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214 expressing skepticism and walking away from the group grumbling about how I was beginning to think that such communications were a lot of nonsense. Exactly four minutes later, to the second, two metallic disks flew over Giant Rock heading south at about 90 to 100 mph. They each displayed a brilliant rotating light centered on the bottom hull. They were each about twenty feet in diameter and had smooth polished finishes. I estimated that they were no more than 200 feet above us as they passed over and headed down the runway. By the time they reached the end of the runway in the direction of Goat Mountain, they looked to be no more than ten feet off the ground, and executed a right-angled turn twice, then flew silently back over our heads, heading north to rendezvous with their mother ship. I was astonished by this whole display. What I saw were definitely flying machines, and their appearance was forecast in advance. In April 1976 I attended another spacecraft convention in Tonopah, Arizona. This time Bob showed me a typed message at one o' clock in the afternoon that stated that a fly-over would take place that night at 10:30 PM. Bob started to receive his Tensor communication shortly after 10:15 and, as if on cue, an unidentified blue light appeared south of Ursa Major traveling slowly and at high altitude. A second blue light appeared traveling south and headed on a collision course with the first light. They came within kissing contact and abruptly stopped and hovered for several minutes before fading out. I could see both lights clearly attached to dark shapes through 7x50 binoculars. A faint blue cone of light appeared to descend from the objects to a point over Bob's head! Was this the Tensor Beam? There were fifty or more witnesses who saw this event including my ex- wife, her daughter, and my friend, John Maxfield. Having witnessed such demonstrations as the one in Tonopah, I have come away convinced of the validity of some of the contactee's experiences, but this is not to obscure the fact that I and others still harbored doubts about the origins of these visitors, their motivations, and the validity of their statements to the contactees. One man who is very skeptical, yet fascinated with the contactee era is Jerome Clark who wrote a monthly column on UFOs for FATE magazine. He considers that contactees such as the well-known George Adamski were charlatans. He considers that the evidence against the early contactees was overwhelming and that Adamski and other contactees were caught telling falsehoods on more than one occasion. The remarkably clear photos that Adamski took of Venusian scout ships were fakes. Some believe that Adamski built models and others feel that he dressed up some common piece of apparatus such as a chicken brooder to look like a flying saucer, this despite eyewitness claims that craft resembling the Venusian scout ship were seen in different parts of the world. Tales of the so-called Space Brothers were no more than contrived fantasies to put one over on the unsuspecting public. Isabel Davis who, in 1957, was an officer of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, once wrote a scathing critique of the contactee's claims entitled, "Meet the Extraterrestrials." One criticism that she levels at the spacemen in the contactee's stories is that they never provide unequivocal proof. And, of course, they claim to originate from planets that scientists know harbor conditions hostile to any kind of life, much less humanoid life. The main criticism of Adamski's claims is that his visitors claimed to have come from Venus, Mars, and Saturn. The early contactees described meeting human extraterrestrials wherever their point of origin. These human visitors had very symmetrical features; their skin was clear and translucent; their fingers were more flexible than ours; and their irises had different hues and colors than those seen on earth. They are never reported to be fat, thin, or ugly. Their hair, teeth, nails, and eyes were all without defect. I'ts as if they perfected control over their genetic breeding and produced healthier and longer living specimens than terrestrial humans. Once in 1960, a young contactee named Paul took a photo out of his wallet allegedly showing a picture of a woman from another planet. She appeared to fit the description given by many contactees. Her eyes were the most electric blue I had ever seen. One of the most affective of