THE DULCE BASE: FACT OR FICTION? Conference and Public Forum to be held in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29, 2009

One of the speakers at the conference will be Greg Bishop, author of a book entitled PROJECT BETA. Bishop has thoroughly investigated the claims of an Albuquerque scientist by the name of Paul Bennewitz who was one of the initial sources behind the rumors of underground bases at Dulce and other U.S. locations.
The one-day conference, open to the public, will be held on Sunday, March 29, 2009 at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn in Dulce. The entire bar/lounge area is reserved specifically for this event. It will start at 10 a.m. and will conclude at 3 p.m. Admission to the conference is $5 at the door.
There will be some surprise guest speakers as well as many surprise guests in attendance.
A large portion of the "conference" will be an Open Public Forum during which the public will be given a chance to express their thoughts and will be given an opportunity to speak out.
There will also be a special live music entertainment.
Hayakawa can be contacted at noriohayakawa@rocketmail.com.
The article on the conference can also be found at:
An unusual conference in Dulce, New Mexico
www.ufodigest.com/news/1208/hayakawa.html
Information about the conference can also be found at
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DULCE BASE CONFERENCE ENDS: A FULL REPORT
by Norio Hayakawa
March 30, 2009
Dulce Base Conference Ends With More Questions Than Answers
DULCE, NEW MEXICO -- Close to 120 people showed up for the first "underground base" conference ever to be held in Dulce, New Mexico on Sunday, March 29.
The event made a rather tumultuous start at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn at 10 a.m.
By that time the entire bar lounge area began to be filled beyond capacity.
And by the time the first speaker (former Dulce ranch owner, Edmund Gomez) began his presentation, many people had to stand and wait in the adjacent restaurant area.
It was then that the Fire Department issued a warning saying that the conference must immediately be moved elsewhere.
Halfway through the speaker's fascinating presentation, the Fire Department issued a stern second warning saying that the number of people inside the conference room far exceeded its capacity.
Panic then began to be felt by the event's organizer, Norio Hayakawa of Rio Rancho.
Hotel employees frantically made phone calls to find out if there were any other locations available for the conference to go on.
It was then that Hoyt Velarde, former Dulce police officer and head of Public Safety Department, suggested to Hayakawa that the conference be moved to a civic hall inside a small shopping center across the street from the hotel.
With Velarde's swift assistance in making the arrangement, and after a short intermission, the entire Dulce Base: Fact or Fiction? conference and public forum finally resumed and continued the rest of the day at the new location.
As an interesting side note, on Sunday morning when it was still dark outside, many guests at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn were awakened shortly before 6 a.m. by a thunderous roar of blades of helicopters above. Local residents nearby reported that there was a rare low flight of two military helicopters above Dulce.
In the afternoon session of the conference, two local residents also testified that they witnessed the military helicopters circling above Dulce and that they passed slowly above the hotel. They told Hayakawa that there are occasional appearances of military helicopters over the town but the flights were never as low as what they saw early Sunday morning.
As organizer and moderator of this conference, Hayakawa several times alluded to an allegation that the government, beginning in the early 1970s and lasting till the early 1980s, may have conducted clandestine operations in the area involving experiments with bovine diseases, anthrax and other substances as part of biological warfare research.
He also alluded to another allegation that there may also have been some illegal dumping or storage of toxic chemicals and other bio-hazardous materials in the nearby areas.
Hayakawa stated that he tends to support a theory that the government may have purposefully created some 'convenient' cover stories (underground alien base concept) to conceal those clandestine activities and may even have staged a series of fake 'UFO-type' incidents in the area, utilizing high tech equipment such as holographic projection devices.
However he also stated that he cannot deny any possibility that there may indeed be some unknown interdimensional phenomenon in the area which happens to be filled with fascinating cultural and spiritual beliefs of the Jicarilla Apache nation.
The speakers at the conference and their main points expressed were as follows:
Edmund Gomez, spokesman for the entire Gomez family who owned a large ranch in Dulce said that their ranch lost more than 17 cows during the height of cattle mutilations incidents and experienced substantial financial loss over the years. Gomez stated that gas masks were found near the mutilation sites and that specific cows were each tracked with phosphorescent markings a few days before the mutilations actually took place. He is convinced that this was done by the government and that no aliens were involved. He asserted that the government was conducting some type of germ warfare experiments. He concluded by stating that there is definitely a governmental underground facility there.
Hoyt Velarde, former Dulce police officer and head of Public Safety Department asserted that he has not located the base yet but it is an undeniable fact that there have been (and still are) many UFO sightings in the area. Velarde even suggested that he is willing to organize an escorted group expedition soon for the public to the top of the Archuleta Mesa if such a request is made in earnest. He surprised the attendees also by saying that another conference on this topic could even be held next time in the conference hall of the Police Department there. Hayakawa said that he may consider this offer.
Gabe Valdez, former New Mexico state patrol officer in charge of the Dulce area stated that he investigated numerous cattle mutilation cases in the Dulce area from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. He declared that this has nothing to do with aliens but that there is something there that is too sensitive for discussion and refused to further divulge what that was.
Christopher O' Brien, researcher of paranormal activities in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado asserted that Dulce may be a diversion for what is more importantly taking place in the San Luis Valley just north of northern New Mexico.
Dr.. Michael E. Salla, initiator of "exopolitics" and author of a book entitled EXPOSING U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICIES ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE expressed his belief that there is a joint US/alien underground bio-lab beneath the Archuleta Mesa and that this must be addressed as a serious human rights abuse issue.
