Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

====Doty spreads "Project Serpo" stories====
In 2005, UFO researcher Victor Martinez received an anonymous email about Project Serpo, a supposed "exchange program" where Americans were sent to live on an alien homeworld.<ref name="MirageMen"/>{{rp|x|quote=So began the email received on 1 November 2005 by Victor Martinez, a substitute teacher on America’s west coast who ran what must have been one of the most remarkable email groups on the Internet." }}   The anonymous informant and three other supposed-corroborating witnesses were revealed to be accounts operated by Rick Doty.<ref name="MirageMen"/>{{rp|x|quote=After engaging in some online cloak-and-dagger work, Broadbent found that the original Anonymous emails distributed to Victor Martinez’s email list in November 2005, and the corroborating emails sent by Rick Doty, Paul McGovern and at least two other alleged Defence Intelligence Agency ‘insiders’, all shared the same consumer broadband IP address – which identifies the local computer network that a computer is using – based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This fingered Rick, the only member of the group known actually to exist outside of cyberspace, as the probable sender of the original emails, if not the source of the Serpo material itself.}} He participated in the 2013 documentary ''[[Mirage Men]]'' about his campaign against Bennewitz, Howe, and others.

Doty continues to spread UFO stories, appearing in conferences, films, and the [[UFO (American TV series)|2021 TV series ''UFO'']].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/17/ufo-jj-abrams-docseries-showtime | title='Our fascination is rooted in hope': Why we're so obsessed with UFOs | work=The Guardian | date=17 August 2021 | last1=Esposito | first1=Veronica }}</ref>