Dulce conference...fact or fiction?

I'm thinking of perhaps attending this event but wonder how much will really be revealed....Just not sure about Greg Bishop and Michael Salla's motives.......anybody know much about the speakers?

THE DULCE BASE: FACT OR FICTION?

Conference and Public Forum to be held in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29, 2009

Submitted by Access Media for Norio Hayakawa

DULCE, NEW MEXICO – Eye witnesses, law enforcement officers and paranormal investigators will all meet at a conference in Dulce, New Mexico on March 29 to discuss long-standing rumors of a secret, underground, joint UFO/alien/U.S. government biological laboratory and base in the area. Norio Hayakawa, a retired funeral director and UFO researcher, is hosting the conference at the Best Western Jicarilla Inn in Dulce. His intent is to prove, once and for all, that these rumors are unfounded.

According to Hayakawa, stories began to circulate in the mid-1970s when area residents witnessed "strange lights in the sky" and when ranchers reported mysterious cattle mutilations and frequent sightings of military helicopters. The rumors intensified in 1980 when Paul Bennewitz, who was then the president of Thunder Scientific Labs adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base, reported his experiences with aliens. Bennewitz claimed that extraterrestrials were controlling humans
through electromagnetic devices, that an alien craft crashed near Dulce, that UFOs were regularly flying near Kirtland, the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area, and that aliens were transmitting signals to him from a base under Archuleta Mesa.

One of the speakers at the conference will be Greg Bishop, who thoroughly investigated the Bennewitz claims in his book Project Beta. Other conference participants include noted UFO expert Dennis Balthaser, cattle-mutilation investigator Chris O'Brien, talk-show host and conspiracy theorist Anthony J. Hilder, UFO skeptic Russel Erby, and exopolitics and disclosure activist Dr.. Michael Salla. "However," Hayakawa said, "the principal focus of the conference will be with local residents, ranchers and law enforcement officers who will testify about their personal experiences."

Interest in the conference and the decades-long rumor of a Dulce base are high. "The UFO Hunters," a popular History Channel television show, recently visited Dulce to interview residents and research facts about the purported Dulce base. "Because of the History Channel investigation, the townsfolk of Dulce are very much aware of the conference," said Hayakawa. "For the first time, some of the residents may come forward at the conference to speak without fear of ridicule."

Skeptical of the claims and rumors himself, Hayakawa is convinced there could be prosaic explanations to both the UFO sightings and cattle mutilations, and looks forward to the conference providing a resolution of the matter. "There has not been any physical evidence whatsoever that there is such a base in or near Dulce," Hayakawa asserted.
"However," he admitted, "when it comes to UFOs, many of the residents there are believers."

The one-day conference, open to the public, will start at 10:00 am and will conclude at 3:00 pm.. Admission is $5 at the door. The conference will include an open public forum during which the public will be given an opportunity to report their experiences and express their opinions.