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al — PROJECT SERPO — PUBLIC ACCLIMATION OR DECEPTION PROGRAM? — PROJECT SERPO — AFOSI "special agent" assigned to deal with Doty began his US Air Force career in PUBLIC ACCLIMATION OR UFO reports from 1979 to 1988. 1968, first training for the Air Force DECEPTION PROGRAM? Doty's testimony is most revealing since Security Police and later moving on to other much of it is based on a number of first-hand _ security-related positions. He joined AFOSI by Michael E. Salla, PhD © 2006 experiences concerning classified in 1979 and retired in 1988. Both his father information, as opposed to the hearsay (Charles Doty) and uncle (Ed Doty) reached n February 2006, the US-published UFO testimonies of others. Hearsay testimony is the rank of Colonel in the Air Force, and Magazine released an edition that — easy to manipulate in the hands of skilled both were involved in investigating UFO ; focused on Project Serpo, an alleged intelligence agents participating in an ‘Teports and were stationed with the 7602nd alien exchange program that lasted from officially sanctioned "deception program" Air Intelligence Group (Exempt from 1965 to 1978 and involved 12 US military Disclosure, p. 118). personnel who travelled to a planet called Richard Doty reached the rank of Master Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli binary Sergeant and upon retirement began a new constellation. UFO Magazine published a career as a State Trooper in New Mexico. number of statements by some of the key He more recently finished law school and figures involved in this unfolding case. completed the New Mexico State Bar Exam. Among these statements was one by Doty co-authored with Robert Collins Richard Doty, a former special agent Exempt from Disclosure, a book published assigned to the Air Force Office of Special in early 2005 [Peregrine Communications]. Investigations (AFOSI), concerning what he A . In it, Doty describes a number of first-hand directly experienced during his military ?7Y Inconsistencies can be found. . experiences such as witnessing a large service and how this corroborated parts of Consequently, It 1s useful to examine flying saucer at a classified Indian Springs the Project Serpo story. Doty is among a closely Doty's claims concerning his facility in 1969 (p. 67). group of former "insiders", with access to Personal experiences while responsible for More significantly, Doty claims that he classified information on UFOs, who have gathering UFO information as an AFOSI was given access to a highly classified report come forward to confirm parts of this Special agent, and the extent to which this that contained much UFO-related alleged alien exchange program leaked by ends credence to the Project Serpo information concerning extraterrestrial up to three anonymous Defense Intelligence information. Doty may be participating in biological _ entities ~~ (EBEs), their Agency (DIA) personnel (see website an officially sanctioned "acclimation communication system and advanced http://www.serpo.org). program" to inform a sceptical public of — technology (p. 70). Doty is the most prominent of these UFO-related information, or in an elaborate Doty further claims that in 1983 he had a former insiders due to widespread public "deception program" designed to mislead face-to-face meeting at a secure facility in knowledge of his former position as an the general public and researchers. Los Alamos, New Mexico, with an aimed at misleading researchers, witnesses and the general public over UFOs. Direct personal testimony of classified information directly experienced is far more difficult to manipulate, especially when published in print by an individual such as Doty whose background and credentials are well known. Written statements on what an individual has directly experienced can be checked and APRIL — MAY 2006 NEXUS * 65 by Michael E. Salla, PhD © 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com