PART 10

The document gave no indication anywhere as to which government,
military or scientific agency (if any) had prepared the report,
titled A Briefing Paper for the President of the United States on
the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The title did not
specify which President it had in mind, nor did the document list
a date (so far as Howe recalls today) which would have linked it
to a particular administration.


The first paragraph, written--as was everything that followed--
in what Howe characterizes as "dry bureaucratese," listed dates
and locations of crashes and retrievals of UFOs and their
occupants. The latter were invariably described as 3 1/2 to four
feet tall, gray-skinned and hairless, with oversized heads, large
eyes and no noses. It was now known, the document stated on a
subsequent page, that these beings, from a nearby solar system,
have been here for many thousands of years. Through genetic
manipulation they influenced the course of human evolution and in
a sense created us. They had also helped shape our religious
beliefs.

The July 1947 Roswell crash was mentioned; so, however, was
another one at Roswell in 1949. Investigators at the site found
five bodies and one living alien, who was taken to a safe house
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory north of Albuquerque. The
aliens, small gray-skinned humanoids, were known as "extraterrestrial biological entities" and the living one was
called "EBE" (ee-buh). EBE was befriended (if that was the word)
by an Air Force officer, but the being died of unknown causes on
June 18, 1952. (EBE's friend, by 1964 a colonel, was among those
who were there to greet the aliens who landed at Holloman.)
Subsequently, it would be referred to as EBE-1, since in later
years another such being, EBE-2, would take up residence in a
safe house. After that, a third, EBE-3, appeared on the scene and
was now living in secret at an American base.

The briefing paper said other crashes had occurred one near
Kingman, Arizona, another just south of Texas in northern Mexico.
It also mentioned the Aztec crash- The wreckage and bodies had
been removed to such facilities as Los Alamos laboratory and Wright-Patterson AFB. A number of highly classified projects
dealt with these materials. They included Snowbird (research and
development from the study of an intact spacecraft left by the
aliens as a gift) and Aquarius (the umbrella operation under
which the research and contact efforts were coordinated). Project
Sigma was the ongoing electronic communications effort. There was
also a defunct project Garnet, intended to investigate extraterrestrial influence on human evolution. According to the
document, extraterrestrials have appeared at various intervals in
human history-25,000, 15,000, 5000 and 2500 years ago as well as
now--to manipulate human and other DNA.

One paragraph stated briefly, "Two thousand years ago extraterrestrials created a being" who was placed here to teach
peace and love. Elsewhere a passing mention was made of another
group of EBEs, called the "Talls."

The paper said Project Blue Book had existed solely to take heat
off the Air Force and to draw attention away from the real
projects. Doty mentioned an "MJ-12," explaining that "MJ" stood
for "Majority." It was a policy-making body whose membership
consisted of 12 very high-ranking government scientists, military
officers and intelligence officials. These were the men who made
the decisions governing the cover-up and the contacts.

Doty said Howe would be given thousands of feet of film of
crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1 and the Holloman landing and
meeting. She could use this material in her documentary to tell
the story of how U.S. officials learned that the earth is being
visited and what they have done about it. "We want you to do the
film," Howe quotes him as saying.

When Howe asked why she, not the New York Times, the Washington
Post or 60 Minutes, was getting this, the story of the
millennium, Doty replied bluntly that an individual media person
is easier to manipulate and discredit than a major organization
with expensive attorneys. He said that another plan to release
the information, through Emenegger and Sandler, had been halted
because political conditions were not right.

Over the next weeks Howe had a number of phone conversations
with Doty, mostly about technical problems related to converting
old film to videotape. She spoke on several occasions with three
other men but did not meet them personally.

Doty suggested that eventually she might be allowed to film an
interview with EBE-3. But the current film project was to have a
historical emphasis; it would deal with events between 1949 and
1964. If at some point she did meet EBE-3, however, there was no
way she could prepare herself for the "shock and fear" of meeting
an alien being.

Howe, of course, had informed her HBO contacts, Jean Abounader
and her superior Bridgett Potter, of these extraordinary
developments. Howe urged them to prepare themselves, legally and
otherwise, for the repercussions that would surely follow the
release of the film. The HBO people told her she would have to
secure a letter of intent from the U.S. government with a legally-binding commitment to release the promised film footage.
When Howe called Doty about it, he said, "I'll work on it." He
said he would mail the letter directly to HBO.

Then HBO told her it would not authorize funds for the film
production until all the evidence was in hand and, as Potter put
it, Howe had the "President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
State and Joint Chiefs of Staff to back it up" (Howe, 1989). But
proceed anyway, Howe was told. Now she was furious at both HBO
and Doty.

When she called him at the base, he remarked that he had good
news and bad news. She and a small crew would soon be able to
interview the retired colonel (then a captain) who had spent
three years with EBE-1. The bad news was that it would be three
months before the thousands of feet of film of EBE-1 and the
Holloman landing/contact would be available. Meanwhile, before
she could screen the footage, Howe would have to sign three
security oaths and undergo a background check. She would also
have to supply photographs of all the technical assistants who
would accompany her to the interview.

The interview was repeatedly set up and canceled. Then in June
Doty called to say he was officially out of the project. This was
a blow because Doty was the only one she could call. She did not
know how to get in touch with the others and always had to wait
for them to contact her.

By October the contacts had decreased. The same month her
contract with HBO expired. All she had was the name of the
Washington contact. In March 1984 this individual called her
office three times, although she was out of town working on a
non-UFO story at the time. "Upon returning home," she writes, "I
learned the man was contacting me to explain there would be
further delays in the film project after the November 1984
election" (Howe, 1989).

For Howe that was the end of the matter, except for a brief
sequel. On March 5, 1988, Doty wrote ufologist Larry W. Bryant,
who had unsuccessfully sought access to Doty's military records
through the Freedom of Information Act, and denied that he had
ever discussed government UFO secrets or promised footage of
crashed discs, bodies and live EBEs. Howe responded by making a
sworn statement about the meeting an producing copies of her correspondence from the period with both Doty and HBO.
end of part 10


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