About this episode

The episode explores how military intelligence influenced Paul Bennewitz's mental state regarding UFOs.

We continue our quest to learn how and why the air force's intelligence agents--specifically one Richard Doty--fed the UFO delusions of scientist and entrepreneur Paul Bennowitz until his brain broke. It's a fascinating and sad story. Next time--Doty answers for his crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Fearful Jesuit

Topics covered

• UFOs
• military intelligence
• mental health
• conspiracy theories
• psychological manipulation

Keywords

• Paul Bennewitz
• Richard Doty
• UFO delusions
• military
• intelligence agents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: air force

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