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Examining the Mystery and Myths of Unidentified Flying Objects© Curt CollinsPagesThe Saucers That Time ForgotCash-Landrum UFO Case Documents C-L: Witness TestimonyC-L: Video Collection Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Cash-Landrum UFO Disinformation: Rick Doty & Bill MooreWhen flying saucers appeared in 1947,one of the first guesses as to their origin was that they were new secret testvehicles flown by the U.S. military. The government responded with acategorical denial of having experimental flying discs in the air. Decadesrolled by, but no successful U.S.-owned saucers were discovered or disclosed.The belief that UFOs were extraterrestrial spaceships grew in popularity, whilethe secret project notion faded. Flaps came and went, but exceptional UFO casesonly come along every few years. Serious researchers fight to get at them, butso do the tabloid press, television cameras, and hucksters looking forsomething to exploit. Such was the case in early 1981 when the story of theCash-Landrum incident surfaced. Everyone wanted a piece of the action.Part 1:The Ufologist and the Counterintelligence AgentIn1980, a few months before Betty Cash and friends took that fateful eveningdrive… Richard C. Doty was anagent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at KirtlandAFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico.His military records list him as born on Feb. 15, 1950, with green eyes, brown hair,and standing 5’8.5” tall, weighing 145 pounds.WilliamL. Moore was born on Oct. 31, 1943, and he had achieved some success collaboratingwith bestselling author Charles Berlitz onThe Philadelphia Experiment in 1978. Moore’s fame in UFO circles began with their1980 book, TheRoswell Incident. Stanton Friedman assisted in theresearch and interviews, and the underlying agenda behind the book was tocounter the growing notions that UFOs were non-physical paranormal orinterdimensional apparitions. The Roswell scenario turned back the clock tonuts and bolts saucerology. Donald Keyhoe established the dogma in 1950: FlyingSaucers are: (1) Real, (2) Extraterrestrial spaceships, and (3) Covered-up bythe U.S. government. The belief system is self-confirming, since the lack of physicalevidence “proves” the government is covering it all up.Doty & Moore early 1980s, Coral and Jim Lorenzen fromTucson CitizenFeb. 13, 1979WithBill Moore’s star on the rise, he became a member of the board of directors ofthe Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), the Tucson, Arizona-basedorganization led by Jim and Coral Lorenzen. APRO was the oldest of three UFOorganizations operating in the USA, the others were the Mutual UFO Network(MUFON) based in Texas, and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Illinois.MUFON began as a splinter group of APRO, and there was some animosity andrivalry between them.According to the legend, in the fall of 1980,the success of TheRoswell Incident led to Moore being approachedby Richard C. Doty of the AFOSI. Rick Doty’s claim is that he was working for aspecial program tasked with the collection of intelligence andcounterintelligence information on UFOs. To that end, Doty collected data fromufologists while disseminating both genuine data and disinformation, with BillMoore as his primary asset. Doty waseither acting on behalf of the US government, or he was a rogue agent operatingtowards his own ends - or a combination of both. Whatever the case, thecollaboration with this low-level AFOSI agent enabled Moore to portray himselfas being well-connected to government insiders. Moore’s overall strategy seemedto be, fake it ‘til you make it.Inearly 1981 Moore was busy promoting his Roswell UFO book, researching apossible follow-up, and building a working relationship with Rick Doty. Hebecame a UFO superstar, frequently lectured at conferences, where he sold hisbook and the newsletter and booklets he published. Moore’s mission was to carryhis Roswell UFO crash and U.S. government secrecy story into the present day.He began preparing the story of a government cabal that controlled the UFOcover-up, a group he called MJ-12. FirstContact in the Cash-Landrum UFO CaseBetty Cash, Coly Landrum, and Vickie LandrumOnFeb. 2, 1981, Vickie Landrum called Robert Gribble’s National UFO ReportingCenter (NUFORC), to ask for help regarding the UFO she thought might beresponsible for her friend Betty Cash’s medical problems. Gribble called APROto share the report. After weeks of waiting, the witnesses called APRO back.This prompted APRO to hand the case off to John Schuessler, the deputy directorof MUFON, then based in Texas, since the case was figuratively in his backyard.Things were not to be harmonious, and MUFON and APRO later argued about whichgroup had actually launched the case investigation.Coral E. Lorenzen of APRO, letterto John Schuessler, August 24, 1982:“BillMoore sent us Xeroxed copies of his records of telephone calls he made andreceived on February 2, 1981, when APRO received its first word from Robert Gribbleon the Cash-Landrum case. Mr. Moorereceived a call from Bill English informing him of the case at 7:40 p.m. onFebruary 2. Moore called Howard Sussman, who I am sure you know… a medicaldoctor in Houston and also a MUFON member, at 9:20 p.m. on February 2 and askedif he (Sussman) could look into the case.”Moore knew about the case from the start, but wouldn't take an active hand until later.The First Secret Project SpeculationThe Courier(Conroe, TX), Feb. 22, 1981, reported the witnesses suspectedthey'd come across a U.S. government operation."Someoneknows where the helicopters came from," [Vickie] Landrum said, adding thatshe feels certain they encountered some sort of military experiment. “I'm not oneto believe in flying saucers or nothing like that," she said. “'I thinkit's more likely it's something the military is up to - why else would all themplanes be up there if they didn't know what was going on?"Colby and Vickie Landrum, 1981JohnSchuessler interviewed Vickie Landrum the following week, and his initial casereport stated,“Vickytruly feels that this was not anything unnatural. She believes the U.S.government was transporting and escorting something dangerous through thearea.”BillEnglish of APRO sold the Cash-Landrum story to the Weekly World News,and reporter Dick Donovan wrote his article primarily based on the audio tapeEnglish sent of the testimony of Betty and Vickie. Allan Hendry of the Centerfor UFO Studies (CUFOS) was hired to investigate the origin of the helicoptersby the Fund for UFO Research. In April 1981, Hendry produced the privatelycirculated results, “A Preliminary Report on the Cash/Landrum New Caney CEIICase,” which contained the first hint of the UFO-Military Industrial Complex conspiracy:“ReporterDonovan who covered the story confirmed that he could not locate any bases incentral Texas that would take credit for the helicopters. He did relate a claimmade by an individual whose identity he would not divulge that the ‘UFO’ wasactually in contact with the local military! The