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Date: 08-06-92 (11:18) Number: 4496
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A few weeks ago, ParaNet received on-line copies of several
documents which purported to come from a previously unknown
organization called "The Phoenix Project". The project is
described in the documents as a "private, civilian, research
organization" which was "formed in 1952 to investigate and
correlate information" concerning UFOs and ETs. According to the
information contained in the documents, for a small price one can
receive printed copies of the project's reports, complete with
maps, magnetometer readings, and a host of other supporting
charts and diagrams which serve to make the whole endeavor look
scientific and legitimate.

The documents we received were formulated as investigative
reports on two of the hottest and most controversial issues
within the UFO research community: the underground alien bases
which are said to exist at numerous locations around the United
States, and the cluster of alleged UFO-related projects sometimes
referred to collectively as "Operation Majestic Twelve".
Specifically, the material consisted of three separate documents:

(1) "The Ultimate Secret", originally dated 4 August 1989 and
revised most recently 5 May 1992, purporting to lay bare the
inner workings of the government's secret UFO projects, including
the recovery of alien technology and bodies from crashed UFOs,
the exploitation of this technology by a number of code-named
government projects, and the involvement of NASA and the SDI
program in preparing for conflict with alien invaders;

(2) "The Dulce Report", dated 27 May 1992, describing an on-site
investigation of the Dulce and Archuleta Mesa area in New Mexico,
which purportedly proved beyond any doubt that there is nothing
there of any interest to UFO researchers despite persistent
reports to the contrary; and

(3) "The K-2 Report", originally dated 28 July 1989 and revised
27 June 1992, which purports to document the discovery of a
genuine "secret alien base" in the Pilot Peak area of Plumas
County, California.

ParaNet quickly reviewed this material and posted it in its
entirety for our subscribers, pursuant to the permissions
attached to the material by the publisher. We also posted a
preliminary evaluation which warned that the material might
contain inaccuracies or deliberate disinformation. This
evaluation was based on a number of factors:

(1) much of the information in "The Ultimate Secret" about
Operation Majestic Twelve and associated projects is clearly
related to, and probably derived from, earlier material which has
been dismissed as worthless by almost all reputable UFO
researchers;

(2) much of the information in "The Dulce Report" about Dulce and
the Archuleta Mesa contradicts information already provided to
ParaNet by other capable investigators;

(3) some of the information in "The K-2 Report" is intrinsically
implausible (although, admittedly, not impossible), such as the
claim that a seasoned military intelligence operative "forgot"
his camera when rushing to document a UFO landing site, or that
by the next day that same landing site had been re-sodded by the
aliens to obliterate all the evidence.

ParaNet received the three documents as uploads from a Mr. Jack
L. Mathias of Carson City, Nevada, who represented himself as the
sole public spokesman for the Project. But the reports themselves
name neither the authors of the documents nor the principals of
the Phoenix Project. Instead, they cryptically state that they
are the work of "former military personnel who have all been
associated with intelligence activities, and have knowledge of
covert government operations concerning UFO's". Given the sorry
history of anonymous documents and "former" government agents in
the UFO community, ParaNet felt it necessary to start its own
investigation in an effort to determine just who was behind the
Phoenix Project and what their motives might be.

First we sent a letter to the post office box listed in the
documents, asking for further information about the group; but
the letter was not answered. We corresponded by electronic mail
with Mr. Mathias, who represents himself as an agent for the
group, but he refused to provide any of the information we
requested. So much for the direct approach.

Each document formally states that the Phoenix Project logo is a
registered trademark (presumably in the state of Nevada, since
that is where their mailing address is located), so we tried a
query to the Nevada trademark office in Carson City. That office
informed us that the state of Nevada has no record of any current
trademarks under the "Phoenix Project" name. They did say that
articles of incorporation were filed under the name of the
Phoenix Project on 25 August 1988 by a Mr. Thomas Naylor of Las
Vegas, Nevada. However, the corporation failed to file the names
and addresses of its officers by 1 July 1989 as required by
Nevada law, as a result of which the incorporation was revoked by
the Nevada Secretary of State. And so we reached another apparent
dead end, except for one bit of trivia uncovered by a ParaNet
investigator in Las Vegas: An attorney named Thomas C. Naylor had
recently moved into an office building at 2810 West Charleston in
Las Vegas.

