentic U.S. government  document   
   on  UFOs, he identified himself as code-name 'Falcon' and  stated   
   that it was Bill Moore who had given him that name.   
      
    "Also,  in  early  December  1988,  a  ranking  member  of   the   
   production   team  responsible  for  the  'UFO  Cover   Up?-Live'   
   television documentary confirmed that Doty is 'Falcon.' This same   
   individual  also identified the second MJ-12 source who  appeared   
   on  the  program,  'Condor'  as Robert  Collins  who  was,  until   
   recently,  a  Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Like  Doty,  he  was   
   stationed  at  KAFB  when he left the service  late  last  year."   
   (Collins,  a scientist, was assigned to the plasma physics  group   
   at  Sandia National Laboratories on the Kirtland Air Force  Base.   
   Following his retirement he moved to Indiana and remains actively   
   interested in UFOs.)   
      
    Hastings   reviewed  evidence  of  Doty's  involvement  in   the   
   concoction   of  various  questionable  documents  and   stories,   
   including  the  Ellsworth tale and the Weitzel  affair.  He  also   
   noted important discrepancies between the paper Howe saw and  the   
   MJ-12  briefing document. For example, while the first  mentioned   
   the alleged Aztec crash, the second said nothing about it at all.   
   Hastings wondered, "[I]f the briefing paper that Sgt. Doty showed   
   to Linda Howe was genuine, what does that say about the  accuracy   
   (and  authenticity) of the Eisenhower document? If, on the  other   
   hand, the former was bogus and was meant to mislead Howe for some   
   reason,  what  does  that  say  about  Richard  'Falcon'   Doty's   
   reliability  as  a  source  for  MJ-12  material  as  a   whole?"   
   (Hastings,  1989). Hastings also had much critical to  say  about   
   Moore, especially about an incident in which Moore had flashed  a   
   badge in front of ufologist/cover-up investigator Lee Graham  and   
   indicated  he  was working with the government on  a  project  to   
   release  UFO  information. (Moore would characterize  this  as  a   
   misguided practical joke.)   
      
    Both  Moore  and Doty denied that the latter  was  Falcon.  They   
   claimed  Doty had been given that pseudonym long after  the  1983   
   meeting with Howe. Howe, however, stuck by her account. Moore and   
   Doty said the real Falcon, an older man than Doty had been in the   
   studio audience as the video of his interview was being broadcast   
   on  UFO  Cover-up.  .  . Live. Doty himself  was  in  New  Mexico   
   training with the state police.   
   end of part 16   
      
                
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