Editing Bill Moore

'''William Leonard Moore''' (born October 31, 1943), known as '''Bill Moore''', is an [[author]] and former researcher of unacknowledged official activities involving secret government interactions with [[alien]]s and development of [[exotic technology|exotic technologies]], prominent from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. He co-authored two books with [[Charles Berlitz]], including ''[[The Roswell Incident (book)|The Roswell Incident]]''.

== Activities ==
Interested in UFOs since he was a teenager, Moore attended [[Thiel College]], located in [[Greenville, Pennsylvania]], graduating in 1965. He taught [[language]] and [[humanities]] at various [[high schools]] and later became the Arizona state section director of the [[Mutual UFO Network|MUFON]]. He eventually left teaching to pursue a career as a [[freelance writer]]. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8e5YELGGFAC&pg=PA195</ref>

Moore wrote ''[[The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility (book)|The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility]]'' with Charles Berlitz in 1979, about an alleged naval military experiment popularly known as the [[Philadelphia Experiment]] aboard the [[USS Eldridge|USS ''Eldridge'']] in 1943.

In 1980, Moore wrote ''[[The Roswell Incident]]'' with writing partner Charles Berlitz, which alleged the [[Roswell incident]] involved the crash of an [[extraterrestrial spacecraft]].

In May 1987, Moore, along with [[ufologists]] [[Jaime Shandera]] and [[Stanton Friedman]], circulated the [[Majestic 12|MJ-12 documents]], which purported the existence of a high-level policymaking group overseeing UFOs and extraterrestrials. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ1v3bggyr8C&dq=%22Charles+Berlitz+and+William+L.+Moore+in+their+book%22&pg=PA323</ref>

At a 1989 [[MUFON]] conference, Moore admitted to engaging in [[disinformation]] activities against [[Paul Bennewitz]] on behalf of [[Richard Doty]] and the [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations|AFOSI]]. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=bJkhqU1IXHAC&pg=PA104</ref>

== Alleged disinformation activities ==
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Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents|controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent.  After the publication of ''The Roswell Incident'', [[Richard Doty]] and other individuals presenting themselves as Air Force Intelligence Officers approached Moore.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p213">{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=213}}</ref> They used the unfulfilled promise of hard evidence of extraterrestrial retrievals to recruit Moore, who kept notes on other ufologists and intentionally spread misinformation within the UFO community.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p213"/>  At a 1989 [[Mutual UFO Network]] conference, Bill Moore confessed that he had intentionally fed fake evidence of extraterrestrials to UFO researchers including [[Paul Bennewitz]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gulyas |first=Aaron John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3etCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 |title=Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476623498 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina}}: "Bill Moore, in 1989, gave a talk at the Mutual UFO Network symposium which he revealed his role in the Bennewitz affair and other connections with government and military intelligence operatives [...]"</ref> Doty later said that he intentionally gave fabricated information to UFO researchers while working at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kloor |first=Keith |author-link=Keith Kloor |date=2019 |title=UFOs Won't Go Away |journal=Issues in Science and Technology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=39–56 |jstor=26949023}}</ref>  According to a theory, Moore may have agreed to his controversial role in exchange for access to classified information and personal safety, while also being tasked with dividing the [[UFO community]] and obscuring sensitive truths.

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