Filename: Par-Adv1.Inv
Type : Investigations
Author : Michael Corbin
Date : 08/16/92 (Aprox)
Desc. : Investigation into Phoenix Project Publishers

Note : See also; PAR-ADVx.ZIP

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Review of the "Phoenix Project" by ParaNet


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
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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