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154 Command. Of course, a setup was always a possibility, so we had backup ways of checking out whether the Russians were being truthful. But since we were both armed to the teeth andWWIII was just ticking away, it was a logical step in the right direction. That idea developed into the hotline between the president of the US and the soviet premier, following the Cuban Missle Crisis. Well, by the time I arrived in 1963, everybody had been talking about the study and I had heard the rumours, seen the blips on radar, witnessed the commotions and some of us occasionally even talked about the possibilities. But nothing really prepared me for what I started to read in the early morning hours one night in January 1964. It was about 2:00 a.m. and a relatively quiet night when the SCHOC controller on duty went into the vault and came out with this huge document. 'Take a look at this,’ he said. The title was simply: ASSESSMENT: AN EVALUATION OF A POSSIBLE MILITARY THREAT TO ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE. It wasnumbered, #3, stamped COSMIC TOP SECRET, had eight inches worth of appendices, dozens of photographs and had been signed into the vault by German colonel Heinz Berger, SHOC's head of security: I quickly learned that it was based on two and a half years of research, was funded by NATO money, and that only 15 copies were published -- in English, German, and French. Each one was numbered. All were classified and ordered to be kept under lock and key. Every time I got the chance, from then until I left, I would read a section or two in it. It was the most intriguing document I'd ever read. It was put together by military representatives of every NATO nation and also included contributions from some of the greatest scientific minds. These objects were violating all of our known laws of physics and the study team had gone to Cambridge, Oxfor, the Sorbonne, MIT and other major universities for input on chemistry, physics, atmospheric physics, biology, history, [psychology, and even theology, all of which were separate appendices. I read about theories on Einstein's sought after unified field theory, the high radiation at various landing sites and UFO reports that dated back to the Roman era and up to our own F105 pilots' sightings and encounters, and on and on. I had always been a skeptic, but this report, well...it concluded that this stuff was not science fiction. I read about contact encounnters. One incident that had just happened in 1963 involved a landing on a Danish farm. According to the report, the farmer went aboard with the two little beings and two more human looking men who spoke to him in Danish. The report included parts of his interrogation by government authorities and their conclusions that he was telling the truth. In another incident, according to the reports, a craft landed on an Italian airfield and offered to ) take an Italian sergeant fora ride. 1 He wet his pants--that's what it said--and was so ee Oe ee CO Dd Ps | Mn CS a a eo ek scared, he didn't go. The appendix that really got to me was titled 'Autopsies.' I saw pictures of a 30 meter disc that had crashed in Timmensdorfer, Germany, near the Baltic Sea in 1961. The British Army, according to the report, got there first and put up a perimeter. The craft had landed in very soft, loamy soil near the Russian border and so hadn't destructed, but one third of it was buried in. We and the Russians who also quickly showed up had both tracked it. Inside there were 12 small bodies. All dead. There were pictures of the bodies, which looked like the beings known as the 'grays,' being laid out and then put on stretchers and loaded into jeeps, and autopsy photos, too. Some of the little grays appeared to not be a reproductive capable species. The autopsy guys concluded, according to the report, that it looked as if they had been cut out of a cookie cutter -- clones with no alimentary tract. They did not ingest or process food as we know it, nor did it appear that they had any system for elimination. The craft itself was cut up like a pie into six pieces, put on lowboys and hauled off. Scuttlebutt was that it was given to the Americans and flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio. I looked at these picture and couldn't believe it. My skin got cold and I thought, My God. I had never really believed we were all alone in the universe, but this was hard to