Video · 25 August 2021

UFO (Showtime, 2021), episode 3 clip “Mislead the Public”: Doty on Paul Bennewitz

SHOWTIME · 25 August 2021 · 1 min · Watch the original

An official clip from episode 3 of UFO, the 2021 Showtime documentary series, in which former AFOSI agent Richard Doty is confronted about the disinformation fed to Albuquerque researcher Paul Bennewitz. He says he acted on his supervisors' orders, to stop Bennewitz revealing a secret laser at Kirtland Air Force Base by encouraging his belief that he had seen UFOs. Transcribed with Whisper; the second speaker in the clip is not identified on screen in this excerpt.

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  1. 0:06 Richard Doty: Asked how he can be trusted when he lied to Paul Bennewitz: “I didn't lie to Paul Benowitz. I had a job to do. I wasn't a maverick.” His supervisors did not want Bennewitz to go public saying he had “tapped into a secret laser on Kirtland Air Force Base … So all I had to do was say, well, you know what, Paul? Maybe what you did see was UFOs.”

Transcript

From machine transcription (Whisper); names and terms may be misspelled. Check the original video before quoting.

0:01 - He photographed UFOs. He actually photographed a UFO over Dulce, New Mexico. - But how can I have faith in what you're telling me if I know that you lied to Paul Benowitz? - I didn't lie to Paul Benowitz. I had a job to do. I wasn't a maverick. I just didn't go out and do this on my own. My supervisors told me, listen, we don't want him to go out to the public, go on camera and say, hey, I just tapped into a secret laser on Kirtland Air Force Base. Obviously we can't have that happen. So all I had to do was say, well, you know what, Paul? Maybe what you did see was UFOs. - Look, we've established in history and documents through the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA and the military complex as a whole has really aimed to essentially mislead the public when it comes to UFOs. Tell them something that necessarily is not the truth. We've seen it time and time again, through the decades, over and over and over.

1:26 Thank you.

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