Years of intent to create controversy within the UFO/conspiracy community and specifically MUFON with the 2021 publishing of an obscure historical fiction by Douglas Dietrich and Peter Moon, ended after a bizarre Zoom meeting with San Diego MUFON.
The meeting, arranged with the influence of Michael Salla, was held on March 19, 2023. A copy of the Zoom meeting was later sent to and then published by Dietrich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_BoLJ3lzg
Dietrich and his publisher Peter Moon (Vincent Barbarick) hijacked the MUFON Zoom meeting using an aggressive "tag team" effort to "bulldoze" the host and intimidate and abuse San Diego MUFON participants.
Dietrich, who after being accused in the comments of being "angry and racist", said he was "drunk."
Immediately after the "interview", Dietrich accused the host, San Diego MUFON Director WK (Wil) Wakely of intentionally failing to record the call and censoring him.
Dietrich then attacked MUFON San Diego and Wakely during a series of YouTube live streams for over a week:
March 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEAo5B8m6o&t=1622s
March 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1uLO_5VAs
March 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmRYJRAWm1Q&t=10023s (2:31:00 - 2:47:00)
March 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zwvVshJ4L8
The primary accusations and subsequent defamation and slander of Mr. Wakely occurred on March 26 from 2:31:00 to 2:47:00.
I contacted Mr. Wakely and he contributed his statement for the record:
Response from MUFON San Diego, WK (Wil) Wakely:
Richard,
"Thanks for the info re Deitrich. First I have heard of the problem. Yes, I neglected to start recording at the beginning as I was distracted with starting the meeting and did not discover my error until well into the meeting. DD accused me of doing it deliberately, for which I apologized and denied. He became almost abusive; guess it is a hot button for him. He claims that he never gets recorded and feels it is deliberate. I think he is paranoid among other mental problems.
I had problems editing the recording and kept Doug and Peter Moon advised of my problems. A couple of days later I sent them the recording. Yes, I did edit to remove the discussion we had after he left the meeting as most of it was negative and I did not want possible legal action.
We were disappointed with his presentation because a lot of it had nothing to do with UFOs; it was mainly about Japan’s activity in WW2. After about 2 hours he finally got to the discussion of the Battle of LA and the Roswell event, as the meeting was advertised. Before that, we were frustrated with his boring extraneous dialog and anti-American slant.
I tried several times to direct his discussion to the Mufon interest without success. A couple of members criticized him on some of his facts, but overall we were polite and endured his diatribe. BTW, he did not threaten me with legal action, or if he did, he never told me."
Wil Wakely
San Diego Mufon Director
Dietrich's book: "The Roswell Deception and the Demystification of World War II" is a work of fiction disguised as non-fiction and I prove it using evidence in a previous posting.
https://rkcolejr.blogspot.com/2021/04/book-review-roswell-deception-and.html
