The Doty Dilemna: Are House and Senate Investigations tainted?

First up: it is our opinion here at Strange Skies that Richard Doty is 100% a fraud and nothing he says about the subject of UFO’s is factual. If your first reaction is “Who the heck is Richard Doty?”, here’s a brief synopsis:

Richard Doty is a controversial figure in the history of UFOs and government secrecy. He claims to have worked for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in counterintelligence, where he was involved in disseminating disinformation about UFOs during the 1970s and 80s. Doty is most well-known for his role in the “Mirage Men” affair, where he allegedly fed false information about a UFO crash retrieval to UFO researchers. While some in ufology consider him a valuable insider source, others view him as an untrustworthy fabulist who muddied the waters of UFO research with deliberate hoaxes and lies. Doty maintains his actions were intended to confuse Soviet agents during the Cold War, but his tendency towards embellishment and exaggeration make it difficult to fully believe his accounts.

Doty is known to have fed false information to UFOlogists and researchers such as Linda Moutlton Howe, Paul Bennewitz, William Moore, and likely numerous others. Since leaving the Air Force, Doty has taken on the role of ‘Whistleblower’ spreading UFO facts, informing the efforts of individuals like Hal Putoff (To The Stars Academy), and Dr Steven Greer, to name a few, and has parlayed his notoriety into numerous media appearances. Doty likes attention.

Notably, he was behind the infamous ‘Project Serpo’ hoax, as explained in this episode of The Why Files:

To say we shouldn’t trust Richard Doty, and by extension anyone who counts him as a source of information, in an understatement. Doty has done incalculable damage to the topic of UFOs and Extraterrestrial visitation. Which brings us to today.

I don’t hang on Doty’s every appearance in the media as they all tend to be the same, but I did catch an interview with him on Jimmy Church’s ‘FADE to BLACK’ podcast that was released June 26^th, 2023 that concerned me a bit.

As I said, this may not be the first mention of it, but Doty discussed his involvement with “The Advanced Working”, (Zero google results), an organization working closely with various Senator’s offices on the issue of US disclosure. Here’s a snippet of what he had to say about it:

When we met with the Senators, or Senate staff, mostly Senate staffers, they gave us a certain category of people they wanted; people that actually had hands on something, but that actually picked something up and looked at it. Or it was in a hanger, or some are, and saw something and knew, had knowledge, or somebody told them, that that was an extraterrestrial craft and not a conventional craft or a reverse-engineered craft.

This is extremely worrying in my opinion. Anything Doty says, and anyone who he informs, is automatically suspect. There has never been any proof that Doty’s revelations on the topic of UFO’s are anything more than the same misinformation he spread during his time with the Air Force. If he is indeed instrumental in the current investigation of the topic happening in the Senate and the Congress, that could mean both avenues of investigation are tainted.

Indeed many of the topics Doty speaks on, including Roswell, are tainted by his so-called ‘disclosures’. If Doty is continuing his disinformation efforts in the private sector, there’s no guarantee that he hasn’t surrounded himself with like-minded individuals whose goals are to keep the UFO subject mired in fantasy.

What do you think? Is Doty overstating his role in working with the Senate, or should we proceed with caution as the government continues to deep dive on the topic.