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happened. 46 REVELATIONS letter sent to a legitimate UFO research organization, stating that the observation had been submitted to Doty at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). A researcher named Benton Majison located Weitzel in 1985. The witness confirmed he had had a sighting and had reported it to Doty, but the incident in which he was involved had nothing to do with the close encounter experience that was described in the anonymous letter. Nor was Weitzel subsequently contacted by a strange man making the demand that he turn over to him any photographs, as claimed in the documents. These sinister features of the case, very simply, had never So who wrote the anonymous letter, taking an actual occurrence and turning it into an episode of such great mystery? According to Robert Hastings, "careful analysis of the anonymous letter reveals that it was almost certainly typed on the same typewriter used by Doty to complete the 1980 OSI complaint form." In yet another incident, known as the Ellsworth case, Richard Doty is said to have confessed to Bill Moore that he had forged the docu- ments describing the events. Hastings's source for this claim is none other than Dr. Bruce Maccabee of the Fund for UFO Research, one of the few "hard scientists" still actively interested in the subject. Reportedly, Doty typed the document himself and released it to various researchers as an authentic report. (An expose by Bob Pratt, published in the MUFON Journal, describes his own investigation of this hoax.) It will be recalled that it is by dangling the Ellsworth case details in front of Linda Howe that Doty got her attention in 1983. Not only do the Weitzel fabrication and the Ellsworth hoax throw additional doubt on the authenticity of the MJ-12 documents, but they suggest that they could have been generated by Doty himself, with or without the complicity of Bill Moore. The latter, as we will see below, had started working as a knowing and willing contributor to the whole deception operation, although he still claims today that he did not know who was behind it or even why it was being perpetrated. It was at the July 1989 MUFON Conference, held in Las Vegas, that the whole issue of the alleged cover-up came to a head. Several