{"id":901708,"date":"2021-10-20T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=901708"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:43:56","slug":"fact-check-was-this-image-leaked-from-a-secret-dulce-new-mexico-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-this-image-leaked-from-a-secret-dulce-new-mexico-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was This Image Leaked From A Secret Dulce, New Mexico, Military Base?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-this-image-leaked-from-a-secret-dulce-new-mexico-military-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=901708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/meninblackconspiracy\/photos\/a.1951949851583994\/4117833284995629\/\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a photo leaked by a security worker at a New Mexico military facility before he and his family disappeared.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7305553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7305553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image actually shows a scene from the 2000 film \u201cThe Sixth Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A conspiracy theory posits that aliens and government authorities collaborate to experiment on humans at a secret underground installation in New Mexico\u2019s Rio Arriba County known as Dulce Base, according to New Zealand news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/8414792\/Ten-places-you-ll-never-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuff<\/a>. Rumors of the alleged base\u2019s existence have circulated for decades, the Albuquerque-based news outlet KRQE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krqe.com\/news\/new-mexico-town-claims-multiple-ufo-sightings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows what appears to be humanoid creatures suspended in hanging bags. Text in the image states, \u201cWhile working as a security office (<em>sic<\/em>)&nbsp;at Dulce Base, New Mexico, Thomas Costello leaked this image to the public. After this photo was leaked, Thomas and his family were missing and presumed dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo does not, however, show a leaked image from a military facility. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PWBPwed_aoA\">humanoid figures<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u_vOeOJTT2I\">scenes<\/a> from the science fiction movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/6th-Day-Andrea-Libman\/dp\/B000O1BEYG\">The 6th Day<\/a>,\u201d starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. IMDb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0216216\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes<\/a> the movie as being about a man who \u201cmeets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A search of the Defense Department\u2019s website turned up <a href=\"https:\/\/search.usa.gov\/search?query=Dulce&amp;affiliate=defensegov&amp;utf8=%26%23x2713%3B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no mention<\/a> of a military base in Dulce, New Mexico. Costello\u2019s name also does not appear on the FBI\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/kidnap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public list<\/a> of missing people. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/09\/17\/fact-check-david-petraeus-author-essay-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Gen. David Petraeus Author This Essay About The Military?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image with the same text has been circulating online since at <a href=\"https:\/\/ifunny.co\/picture\/dulce-base-security-officer-thomas-costello-leaked-this-image-to-YAuhvrXC4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">least 2016<\/a>, when it was posted on the meme-sharing website iFunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook purportedly shows a photo leaked by a security worker at a New Mexico military facility before he and his family disappeared.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The image actually &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}