crew indicated that it wasexperiencing difficulty with this craft and required air assistance. Donovancould not elaborate if this meant that the UFO was actually a man-made craft ofsome sort. But then, would two dozen choppers be required for an escort?”In MUFON case files (PDF File 5, page 59) John Schuessler’s VISIT memo, 9/8/81, “[Houston] Medical person called,” “(name on file)” with a story of a secret project:“Randolph AFB, San Antonio, Tx. personnel wereinvolved. Object was a classified device and was in trouble… Cash/Landrum burnswere from a radiation source.” Schuessler concluded the notes stating, “I havebeen unable to verify this report.”Thesources are anonymous, but it’s documented that lines of communication betweenBill Moore and friends were open both to Dick Donovan and to at least one “medicalperson” in Houston.TheCash-Landrum case was the hottest news of the day, but John Schuessler did notpresent a lecture on it at the June 1981 MUFON Symposium. Instead, across-organization trade was made, and Schuessler spoke at J. Allen Hynek’sCUFOS Symposium in Sept. 1981, “Medical Injuries Resulting from a UFOEncounter.” Hynek was the keynote speaker for the MUFON Symposium. Bill Moorealso lectured there with Stanton T. Friedman, on “The Roswell Incident:Beginning of the Cosmic Watergate.”RickDoty Briefs Bill MooreIn1982, reporter Bob Pratt was working with Bill Moore on an ill-fated noveltitled MAJIK-12 or The Aquarius Project. The plan was to havePratt write a saucer fiction thriller, incorporating “factual” information onthe MJ-12 UFO conspiracy supplied by Moore via Richard Doty. Part of theinformation Pratt received was Moore’s 5-page typed report alleging to be notesfrom his Dec. 29, 1981, meeting with “Special Agent Richard C. Doty, AFOSI.” One page’s worth ofmaterial was on the Cash-Landrum story, reproduced below (all punctuation and spelling from the original). A scan ofthe document can be found at pages 19-20 of this PDF from The Bob Pratt Files: Sensitive.(4) With respect to the controversial Cash/Landrum, Dayton, Texas, case, Doty provided the following information which he said he had obtained directly from a Houston OSI agent whom he knows:The object in question was actually an experimental craft, developed jointly by USAF/NASA. The craft, which-was under development at Ellington AFB near Houston, had been flown- before with a different (conventional) propulsion system. More recently it had been fitted with an experimental nuclear system using a conventional system as back-up. The craft was somewhat circular in shape, [handwritten addition: and looked like a stingray (fish)].On the night in question (December 29, 1980), the craft was to be test-flown from Ellington AFB (a NASA support base near Houston) to Fort Hood (near Waco) with two pilots on board. Early on in the flight, the craft developed problems with Its navigational system which caused it to stray from its designated flight plan. Helicopters were called out from Ft. Hood to help guide the craft, but as they were en route, the nuclear propulsion system also failed. The two pilots experienced some problem in trying to start the back-up propulsion system, and had just about decided they would try to ditch into Lake Houston when the back-up fired and the escort helicopters arrived on the scene virtually simultaneously.There were nine civilians involved in this case. AFINTEL (with one AFOSI agent present) debriefed six of these (including two, Texas Highway Patrol officers), and had all six sign security statements. None of these was believed exposed to sufficient radiation to cause any medical problems, but all were checked over as a precaution. At least two were given potassium iodide by the AF physician who attended them. The other three, Betty Cash, Vikie Landrum and Colby Landrum, were not contacted by AFINTEL because of their involvement with civilian UFO people. It was determined that these three could be used to further the "UFO explanation" and thus provide effective cover for the real nature of the affair.NASA/USAF's reason for cloaking the matter in secrecy and confusion is to avoid a public outcry against nuclear propulsion research similar to that currently in progress against the nuclear power industry. It was deemed highly desirable that the public not be made aware that the government is doing any work in nuclear propulsion systems at all. Also it was felt that any admission that the government was involved in testing nuclear propelled devices so close to a heavily populated area (Houston) would be viewed by the public and the press as a callous disregard for the public safety.One curious aspect of this case is that the chief civilian investigator (John Scheussler of MUFON) is an employee of NASA and at the same time serves as an active CIA agent. (This, said Doty, was confirmed to him by ‘a friend’ who had checked the matter out.) Since it is certain that Schuessler is aware of the real nature of this case, it must be assumed that his activities on the part of the ‘UFO investigation’ are part of the concerted effort to confuse the issue in the eyes of the public.”This formed the basis of the Doty-Moore Cash-Landrum myth, which would continue to evolve to suit their needs.A UFOFamily FeudThe Moore-Doty story downplayed the central claim of the witnesses, that they suffered injuries from exposure to the UFO. His story centered on the UFO as a government experiment and it sounded plausible, blending known details of the case with a fictional scenario using real locations and military installations. The Cash-Landrum case had a lot of appeal to ufologists who believed in the government/military cover-up scenario, and Moore found Doty’s version of the story very attractive for this reason. With Bill Moore on board at APRO, the group became a conduit for Doty’s bogus information, and the Lorenzens heard his secret project fable. Moore was somewhat circumspect in promoting it, relying on other people to hear and spread the story, people like the Lorenzens and Paul Bennewitz. As for Paul Bennewitz, he was driven to obsession from Moore and Doty’s falsehoods resulting in a decline in his physical and mental health. (For a summary of that convoluted tale, see Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations.) Both JohnF. Schuessler and William L. Moore spoke at the MUFON Symposium in Toronto,Canada, July 2-4, 1982, “UFO’s... Canada: A Global Perspective.” Schuesslerlectured on "Radiation Sickness Caused by UFO's" and Moore spoke on "TheRoswell Investigation: New Evidence in the Search for a Crashed UFO." Duringthis event, Moore told Schuessler the Doty story about the origin of the C-LUFO. The same rumor was printed the next month by APRO. “InFebruary of this year, there was a rumor going the rounds to the effect thatthe U.S. government was paying all of the medical expenses of Betty Cash and VickiLandrum… After hearing the rumor, APRO checked with Mrs. Landrum by telephoneand she confirmed our initial suspicion that the information was an unfoundedrumor.”Coral Lorenzen published “Rumors Permeate Cash-Landrum Case,” in the APRO Bulletin Vol. 30 No. 6 August 1982. “We can’t give the reader a proper name or code name or number, but the object seen by Cash, Landrum and Landrum, was a U.S. experimental aircraft which had gotten out of control and was being escorted or ‘herded’ by the helicopters. their main function, however, would have been to cordon off the area if the craft were forced to make an emergency landing.”