Project Beta: How the US Government Created An Alien Invasion [MP3]

Greg Bishop Presents "Project Beta": How the US Government Created Alien Invasion"

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The extremes of wide-eyed belief and closed-minded debunkery has fascinated Greg ever since 1991, when he co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, conspiracy research, psychedelia and new science (now online at www.excludedmiddle.com ). Wake Up Down There!, a collection of articles from the magazine, was published in 2000. His newest book, Weird California, was released by Sterling Publishers and Barnes & Noble in 2005. For two years, (until it was shut down by the FCC) Greg hosted The Hungry Ghost, a radio show of interviews and music airing on a pirate FM station in Los Angeles. His current show, Radio Misterioso can be heard on Sundays from 8-10 PM PST at www.killradio.org. Interviews with fringe-topic researchers and weird music are the usual fare.

PROJECT BETA: HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CREATED AN ALIEN INVASION Greg Bishop will be speaking on his research into the story of electrical physicist Paul Bennewitz, who thought he had stumbled onto evidence of an alien invasion, but in the process was directing attention to secret projects at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico in the early 1980s. The Bennewitz episode provided the blueprint for wild UFO conspiracy tales for the next 20 years or more, and a warning to researchers not to confuse the authority of the messenger with the truth of the message. Wild alien stories cooked up by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations that were fed to Bennewitz, and which began as a simple counterintelligence operation, backfired and led to renewed calls for disclosure of government UFO secrecy. The strangest part of the story is that Bennewitz actually had stumbled onto strange lights and signals that were part of the vast black budget projects that were going on at Kirtland—projects sponsored by the Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.

The lecture will feature personal notes and correspondence, as well as some of the verified disinformation that was fed to him over a period of five years, leading to his eventual breakdown and institutionalization. Pictures and documents not included in the book Project Beta will be presented.