Dulce Base

Dulce Base is the unofficial name for an alleged secret underground facility under the Archuleta Mesa in Dulce, New Mexico, United States.

Paul Bennewitz, employed at a filtration manufacturer with government contracts^{[citation needed]} was the first to raise claims of a secret base in New Mexico^{[citation needed]}.

In Television

The Dulce Base was the subject of an episode of the History Channel program UFO Hunters. In the second episode of the show's third season, the investigators travelled to Dulce to interview residents, witnesses, and fellow investigators, as well as get a closer look at the Archuleta Mesa, under which the base is reportedly hidden. Although there was evidence of cattle mutilation and several witness reports of seeing UFOs in the area^[1], no hard evidence as to the facility's existence was discovered during the investigation.

In a 2011 interview with Jim Harold, creator of UFO Hunters, Bill Birnes, claimed that shortly after the Dulce Base episode aired, the show was immediately canceled from top level executives at History Channel.

In fiction

• In the alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents, Michael Dukakis is revealed to be an alien upon being taken to Dulce Base, which causes the Base's personnel to rewrite history to allow George H. W. Bush to be elected President instead.
• Dulce Base is key in the Area 51 novels.
• According to Valve, the game Half-Life was based on the Dulce Base lore.^{[citation needed]}
• Dulce Base appeared in the comic series The Invisibles, where it housed a secret AIDS vaccine.
• Dulce Base and Archuleta Mesa played a major role in the early run of the "Outlanders" series of novels from Gold Eagle.

See also

• Area 51
• Linda Moulton Howe
• Montauk Project
• Reptoid

Notes

1. ^ UFO Hunters Episode 2, Season 3

References

• Gregory J. Bishop, Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, Paraview Pocket Books, 2005; ISBN 0-7434-7092-3
• Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23805-2. 
• Branton (1999). The Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases and the Battle for Planet Earth. Inner Light - Global Communications. ISBN 1-892062-12-7. 
• Jerome Clark, The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial, Visible Ink, 1998, ISBN 1-57859-029-9

External links

• The Dulce Book
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