February 27, 2005: Government Disinformation Programs - Greg Bishop
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Thu Oct 30 2025
Description: Art Bell interviews Greg Bishop, author and researcher who has spent years investigating the intersection of UFO phenomena and government disinformation. Bishop describes how intelligence agencies actively plant false information within the UFO community to discredit genuine witnesses, create confusion, and protect classified military programs. He traces this practice back to the 1950s when Air Force agents befriended prominent researchers and fed them fabricated stories mixing real data with deliberate falsehoods.Bishop details the case of Paul Bennewitz, an Albuquerque physicist who detected unusual signals near Kirtland Air Force Base and was systematically driven to a mental breakdown by Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents who encouraged his belief in underground alien bases. He explains how agent Richard Doty fed Bennewitz increasingly elaborate scenarios until the physicist was hospitalized, all to divert attention from classified electronic warfare testing at the base.The discussion expands to broader patterns of information warfare. Bishop argues that the UFO subject serves as a perfect cover for advanced military technology because any witness can be dismissed as a believer in little green men. Art and Bishop examine how this strategy has contaminated decades of research, making it nearly impossible to separate genuine anomalous events from planted disinformation. They discuss whether any government disclosure could now be trusted given the documented history of deception.
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