The Secret History of Dulce Base [PART ONE]

On the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in Northern New Mexico sits the small community of Dulce. Since the late 1970’s it’s become a landmark in the strange world of UFO conspiracy theories, up there with the likes of Area 51 thanks to horrifying tales of alien bases underneath Mount Archuleta. But the real story of Dulce has its roots in the cattle mutilation wave of the mid to late 1970s.

It was these mutilations that caught the attention of UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz, and an Air Force Office of Special Investigations disinformation campaign would help secure Dulce’s place in UFO history.

This video will focus on how the myths around Dulce began in the mid seventies, so if you’re looking to hear about Phil Schneider’s missing fingers and an underground alien war then you might be disappointed. But to really understand those stories which, rest assured, I’ll be covering in later episodes, you need to know how it all began with one terrified phone call on June 13th, 1976.

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SOURCES:
https://bit.ly/3Y7aq3F

SOUNDTRACK:
https://spoti.fi/3Od3LQD

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Christopher O'Brien for taking the time to talk to me as part of this project. You can find his book, Stalking the Herd here -- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalking-Her...

Christian Lambright for providing access to Paul Bennewitz audio recordings
https://www.xdeskpublishing.com/x-des...

Tanner at Getting Spooked
https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/

Dr Jerrold Coe at Paperbacks of the Gods
https://paperbackgods.blogspot.com/

Rob Kristofferson at Our Strange Skies
  / ourstrangeskies  

Stephanie Quick
https://stephaniequick.home.blog/

Trey Lane
https://www.treylane.com/

Syn @cath0licguilt_

And Renee Victoria for creating my sources document!

This is the second part in a longer series that explores the strange disinformation-filled world of 1980's UFOlogy, leading us directly to a series of fake documents that have haunted the UFO world for decades.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 INTRO
01:56 THE FIRST GOMEZ MUTILATIONS
08:37 THE VALDEZ INCIDENT REPORTS
14:17 THE 1978 DULCE MUTILATIONS
22:16 MARKED FOR MUTILATION?
24:50 THE TAOS SAUCER STORY
27:05 THE GLOWING TOMBSTONE