Dulce Base
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Dulce Base is the name for an alleged secret underground facility under Archuleta Mesa, Dulce, New Mexico, United States. The base is claimed to be a multi-leveled "genetics lab" in which both humans and extraterrestrial beings cooperatively conduct experiments.[1] To date, very little evidence confirming the existence of this facility has surfaced. It is widely regarded to be a hoax and an urban legend.
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[edit] History of claims
[edit] Pre-Bennewitz
Before the alleged Dulce Base achieved notoriety, many cattle mutilations were said to occur in the Dulce area, and there have been allegations of UFOs visiting the area.[2] In the 1970s, New Mexico State Police investigated mutilations in the region.[3]
[edit] Paul Bennewitz
Dulce Base conspiracy theories were first circulated in the 1980s. According to researcher Greg Bishop (Bishop, 2005), the claims of Paul Bennewitz are the earliest source for the Dulce Base stories. Bennewitz was a New Mexico businessman and physicist who operated Thunder Scientific Corporation, a company which manufactured high-altitude testing equipment mostly for use at Kirtland Air Force Base.
According to Bishop (Bishop, 2005) and Clark (Clark, 1998), Bennewitz uncovered evidence of a highly secret U.S. Air Force program designed to monitor satellites launched by the Soviet Union. Bennewitz was already interested in reports of UFOs, alien abduction and cattle mutilations, and he interpreted the secret program as evidence of extraterrestrials presence on Earth.
Bennewitz communicated his findings to private UFO group APRO, who dismissed him as a deluded crank. In late 1980, Bennewitz contacted Kirtland AFB officials. For most of the 1980s, U.S Air Force Sergeant Doty and/or ufologist William Moore related reams of mostly spurious information to Bennewitz as part of a disinformation campaign designed to distract him from secret military projects at Kirtland.
Bennewitz accepted nearly all of the information as reliable and focused his energies towards writing a document he called "Project Beta," which contains nearly all of the assertions related in the "Post Bennewitz" section below.
Over the years, Bennewitz grew ever more paranoid, and his health deteriorated so badly that he had a nervous breakdown and retired from the UFO research scene before his death in 2005.
[edit] Post-Bennewitz
Since Bennewitz introduced the story of the Dulce Base various theories have grown and have flourished on the World Wide Web.
According to some UFO conspiracy theories, a joint alien/U.S. military underground base exists, perhaps devoted to genetics. The theories regarding Dulce sometimes state that alien technology was traded for permission to engage in human and animal mutilations. A battle was said to have taken place there between aliens and humans, though the time of this alleged encounter varies from the late 1970s to the 1980s. Some sources allege that horrific genetic experiments are conducted in lower levels of the facility (usually level 6 or 7, depending on the source); these levels are sometimes referred to as "Nightmare Hall."
According to the legend, Project Aquarius (1966) was a plan for investigation of UFOs, carried out and funded by the CIA. Bishop (Bishop, 2005) notes that Bennewitz is the earliest source for the Project Aquarius tale. This project was slated to begin after December 1969 when Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were closed. In 1969, the base was built northwest of Dulce in joint agreement between CIA and aliens from space. The base is allegedly located on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. The entrance is on Mount Archuleta (or Archuleta Mesa). The base gets water and electricity from the Navajo River, and dumps waste water back into the same river. The U.S. government occupies the upper levels of the underground base, while the aliens control the lower levels.
Vibrations, or "hums" from the ground near the town of Dulce have caused speculations of an underground facility, however, these are perhaps minor earthquakes which are known to occur in the area. Military helicopters have also been said to be "unusually milling" around the deserted area.
There is a claim that the area was partially scanned with ground-penetrating radar, producing 'interesting' results, but these results are not currently available.
Some less substantial evidence includes supposed 'leaked documents', videos and witness reports. Allegedly, a collection of security camera tapes and technical documents were stolen from the base by a disgruntled security officer. These were stored in an unknown location along with the officer's 'flash', a weapon, resembling a flashlight, which is claimed to emit some form of directed radiation. The actual documents which were stolen have not been revealed to the public, however a collection of drawings based on the documents and surveillance footage is available. Sometime in the 1990s a Japanese documentary producer had a 1-minute animation produced, based on the contents of the alleged stolen information. This animation is available on the internet and was never claimed by its creators to be actual footage. There are also a small number of black-and-white photographs available, which are signed "TAL". It has been suggested that these photographs are actually from the Cheyenne Mountain facility.
Many people have supposedly witnessed UFOs in the area.
Many details of the lore surrounding the Dulce base—vast underground bases with many subterranean levels, battles with alien or underground creatures, etc.—resemble those of the alleged Montauk Project.
[edit] In Television
The Dulce Base was the subject of an episode of the History Channel program UFO Hunters. In the second episode of the show's third season, the investigators traveled to Dulce to interview residents, witnesses, and fellow investigators, as well as get a closer look at the Archuleta Mesa, under which the base is reportedly hidden. No hard evidence as to the facility's existence was discovered during the investigation.
However, an important fact that cattle mutilations are still happening to this day was clearly proven. Also, according to at least 5 different ranchers whose cows are disappearing to this day, the police have stopped investigating the cow mutilation phenomena. According to the UFO Hunters, no government agency has ever investigated the cow mutilations while request to do so have been sent both to CIA and FBI. According to the research done by the UFO Hunters, all the mutilations that have happened not just in America but all over the world in places like UK and Australia throughout history, have several things in common with the cows after they have been mutilated. The cows eyes are missing along with the abdominal gland and all blood is drained. No point of incision could be found, and the body would be dumped with no tracks of the body or something either carrying it or driving it left behind or around the mutilated cow.
[edit] In fiction
- In the alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents, Michael Dukakis is revealed to be an alien upon being taken to Dulce Base, which causes the Base's personnel to rewrite history to allow George H. W. Bush to be elected President instead.
- Dulce Base is key in the Area 51 novels.
- According to Valve, the game Half-Life was based on the Dulce Base lore.
- Dulce Base appeared in the comic series The Invisibles, where it housed a secret AIDS vaccine.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Gregory J. Bishop, Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, Paraview Pocket Books, 2005; ISBN 0-7434-7092-3
- Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23805-2.
- Branton (1999). The Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases and the Battle for Planet Earth. Inner Light - Global Communications. ISBN 1-892062-12-7.
- Jerome Clark, The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial, Visible Ink, 1998, ISBN 1-57859-029-9
