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Paul Bennewitz

Physicist and businessman · 1927 to 2003

Albuquerque physicist who said he picked up alien signals near Kirtland in 1979.

Bennewitz ran an electronics company in Albuquerque. Starting in 1979 he said he was filming lights and recording signals near Kirtland Air Force Base. Air Force agents, including Richard Doty, later said they fed him false information, and the episode took a heavy toll on him.

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