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The Micah Hanks Program

UFO Disinformation: Spies, Saucers, and Counterintelligence | MHP 05.02.22.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

During the 1980s, several members of the UFO research community were targeted as part of one or more disinformation campaigns that aimed to plant false information. Ranging from stories of UFO crashes and cattle mutilations, to underground bases at places like Dulce, New Mexico, and even an ongoing war with hostile extraterrestrials, several ideas were successfully presented to UFO researchers which have continued to proliferate through ufology into the present day.

Joining us to discuss UFO disinformation and its influence over the decades is Adam Gorightly, author of the book Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius. Gorightly gives us a powerful overview of the ufological scene in the 80s and 90s, and reveals the origins of the infamous "Dulce Base" mythos this week on The Micah Hanks Program.

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0:00.0

News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and

0:08.6

the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges

0:14.3

of human understanding.

0:16.2

The future is now, this is Micahanks.

0:22.9

From my temporary bunker, on the continent below, where the coffee is always hot and there's

0:27.6

entirely too much of it, welcome what it all it is, the Micahanks, program glad as always

0:32.9

to be here with you, and getting into gear as we go and pursuit of the enigmatic like

0:37.2

we do every Monday, glad to have you here and to be getting aboard we have much to discuss

0:44.7

this week in our weekly dispatch our debrief, indeed where I bring you news and insight regarding

0:51.8

all of the mysteries surrounding us in this world and this universe in fact.

0:56.3

And if you of those this week include, perhaps whether a few of us are going to be going

1:00.4

to space as tourists in the years ahead, well I know I'd like to do that, and we may

1:05.3

be one step closer.

1:07.5

We also of course have the ongoing debate over the great mystery that we all engage in

1:11.6

at night, at least for those of us who aren't insomniacs, sleep.

1:17.2

And also, a strange new discovery in physics which may be reshaping what we think we know

1:23.8

about, physics that, also a skin walker ranch update, and then of course my guest this week

1:29.9

Adam go rightly, he is a researcher, he is a historian or what he calls a crackpot historian

1:37.0

and I'll let him tell you why, but he is the author of one of the best books in my opinion

1:43.6

on the UFO scene in the 1980s and the 1990s, I have recently read this book reached out

1:50.3

to Mr. Go rightly to be my guest, and that book is saucers, spooks and cooks, UFO disinformation

1:56.3

in the age of Aquarius.

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