[Later in the article,]“…I am concerned that Betty Cash and Vicki and Colby Landrum may be merely pawns in some kind of game. …The most likely base of origin for the ‘mystery’ aircraft would be White Sands Proving Grounds (just a hop, skip and a jump by air) in New Mexico. How often will American UFOLOGY sheepishly cover up for official boo-boos?” JohnSchuessler wrote a letter to Coral Lorenzen of APRO on Aug. 15, 1982, regardingAPRO’s claims that the UFO was a secret project:“Admittedly,I was quite upset when the APRO Bulletin carried an article claiming that APROknew what device was at Huffman, Tx on Dec. 29, 1980. Watching Betty, Vickieand Colby suffer for months while all government agencies played dumb has madethis a sensitive issue. Fortunately, Bill Moore convinced me during ourdiscussions in Toronto that the story he had given you about the experimentalaircraft was interesting, but only a story. I have tried to find a correlationbetween the story and the event, but without success.” (InCoral Lorenzen’s reply of Aug. 24, 1982, she claimed Moore’s story was onlypart of their evidence, and there was additional information from an unnamedsource.)APRO Bulletin Vol.30 No. 9 September 1982,“TheCash-Landrum Case Analysis” by Coral E. Lorenzen updated the story.Lt.Col. George Sarran of the Department of the Army Inspector General (DAIG) wasgiven the job of investigating whether U.S. military helicopters had beeninvolved in the Cash-Landrum UFO incident. At John Schuessler’s suggestion,Sarran called APRO and spoke with Jim Lorenzen to see if they had informationto help the case. APRO balked at Sarran’s speculation that the copters might bean “Iran-type rescue exercise.” APRO was convinced the helicopters “wererapidly deployed for an Army ‘exercise’ on December 29, 1980, which went awry,”and that the UFO was of a U.S. military origin:“Well,they haven’t discovered the secret of the UFO (propulsion, that is) but they’retrying, and the U.S. has apparently come up with the next best thing - abrightly lit aircraft utilizing a new propulsion concept, a side-effect ofwhich is a highly damaging radiation.”Televisingthe UFO ExperienceIn1982 Bill Moore was making show biz connections. One was Jaime Shandera, atelevision producer, who became Moore’s research partner. Shandera later said,“we joined forces in June of 1982 and Falcon told us about MJ-12.” (We’ll hearmore about Falcon later.) The premise established in The Roswell Incidentwas expanded to include MJ-12, the group that guarded the secrets that:The Roswell crash was just one of several events where craft and aliens were recovered.Extraterrestrials had been here thousands of years, and they had influenced the development of our civilization.The captured UFOs were being studied with the goal of duplicating the alien technology for our military.Clipping fromSan Francisco Examiner, Sept. 5, 1982The Cash-Landrum case was prominently featured in The UFO Experience, a television documentary written by Richard Saiz, directed by Ronald K. Lakis, first broadcast on Sept. 10, 1982. Bill Moore was also involved in it, as he described in a 1985 article:“Duringthe summer of 1982, I served for a brief period as a consultant to KPIX-TV, SanFrancisco, CA, while they were engaged in making a special on UFOs which at thetime was intended to run only locally. (It was subsequently syndicated to anumber of other stations around the country.)”AmongMoore’s contributions, he supplied the production with an (alleged) Air Force document about a UFO event at Kirtland AFBin 1980, part of the series of incidents involving Paul Bennewitz. However, the Bennewitz story was not discussed, they just flashed the documentas an example of continuing military involvement in UFOs. Moore claimedto have investigated the C-L sighting location during the time the show wasbeing filmed. The article was in The Courier (Conroe TX), Oct. 30, 1983,“UFO victims plan to file $20 million suit” by Cathy Gordon:WilliamMoore, an independent UFO researcher from Arizona who has also studied thiscase, shares [Peter] Gersten's pessimism. "The government is not going todivulge anything about a top-secret project that would violate nationalsecurity regulations,” he said, citing from the statute in the Department ofDefense manual. It reads, "Classified material will not be authorized forintroduction into evidence at a civil trial before a jury.""Inother words, they’ll lie,” Moore says, “the burden is on the complainant toprove there’s something top-secret. But the government doesn't have to admit itexists and they certainly aren't going to volunteer information. It's a Catch-22."Moore,who tested for radiation at the site nearly a year and a half following theincident, says he found “some very interesting things” on the secluded stretchof road. He claims to have found dead vegetation at the site and tree trunksthat were scorched beginning six to eight feet off the ground, and only on oneside.JohnSchuessler said the C-L witnesses were betrayed by The UFO Experience. From TheCash-Landrum UFO Incident, pg. 103:“Betty Cash and I were participants in a pressinterview with Dr. [V.B.] Shenoy on June 16, 1982. The interviewer had ledBetty to believe that if everyone consented to participate… he would have a newchromosome test conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Itwas claimed that the test would pin down the type of radiation involved …theinterviewer never made good on his promise to provide the chromosome test.”In the documentary, the C-L segment concluded bysaying, “the case remains unsolved, but it does raise some questions. Is itpossible that some unidentified flying objects could be secret U.S. militarytest planes, and if so, what recourse do citizens have if they are injured bythem?”RichardDoty and the UFO LawyerIn January 1983 Richard Doty met with Peter Gersten, the lawyer who had filed numerous UFO-related lawsuits against the U.S. government, including the one for the Cash-Landrum case. Bill Moore was also present during the first of their two conversations. Just CAUS no. 16, June 1988, page 7, contained Barry Greenwood’s contemporary notes from Peter Gersten’s phone call describing his two meetings with Doty.Gersten said,“Dotywouldn't talk about anything classified. He said he was assigned to investigateUFOs, among other things, for the last 5-6 years.” Among Doty’s tall tales,there were a few about the C-L case:“Dotysaid Cash/Landrum object was government. The vehicle used had previously beenmentioned in Aviation Week (no reference given). Doty didn't know Peter was C/Lattorney when he talked about it. Doty said govt. has people in UFO groupsfeeding