Underground Bases (Pt.1)
Nuclear-powered tunnel-digging machine
The alien underground base meme has infected the UFO community since the mid-1980s. Paul Bennewitz (a name you should know by now) wrote hundreds of letters to researchers and government officials about this issue and is generally regarded as the first to mention the subject.
After Bennewitz got out of the UFO biz, others like John Lear and Bill Cooper took up the cudgels and beat late night radio listeners over the head with more stories about deals with the U.S. government involving alien technology in return for abduction rights. Although the rumors were based on a disinfo operation (as revealed by William Moore in 1989) this sort of craziness dominated a large segment of the field throughout the 1990s, until people just got tired of it.
You learn something new every day. On a recent trip to New Mexico, I talked to a person I trust and learned that there may have in fact been an underground facility near the Dulce area. Next thing you know, I’ll be ranting about an alien invasion and shady deals with ETs.
The Jicarilla Apache reservation and the Archuleta Mesa in northwestern New Mexico was made famous in the 1980s and ’90s as the location of a number of strange events, including sightings of UFOs and cattle mutilations. Looks like I’ll have to make another jaunt out to the area and try to see for myself. This may be a little difficult, since the Tribal Council has decided to refuse to let any more outsiders into the backcountry.
In light of this, Bennewitz may have been right about the tunnels, but not about their purpose. Remember, one of the models we use on this site is to play with ideas without becoming dogmatically attached to them. On rare occasions, this method bears fruit. If not, at least it’s interesting.
A good book by Richard Sauder, entitled Underground Bases and Tunnels examines the reality behind digging and tunnel-boring technology, with some eye-opening facts that the author found in numerous open-source journals and books.
Hypotheses on this sticky subject to follow.
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Jun 02 2007 
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
In his “Mysterious Valley” (San Luis) books, Christopher O’Brien talks of the possibility of hidden underground bases in the area. He references black helicopter appearances, unmarked aircraft appearances, and UFO (night-light) appearances that often involve craft seeming to disappear into the sides of mountains (most times on government lands). Many Native Americans
believe some kind of underground facility is in the area…and Dulce IS “in the area”.
Of course having underground facilities is nothing new. Consider Cheyenne Mountain, among other places.
There were all sorts of places built “hard and deep” during the cold war as anti-nuke strongholds and this was a practical tactic. I think a lot of imagination is at work here with all the underground battle stories involving
“aliens” and spec ops troops, though.
It’s easy to “juice” an underground installation story in one’s mind with Sci-Fi elements that may be a bit “much”…but that’s not to say there isn’t SOME truth in all the weirdness. We just don’t know.
Maybe Richard Shaver’s “Teros” and “Deros” are at Dulce!! LOL!!! Although sometimes I think Shaver might well have been inspired by the classic early “talkie” serial from Mascot Pictures, “The Phantom Empire”, the movie that made Gene Autry (a popular western movie star, for all the kiddies out there) famous. The “Thunder Riders” came up from the underground civilization of Murania and terrorized the cowboy locals in this film, until Autry & company went down deep into the earth to combat them. The silly looking, lumbering, “tin-can” robots of the Muranians were always out to get the good guys and I’ve wondered if they were any subconscious( or otherwise)inspiration for Shaver’s DEROS, or “detrimental robots”. They certainly worked to be detrimental to the health of Gene Autry & Smiley Burnette.
At any rate, this is all good speculative paranoiac fun, so lets just roll with it and enjoy the ride!
June 4th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Well, with facilities like Cheyenne Mountain being less than state secrets I have to ask.
“…AND?!”
So what if governments, UFO occupants and what-not (Big foot, nessie, Zombie Saddam Hussein, mothman) all have underground bases? Isn’t that just strategically a good idea? Easier to maintain than a “fortress of evil” and a lot harder to eradicate. Excuse my glib comments.
Jess
June 4th, 2007 at 8:26 am
They might WELL have such. I know I’d have one if I could! I’m only noting that, because there is a facility solmewhere, it doesn’t mean there’s something nefarious about it. But a lot of John Lear-type stories feature such facilities and such stories may well be AFOSI-driven Disinfo,,,,simply because an “underground facility” rings so cool in most people’s imaginations.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Jess,
The point about underground facilities is that they exist on a wider scale than most people realize. As far as the UFO subject is concerned, I believe that intelligence organizations use this fact as one note in the silly tune they play for the credulous.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Bill,
For a few years in the late 1990s, you could buy old missile silos for cheap and live out your sub-surface fantasies. One of the former Army remote viewers I talked to was in the process of purchasing one at the time. One man who did buy one early on was featured in the “Weird U.S.” TV show. The launch control room was still mostly intact.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Greg, Bill,
That was rather my point. No biggie. Nothing really nefarious as Bill put it. Now if someone discovered Arthur Connan Doyles “Land of the Lost” that would get my attention.
Jess
June 5th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Greg,
The gov’t having secure underground facilities is not questioned - so then, the question becomes how many and do we, the public, know of ALL or just some of them. If any are `secret’ the reasons for such will of course be open to speculation - just like this.
Rick Phillips
June 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Rick,
My speculation is on the uses of these facilities and if they possibly have our best interests in mind, as well as some fun hypothesizing. It’s always interesting to find out about things that we are supposedly not allowed to know.