Albuquerque: Howe meets Doty, shown fake UFO docs
Linda Moulton Howe traveled to Albuquerque to interview Sgt. Richard Doty for her HBO UFO documentary, but he initially missed the meeting. With Jerry Miller's help, Doty met her, showed a fabricated document on UFO crashes and ETs, and promised unreleased footage that never materialized.
Background
Background
Linda Moulton Howe travelled to Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 9, 1983 to interview Sgt. Richard Doty for the HBO series UFOs: The ET Factor. Doty did not appear, whereupon Howe contacted Jerry Miller, head of weapons testing at Kirtland AFB, whom she knew from conversations about Paul Bennewitz.
Meeting and Contents
Miller drove Howe to his home and telephoned Doty, who came quickly. Despite a defiant manner, Doty spoke about an alleged landing at Holloman AFB, correcting Robert Emenegger's date to April 25, 1964, after the Socorro incident. In his office at Kirtland he evaded questions about the Ellsworth landing of 1977 and produced an unsigned, undated paper, "A Briefing Paper for the President", about unidentified aerial vehicles. It listed crashes and recoveries, ET pilots from nearby solar systems, influence on evolution and religion through genetics, Roswell, a living alien in 1949, and projects such as Snowbird (reverse engineering of crashed UFOs), Aquarius (ET contacts), Sigma (communication with aliens), and Garnet (ET influence on humanity).
Promise and Outcome
Doty promised thousands of feet of film of crashes, bodies, EBE-1, and Holloman. He mentioned a release to Emenegger and Allan Sandler that had been stopped for reasons of political timing. HBO asked for a binding letter, but Doty hesitated. In June he stated that he had been officially withdrawn. The episode points to Air Force disinformation tactics.