The Taos News from Taos, New Mexico • Page B012

Jan. 2-8, 2014 State News The Taos News B12 Book sheds light on cattle mutilations, Dulce Base files People want to come and find aliens, but there is no proof of aliens and my father never believed there was alien activity. He pointed toward the GregValdez ment," Valdez said. He said his father believed the government was responsible for the cattle mutilations as well as the bouncing orbs of light and mysterious lights in the sky. It was the government who pointed to aliens to discredit the people who had learned too much, he said.

"In Dulce, you can see an unidentified flying object on any given night, like on Mundo Ridge. The key is that people eliminate the first logical step that what they are seeing is human caused. Instead they think, 'This is weird. It has to be Valdez said. What people are actually seeing is an invisible military aircraft, Valdez said.

Why people think they're aliens is part of a problem in logic and part government propaganda. "Paul Bennewitz is the key to the whole Dulce story," he said. According to Valdez, Bennewitz approached his father at a conference where Gabe Valdez had been a speaker. I heard your presentation and I've been seeing the diversion tunnel off the Navajo River, Valdez said. "This really helped fuel the flame." A forest fire hit Archuleta Mesa in 1996 and severely burned the mesa.

Many people took this for work of the government, covering up their underground military base, the Dulce Base. Valdez was a hot shot firefighter at the time and he worked the fire. "I was there that morning. The mesa was hammered with lightening. Dry lightening started that fire," he said.

Valdez said for most of the mystery surrounding the Dulce area and greater Northern New Mexico, simple events have been sensationalized, whether by government misinformation or a desire to have the unknown manifest itself in front of you. "See, that's how a lot of stories are. They are dramatized, when there are logical, simple explanations," Valdez said. Distributed by the New Mexico Community News Exchange would spend a whole night writing a response. "I would end up writing a three-to-four page letter response to just one email," he said.

Instead of writing so many in-depth individual responses, Valdez decided he would write a book and give the information to the world. Valdez said many of the phenomena seen in Northern New Mexico have been falsely attributed to alien activity This is something his father never supported or believed in, he said. "People want to come and find aliens, but there is no proof of aliens and my father never believed there was alien activity. He pointed toward the govern years ago with a garage full of boxes of pictures and documents, never having published his work. His son took it upon himself to see that his father's work was fulfilled.

This year, Greg Valdez published "Dulce Base: The Truth and Evidence from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez." "I ended up with all these files," Valdez said of his father's legacy. "I started getting calls from different investigators and reporters." Valdez said his father had been pretty good about sharing the information gleaned from his investigations. When Gabe Valdez died, all the information was kept by his son. Investigators would call or email Greg Valdez, and he in North America to encourage the recovery and preservation of small populations of native species of wolves in areas where they once thrived. Those efforts have not been without difficulty and have been concentrated mostly in northern climates like Washington, Minnesota and most well-known among wolf recovery programs Yellowstone National Park.

The Mexican Wolf Recovery Program in New Mexico has been ongoing on state, federal and tribal lands, and has been found to be supported by a majority of the public and American Indians to whom those lands belong. The official position of the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners of recent years primarily because of the opinions of Commission Chair Jackie Power has been to oppose any effort to prevent extinction of wolves in New Mexico. Lincoln County manager Nita Taylor reported that she attended a meeting on the wolf program in Albuquerque in November. Taylor start on Main Road," said Mayor Sam Hammons during a Dec. 10 trustees meeting.

He went on to say that plans are to leave the section involving the right-of-way issues until later, and start further west with the project and pave, "as far as the money takes us." The village has spent more than $26,318 in engineering fees on the repaving project, financed mostly by state department of transportation cooperative funding and a village match. Lincoln County News same weird lights that you were talking about, but over Kirtland Air Force Bennewitz told Gabe Valdez. "When Paul goes with my dad to Dulce, he sees the same lights." Atthispoint, government officials started taking Bennewitz on wild goose chases, Valdez said. The government officials took Bennewitz up to the top of Archuleta Mesa and took him on different flights around the Dulce area, during which time they told Bennewitz about all the confidential alien projects the government had been working on. "The alien stories were major in the '80s," Valdez said.