misinformation and gathering data.”Peter Gersten swallowed the stories from Doty as being valid. Healso called UFO skeptic Phil Klass on Jan.15, 1983, and told Klass about having an unnamed source (Doty). Klass asked if Gersten was suing the AirForce program because he thought the C-L UFO was theirs. Gersten replied, “Wellonly because both Air Force and Army denied any involvement with thehelicopters so we just filed a claim with the Air Force on general principlesbecause time was running out. But the information that has come is that it wasa military operation and possibly the Army, and the helicopters wereassociated, did come from Camp Hood, and that the object is kept at Ellingtonand is related to Snowbird.”Bill Moore allegedly received the Aquarius Projectdocument in March 1983, and it defined Project Snowbird as, “Originallyestablished in 1972. Its mission was to test fly a recovered Alien aircraft.This project is continuing in Nevada.”Gersten pursued the prospect that the UFO was a U.S. government device and, in his April 24, 1984, Interrogatories H-84-348, included it, requesting:“16. Identify ‘Project Snowbird’, and ‘Project Moondust’.”PetitioningMoore to Produce Cash-Landrum EvidenceFollowingthe meeting between Moore, Doty, and Gersten, Moore was crowing about havinginformation, even physical evidence relating to the Cash-Landrum case. MUFON fileson the case contain correspondence documenting some of the efforts to get Mooreto produce his evidence.Peter Gersten letter to Bill Moore, April 13, 1983:“I cannot understand how,if what you have been telling me is true, you can continue to withholdphysical evidence which is material to the Cash/Landrumincident. The release of any evidence concerning the cause of their injuriesmust take precedent over your desire for personal financial gain. How can youcontinue to withhold ‘soil samples, ‘photographs, and an ‘executive briefing’while their health deteriorates?”It was an angry letter, and signed, “See you in court,Peter A. Gersten.”Bill Moore’s reply from April 28, 1983, said:“I decided that the best course of action would be toturn everything over to a third party for an independent evaluation andanalysis. This was accomplished shortly after my last conversation with you.When this process is completed, the results will be published without profit orgain to me (or for that matter,without even recovering expenses), and you shall be provided with a copy.”Gerstento Moore June 10, 1983:“Whereis the independent evaluation and analysis you promised. I promise you thatunless you voluntarily provide me with this evidence, I will pursue everypossible legal remedy necessary to obtain it.”Gersten’sbluff had no results, but shortly afterwards Walt Andrus and John Schuesslerhad a confrontation with Bill Moore. It was at MUFON’s 1983 Symposium inPasadena, California, on July 1, 2, & 3, 1983.WaltAndrus' letter July 18, 1983, to Fred Whiting:“Bill Moore couldn’t or wouldn’tprovide any help with his ‘lead’ when we cornered him in Pasadena. This case isserious due to the poor health of Betty Cash in particular.”JohnSchuessler’s version from his memo dated July 2, 1983:"Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum asked me to question Bill Mooreabout his claims of knowledge of their case - information that might help themin their legal proceedings. I had no formal meeting with Bill, but we did haveseveral informal discussions.Why does he believe he knows the actuallocation of the incident – not the location by Betty and Vickie? Reply: He cannot answer now. His material is in the hands ofsomeone else for verification.Does he really know what the object wasand who it belonged to? He had an informantthat had started giving him information on several cases. He shared some ofthat information with Peter Gersten, and later exposed it on national TV. The informant got in trouble and will not cooperate further.That means any information Bill could have gotten is no longer possible.Does APRO really have any informationthat could help Betty and Vicky? Possibly so – may also have an informant, butthey would maintain the information is confidential, so as not to get anyone introuble.Bill shared other UFO items with me...Since they don't pertain to Cash/Landrum I really don't care about them.Conclusion: Bill is a pretty good investigator… Hecould be a real asset to the investigation; however, he has other priorities,so we cannot depend on him at this time, no matter how important theinformation is to Cash & Landrum. He may help at some time in the future ifit is not too late.(Distribution: V. Landrum, B. Cash, W. Moore, W. Andrus, P.Gersten.)”Moore’s technique worked on Schuessler, but it was classic UFOconman bait and switch. He couldn’t talk or share evidence because he hadobligations to protect his sources. As for the evidence, Moore essentially saidthe dog ate his homework and his grandmother died. Betty and Vickie were givenfalse hopes from the Doty-Moore story again and again from 1981 on. JohnSchuessler grew frustrated and wrote thelead article in the MUFON Journal Jan1984, an opinion piece, “Estimate of the Situation 1984, the Sad (?) State ofUfology.” Schuessler blasted the media, debunkers, and even UFO organizationsin general, but Bill Moore and APRO in particular:“Ihave personally spent three years working the Cash-Landrum case… Dr. Hynek,head of CUFOS, and Walter Andrus, head of MUFON, have given strong support. Onthe other hand, Coral Lorenzen, head of APRO, and author William Moore havebeen very negative and critical of the case. They have claimed inside knowledgeabout the UFO, saying it was a malfunctioning government device, being flown insecret around Houston, Texas. If that is true, why not band together in acommon goal and blow the top off of the cover-up. That never happened eventhough the victims could have been helped out of a terrible situation. …Governmentcover-ups is a good topic for authors and a good excuse for UFO organizationsto lean on, but without facts it is really of little value.”Meanwhile,Bill Moore was still at it. On January 21, 1984, Moore appeared on The Open Mind with Bill Jenkins radioshow. When a caller asked about the Cash-Landrum case, Moore said he was, “veryfamiliar with all aspects of that case. In fact, I was the first investigatorcalled on the case. I put it in the hands of the people dealing with it now. Heagain promoted the UFO as a government operation, speculating that:“…whatwe have in fact run into here is the test of some secret project-type vehicle,which may be nuclear propulsion, and which went out of control and threatenedto crash…”SecretProjects and the Cash-Landrum Legal Case“Project Snowbird” was first mentioned by Doty to attorney PeterGersten in 1983 and surfaced again two months later in the bogus MJ-12 “ProjectAquarius Briefing Document.” Paul Bennewitz was one of the chief targets ofDoty and Moore, and he embraced their concepts, with the Cash-Landrum casebeing part of the story. Here’s a passage from Paul Bennewitz’s 1985 letter to UKufologist Timothy Good, as presented inGood’s 1993 book, Alien Contact. “A deal was made between the Government and the aliens. I canonly surmise what it was, but based upon my evidence we helped build the base-gave them the land- in trade for the atomic ship and the technology… We agreedto the cattle mutilations… apparently helping in unmarked helicopters…”Good followed the Bennewitz quote by saying, “the ‘atomic ship,’I was told, is the alleged ‘Snowbird’ craft, which during a test flight inDecember 1980 (escorted by more than twenty helicopters), was observed by BettyCash and two other witnesses… it undoubtedly irradiated the witnesses and madethem very ill.” The AlienAtomic Ship as imagined by Paul BennewitzBetty Cash and Vickie Landrum picked up Air Force “Damage” claimforms in Aug. 1981, but they were not filed by Peter Gersten until near the 2ndanniversary of the case in Dec. 1982. The claim was denied in May 1983.