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Hello everyone. I've been really into the history of Ufology lately, and one name that keeps popping up is William Moore.
If you’re familiar with the history of Ufology, you’ve probably heard of him. He co-wrote The Roswell Incident (1980), which is one of the books that brought the Roswell incident back into the spotlight. Before the publication of the book, Roswell was kind of a forgotten event. Thanks to Moore and Charles Berlitz, the incident became a cornerstone of Ufology.
After writing the Roswell book, Moore became quite active in the UFO research community, presenting himself as a serious investigator. However, what many people didn’t realize at the time was that he was also working as part of a disinformation campaign. This is where Richard Doty comes in. At the time, Doty was a special agent for the Air Force, and he was a key figure in this whole mess. Throughout the 1980s, Doty fed fabricated stories and documents to a lot of UFO researchers, including Linda Moulton Howe and others, until he was exposed by UFO researcher Robert Hastings. On his part, Moore collaborated with Doty, because he believed that it would give him access to real government secrets about UFOs. In exchange for playing along with this disinformation campaign, he hoped he’d eventually be given genuine information about what the government knew regarding UFOs.
In 1989, Moore publicly confessed to his role in these disinformation efforts during a speech at the MUFON conference. He admitted that he had knowingly passed along fabricated information to the UFO community for years. Needless to say, this revelation destroyed his credibility. Since that public confession, he has become something of a mystery. He hasn’t been a regular figure in the UFO community for decades, and people are left wondering what he’s been up to.
Is he still involved in the field quietly, or has he moved on to something completely different? Nobody seems to know for sure. If anyone has any idea what Moore has been up to, or if there are any recent developments about him, I’d love to hear it.