Does Rio Arriba County Hold a Secret UFO base?Dulce is home to the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation of northern New Mexico and is largely inhabited by Indigenous peoples. Despite its small population, it draws heavy tourism by ufologists, who host an annual “Dulce Base UFO Conference.”
It’s important to note that the existence of the New Mexico alien base itself remains entirely unproven, even as the legends surrounding it are well documented.
Dulce is one of a few areas in New Mexico with a number of UFO reports and notions. According to some, north of town, a mountainside is said to be able to open up to accommodate spacecraft into an underground genetics lab run by aliens and the shadow government, where humans are kept in cages and used for experimentation.
A videotape from one of the security cameras containing evidence of these activities is said to have existed, stolen from the facility by a security guard who said he buried it in a nearby valley, but he has not been able to find it again. The location of Dulce Base is said to be on Archuleta Mesa, north of town, on the Colorado state line.
On the surface, Dulce, New Mexico is just a small southwestern town. It doesn’t even have a traffic light. But according to the most bizarre rumors, this little town is just a cap on a gargantuan underground facility that is home to unimaginable experiments and technologies. For the tinfoil hat-wearers, there’s a whole world underneath Dulce — a secret, high-tech one filled with aliens.
According to some, the Dulce subterranean base is a seven-story compound beneath Dulce, New Mexico that houses human-animal hybrids, human-alien hybrids, and extremely advanced technologies. They say even been the site of alien wars. You know, the usual. It hasn’t been called the Roswell of Northern New Mexico for nothing.
For decades, ufologists have claimed that extraterrestrials experiment on humans with the military’s help inside a secret base underneath the Archuleta Mesa in Dulce, New Mexico.
The first claims of the base’s existence, dates all the way back to the 1930s.
While tales of the unexplained centered around regional deserts are nothing new, the legends of a New Mexico alien base picked up steam in the 1970s. It began with a State Trooper who spotted a strange craft in the sky and mutilated cattle on the ground in Dulce, New Mexico. He also found gas masks nearby, which he believed indicated government involvement.
Gabriel Valdez inspecting a mutilated cow in the 1970s.
The trooper, named Gabe Valdez, documented unexplained cattle mutilations in the area, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. In a radio interview, Valdez said, “The evidence that was left there, you know, predators don’t leave gas masks, glow sticks, radar chaff. They don’t leave that stuff.”
Valdez made more wild claims in other interviews, including sightings of black, silent “sophisticated spacecraft” and the discovery of a fetus inside a dead cow — but not a calf fetus. “It looked like a human, a monkey and a frog,” Valdez told the History Channel’s “UFO Hunters.” “It didn’t have any bones in the head. It was all full of water.” Valdez thought — what else? — the cows were incubating alien babies.
Tim Anderson, a former police officer in Dulce, claimed to have seen a UFO in the town in the late 1990s. “It lit up the whole valley and just disappeared into the rocks,” he told the Santa Fe New Mexican. “I just rubbed my eyes. ‘Did I really see that?'” For good measure, Anderson also believes Bigfoot resides in or near the town.
Rumor Takes Flight
The colorful claims of the paranormal have come from many different times and people in Dulce. Never mind all that cattle stuff: Philip Schneider, a former explosive engineer employed by the U.S. government, introduced the idea of Dulce as a site of a brutal human-alien war. Schneider, who had high-level security clearance, claimed that he helped construct a “secret underground base” in Dulce in 1979. There, he says, he witnessed a battle with subterranean aliens that left 60 humans dead. The alien war wages on to this day, Schneider tells The Epoch Times.
Another key player in the Dulce base conspiracy theory is a man named Paul Bennewitz. Bennewitz, who earned a Ph.D. in physics, became convinced that cattle mutilations around the area were the result of extraterrestrial intervention, according to HowStuffWorks. He then allegedly began picking up intercepted electronic signals near Dulce, a town too small to receive such messages. Bennewitz theorized that these signals were coming from underground and going toward a target high in the sky. By the ’80s, he was actively spreading the rumors of an underground alien facility in Dulce, New Mexico.
By May 1990, John Lear claimed to have garnered “four independent confirmations” that the seven-story structure was real. Lear was a former pilot and government man — as well as the son of the inventor of the LearJet — so people gave some credence to his claims.
His detailed claims went so far as to describe different species of aliens who allegedly visited earth. Lear’s allegations served as the foundation for further claims about the New Mexico alien base.
Although no hard evidence has emerged, rumors continue to circulate of strange goings-on in Dulce, New Mexico.
Ultimately, UFO sightings in the U.S. have yet to cease or even slow. It was only recently that the Pentagon admitted that Air Force footage of unidentified aerial vehicles was real — and that the Navy drafted new guidelines on how to report these phenomena.