(Appealed, denied again.) In January 1984, Civil Suit against the U.S. Government,H-84-348 was filed, followed by much contention and publicity. The August 1985 MUFONJournal reported that Peter Gersten stated that chances of his winning thecase in court were "slim and none.” The lawsuit was finally dismissedwithout going to trial on August 21, 1986. This was due in large part to swornstatements by military branch representatives that the U.S. did not own oroperate any vehicle like the UFO described in the complaint. By chasing Dotyand Moore’s “Snowbird,” Gersten may have doomed any chance of the witnessesgetting their day in court. Without the trial to generate interest, the C-Lcase lay dormant. Until it was useful toDoty and Moore again.Part 2:The AviaryRichard Doty had been out of the picture for a while. He’d transferredto Germany in 1984, but he returned stateside in 1986. He reconnected with BillMoore and was making new friends, too. Mooreand Shandera were in touch with a network of ufologists, some of them withgovernment connections. Jacques Vallee describedtheir meeting in Forbidden Science Vol 3:“A secret group had gathered in 1987 at the Albuquerque home of retired Air Force Lt. Col Ernie Kellerstrass to discuss [UFO conspiracy theories]. Kit Green was there with Rick Doty, Hal Puthoff, Bill Moore, Jaime Shandera and Robert Collins.”Moore was fond of playing spy games, so he gave these contacts bird codenames, and collectively they were called the “Aviary.” Falcon and Condor were the names used for their alleged key military informers, Rick Doty and Robert Collins. Hal Puthoff told Vallee,“We were meeting these people with the purpose of hearing firsthand what was being claimed by the likes of Collins, Doty and Kellerstrass… Overall, I was quite skeptical of much of what was being claimed.”One claim that must have been heard was Doty’sversion of the Cash-Landrum story. Mooreand Doty used the C-L case as a prop in their own narrative. The military angle fit perfectly to support their UFOcover-up scenario, a crucial element necessary for allowing belief in theRoswell saucer crash and MJ-12 stories. As Area 51 entered UFO lore, ithelped the storyline, it was a real base with military secrets that could beportrayed as part of the “Cosmic Watergate,” hidinganything from crashed saucers to alien survivors.The story was supposed to be confirmed on tape. UfologistJim Moseley traveled to Burbank, California, in September 1987 for a meetingwith Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera. Thetwo gave him a private showing of videotapes they had produced of “Falcon”spilling big secrets about MJ-12 and UFOs.“There were cheap theatrics of an allegedintelligence agent in shadow… his voice disguised electronically...” ShockinglyClose to the Truth! by James W. Moseley and Karl Pflock, 2010.Dark DaysA lotof UFO pioneers were lost in the 1980s. Kenneth Arnold died in 1984, J. AllenHynek in 1986, and Donald Keyhoe in 1988. APRO was essentially a mom-and-poporganization. Jim Lorenzen died in Aug. 1986, then Coral Lorenzen in April1988. Without them, APRO was disbanded. CUFOS tried to carry on in the Hynektradition by publishing the serious-minded International UFO Reporter. Thatleft MUFON to cater to saucer fans, which they did with their increasinglysensationalistic journal and conventions. Ufology was headed to the “dark side”with tales of evil aliens conducting abductions, mutilations, and more, while theU.S. government was complicit – at least in keeping it all secret. Ufologistsand debunkers alike struggled to make sense of it.In Phil Klass’ Jan. 8,1988, telephone interrogation of Richard Doty, he askedabout the 1983 meeting with Peter Gersten, but Doty tried to lie his way out ofit.“[Gersten]asked me about the UFO in Texas that exploded and hurt somebody. I said I knownothing about that. HE was the one who said I understand it was a recovered alien craft, flown by the government--hissource had told him that. I said, well, I don't know. …he asked me a lot of questions,but I never once provided, not one bit of information to him, or to anyoneelse.”Meanwhile,Doty and Moore’s work continued to spread confusion.Their C-L lies were mixed with Paul Bennewitz’s beliefs about evil aliensbeneath Dulce, NM, and shared abroad. From UK ufologist Gordon Creighton’s1988 article in Flying Saucer Review Vol. 33, No. 4:“Disturbingand persistent rumors… sinister small aliens [induced or coerced] the USgovernment [into a collaboration in] the establishment of a great alienunderground base beneath an Indian reservation in… New Mexico, near Dulce… inreturn, of course for ‘advanced technical aid and information.’ …Maybe, forexample, the thing that burnt the Cash-Landrum party came from...Dulce?"RichardC. Doty left the Air Force and began a new career as a New Mexico State Policeofficer in the summer of 1988. He didn’t leave UFOs behind, though.MakingUFO History on TelevisionInthe 1980s there were many live television specials on sensational topics, and oneof the most infamous was Geraldo Rivera in The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaultswhere he found nothing. LBS Communications had produced the specials, Returnto the Titanic… Live! and Mysteries of the Pyramids… Live! For 1988,they had UFOCover-Up?... Live! Bill Mooreand Jaime Shandera connected with Seligman Productions, who built a 2-hourtelevision special around their claims and video tapes. In press for the showin The San Francisco Examiner Datebook, Oct. 9, 1988, executive producerMichael Seligman said that no one connected with the production “claims what[Shandera and Moore] say is 100% of the truth. They are respected and have acredible presentation. They've had contact with an intelligence operative whothey've codenamed Falcon and a scientist who they codenamed Condor… [who] arepart of the government and have been checked.”They were on tape, and short sections were played throughout the show, portions of the material Jim Moseley had seen the year before. “Falcon raved at length about Jesus Christ being a spaceman; earth being under alien surveillance for 25,000 years; a shipwrecked saucer pilot kept alive by the US government in a secret