SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE "PHOENIX PROJECT" BY PARANET          FILE: UFO2495


PART 1



   Filename: Par-Adv1.Inv
   Type    : Investigations
   Author  : Michael Corbin
   Date    : 08/16/92  (Aprox)
   Desc.   : Investigation into Phoenix Project Publishers

   Note    : See also; PAR-ADVx.ZIP

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                  Review of the "Phoenix Project" by ParaNet


   A few weeks ago,  ParaNet received on-line copies of several  documents
   which  purported to come from a previously unknown organization  called
   "The Phoenix Project".  The project is described in the documents as  a
   "private, civilian, research organization" which was "formed in 1952 to
   investigate  and  correlate  information"   concerning  UFOs  and  ETs.
   According  to the information contained in the documents,  for a  small
   price one can receive printed copies of the project's reports, complete
   with maps, magnetometer readings, and a host of other supporting charts
   and diagrams which serve to make the whole endeavor look scientific and
   legitimate.

   The  documents we received were formulated as investigative reports  on
   two  of  the  hottest  and most controversial  issues  within  the  UFO
   research community: the underground alien bases which are said to exist
   at  numerous  locations around the United States,  and the  cluster  of
   alleged  UFO-related  projects  sometimes referred to  collectively  as
   "Operation Majestic Twelve".  Specifically,  the material consisted  of
   three separate documents:

   (1) "The Ultimate Secret",  originally dated 4 August 1989  and revised
       most recently 5 May 1992, purporting to lay bare the inner workings
       of the government's secret UFO projects,  including the recovery of
       alien technology and bodies from crashed UFOs,  the exploitation of
       this technology by a number of code-named government projects,  and
       the  involvement  of  NASA  and the SDI program  in  preparing  for
       conflict with alien invaders;

   (2) "The  Dulce Report",   dated 27  May 1992,   describing an  on-site
       investigation  of the Dulce and Archuleta Mesa area in New  Mexico,
       which  purportedly   proved beyond any doubt that there is  nothing
       there of any interest to UFO researchers despite persistent reports
       to the contrary; and

   (3) "The K-2 Report", originally dated 28 July 1989 and revised 27 June
       1992,     which   purports to document the discovery of  a  genuine
       "secret  alien  base"   in the Pilot Peak area  of  Plumas  County,
       California.

   ParaNet  quickly  reviewed this material and posted it in its  entirety
   for  our  subscribers,   pursuant to the permissions  attached  to  the
   material  by  the publisher.  We also posted a  preliminary  evaluation
   which warned that the material might contain inaccuracies or deliberate
   disinformation. This evaluation was based on a number of factors:

   (1) much of the information in "The Ultimate Secret"   about  Operation
       Majestic   Twelve  and associated projects is clearly related   to,
       and  probably   derived  from,   earlier material  which  has  been
       dismissed  as worthless by almost all reputable UFO researchers;

   (2) much of the information in "The Dulce Report"   about Dulce and the
       Archuleta  Mesa contradicts information already provided to ParaNet
       by other capable investigators;

   (3) some  of the information in "The K-2   Report"    is  intrinsically
       implausible (although,   admittedly, not impossible),   such as the
       claim  that   a seasoned military intelligence  operative  "forgot"
       his  camera when  rushing to document a UFO landing site,   or that
       by the next  day that  same landing site had been re-sodded by  the
       aliens to  obliterate all the evidence.

   ParaNet  received  the three documents as uploads from a Mr.   Jack  L.
   Mathias  of Carson City,  Nevada,  who represented himself as the  sole
   public  spokesman  for the Project.  But the  reports  themselves  name
   neither  the authors of the documents nor the principals of the Phoenix
   Project.   Instead,  they cryptically state that they are the  work  of
   "former   military   personnel  who  have  all  been  associated   with
   intelligence  activities,   and  have knowledge  of  covert  government
   operations  concerning  UFO's".  Given the sorry history  of  anonymous
   documents and "former" government agents in the UFO community,  ParaNet
   felt  it  necessary  to  start its own investigation in  an  effort  to
   determine  just  who  was behind the Phoenix  Project  and  what  their
   motives might be.

   First  we sent a letter to the post office box listed in the documents,
   asking for further information about the group;  but the letter was not
   answered.   We corresponded by electronic mail with Mr.  Mathias,   who
   represents himself as an agent for the group, but he refused to provide
   any of the information we requested. So much for the direct approach.

