William Cooper
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William Milton Cooper, author of "Behold a Pale Horse," was
killed in a shootout with sheriff's deputies in Eagar, Arizona
today. Cooper was host of a talk show broadcast by
Worldwide Christian Radio out of Nashville. He was well known
in the UFO community for his radical view that there were a
number of alien species present on earth, and that they were
unspeakably evil.
He led a drive to identify Whitley Strieber as a CIA agent, and
considered most conventional UFO researchers, including
Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe and many others, to
be agents of a conspiracy devoted to concealing the evil
alien presence so that it could do its bidding on earth
untroubled by human resistance.
He considered Art Bell a conspiratorial proponent of a new
world order that he believed would destroy human freedom,
and devoted many pages of his website to diatribes against
Bell.
In defense of his claim that Strieber was a CIA operative, he
produced a document that was allegedly written in 1981
that "activated" Strieber and a number of other individuals,
including Richard Hoagland in a program called "Project
Enable." Among other inaccuracies, the document identifies
Dr. John Alexander as a major when he was, at the time of its
writing, a Lieutenant Colonel. It makes reference to Project
Stargate, but is dated in 1981, when the military remote
viewing program was still called Project Grill Flame.
When deputies attempted to arrest Cooper this morning, a
gun battle broke out. One Apache County deputy received
two gunshots to the head. The deputy was in critical
condition at a Phoenix hospital. Cooper, who had a handgun,
was killed.
Cooper served with the Strategic Air command until 1965. He
was also a naval officer. He was discharged from the Navy in
1975.
In March of 1999, Cooper sent his family out of the United
States. He remained alone at his home in Arizona, where he
was killed.
On the official William Cooper website, his family states that
his death was apparently not related to his opposition to the
federal government, but came as a result of a sheriff's
deputy's attempt to serve a warrant in a local matter. To
read their statement on his website,
click here.
To read the Sheriff's Report on the Cooper death,
click here.