Next we contacted the U.S. Postal Service in Carson City, Nevada
to determine the box holder for the Phoenix Project's publisher,
Advent Publishing Company. We were told that the box was
registered to a Richard T. Miller, whose address was given as a
mobile-home park in Carson City. Following this, we contacted the
Clerk and Recorder's office in Carson City, and determined that a
Richard Miller is listed with them as the legal owner of Advent
Publishing. However, the telephone number they gave us for Mr.
Miller has been disconnected, and directory assistance was unable
to provide a new one. Another brick wall.

To this point, all attempts to verify the Phoenix Project's
legitimacy using conventional methods had proved futile, so we
decided to try a different approach. The Phoenix Project
explicitly and emphatically disclaims affiliation with any other
groups using the name "Phoenix". And just to make sure everyone
gets the message, each document states at the beginning that
"[i]n particular, there is no affiliation with a publisher known
as America West, any of its publications, or the individuals
known as George and Desiree Green". Unfortunately, ParaNet has
uncovered evidence that these disclaimers may be intended to
conceal rather than to illuminate.

America West, it turns out, is the publisher of a magazine called
the Phoenix Liberator, which carries large quantities of
channelled material alleged to originate with an entity from the
Pleiades known as "Hatonn". The Phoenix Liberator has come under
fire recently from some in the UFO community as anti-Semitic and
neo-fascist. (See, for example, "Hatonn's World: A Neo-Nazi ET?"
by Don Ecker in the July/August 1992 issue of UFO Magazine.) But
"Hatonn" and his defenders vehemently deny the charge, and the
whole affair has been widely and rather nastily trumpeted both on
the net and in print.

It seems that until recently America West Publishers and the
Phoenix Liberator were operated out of Tehachapi, California. But
a few days ago one of ParaNet's subscribers uploaded a response
from "Hatonn" to Don Ecker, which he said he had pulled down from
the Phoenix Liberator BBS; and with it he posted a new address
for the Liberator. That address was all too familiar: 2810 West
Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada--the same building, it
seems, where an attorney named Thomas Naylor also has his new
office.

And then another strange coincidence: A posting coming across the


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Internet stated that before "Hatonn" channelled through his
current host, he used to convey his messages through a Mr.
Richard Miller, who started an organization which was known as
the Solar Cross and which was apparently a forerunner of the
Phoenix Liberator. Is this the same Richard Miller who owns the
Phoenix Project's publisher, Advent Publishing Company?

We do not yet know if the Thomas Naylor who tried to incorporate
the Phoenix Project is the same Thomas Naylor who apparently
shares 2810 West Charleston with the new offices of the Phoenix
Liberator. We do not yet know if the Richard Miller who owns
Advent Publishing is the same Richard Miller who reportedly once
channelled "Hatonn". In short, we do not yet know if the Phoenix
Project is truly an independent organization, or merely another
incarnation of America West Publishers and the Phoenix Liberator.
But the coincidences are certainly striking and suggestive. And
in light of this we again urge extreme caution in dealing with
the Phoenix Project material, until such time as a definitive
assessment of the Project's motives and reliability can be made.

ParaNet will keep you advised of our findings as they become
available. If you have any information about the Phoenix Project,
especially regarding its possible relationship with the Phoenix
Liberator or America West Publishers, please send it to Michael
Corbin by Internet mail to mcorbin@paranet.org; by Fidonet to
1:104/422; by U.S. Mail to P.O. Box 172, Wheat Ridge, CO 80034-
0172; .

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