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202466 minPG-13documentary

Doty

202466 minPG-13documentary

More than 30 years ago, Richard Doty worked at Kirtland AFB, spreading disinformation about UFOs to researchers and supplying them with fake documents.

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More than 30 years ago, Richard Doty worked at Kirtland AFB, spreading disinformation about UFOs to researchers and supplying them with fake documents.

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Trevor Paglendirector

Richard Doty

Richard Dotywriter

Richard Doty

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Richard Doty operated as an Air Force Intelligence officer at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His role involved creating disinformation about extraterrestrial spacecraft for UFO researchers. Doty recruited investigators as informants and provided them with fake documents. These documents claimed to reveal government secrets regarding UFOs. Kirtland AFB was also a site for classified technology experiments, contributing to the UFO phenomenon in the region.

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