William Leonard Moore (born October 31, 1943) is an author and former

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researcher, prominent from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. He co-authored two books with

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, including ''The Roswell Incident''.

Career

Interested in UFOs since he was a teenager, Moore attended

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, located in Greenville, Pennsylvania graduating in 1965. He taught language and humanities at various high schools. He became

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state section director of the

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and left teaching to pursue a career as a freelance writer. Moore wrote ''The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility'' with Charles Berlitz in 1979, about an alleged naval military experiment popularly known as the

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aboard the USS ''Eldridge'' in 1943. In 1980, Moore wrote ''The Roswell Incident'' with writing partner Charles Berlitz, which alleged the

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had involved the crash of an extraterrestrial space ship. In May 1987, Moore along with ufologists Jaime Shandera and

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circulated the

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documents that purported the existence of a high-level policy making group overseeing UFOs and extraterrestrials. At a 1989 MUFON conference, Moore claimed that he had been engaged in "disinformation" activities against

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on behalf of the

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Critical reception

According to author Barna William Donovan, ''The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility'' was "largely dismissed even by the most committed conspiracy and supernatural buffs as nothing more than a shoddy, uncritical repeat of a lingering and completely unsubstantiated urban myth." Donovan wrote that critics have deemed ''The Roswell Incident'' "a collection of wild hearsay" offering "second - and third-hand accounts Berlitz and Moore then use for fantastic speculation and to jump to a lot of unwarranted conclusions", and that when critics and skeptics characterized the Majestic 12 documents as fraudulent, "The accusing fingers were pointing at Moore."

Books

* ''The Philadelphia Experiment Project Invisibility'' (1979) * ''The Roswell Incident'' (1980)

References

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