Manzano / Sandia sightings (1980).
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An August 1980 series of security-guard sightings near the Manzano Weapons Storage Area / Coyote Canyon, including a reported disc landing, documented in AFOSI memos associated with Richard Doty. The…
An August 1980 series of security-guard sightings near the Manzano Weapons Storage Area / Coyote Canyon, including a reported disc landing, documented in AFOSI memos associated with Richard Doty. The case is historically significant but entangled with the Paul Bennewitz disinformation episode, in which AFOSI is understood to have fed false material to a civilian investigator — so the sighting reports must be read with that contamination in mind.