PART 12

Lear's Conspiracy Theory: Events on the UFO scene were taking a
yet more bizarre turn that same year as even wilder tales began
to circulate. The first to tell them was John Lear, a pilot with
a background in the CIA and the estranged son of aviation legend
William P. Lear. Lear had surfaced two or three years earlier,
but aside from his famous father there seemed little to
distinguish him from any of hundreds of other UFO buffs who
subscribe to the field's publications and show up at its
conferences. But then he started claiming that unnamed sources
had told him of extraordinary events which made those told by
Doty and the birds sound like bland and inconsequential
anecdotes.

According to Lear, not just a few but dozens of flying saucers
had crashed over the years. In 1962 the U.S. government started
Project Redlight to find a way to fly the recovered craft, some
relatively intact. A similar project exists even now and is run
out of supersecret military installation; one is Area 51
(specifically at a facility called S4) at the Nevada Test Site
and the other is set up near Dulce, New Mexico. These areas, unfortunately, may no longer be under the control of the
government or even of the human race. In the late 1960s an
official agency so secret that not even the President may know of
it had made an agreement with the aliens. In exchange for extraterrestrial technology the secret government would permit
(or at least not interfere with) a limited number of abductions
of human beings; the aliens, however, were to provide a list of
those they planned to kidnap.

All went relatively well for a few years. Then in 1973 the
government discovered that thousands of persons who were not on
the alien's list were being abducted. The resulting tensions led
to an altercation in 1978 or 1979. The aliens held and then
killed 44 top scientists as well as a number of Delta force
troops who had tried to free them. Ever since, frantic efforts,
of which the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") is the
most visible manifestation, have been made to develop a defense
against the extraterrestrials, who are busy putting implants into
abductees (as many as one in 10 Americans) to control their
behavior. At some time in the near future these people will be
used for some unknown, apparently sinister, alien purpose. Even
worse than all this, though, is the aliens' interest in Human
flesh. Sex and other organs are taken from both human beings and
cattle and used to create androids in giant vats located in
underground laboratories at Area 51 and Dulce. The extraterrestrials, from an ancient race near the end of its
evolution, also use materials from human body parts as a method
of biological rejuvenation. ("In order to sustain themselves," he
said, "they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the
tissue that they extract from humans and animals. The secretions
are then mixed with hydrogen peroxide and applied on the skin by
spreading or dipping parts of their bodies in the solution. The
body absorbs the solution, then excretes the waste back through
the skin" [Berk and Renzi, 1988].)

One of Lear's major sources was Bennewitz, who had first heard
these scary stories from AFOSI personnel at Kirtland in the early
1980s. By this time Bennewitz had become something of a guru to a
small group of UFO enthusiasts, Linda Howe among them, who
believed extraterrestrials were mutilating cattle and had no
trouble believing they might do the same thing to people. Also
Lear, whose political views are far to the right of center, was
linking his UFO beliefs with conspiracy theories about a
malevolent secret American government which was attempting to use
the aliens for its own purposes, including enslavement of the
world's people through drug addiction. A considerable body of
rightwing conspiracy literature, some with barely-concealed anti-
Semitic overtones, was making similar charges. Lear himself was
not anti-Semitic, but he did share conspiracy beliefs with those
who were.

Another of his claimed sources was an unnamed physicist who,
Lear claimed, had actually worked at S4. To the many ufologists
who rejected Lear's stories as paranoid, lunatic or fabricated
(though not by the patently-sincere Lear), there was widespread
skepticism about this physicist's existence. It turned out that
he did indeed exist. His name is Robert Lazar, who, according to
a story broken by reporter George Knapp on KLAS-TV, the ABC
affiliate in Las Vegas, on November 11 and 13, 1989, claims to
have worked on alien technology projects at Area 51. Lazar, whose
story is being investigated by both ufologists and mainstream
journalists, has not endorsed Lear's claims about human-alien
treaties, man-eating ETs or any of the rest and has distanced
himself from Lear and his associates. His claims, while fantastic
by most standards, are modest next to Lears.
end of part 12


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