location, where he enjoyed strawberry ice cream and Tibetan music; and on and on…”UFO Cover-Up?... Live! was broadcast on Oct. 14, 1988. One segment of theshow featured Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum telling their story.To wrap it up,a pre-taped statementof RichardDoty in silhouette as “Falcon,” was played:“The Cash-Landrum incident - the craft that was observed was analien craft piloted by military aircraft pilots. Although they had been trainedand were somewhat familiar with thecraft, they found that the aircraft did not respond to certain controls. Theyradioed that they thought the craft was going to crash — standard proceduresfor the military in any situation where an aircraft was going to crash — themilitary would send up search-and- rescue helicopters. The helicopters werefollowing the craft. The craft experienced severe problems. It was thought that the craft was going tocrash. However, this craft did not crash.”Betty Cash nodded approvingly as Doty mentioned the helicopters,as if to say, “I told you so!”The show was not a big hit in the ratings, but Walt Andrus said in the MUFONJournal Nov. 1988, that it “was an outstanding UFO documentary.” John F.Schuessler had some objections and wrote an article for The Journal of The Fortean Research Center,Vol. IV, No. 1, Spring 1989, "Wishful Thinking as an Explanation for UFOs,"where he alluded to “Falcon’s” story:“…BettyCash and Vickie Landrum encountered a large diamond-shaped UFO… Since that timeclaims have been made that the object was a secret U.S. nuclear aircraft, anuclear powerplant gone out of control, an alien spacecraft piloted by U.S.military pilots, and a number of other strange things. There is no evidencethat any of these explanations are true. In fact, most are stranger than if wewere to accept the UFO explanation.”UFO Cover-Up?... Live! had featured a phone poll for a Congressional hearingon the UFO topic. Betty Cash seemed to be inspired by the show and became anactivist petitioning the government for UFO hearings and transparency. The showwas regarded by many serious researchers as a travesty, and Bill Moore’s shady claimsand associates were given a harder look.OnJuly 1, 1989, Bill Moore delivered a lecture at the MUFON Symposium in LasVegas that has become legendary. Facing mounting controversies about the originand authenticity of the MJ-12 UFO documents and his own credibility, Moorestruck back. Along the way, he made a shocking confession that he had beenrecruited by the U.S. government, tasked with spreading UFO falsehoods to PaulBennewitz and others. Bennewitz’s narrative remixed their MJ-12 stories withingredients such as cattle mutilations and alien abductions added in. It formedthe basis for the loopy “dark side” UFO lore spread by John Lear. Moore didn’tlike losing control of the story, and in his infamous lecture said, “I do knowfrom first-hand experience… that a large proportion of what we are hearingtoday about malevolent aliens, underground bases and secret treaties with theU.S. government has its roots firmly planted in the Bennewitz affair.”George Knapp, Bob Lazar, and John LearOneof the offshoots was the notion of “Alien Reproduction Vehicles.” John Learwent public with his outlandish UFO views in 1987 and shared them in 1988 withthe disbelieving Bob Lazar. From “Bob Lazar: True or False?” by Glenn Campbell, “Lazar met Lear, heard his ramblings,and decided to give Lear what he wanted. Lazar took Lear's paranoid delusionsand repackaged them in a much more intelligent and internally consistentrendition.”Lazarclaimed to have taken a job at Area 51, then he fed Lear’s stories back to him asthings he said he’d personally experienced. Lazar “confirmed” a central claimof Doty’s Cash-Landrum yarn, that alien-typeexperimental aircraft were being flown from a top-secret base, and he'd seen nine saucers. Lear introduced Lazar to GeorgeKnapp, and from the Doty-Moore deceptions, a newish legend was born.In Bill Moore’s epic MUFONperformance, he had attempted to portray himself as a whistleblower exposingthe contamination of ufology by disinformation, but it didn’t go over well. Afterhis lecture, Moore reduced his public role and involvement in ufology.Part 3:Snowbird Flies AgainTheCash-Landrum case received a big boost by being featured in a segment of thepopular television show, Unsolved Mysteries on February 6, 1991. Theshow asked for tips on the case, and afterward,some anonymous calls came in. The Houston Chronicle, Sept. 15,1991, featured a review of the case stating: Thereported sighting has attracted numerous other responses, including some fromthe fringe. On one nationally syndicated TV special… "Falcon" and"Condor" told wild tales of U.S. pilots having problems while testinga nuclear-powered craft that had been acquired from extraterrestrials. Othertips are coming from callers who recently saw the UFO story aired on the UnsolvedMysteries TV program. Still others, claiming to be military… say they flewhelicopters that night… At least two callers linked the UFO to a classifiedproject, WASP-2, which they said was an experimental nuclear-powered craftabandoned after 1982 when it couldn't slop irradiating people. "Thetrouble is that most all the people with something significant to say were anonymous,"said Schuessler.Richard Doty spent much of his career being an anonymoussource, and he may have been behind those WASP-2 calls. Back in 1983 he’d told Gersten the C-L devicehad been discussed in AviationWeek. Themagazine did run an article on the testing of an unusual aircraft, but it was asmall one-man flying platform capable of short flights. Aviation Week & SpaceTechnology, May 31, 1982, page 66, “Wasp Pilot Training Begins,” and the WASP II also received coverage inmainstream magazines such as Newsweek, Popular Science, and Flying,Sept. 1982.Doty took a dash of truth and a barrel full of lies to producethe C-L secret “experimentalcraft” yarn that morphed into the WASP II. Like the earlier Snowbird tale, there were some takers. Betty Cash’s Alabama doctor, Bryan McClelland,latched on to these “tips” and is chiefly responsible for perpetuating thisstory. McClelland’s 1996 letter reproduced in Schuessler’s The Cash-LandrumUFO Incident stated:“Therehas been some suggestion that an experimental program with a military aircraftcalled a WASP-II could have gone amiss and irradiated Ms. Cash but this isunproven.”Tom Adams’1991 booklet, The Choppers -- and the Choppers, carried a tale that seems to have been avariation on the Rick Doty C-L narrative, a second-hand story from an anonymouspilot repeating the word of another anonymous pilot, he called “Tony.” FromAppendix 4:“Tony was a helicopter pilotat Fort Hood. Between Christmas and the end of 1980, there was a ‘specialalert.’” [They located the UFO and followed it for a few miles but were orderedto abort the mission.] After their arrival back at Fort Hood…They were toldthat what they had encounteredwas an ‘experimentalaircraft’ that had gone astray… and had started to ‘experience problems.’ It wascrucial to insure that no one [civilians] got too close to it.”TheX-Files EraBillMoore was done with ufology by 1994, but by then the mythology he’d sown withDoty was being served up to the public as entertainment on television via TheX-Files on the Fox Network.Moore’s last known UFO-related media appearancewas a short clip in the television show Sightings (season 3, episode 14) on the segment, “Disinformation,”broadcast on Jan. 15, 1995.Rick Doty from Junichi Yaoi’s 1990 UFOdocumentaryfor Nippon TV’sThursday Night Special.Not much is documented aboutany UFO business Richard Doty had in the 1990s. He was not a public figure but claims.“I was involved in the 1997 UFO Conference briefing,” and also that he was an “avidreader of UFO Magazine.” The National Institute for Discovery Science(NIDS), was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1995, and it involved severalplayers in the UFO-government arena that Bill Moore had called “the Aviary.” JohnSchuessler was on the NIDS science advisory board, and Dr. Hal Puthoff waschairman of the board. The Nov. 10, 2000, Saucer Smear reported:“From Super Secret Sources we learn the hilarious newsthat former Sergeant Richard (‘Rick’) Doty now does research& investigation for the prestigious NIDS (National Institute for DiscoveryScience), though this must be on a part-time basis, as Doty is, as far as weknow, still employed by the New Mexico State Police.” John Alexander of NIDS calledMoseley to deny Doty was involved, but years later more information wouldsurface.Doty claimed he worked for Hal Puthoff circa 1994-2004, and Puthoff confirmedhis employment of Doty, saying:“Therewas a period where we were investigating all aspects of the phenomenon. RichardDoty was a contractor for us, as were many other people. Some of his data couldbe verified, some could not. I happened to like him as an individual.”Seeking clarification, I emailed Dr. Puthoff, who replied saying Doty was hired for UFO research, but worked for EarthTech International (ETI), not NIDS. Puthoff said:“First,Doty was not used in the earlier NIDS work. As to our (ETI's) use of Doty as acontractor, it was to get any input he could share about USG events, info thatwe could investigate further, e.g., sightings in US and foreign countries,claimed retrievals of materials from crash/retrievals, etc.”Even so, the NIDS network is likely how Doty became involved in Schuessler’s 1996 book, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects. The booklet was a directory of alleged medical cases, and it included a section on the Cash-Landrum incident.The cover illustration was credited to Richard Doty and the artwork depicted a flying saucer above an alien-looking caduceus. We can only speculate whether it had the wings of a falcon. Doty’s pal Robert Collins (aka Condor) was more public and posted in the Google Group, alt.paranet.ufo on July 21, 1996, where he repeated Doty’s tale: “The Cash Landrum case... is speculated to have been one of these ‘Reversed Engineered Devices’ gone out of control… a few of these reversed engineered prototypes have been lost in the Gulf of Mexico due to problems…”Betty Cash inThe Unexplainedepisode "Close Encounters"The Unexplained episode "Close Encounters"aired July 9, 1998, and it wasBetty Cash’s last interview. The re-enactment of the sighting depictedan angular UFO that looked like a close cousin of the F-117 stealthplane hot from Area 51. The narrator said, “Are Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum victims of a secret military programgone awry? Has a conspiracy hidden evidence of that fateful night in December1980?”InNovember Betty was hospitalized for a stroke and she died on Dec. 29, 1998, atthe age of 69. A few months before, John Schuessler (self)published TheCash-Landrum UFO Incident, a book collecting his files and memoirs of theinvestigation. He briefly mentioned the spats with APRO but did not call outeither Bill Moore or Rick Doty by name, but discussing the case in a 2000 interview, Schuessler was a bit more forthcoming.“[We] started getting leads from people like Bill Moore thatthis may have been a device that flew from Los Alamos to Ellington Field, whichdidn’t pan out at all. Ellington Field was in the process of becoming a publicairport. There was no evidence between the two sites that anything had flownacross.”RichardDoty Comes Out of the ShadowsIn2005 Greg Bishop published Project Beta, his book on the Paul Bennewitz story. It containedmaterial gathered with interviews with Bill Moore and Richard Doty, presentingthem as if they were as trustworthy as any other source. On theCash-Landrum case, Bishop wrote:“Richard Dotythinks the craft was an atomic-powered antigravity-type craft that was on atest mission to fly out over the Gulf of Mexico and land at a secure facilityin Nevada when it had engine problems. Bennewitz guessed (and was probablyencouraged in this direction) that the UFO was a captured alien ship, or atleast had been developed with ‘borrowed’ technology.”OnFeb. 27, 2005, Greg Bishop was on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell topromote the book, and brought along a surprise guest, Richard Doty. Bell askedabout the damage done to ufology by “official disinformation” he had been apart of. Doty said, “Probably, it did some harm, yeah. Absolutely, not so muchwhat I did, but there were some others. You are talking about small leveloperations that I did. Two that I told you about [Paul Bennewitz and LindaMoulton Howe], two others that have never been disclosed… one of them was atotal failure.”Near theshow’s end, Bell asked about those other two operations for AFOSI. Doty said, “Well,basically one of the operations that was successful involved an airlines inNevada that flew people to a certain location [Janet flights to Area 51]… Thatwas an operation, and the second one was the Cash-Landrum… [Bell interruptedand wrapped up the show.] Piecing together Doty’s fragments, he claimed the C-Lcase was one of his “operations,” perhaps the one that “was a total failure.”Laterin 2005, Doty was deeply involved in promoting the Serpo hoax with the bad sciencefiction plot of an alien exchange program. Also, Falcon and Condor collaboratedon a 2005 book. ExemptFrom Disclosure was a fantasy-filled flight by RobertM. Collins & Richard C. Doty, and a section rehashed Doty’s version of theCash-Landrum case:“Rick Doty and others have stated that… one of ourreverse-engineered craft gone out of control. …this craft was a very primitiveattempt by the US government to find a fast track, secret way to get us intospace and off to the stars using anti-gravity as the propulsion mechanism (partof Project Snowbird?). …the contact had said, there were problems with thematerials, propulsion system, and understanding the alien’s power system.”Rick Doty in "The Great UFO Conspiracy"The same year Rick Doty appeared anonymously in silhouette as agovernment UFO insider (like he’d done as Falcon) for an episode of the TVshow, The World's Strangest UFO Stories, “The Great Alien Conspiracy.” Dotyclaimed:“I was trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and the