May 06 2007
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On The Road With The “Mirage Men”
The scarcity of posts for the last couple of days is due to my work on a documentary that is shooting around the U.S. for a few weeks in May. Produced by John Lundberg and my olde pal Mark Pilkington, the film promises to be groundbreaking in the most literal sense of the metaphor.
Mirage Men will examine the history of intelligence community involvement in the UFO subject. While many other features have approached this important issue in piecemeal fashion, Pilkington and Lundberg decided last year to meet the problem head-on and put various players on the spot to possibly clear up what was (and is) being done to UFO researchers under the umbrella of national defense.
The producers have managed to secure interviews with Ufological and intelligence personalities from all over the country, including Curtis Peebles, Victor Martinez, Bill Ryan, Tracy Torme, Robert Emenegger, Gabe Valdez, and even Richard Doty. (I believe that this is Doty’s one and only appearance ever on camera.) One other intelligence player (who has been around the disinfo game for over 30 years) will most likely appear only in voiceover, with his speech disguised to protect his identity, at his own request. Perhaps we’ll hear some new revelations stretching back to the Paul Bennewitz days and offering new insights to that dramatic period when intel agents skulked about in the shadows, feeding outlandish stories to gullible researchers eager for the newest revelation.
Just as the producers were gearing up for production last April, the SERPO story was breaking out and they were just in time to meet some of the players and interested parties at Bob Brown’s annual Laughlin UFO conclave. We sat down for beers and stories with Richard Doty, while other less well-known names were rumored to be sneaking about the premises, monitoring the reaction to the newest drama. The Mirage Men producers shut me in a room with SERPO webmaster Bill Ryan and a video camera and we debated the merits of the story for almost two hours. I’ll be surprised if any of it makes the final cut.
The next week, we were in Albuquerque, where the Paul Bennewitz saga all went down, talking to Doty and Gabe Valdez about their recollections of the period. Valdez was very kind and helpful, and provided us with a view of what was going on around Dulce, New Mexico over twenty years ago when he was a State Police officer for the area. He talked about his suspicion that there may have indeed been some sort of underground facility there, but not one built or used by aliens, as Bennewitz was told.
Mirage Men is an indpendent production, and I hope that Pilkington and Lundberg can work out a distribution deal with someone here in the States (they are from the U.K.) I of course have no control over the editing process, but from the footage shot so far, the final product should be a landmark overview of the history and motivations of the intelligence community and it’s use of the UFO subject as a tool for gathering information as well as baiting people who interest them.
Three former intel officers have told the production (on camera) that the UFO subject is taken seriously by a lot of their colleagues, and are sure that there is some sort of non-human intelligence present on this planet. While this is nothing new, it reiterates the idea that while there may be “aliens” interacting with us from time to time, the powers that be have little idea where it comes from or how to control it. Government UFO “insiders” have been hinting at this scenario for decades now. In fact, when someone who claims to be revealing inside info on UFOs makes a definitive statement on the subject, it should raise red flags in the mind of any reasonable person.
Mirage Men should be completed by late this year. If I receive a copy before the official release date, and receive permission to do so, I will post a review and possibly a few segments from the film here at UFOmystic.
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May 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
“stretching back to the Paul Bennewitz” !?! As Eddie Izzard put it, impersonating an American, “Yeah, we have houses here that are FIFTY years old!”
I would hope that these guys would do some kind of nod to Maury Island and Crisman’s involvement in the covert intelligence operations/UFO link dating back to ‘47 and likely to have included the JFK assassination.
Tell ‘em to come out and talk to me at ConCon in San Jose. You gonna be there?
May 6th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Kenn,
I didn’t write “stretching way, way back into ancient history.” The people who were around in 1947 at Maury Island are all dead now I think, so it’s a little bit difficult to interview them for a first-hand account.
But you’re right, they should at least acknowedge that the involvment goes back at least to the late 1940s. I’ll suggest it.
I won’t be at the concon, mainly because I’m not speaking there, but also becuase it would take rent money out of my pocket instead of putting it in. The production team will be back in the UK by then, but perhaps they can work something out.
May 9th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Hi Kenn - Greg and I were just talking about Maury, and I agree that we should get it into the film, as it’s a classic case. The problem for us, as Greg points out, is that there’s nobody around from the period to realise the story on film. But yes, we should refer to it at least. I’ll certainly be bringing it into the wider narrative in my book o’ the film.
And Greg, thanks for the heads up. We hope to have Mirage Men finished by early next year, though these things take a *long* time, but John and I genuinely believe that we have something special on our hands.
btw, here’s a spot quiz for UFO Mystic readers. First person to point out the connection between this posting and the linked video clip gets a special prize…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VmTmvBzNFY4
Mark P
May 9th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Hmm, interesting!
Is the connection Robert Emenegger by any chance…?
He put the “Evolution Revolution” together and also brought us the tale of the UFO landing at Holloman AFB.
Do I win?
Cheers,
Steve
May 9th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
good work Steve! You win a special prize - as yet undecided. Can you email me your snail mail address to mark_at_strangeattractor.co.uk and you can look forward to, er, something…
May 10th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
LOL, so is Victor the libelous spammer (yes he did libel me and my family) now considered a Ufological or an intelligence personality?
~toni
May 10th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Toni,
I didn’t know the proper categories in which to lump everyone. “Personality” is neither positive or negative. I could have said “luminaries” or “pariahs” or “gods” or “spammers,” but I chose what I thought was a neutral term. Sorry about your negative experience with him.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
I hope Mirage Men will be interesting and informative but the stories told should be taken with a grain of salt.
We will probably hear stories about how they unloaded incredible dis info stories to researchers who gulliably lapped them up as the gospel truth, never to be doubted or questioned.
I predict that if it goes in that direction, people in the UFO community who touted these stories and tales (whose reputation is on the line because of how much they defended them to the death) will be howling about how the film was really part of some evil government conspiracy to unload disinformation.
The question becomes how do we know that the story they are “now” telling on film is the accurate one, or is it further propaganda and lies?
Paraphrasing a comment by Deep Throat in the popular X Files series:
‘a lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths’
then further in the episode:
Mulder: I’m wondering which lie to believe
Cheers,
Robert
May 14th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Robert,
The only “insider” who will appear onscreen so far will be Richard Doty. All of the other interviews were with researchers who run the gamut from credulous to skeptical, so I guess the point will be how researchers see the (dis)info and what they do with it.
The parts of the film dealing with Project Beta are basically reiterations of what was in the book, although one previously skeptical researcher now claims to have seen an entrance to an underground facility somewhere on the Archuleta Mesa.
The story is as accurate as can be told by those who are not on the “inside” and have a healthy amount of incredulity. When you see it, trust your powers of discernment and make up your own mind. Like I said in another post, the need to come to a conclusion is often the enemy of learning.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Hi Greg,
I am looking forward to seeing it, and seeing what will be said. As I alluded to, I take so called insider info with a huge grain of salt.
Cheers,
Robert