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groups. In Chapter Four we will delve into the mystery of UMMO, a complex series of revelations by a team of alleged extraterrestrials in Spain. Building on the work of several Spanish and French researchers, I have traced their influence all the way to Argentina. Chapter Five covers one of the most puzzling episodes in the entire history of UFOs, the abduction of a young man named Franck Fon- taine by strange luminous spheres in Pontoise. Every policeman in France looked for Fontaine for a week. When he reappeared, he was interrogated by law enforcement officials, studied by an official scientific group, and hypnotized by civilian experts who sought to reveal insights into the designs of the visitors. The case was closed when his associates confessed to a hoax. Yet the hoax itself explains none of the facts in the file Finally, Chapter Six describes the 1980 case of the landing at Ren- dlesham Forest near Bentwaters Air Force Base in England, an episode that is supported by American and British Air Force documents. The Bentwaters case points to the possibility that military groups engaged in psychological warfare have actually mastered the art of simulating close encounters and have designed exercises involving confrontations with nonlethal weapon platforms disguised as unidentified flying ob- jects. 89 THE HALL OF MIRRORS deliberate exploitation of the belief in extraterrestrials by human