Dulce / Archuleta Mesa
Also: Dulce Base; Archuleta Mesa
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Welcome sign, Dulce, New Mexico
Dulce, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's capital in northern New Mexico, named in the underground-base stories that grew from Paul Bennewitz's claims. Location photograph · context — no base has ever been shown to exist.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Bob Nichols/Photographer/Unit · 2013 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗John Brandenburg · 1:41:56
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedLyn Buchanan · 1:20:06
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA small town on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico. Speakers describe a claimed underground base under Archuleta Mesa and a reported clash there; the story grew from the Bennewitz affair. No public record of any installation exists, and the interviews offer only second-hand references.
Where the pin is
36.9400, -106.9900 region
Archuleta Mesa from public gazetteer; the claimed base is testimony-only, so the pin marks the mesa region.
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States
What is claimed
Brandenburg refers to a reported military clash at Dulce, and frames it as a breakdown of a supposed accommodation with grey beings.
- 1:41:56 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg ▶
there was this reported military clash at Dulce, reported.
- 1:41:56 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg ▶
Buchanan, describing land where nothing visibly happens but men in nondescript outfits keep people out, agrees when Michels names Dulce and says such places exist all over the world.
- 1:20:06 “I Saw a Mantis Alien In a Government Facility!” -Lyn Buchanan | EARLY RELEASE · Lyn Buchanan ▶
Like Dulce, New Mexico, and yeah, uh >> Yeah, and some of these other places. So, you think that's happening maybe all over the US. >> All over the world, I think.
- 1:20:06 “I Saw a Mantis Alien In a Government Facility!” -Lyn Buchanan | EARLY RELEASE · Lyn Buchanan ▶
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) 13 March 2025
- 1:41:56 ▶ John Brandenburg
there was this reported military clash at Dulce, reported.
- 1:41:56 ▶ John Brandenburg
“I Saw a Mantis Alien In a Government Facility!” -Lyn Buchanan | EARLY RELEASE 28 May 2026
- 1:20:06 ▶ Lyn Buchanan
Like Dulce, New Mexico, and yeah, uh >> Yeah, and some of these other places. So, you think that's happening maybe all over the US. >> All over the world, I think.
- 1:20:06 ▶ Lyn Buchanan
On the map
Dulce / Archuleta Mesa. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- Dulce / Archuleta Mesa — Wikipedia
- 1:41:56 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg ▶
there was this reported military clash at Dulce, reported.
- 1:20:06 “I Saw a Mantis Alien In a Government Facility!” -Lyn Buchanan | EARLY RELEASE · Lyn Buchanan ▶
Like Dulce, New Mexico, and yeah, uh >> Yeah, and some of these other places. So, you think that's happening maybe all over the US. >> All over the world, I think.