"The Air Force saw it as a way to start a rumor and started giving Bennewitz a lot of stuff to discredit him." There are no tunnels under Archuleta Mesa, Valdez said. There are no reptilian green or gray alien tunnels, neither are there military tunnels, he said. When the rumor of tunnels first started in the late '70s, underground machines were digging tunnels for the water The project ran into a roadblock this fall when property owner Gary Caughron advised the village that in a short area from the Highway 48 and Main Road intersection, the Main Road right-of-way is on Caughron's property. Caughron proposed, and trustees approved, an agreement for realignment, wherein he would receive a water tap in exchange for the village to have right-of-way. The agreement later went null and void.

"We've rescheduled our plans on where we will DIRECTORY Sfe? TAOS COUNTY NORTHERN Increased Business! By Lindsey Bright Rio Grande Sun ESPANOLA The signs on the road warning of livestock are common on the highways of New Mexico a yellow triangle with a black cattle shape in the middle. In Northern New Mexico there is often a tiny addition hinting to the area's mysterious past a black sticker shaped like a flying saucer, pasted above the cattle, as if waiting to beam them up. For tourists and the younger generation, this graffiti is the only knowledge of the bizarre past and lore of Dulce Base, the suspicion of aliens and mysterious orbs of light bouncing through a desert landscape at night. The cattle mutilations remain largely unknown. Gabe Valdez wasn't merely interested in learning about the mysterious happenings around Dulce he devoted much of his adult life to it.

Valdez was a state police officer and had seen many of the mysteries and cattle mutilations first-hand. Gabe Valdez died several STATE NEWS From PageBll or to obtain psychological counseling for treatment of a mental health disorder. os well Daily Record Wolf program under discussion LINCOLN COUNTY Abetter understanding of wolves around the world has lead to efforts DWI program makes PSA with hometown stars ByTessTownsend Roswell Daily Record ROSWELL She's a professional golfer. They are a professional film crew. All are Goddard High School graduates and they came together with the Chaves County DWI Program to film a public service commercial urging youth to make the right choices.

Goddard High 2003 graduate Gerina Mendoza-Piller, who now tours with the Ladies Professional Golf Association, donated her time to the filming of a commercial meant to show young people the benefits of avoiding drugs and alcohol and staying in school. "If you make the right choices, your future can be brighter," said DWI Prevention Specialist Diane Taylor. "I want to show that these people chose to do the right thing." The commercial will air statewide beginning in mid-January on KOB and will be uploaded to YouTube. On set recording Mendoza-Piller were Rodney Austin, a '96 Goddard grad, and Keith Jones, who graduated in 2009. Like the golf star, the two donated their time to making the commercial.

The commercial begins with Mendoza-Piller standing with her golf bag in front of a table containing trophies from her time playing golf. "I am playing on the LPGA because I had people who supported me. But first, I had to choose to believe in myself," reads the script. She said the commercial was a great opportunity to support her state. "I can make an impact in someone's life, hopefully," she said.

"I hope that it reaches a lot of people," said Jones. "I was more than thrilled to be able to work with her and do something," he said. Taylor plans to do more commercials in the same vein, working with other Roswellites who have made good. She hopes to do a public service advertisement with LGPA champion golfer Nancy Lopez in the spring. Distributed by the New Mexico Community News Exchange had few comments regarding the meeting, but acknowledged that the Mexican Wolf recovery program is "clearly supported" outside of Lincoln County.

Lincoln County News Capitan repaving project moves forward LINCOLN COUNTY Capitan trustees authorized more than $7,500 in new engineering fees to get the Main Road repaving project moving along. SERVICE BUSINESS LISTINGS FOR 4 In Charlies name bVwv, Taos News jy Behavioral health overhaul continues A Jm jc, i -1 EH TAOS F1SK LLLH iLLHH 51 UK Los 1 1 1 liffliaijaan 1 1 aguaaos I phoenix i we want ifiiL -M MOVE IN SPECIAL TRULYVAPOIW fc 1 in fWL i "Venny (f9MNeed Money Fast?.