Greg Bishop, author of PROJECT BETA, a book in which he describes in detail his investigations of the claims of an Albuquerque scientist by the name of Paul Bennewitz, said that Bennewitz was the initial source behind the rumors of the underground base in Dulce. Bishop asserted that Bennewitz was side tracked by an unofficial disinformation campaign to get him to look away from evidence of sensitive military projects going on in 1979 inside Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. However, Bishop surprised everyone when he said at the end that he is now beginning to doubt his initial doubt about Dulce and concluded that there could indeed be something there.
Gabe Julian, former Dulce police officer who worked under the late Raleigh Tafoya, former Dulce Police Chief described his encounters with three metallic, oval-shaped object hovering at a tree-top level at a ranch in Dulce. He described how he was dispatched to the ranch house of a woman who claimed that small people with strange boxes emitting light were harassing her. Initially skeptical of what his radio dispatcher told him, he drove over to the area and was shaken up when he witnessed those hovering objects there.
Dennis Balthaser, a well-known UFO researcher from Roswell, New Mexico expressed his conviction that there is a US/alien joint biological laboratory and base under the Archuleta Mesa.
Keith Ealy, a researcher with a fascinating interpretation of Dulce as being a space time portal for interdimensionals amazed the audience with his close-up satellite imagery of Dulce Elementary School building. He told the audience that the contours of the parking lot resemble an ancient stone scupture in Bolivia. He concluded that the Dulce area is filled with interdimentional phenomenon, a topic similarly shared by world famous researchers, Dr. Jacques Vallee and John Keel.
Here is an excellent report about the Dulce Base conference and its conclusion:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m3d30-Dulce-underground-UFO-base-conference-ends
Also, the Albuquerque Journal had a front page story today (March 30) about the conference. The headline which appeared at the bottom of the front page was "UFO Hunters Debate Underground Base". And on page 3 the headline for the continuing story was: "Secret Alien Base in N.M.?"
I was an activist in the 90's on environmental issues. I became involved in investigating Area 51 in Nevada back then. My main issue with Area 51 in Nevada was the government's illegal burning of toxic chemicals in open pits at Area 51. I organized in 1998 a People's Rally at the perimeters of Area 51 to address the issue of the government's illegal burning of toxic chemicals at Area 51, along with the issue of the government's failure to erect a clearly marked fence at the perimeters, as well as the government's failure to place the guard shack right at the perimeter where it should belong. But above all, my main issue was the issue of the government's refusal to compensate the former workers at Area 51 for the illnesses that they had contracted (when they came in contact with toxic chemicals)while working on the stealth program at Area 51.
Although the immediately results of the People's Rally was not seen, the government finally (a few years ago) admitted that there is an operating base at Groom Lake.
And a year and a half ago, the government, through the Department of Energy began the process of compensating the former workers at Area 51.
This shows the importance of citizens' groups that monitor the government's projects. Yes, I believe that citizens' watchdog groups are needed to keep up with oversight issues. There is an excellent organization called the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in Washington made of citizens who are concerned about all these issues.
As far as the Dulce controversy is concerned, yes, there may be something there. The "underground base" story is most likely a story, perhaps concocted by the government's Black Projects programs.
I personally think that the government did experiment in bovine diseases research in the mid 1970s in the Dulce area as part of a biological warfare research.
In the History Channel's interview with Gabe Valdez, a former New Mexico State Patrol officer clearly stated that gas masks were found near the site of cattle mutilations, in addition to his statement that particular cows were marked (and tracked) in advance a few days before the mutilations took place. This has nothing to do with aliens.
I concur with his belief that the government staged a series of "UFO-type" incidents in Dulce during the height of its clandestine operations there.
There are some allegations concerning some environmental as well as health issues.
There are some allegations that, beginning in the mid 1970s the government may have conducted clandestine operations in the area involving experiments with bovine diseases, anthrax and other substances as part of biological warfare research.
Another allegation is that there may have been some illegal dumping or storage of toxic chemicals and other bio-hazardous materials in the nearby areas.
Another allegation is the allegation about some radiation leaks in the region resulting from a 1967 underground nuclear detonation (Project Gasbuggy) which took place about 22 miles southwest of Dulce.
Another allegation is that there has been relatively high rate of cancer in this region and fertility problems among some women in the region.
Again, these are allegations that I have heard of.
If some of these allegations are true, then (and only then) I support a theory that the government may have created convenient cover stories to conceal those activities and may even have staged a series of fake "UFO-type" incidents in the area, perhaps using Holographic Projection devices, etc. as part of PSYOPS program. Certainly the association of this area with "UFOs" creates a laughter curtain and ridicule and would detract attention away from serious scrutiny of this area.
I am in agreement with Greg Bishop who says that Paul Bennewitz was a target of a concerted effort by the government through AFOSI at Kirtland AFB as well as Sandia and Phillips Labs to brainwash him into believing that there is an alien base in Dulce, New Mexico, up in northern New Mexico.
Their main goal was to move away the focus of Bennewitz's curious scrutiny of leading-edge military test projects near the Coyote Canyon. Part of what Bennewitz may have witnessed near the Manzano Storage Area and Coyote Canyon Test Areas in 1979 could have been the government's test flights of prototypes of remotely-controlled platforms (UAVs) and testing of some laser-based optical tracking technologies, etc.
If this had been the case, these devices may have been used in timely fashion over Dulce during the height of the government's clandestine operations near Dulce.
Again, these are all different allegations that will be discussed at the Dulce Public Forum on March 29.
In other words, Dulce may have absolutely nothing to do with aliens. There will be eye witnesses, former law enforcement officers and local residents who will testify at the Public Forum.
The History Channel's program is called UFO Hunters and Wednesday night's new episode is titled: "Underground Alien Bases".
By the way, everyone knows that the picture in this article is not a photo!!
There is absolutely no photo of such a base in Dulce. In fact, there is no evidence whatsoever that there is such a base in Dulce, period.
Photo is for promo purposes only. It is promoting an upcoming event!