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120 Holloman aliens
A government employee photographed a possible UFO as it hovered for fifteen minutes near Holloman Air Force Base, New
Mexico. (Bettmann/Corbis)
flying saucer had landed at the base, and three
beings had stepped outside.
Shartle, who claimed to have seen this
16mm film, said on national television in October
1988 that the beings were the size of humans
but had gray complexions and large
noses. They wore tight-fitting suits and “thin
headdresses that appeared to be communication
devices, and in their hands they held a
‘translator’” (Howe, 1989). The Holloman
commander and other officers had met with
the aliens over the next several days.
Emenegger claims to have been taken to
Holloman and shown the buildings where the
saucer was stored and the meetings conducted.
He and Sandler were promised thirtytwo
hundred feet of the landing film, but they
never saw it because permission to view it,
much less reproduce it, was subsequently
withdrawn. They went on to make a UFO
documentary, and Emenegger wrote a paperback
based on it. In it he mentions the Holloman
incident but not as something that had
actually happened, merely as something that
could happen in the future. In a section of
photographs and illustrations, however, there
is a drawing clearly intended to be a Holloman
alien, said only to be “based on eyewitness
descriptions” (Emenegger, 1974).
In 1982, Colorado-based ufologist and
documentary filmmaker Linda Moulton
Howe met with Sergeant Richard Doty, an
AFOSI agent, at Kirtland Air Force Base in
New Mexico. Asked about the Holloman incident,
Doty asserted that it had indeed occurred
but on April 25, 1964, seven years earlier
than Emenegger had been led to believe.
Doty showed her a document that purported
to detail the U.S. government’s interaction
with aliens and its recovery of extraterrestrial
wreckage and bodies. He mentioned films,
one of them taken at Holloman. Despite repeated
promises, Doty never produced any
film or other documentation for Howe. He
later emerged as a suspect in a notorious,
forged paper concerning a secret group, Majestic–12,
which supposedly studies alien remains
and supervises the cover-up.