BishopHurley, Gregory J.
Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth
- ISBN 13:
- 9780743470926
- author:
- BishopHurley, Gregory J.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Paraview Pocket Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2005
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 135mm X 210mm
- Genre:
- History - U.S.
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Paul Bennewitz, an electrical physicist, became convinced that strange lights hovering over the Sandia Labs and Kirtland Air Force Base signaled an extraterrestrial alien invasion. He began writing to TV stations, newspapers, senators, and even President Reagan to alert them. However, his warnings were largely met with form-letter replies. Instead, Air Force investigators paid him a visit, and he was tapped by a group of intelligence agents who ran a psychological profile and disinformation campaign on him. This is Bennewitz's harrowing tale, told by fringe-culture historian Greg Bishop. The story reveals the custom-made hall of smoke and mirrors that eventually drove Bennewitz to a mental institution. It also exposes the explosive propagation of disinformation that began in 1979 and reverberates through the UFO community and pop culture to this day. The book is a troubling account of a government-authorized campaign of misinformation that defined an era of alien paranoia and destroyed one man's life.
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