Bill Moore: Difference between revisions

(3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)

Line 1:

'''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]] ~~who was~~ 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]]''.

'''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 ==

Line 13:

== Alleged disinformation activities ==

Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent. 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~~. For more, see [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents]]~~.

{{external media

| video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsKMZKgeHY Bill Moore addresses MUFON, July 1 1989]

}}

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.

== Sources ==

[[Category:American UFOlogists]]

[[Category:Humans]]

[[Category:UFO conspiracy theorists]]