The Dulce Base: Fact or Fiction? Public forum in New Mexico
Norio Hayakawa
dated: March 1, 2009
THE DULCE BASE: FACT OR FICTION? Conference and Public Forum to be
held in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29, 2009
RIO RANCHO, NEW MEXICO - Norio Hayakawa is a resident of Rio Rancho
who believes that wild rumors may not always bring a bad name to a
community or hurt it. Sometimes they bring curiosity seekers, and
even tourism may flourish. Take, for example, the city of Roswell.
"Roswell has raked in quite a lot of tourist dollars all these years,
despite the lack of any tangible, solid, irrefutable evidence that an
extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed in the desert outside of the city
in July of 1947," Hayakawa noted.
And when it comes to the subject of UFOs, Hayakawa believes that there
is a much more interesting area in New Mexico than Roswell.
According to Hayakawa, Dulce, New Mexico, a sleepy little town of less
than 4000 (inhabited by the Jicarilla Apache nation), has attracted
quite a number of UFO and conspiracy buffs ever since rumors surfaced
in the mid-80s that a U.S./alien joint biological laboratory and base
exists a mile under the town's Archuleta Mesa. "This rumor has become
so well known among UFO buffs around the world that anyone doing a
Yahoo or Google search on Dulce, New Mexico would find the bulk of
over 300,000 search results related to the alleged underground base,"
Hayakawa said.
Skeptical of such claims, Hayakawa, a retired funeral director,
visited the town of Dulce in 1990 with the crew of a Japanese
television program to attempt to document the existence of such an
alien base.
Although he was unsuccessful in locating it, Hayakawa claims that he
and the television crew were inexplicably detained by the police chief
while interviewing the citizens on the street about UFOs and cattle
mutilations.
Now, almost 19 years later, Hayakawa and a few UFO enthusiasts from
New Mexico, California and Arizona, would like to clear these
unfounded rumors. They are planning to have a one-day public
conference in the town of Dulce next March.
It will be appropriately titled: "The Dulce Base: Fact or Fiction?"
Hayakawa likes to separate fact from fiction.
"There has not been any physical evidence whatsoever that there is
such a base in or near Dulce," Hayakawa asserted. "However, when it
comes to UFOs, many of the residents there are believers, since
beginning around the mid-1970s and lasting till the mid-1980s, the
entire town of Dulce was buzzed by frequent sightings of strange
lights in the sky." This is fact, according to Hayakawa.
Another fact is that many ranchers in the nearby communities began to
report mysterious cattle mutilations and frequent sightings of
military helicopters during that time.
Some Dulce officials, concerned about these incidents, attended the
first Cattle Mutilations conference in Albuquerque in 1979, including
Raleigh Tafoya, who was the chief at the time. This also is fact, not
fiction.
Hayakawa believes that there could be prosaic explanations to both the
UFO sightings and cattle mutilations, although he still doesn't have
the answers.
It was during the mid-80s that wild stories of an underground alien
base surfaced - and still continue to this day - so much so that the
entire town of Dulce has almost become synonymous with the alleged
alien underground bio-lab. The fact that Dulce is located only 100
miles northwest of Los Alamos provided additional fuel for the
conspiracy buffs. According to Hayakawa, Los Alamos is the leading-
edge research laboratory on human genome/DNA research in the U.S.
But again, Hayakawa likes to remain skeptical when it comes to
"underground bases."
Although throughout the years the residents of Dulce seem to have
taken all these strange rumors about their community with a grain of
salt, Hayakawa says that he would like to restore some sense of
normalcy to Dulce.
This is the reason why he will host Dulce's first public conference on
the topic.
Hayakawa is intent on dispelling rumors, once and for all, that there
are such bases in or near Dulce.
Will the townsfolk of Dulce speak up at the conference? Will there be
some new revelations about Dulce?
"It will be fascinating," said Hayakawa.
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 norioh...@rocketmail.com
The article on the conference can also be found at:
An unusual conference in Dulce, New Mexico
http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1208/hayakawa.html
Information about the conference can also be found at
http://www.myspace.com/noriohayakawa
Norio Hayakawa
wrote:
> from CIN Newswire Services/Access Media - PRESS RELEASE
> dated: March 1, 2009
>
> THE DULCE BASE: FACT OR FICTION? Conference and Public Forum to be
> held in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29, 2009
Here is the latest article on this event which will take place in the
Jicarilla Apache Nation land of New Mexico:
THE DULCE BASE: FACT OR FICTION?
Conference and Public Forum to be held in Dulce, New Mexico on March
29, 2009
Originally submitted by Access Media for Norio Hayakawa, expanded
version:
DULCE, NEW MEXICO – Eye witnesses, law enforcement officers and
paranormal investigators will all meet at a conference in Dulce, New
Mexico on March 29 to discuss long-standing rumors of a secret,
underground U.S. government biological laboratory and base in the
area. Norio Hayakawa, a retired funeral director and former director
of a civilian intelligence network, is hosting the conference at the
Best Western Jicarilla Inn in Dulce. His intent is to prove that these
rumors may have prosaic explanations.
