• MSG THREAD ON THE PHOENIX PROJECT FILE: UFO1543

    From Kurt Snelling@RICKSBBS to ALL on Wed Nov 12 06:48:39 2025
    PART 2


    * Forwarded from "ParaNet UFO Echo"
    * Originally from ParaNet Information Service
    * Originally dated 08-20-92 13:23

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    No. ParaNet has long questioned both of those sacred cows. To this
    point we have seen no acceptable proof for the existence of any
    underground alien base near Dulce, nor have we seen adequate proof for
    the existence of "Operation Majestic Twelve". We have publicly stated
    as much on many occasions.

    According to our sources within the intelligence community, the
    Dulce Scam, perpetrated by the disinformation specialists of MAJI,
    better known to you as Majestic Twelve with help from the CIA and
    NSA, is considered one of their most brilliant success stories.

    But, of course, these "sources" cannot be named, and all we have to go
    on is your word that they even exist. And, unfortunately, you are
    making a concerted effort to keep anyone from knowing who *you* are,
    either. Anonymous stories relayed by anonymous story tellers. Sorry,
    but that's not "evidence".

    We sent in experienced investigators, not amateurs, to check out
    the alleged Dulce Base. Those people knew what to look for, how to
    look for it, how to get answers, and are not easily mislead.

    We have no evidence for this except your say-so.

    If you do not agree with our findings, get off your posterior, go
    to Dulce, and check it out for yourself.

    We have.

    In fact, we invite
    anybody to do the same thing. We're sure you'll find exactly what
    we did ...

    We didn't.

    You imply that you're good at asking questions -- how are you at
    answering them? We have a few questions ... Would you mind sharing
    with all of us, everyone on the BBS's and the public, what hard
    evidence you have that, without question, supports the presence and validity of the Dulce Base.

    Would you mind sharing what hard evidence you have that we ever said
    anything of the kind? We have never said anything in support of the
    presence of a secret alien base at Dulce. In point of fact, we
    consider it extremely unlikely that any such base exists--at Dulce or
    anywhere else. That's one of the reasons we have so much trouble with
    your "K-2" report, which purports to document the existence of just
    such a base in California.

    Unless you have irrefutable
    evidence to present, made available for public scrutiny and
    evaluation, which invalidates the findings of the Phoenix Project
    regarding Dulce, K-2, or the Ultimate Secret, or our future
    reports, back off. Either put-up or shut-up. In other words, get
    off our back.

    All right, challenge accepted. Let's start with this statement from
    your "Ultimate Secret" report:

    According to eye-witness testimony, the CIA
    agent in charge of this covert operation, wearing the
    uniform of an AF Colonel, was William C. Cooper. ...
    This witness testifies that this is the
    same William C. Cooper, who has been prominent since 1988
    in the civilian UFO movement.

    Is this "William C. Cooper" supposed to be the famous Bill Cooper we
    have all come to know so well? Apparently so. Unfortunately, in his
    own published documents Bill Cooper gives his full name as "Milton
    William Cooper", not "William C. Cooper". Either Cooper doesn't know
    his own name, or the Phoenix Project's "eye witness" doesn't know what
    he's talking about.

    And while we're on the subject of Bill Cooper, it is instructive to
    compare some of the text of the Phoenix Project's "Ultimate Secret"
    document with some of Bill Cooper's material on the same subject.
    Cooper writes in his "Operation Majority--Final Release":

    [Project Grudge] was financed by CIA confidential
    funds (nonappropriated)
    and money from the illicit drug trade ...
    The purpose of Project Grudge
    was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and
    intelligence information from UFO/IAC sightings and
    contacts with alien life forms. This orderly file of
    collected information has been used to advance the United
    States Space Program.

    Now look at the corresponding paragraph of the Phoenix Project's
    "Ultimate Secret" report:

    Project Aquarius was funded by CIA confidential
    funds (non-appropriated) ...
    The purpose of Project Aquarius
    was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and
    intelligence information from UFO/IAC sightings and
    contacts with alien lifeforms. This orderly file of
    collected information has been used to advance the United
    States' Space Program and provided the data needed to
    develop present stealth technology.

    You don't have to be an intelligence agent to see that these two
    passages are virtually identical in both content and phrasing. Since
    Cooper's statement is dated 10 January 1989, more than half a year
    before the "Ultimate Secret" report's "origination" date of 4 August
    1989, we seem to be left with three possibilities: (1) Cooper was
    somehow privy to the Phoenix Project's investigative results even
    before they were first put to paper; or, (2) the Phoenix Project
    plagiarized Cooper's writings; or (3) the Phoenix Project's own
    investigations drew on the same tainted and discredited sources as
    Cooper apparently did in compiling his own materials. Whichever one
    you pick, it's not a pretty picture.

    But it gets worse:

    The basic information revealing the existence of
    Operation Majestic-12, the crashed UFOs, alien beings,
    and their secret bases within the United States, was
    obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the
    files of the CIA, NSA, FBI, State Department, the U.S.
    Air Force.

    This is utter nonsense, as any perusal of published FOIA documents on
    UFOs would quickly reveal. FOIA requests have forced the government to disgorge many hundreds of pages of UFO documents over the years, but
    they provide little if any support for the existence of Operation
    Majestic Twelve, crashed saucers, alien beings, or secret bases. If
    the Phoenix Project is relying on already published documents as their
    source for this claim (e.g., "The UFO Cover-UP" by Lawrence Fawcett and
    Barry Greenwood, or "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good), then clearly
    they have not examined them very carefully. On the other hand, if the
    project really does have such explosive FOIA documents in its
    possession, let's see them; their publication would do more to
    establish the project's credibility than anything else it could
    possibly do short of producing a live alien.

    PROJECT GRUDGE: This project was originally
    established in 1953, by order of President Eisenhower and
    is under the control of the CIA, NSA, and MAJI. Project
    Grudge went underground and another project, Project


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