   Each  document  formally  states  that the Phoenix Project  logo  is  a
   registered trademark (presumably in the state of Nevada,  since that is
   where  their mailing address is located),  so we tried a query  to  the
   Nevada  trademark office in Carson City.  That office informed us  that
   the  state of Nevada has no record of any current trademarks under  the
   "Phoenix  Project"  name.  They did say that articles of  incorporation
   were filed under the name of the Phoenix Project on 25 August 1988 by a
   Mr. Thomas Naylor of Las Vegas, Nevada. However, the corporation failed
   to  file  the  names and addresses of its officers by 1 July  1989   as
   required  by  Nevada law,  as a result of which the  incorporation  was
   revoked  by the Nevada Secretary of State.  And so we  reached  another
   apparent dead end,  except for one bit of trivia uncovered by a ParaNet
   investigator  in  Las Vegas:  An attorney named Thomas C.   Naylor  had
   recently moved into an office building at 2810  West Charleston in  Las
   Vegas.

   Next  we contacted the U.S.  Postal Service in Carson City,  Nevada  to
   determine  the box holder for the Phoenix Project's publisher,   Advent
   Publishing  Company.   We  were told that the box was registered  to  a
   Richard  T.  Miller,  whose address was given as a mobile-home park  in
   Carson  City.  Following this,  we contacted the Clerk  and  Recorder's
   office in Carson City,  and determined that a Richard Miller is  listed
   with  them  as  the legal owner of Advent  Publishing.   However,   the
   telephone number they gave us for Mr. Miller has been disconnected, and
   directory  assistance  was unable to provide a new one.  Another  brick
   wall.

   To this point,  all attempts to verify the Phoenix Project's legitimacy
   using  conventional methods had proved futile,  so we decided to try  a
   different  approach.   The Phoenix Project explicitly and  emphatically
   disclaims  affiliation with any other groups using the name  "Phoenix".
   And  just to make sure everyone gets the message,  each document states
   at the beginning that "[i]n particular,  there is no affiliation with a
   publisher  known  as  America West,  any of its publications,   or  the
   individuals known as George and Desiree Green". Unfortunately,  ParaNet
   has  uncovered  evidence  that  these disclaimers may  be  intended  to
   conceal rather than to illuminate.

   America West,  it turns out,  is the publisher of a magazine called the
   Phoenix  Liberator,   which  carries  large  quantities  of  channelled
   material alleged to originate with an entity from the Pleiades known as
   "Hatonn".  The Phoenix Liberator has come under fire recently from some
   in  the  UFO  community as anti-Semitic and  neo-fascist.   (See,   for
   example,   "Hatonn's  World:   A  Neo-Nazi ET?"  by Don  Ecker  in  the
   July/August 1992 issue of UFO Magazine.) But "Hatonn" and his defenders
   vehemently  deny the charge,  and the whole affair has been widely  and
   rather nastily trumpeted both on the net and in print.

   It  seems that until recently America West Publishers and  the  Phoenix
   Liberator  were operated out of Tehachapi,  California.  But a few days
   ago  one of ParaNet's subscribers uploaded a response from "Hatonn"  to
   Don Ecker,  which he said he had pulled down from the Phoenix Liberator
   BBS;   and  with  it he posted a new address for the  Liberator.   That
   address  was  all too familiar:  2810  West Charleston Boulevard,   Las
   Vegas,   Nevada--the same building,  it seems,  where an attorney named
   Thomas Naylor also has his new office.

   And  then  another strange coincidence:  A  posting coming  across  the
   Internet  stated that before "Hatonn"  channelled through  his  current
   host,  he used to convey his messages through a Mr. Richard Miller, who
   started  an organization which was known as the Solar Cross  and  which
   was apparently a forerunner of the Phoenix Liberator.  Is this the same
   Richard  Miller  who  owns  the Phoenix  Project's  publisher,   Advent
   Publishing Company?

   We  do not yet know if the Thomas Naylor who tried to  incorporate  the
   Phoenix  Project  is the same Thomas Naylor who apparently shares  2810
   West  Charleston with the new offices of the Phoenix Liberator.  We  do
   not  yet  know if the Richard Miller who owns Advent Publishing is  the
   same Richard Miller who reportedly once channelled "Hatonn".  In short,
   we  do  not  yet know if the Phoenix Project is  truly  an  independent
   organization,  or merely another incarnation of America West Publishers
   and the Phoenix Liberator.  But the coincidences are certainly striking
   and suggestive.  And in light of this we again urge extreme caution  in
   dealing  with  the  Phoenix Project material,  until  such  time  as  a
   definitive  assessment of the Project's motives and reliability can  be
   made.

   ParaNet will keep you advised of our findings as they become available.
   If  you  have  any information about the Phoenix  Project,   especially
   regarding  its  possible  relationship with the  Phoenix  Liberator  or
   America  West Publishers,  please send it to Michael Corbin by Internet
   mail to [email protected];  by Fidonet to 1:104/422; by U.S.  Mail to
   P.O. Box 172, Wheat Ridge, CO 80034- 0172;



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