DefenseIntelligence Agency. During my DIA career, I investigated unidentified flyingobject sightings throughout the southwestern part of the United States. We didconduct counterintelligence operations against people that were close toobtaining the truth about classified programs. Some might call the operationsdisinformation…”Mirage MenDoty wrote an article about Serpo in the Feb. 2006 UFO Magazine, and attended the 2006 Laughlin International UFO Convention to be interviewed on film for Mirage Men. After that, he seems to have retreated from the spotlight.The Snowbird-WASP Legend Lives OnVickieLandrum died on September 12, 2007, but the UFO story went on. The last witnesswas Colby Landrum, who was interviewed for the History Channel UFO Huntersepisode “Alien Fallout” that aired January 14, 2009. The show also featured BettyCash’s physician, Dr. Bryan McClelland, who recycled rumors and conspiracytheories about the C-L case:"There were alarge number of military people exactly describingthe series of events and the vehicle, and they could describe exactly whathappened. In one of those, theysaid there was a vehicle called a WASP II, which was a nuclear-poweredpersonnel carrier that they were apparently experimenting with..."Rick Doty receivedpublic exposure with the release of the book MirageMen in 2010 and the documentary released in2013. Despite his sinister history, Doty came off like a bumbling conman, butthere’s an old saying, "There is no such thing as badpublicity."When I wrote to Rick Doty via the Internet in July 2014 askingif he could tell me more about the Cash-Landrum case, he indicated he had leftUFOs behind. “Nope, not into that business anymore. Nothing more to say.”However, he later added, “That incident occurred a long time ago. It wasclassified then and I'm sure it is still classified. It did involve areversed-engineered craft with a nuclear power system. I know the classifiedportion of the case but can't release that.”Doty came out ofUFO disinformation retirement to give an interview for Steven Greer’s 2017 film and book, Unacknowledged.Doty was still working from the old script:"Imet the four Air Force pilots involved in the Cash-Landrum incident in 1980. Itinvolved an extraterrestrial craft that we had reverse-engineered. And I knowthat for a fact.”Sincethen, Rick Doty has been in demand in UFO media circles and has appeared as aretired government insider in numerous television episodes and podcasts. Doty frequentlydiscusses his alleged insider knowledge (aka disinformation) about the C-L case,though he fumbles with the details and gives contradictory accounts of hisinvolvement and the story.Richard C. Doty was featured as a guest at UFOMegaCon in Laughlin, Nevada, and gave several interviews about his UFO career.“TheCash-Landrum incident, 1980, I was involved in that. The craft was anextraterrestrial craft, but the propulsion system was one of ours. It was anuclear propulsion system… because [they] couldn't understand it, with thealien propulsion system… They flew around Nevada for weeks… months… as theyflew from Area 51 down to an Air Force Base in Texas, they developed a numberof problems with it. It was gonna explosively crash and unfortunately theCash-Landrum people were [there and it] poured some radiation on them.”From another interview, “The Cash-Landrum incident involved a craft that had left Area 51 and flew south and eventually hadthe incident involving the family, and then came back, and when it came back, itwas in a hangar and I saw it, and this was in 1982.”Inthe publisher’s description for Exemptfrom Disclosure by RobertM. Collins and Doty, it teased the “story of Area 51, S4, Aliens…” and said, “RickDoty… confirms some of the things that Bob Lazar has been saying.” When GeorgeKnapp interviewed Doty in 2019 at the UFO MegaCon, he askedhim to rate Bob Lazar’s credibility, “Scale of 1 to 10, 1 being completelybogus, 10 being really real, where does it fall?” Doty said, “I’d say it was agood 9.”In yetanother 2019 interview (My Alien Life), Richard Doty claimed Cash and the Landrums were not exposed to radiation fromthe nuclear-powered engine of DARPA’s UFO. He said the aircraft did not descendbelow 1000 feet and suggests maybe the witnesses “exaggerated” their illnesses.In a seeming contradiction, he also says there was a secret settlement andBetty Cash was paid some undisclosed amount to cover most of her medical bills.Since2017 Doty has given 40 or more podcast interviews, and he has appeared insupposedly serious productions like Showtime’s four-part documentary series,UFO. Doty had to use subterfuge to spread falsehoods to ufologists in the1980s, but now they come to his door begging for it.MissionAccomplishedThe motive for Rick Doty spreading UFO fables overthe decades is interesting to ponder. Around the same time as the Cash-Landrumcase, there were many rumors that centered on the U.S. government havingcaptured alien technology. It’s possible that Doty was encouraging the spreadof those rumors to make the Russians fear our military might, or to protect thesecrecy of the development of projects like the F-117 Nighthawk and B-2 stealthplanes. Then, if we look at the other sensational material he was pushing, nological reason can be found for it. Doty comes off looking like just a scammer.As for his actions against UFO researchers, Doty maintains he was a soldier doinghis duty, just following orders.No matter his motive, Richard Doty exploited the Cash-Landrumwitnesses with his alien-military hybrid vehicle yarn. Doty reduced them tosupporting characters in their own story and their plight became secondary tohis science fiction plot. The lies Doty told caused the lawsuit to become asnipe hunt for a Snowbird, ending in its dismissal. Paul Bennewitz was a victimof Rick Doty and Bill Moore, but so were Betty Cash, Vickie, and Colby Landrum.They lost their fight, and our memory of them will forever be entwined withlies.. . .For Further ReadingRichard Doty was involved in distorting another UFOcase in 1981. APRO received the “Weitzel Letter” from an anonymous source describinga sensational sighting. Later, “Craig Weitzel, who confirmed that he had indeedseen a UFO in 1980 and reported it to Sgt. Doty. But his sighting, whileinteresting, was rather less dramatic than the CE3 reported in the letter.” Formore details on this Doty hoax, see this item fromThe UFO Encyclopedia: UFOs in the 1980sby Jerome Clark, 1990.Other resources on Doty, Moore, and Disinformation are:Out There by Howard Blum, 1990Project Beta by Greg Bishop, 2005"The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12" byBrad Sparks and Barry Greenwood, 2007 MUFON SymposiumMirage Menby Mark Pilkington, 2010For further details and documents on the turf war over the C-L case see the Blue Blurry Lines article:MUFON vs. APRO, Allegations, Accusations & Countercharges: The Cash-Landrum UFO Case Backstage DramaPosted byCurt Collinsat3:19 PMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:APRO,Bill Moore,Cash-Landrum,Disinformation,John F. 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