Project Blue Book’s “Area 51” episode examines a case known as the Lovette-Cunningham Incident. The History Channel was kind enough to supply a supplemental blog post explaining the history of the incident, giving viewers the chance to examine the “real events” behind the episode. Colin Bertram, the author of the History Channel blog, notes that the sources of the Lovette-Cunningham incident is from “controversial conspiracy theorist William Cooper (1943–2001), who asserts he was tasked with analyzing an annotated version of Grudge Report 13 in the early 1970s. The other came from William English, a former Green Beret captain who says he too was asked to analyze the document, while assigned to a U.S. security service at a former Royal Air Force base in Chicksands, England.” Bertram also cites the book Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials: The Real War of the Worlds by Frank Joseph, who wrote about both Cooper and English’s accounts in detail. Unfortunately for Bertram, The History Channel, and those who are getting introduced to UFO investigations by shows like Project Blue Book, the Lovette-Cunningham incident never happened, both Cooper and English were exposed as complete frauds in the late 1980s, and Frank Joseph, the author of Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials, is a neo-Nazi.