However, he asserts that some of these prosaic explanations may be
disturbing, if true, and if revealed to the public.
According to Hayakawa, stories began to circulate in the mid-1970s
when area residents witnessed "strange lights in the sky" and when
ranchers reported mysterious cattle mutilations and frequent sightings
of military helicopters. The rumors intensified in 1980 when Paul
Bennewitz, who was then the president of Thunder Scientific Labs
adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, reported his
experiences with what he described as "alien entities". Bennewitz
claimed that these entities were controlling humans through
electromagnetic devices, that their triangular craft crashed near
Dulce, that some strange aerial objects were regularly flying near
Kirtland, the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and
Coyote Canyon Test Area, and that they were transmitting signals to
him from a base under Archuleta Mesa, adjacent to Dulce.
One of the speakers at the conference will be Greg Bishop, who
thoroughly investigated the Bennewitz claims in his book Project
Beta.. There will also be a few other well-known speakers. “However,”
Hayakawa said, “the principal focus of the conference will be with
local residents, ranchers and law enforcement officers who will
testify about their personal experiences.”
Interest in the conference and the decades-long rumor of a Dulce base
are high. “The UFO Hunters,” a popular History Channel television
show, recently visited Dulce to interview residents and research facts
about the purported Dulce base. “Because of the History Channel
investigation, the townsfolk of Dulce are very much aware of the
conference,” said Hayakawa. “For the first time, some of the residents
may come forward at the conference to speak without fear of ridicule.”
Skeptical of the claims and rumors himself, Hayakawa is convinced
there could be prosaic explanations to both the UFO sightings and
cattle mutilations, and looks forward to the conference providing a
resolution of the matter. "There has not been any physical evidence
whatsoever that there is such a base in or near Dulce," Hayakawa
asserted.. "However,” he admitted, “I have heard about some disturbing
allegations concerning the Dulce area relevant to serious
environmental as well as health issues."
"One such wild allegation", said Hayakawa, "is the allegation that the
government, beginning in the mid 1970s, may have conducted clandestine
operations in the area involving experiments with bovine diseases,
anthrax and other substances as part of biological warfare
research." Hayakawa also says he has heard from other sources that
there may also have been some illegal dumping or storage of toxic
chemicals and other bio-hazzardous materials in the nearby areas.
(On a curious side note, Hayakawa stated that when he first visited
Dulce in 1990 with the crew of a Japanese TV Network to help produce a
TV special on Dulce, they were inexplicably detained by the Jicarilla
Apache police chief while they were interviewing the people on the
streets about their sightings of military helicopters, strange lights
in the sky and also about cattle mutilations in the nearby areas.)
"Another allegation that I have heard", continued Hayakawa, is "the
allegation that the there has been a cover-up of occasional radiation
leaks in the region resulting from a 1967 underground nuclear
detonation which took place about 22 miles southwest of Dulce.." The
name of that government experiment was called Project Gasbuggy, part
of the government's attempt to utilize nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes. It was part of the Plowshare Program. Hayakawa said that
it was conducted "ostensibly to ease the flow of natural gas in the
region, but the government knew well in advance that it would produce
high amount of radiation".
"These may have some relevance to an allegation that there has been
relatively high rate of cancer in this region as well as some reports
of problems with fertility among some women in the area as well", said
Hayakawa.
Hayakawa also stated that "if some of these allegations are true",
then he supports a theory "that the government may have purposefully
created some 'convenient' cover stories to conceal those 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." This type of operation, according to him, has been a part
of the Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) programs utilized by the
military. "The association of this area with 'UFOs' certainly
creates a laughter curtain and ridicule and would detract attention
away from serious scrutiny of the area."
According to Greg Bishop, Paul Bennewitz may have been a target of a
concerted effort by the government through the AFOSI at Kirtland Air
Force Base as well as Sandia and Phillips Labs to brainwash him into
believing that there is an alien base under the Archuleta Mesa in
Dulce, 125 miles north of Albuequerque. Their main goal was to move
away the focus of Bennewitz's curious scrutiny of leading-edge
military test projects near the Coyote Canyon. Greg Bishop suggests
that 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 (unmanned aerial vehicles) and testing of some laser-based
optical tracking technologies. "If this had been the case these
devices may have been utilized in timely fashion over Dulce during the
height of government's clandestine operations near Dulce", said
Hayakawa.
Whatever the case may be, Hayakawa said that this fascinating one-day
conference, open to the public, will start at 10:00 a.m. and will
conclude at 5 p..m.. Admission is $5 at the door. The conference will
include an open public forum during which the public will be given an
opportunity to report their experiences and express their opinions.
Additional information can be found at
http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0309/dulce-base.php
and http://www.myspace.com/noriohayakawa