Amongst
UFO theorists of the more conspiratological, government cover-up kind, 'the Aviary' is taken to refer to a group of individuals, often with ties to existing
intelligence agencies, or being well-placed in UFO media outlets, with an ambiguous role, either one of 'preparing the public' for future UFO revelations, or spreading
disinformation in order to keep people guessing about the true nature of UFO phenomena.
They crop up mostly in the MJ-12 or Majestic 12 mythos concerning various purported groupings of top-level government advisors formed in order to combat the UFO menace (or sell us down the river to the aliens, etc., depending whom you believe) which seems to emanate from the strange, tangled, goings on between reputed AFOSI (air force intelligence) agent Richard Doty, Paul Bennewitz (a UFO researcher who was, amongst other things, trying to receive alien communications by writing a computer program to 'decode' radio noise) and (slightly more reputable) UFO investigator William Moore - himself an ex-AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) staffer.
In a 1991 article for Fate Magazine, and, I believe, at a UFO conference (MUFON) around the same time, Moore shocked the UFO community by claimed to have been working with a group of government disinformation agents, actively passing on their contaminated information to other researchers, in exchange for real information which they promised to release to him concerning government knowledge of UFOs. This disinformation group was given the name 'the Aviary' in Moore's article.
Each member is thought to have a 'bird-name' - a codename which is the name of a bird. Here's a list, which has some nice biographical details, quoted from a 1996 article by Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D., which has been influential in the field. There are many different lists in circulation, so you shouldn't take this as more than a representative sample. Still, it has all the main names in it. I think the attribution of particular positions within agencies such as the CIA should be taken with some caution, though a lot of the biographical information provided is correct, in terms of institutional affiliations.
Amusingly, Aviary story originator William Moore gets a mention as a member in this version of the list!
- BLUEJAY
- Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, MD, Ph.D., Chief, Biomedical Sciences Department, General Motors; former custodian of the CIA's UFO files at the "Weird Desk"; received the National Intelligence Medal for his work on a classified project during the period of 1979-1983; recently reported to be White House UFO liaison.
- PELICAN
- Ron Pandolfi, CIA Deputy Director for the Division of Science and Technology, and current custodian of UFO files
at the "Weird Desk"; involved in the White House Initiative, as UFO liaison, to expedite (at Laurence Rockefeller's behest) the release of UFO information to the public; and has been quietly leaking UFO information the past few years.
- OWL
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Hal Puthoff, physicist with the Institute for Advanced research in Austin, TX. formerly a Stanford Research
Institute (SRI) and reported DIA researcher, (along with psi guru and fellow Scientologist Ingo Swann,) into parapsychological, psychotronic, remote-viewing, and mind-control projects, and reportedly involved in classified ET-technology studies.
- RAVEN
- (Identity not yet determined.) RAVEN appears to be a kingpin in The Aviary, and a Washington insiders' guessing game has sprung up, as devotees of UFO intelligence data argue for the probable identity of their favorite "candidate". [Possible candidates: Henry Kissinger, Ph.D., Edward Teller, Ph.D.; General Brent Scowcroft.]
- PENGUIN
- John B. Alexander, Ph.D. in Death Sciences (Thanatology), Lt. Col., ("Ret."), U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is undoubtedly his military cover for the National Security Agency (NSA). Colonel Alexander is director of the Non-Lethal Weapons Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has been reportedly involved in counter-intelligence remote-viewing, psychic-warfare, psychotronic and mind-control projects with military/security
applications, while maintaining the cover of nonlethal military/crowd control physical-countermeasures research. Dr. Alexander is a Board Member, (along with INSCOM General Al Stubblebine and INSCOM Major Ed Dames), of PSI-Tech Corp. (involved in proprietary remote- viewing projects).
- HAWK
- Ernie Kellerstraus security-cleared for UFO information, worked at Wright-Patterson AFB in the 1970's, and is reported to have lived with an extraterrestrial for a while; reported to have worked with Dale Graff (*HARRIER*?) and Captain Bob Collins (CONDOR), Air Force Intelligence, to supply UFO information to USAF/AFOSI disinformation operative/ "UFOlogist" William Moore.
- (Bird name unknown, PARTRIDGE?)
- Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., formerly an astrophysicist with GEPAN, the French Goverrnment's UFO investigative agency, later moved to U.S. as principal investigator with Defense Department computer network projects; worked with famed astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek who left and denounced the military's Project Blue Book as a disinformational smokescreen; prolific author on UFO subject, lately turning to metaphysical explanations for the phenomenon.
- SEAGULL
- Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D., research scientist in optical physics and laser weapons applications at the U.S. Naval
Surface Weapons Lab, MD; MUFON physics/photo-interpretive consultant, and prolific author and consultant expert on selected "leaked" or disinformational UFO cases/topics, such as the Gulf Breeze-Ed Walters alleged UFO photos, the Canadian "Carp UFO" hoaxed "incident", and the documented repeat UFO landings at the hyper-secure Manzano Canyon Facility at Kirtland AFB/Sandia National Laboratories Military Reservation.
- CHICKADEE
- Cmdr. C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D., USN (Ret.), former officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence and other
Agencies; with 30 years service in U.S. Intelligence overseas; involved in government research and development projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and other organizations; former Senate aide to Sen. Claiborne Pell, who has had a long-standing interest in UFOs and the paranormal, and has tried to get Congressional Hearings held on UFOs;
President, Human Potential Foundation; and "point-man" for Laurence Rockefeller on UFO matters, currently tasked to contact world leaders concerning upcoming public announcements of UFO/ET reality; recently convened the May, 1995 Washington, D.C. "When Cosmic Cultures Meet International Conference".
- CONDOR
- Capt. Bob Collins, USAF (Ret.), Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, engaged in UFO-related intelligence operations; reportedly appeared clandestinely on 1988 Kodak-produced network television (dis-)information program "UFO Cover-Up Live", where Collins, reportedly along with "former" CIA contract employee and current UFO-conferences disinformation lecturer, John Lear, presented accounts of alien autopsies, UFO retrievals, and the government's awareness about UFOs and ET presence.
- FALCON
- Sgt. Richard "Dick" Doty, USAF (Ret.), Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, reported to have engaged in UFO disinformation projects, including reportedly hoaxing TV producer Linda Moulton Howe concerning availability of a tape showing a UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base, NM; and of allegedly waging psychological warfare on Albuquerque defense electronics contractor Paul Bennewitz, concerning Bennewitz's electronic monitoring of UFO activity around Kirtland AFB/Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, reportedly causing/exacerbating a mental breakdown in Mr. Bennewitz. Reportedly, FALCON claims to have seen the Roswell Alien Autopsy film (shown worldwide August 28, 1995) some time ago at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- (bird-name unknown: SPARROW?)
- William Moore, USAF (Ret.), Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations; prolific UFO "author"; reportedly publicly admitted at a MUFON Conference to being an Air Force Intelligence operative involved in UFO-related disinformation projects.
Quoted list from Boylan's article at:
http://www.jps.net/drboylan/aviary.htm