Behind the Bastards
Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind
11 Feb 2025
This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jiminy Christmas. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that for whatever reason is about aliens right now. Look, folks, after three straight weeks of Oprah, I needed something fun. So we did a couple of book episodes on aliens and then I fell down a rabbit hole. And so this week we're bringing back one of our favorite guests, the great Brandy Posey. Brandy, welcome to the show. Hello.
Um, well, that's a good question, because like, what is an alien, I guess, is how do you want to define it? And also, do you believe in multiple dimensions? Because these are, you know what, that's exactly the answer I hoped for.
Not so much the dimension stuff. We're going to be talking about a real act of bastardry that's kind of at the very beginning. Well, not the beginning, kind of the middle point, but it's foundational to the UFO culture that gave us the X-Files. We are talking about...
The stuff that became the X-Files, which started as a disinformation campaign, and a lot of it can be tied specifically to an Air Force intelligence guy named Richard Doty, who was basically brought in to mentally abuse and destroy a basically decent, definitely too credulous guy who started finding evidence of like... recording evidence of like secret air force research.
And so the air force was like, let's convince this guy. It's all aliens. And they kind of destroyed his mind. So that's the story we're telling, but this it's, it's a excellent. Yeah. It's a fascinating tale, both because it explains a lot of how we get to Q and on how we do get stuff like the X files, a lot of kind of the core myths of, of UFO events.
conspiracy culture all that stuff but it's also just a great story about like US intelligence services absolutely destroying a man in order to protect their ability to make engines of death which is you know that's that's some good stuff we all love this shit
Yeah, the more examples, the better. And there are many, but I don't know any with aliens yet. So very exciting.
Yeah, this this will be a lot with aliens. And I'm you know, I'm I think where I come down on this, I don't believe I've never seen anything that's made me convinced that there's life outside of this planet yet. But I'm like open minded to it, like Fox Mulder. I'd like to believe I'm just open minded in the sense that I'm I'm a skeptic.
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