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MAJESTIC 12 FALCON 45 of a disinformation unit, reporting, according to Moore, to a man named Hennessey who had an office in the Pentagon and who is well- known to him. Was it the Air Force itself that wanted to use Howe, Moore, Emenegger, Friedman, and others as conduits for fabricated data about a mysterious group called MJ-12? Or was it simply a rogue operation on the part of a few hoaxers with their own private motives, utilizing their access to security information and procedures to create a false trail, knowing that they were, oddly enough, committing no felony and breaking no law—since no secret data was, in fact, released at any point—and that the majority of ufologists would be more than happy to rush along behind them into that blind alley? If the objective of that particular piece of disinformation art was to destabilize the few groups that are still seriously doing UFO research, to place the few competent investigators in a ridiculous light, and to disseminate spurious data, then they have succeeded beyond their wild- est dreams, as the disintegration of American UFO research over the last few years demonstrates. Their only failure occurred in March 1985, when Hynek and I refused to fall into the trap when the same data was dangled in front of us. SHOOTING DOWN THE Writing in the June 1989 issue of the MUFON Journal, a widely read UFO newsletter, a concerned citizen named Robert Hastings, who lives in New Mexico and who has done extensive research in the area, stated that Falcon was indeed Richard Doty, who had retired from the Air Force in October 1988, and that Condor was Robert Collins, an Air Force captain who happened to be stationed at the same base, namely Kirtland. And he offered some very interesting background about the protagonists of the drama. According to Hastings, Doty had first received attention when he filled out an official report form in 1980 regarding a UFO sighting near the base. Among the witnesses in this sighting were a Mr. Craig Weit- zel and an anonymous airman who reported the case in an anonymous