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Project Aquarius
Cases, documents & milestones
The name of a secret government programme supposedly handling the extraterrestrial file, which surfaced in a teletype handed to businessman Paul Bennewitz in late 1980 by Richard Doty, a counterintelligence officer of the US Air Force (AFOSI). The document also mentions "MJ Twelve." Investigation established it was a forgery, produced for a disinformation operation aimed at Bennewitz, who then believed he was intercepting signals from extraterrestrial craft near Kirtland. Researcher Bill Moore admitted in 1989 that he had taken part. No authenticated document supports the programme’s existence.