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confusion? the victims. 165 SPECIAL EFFECTS public think? What means could be used to increase, or dispel, the Last, but not least, the military might even use such devices to find out if its own scientists are capable of differentiating between real and simulated UFOs. Just in case real UFOs do exist . . . The above items all relate to tactical reasons for the simulation of UFOs in an operational context, as may have been the case in Bentwa- ters. Beyond all this the upper echelon of the military in various coun- tries may have a more important strategic objective. That objective could explain not only such local exercises as Pontoise, UMMO, and Bentwaters, but also the systematic disinformation games such as Ma- jestic 12, the games of which people like agent Doty and UFO re- searcher Bill Moore were the willing conduits, and of which men like Dr. Bennewitz, John Lear, Bill Cooper, and Bill English may have been Once we have entered this maze, there is no turning back. We can only go deeper into the darkness, accumulating new data with the uneasy knowledge that much of what we find is distorted and perhaps deliberately biased to confuse us into an irreversible belief in extraterres- trials. The only people who could clear up the confusion are the ufolo- gists themselves. They are the ones with the data, who could notice and expose the glaring discrepancies between the real UFO phenomenon and the manufactured simulations. But the community of UFO re- search has some problems of its own. COVER-UPS AND BLIND ALLEYS The UFO shelf at your local bookstore today bends under the weight of books that claim to expose the cover-up of the phenomenon by the government. And well it should. There is no question that the Air Force has tried to push the whole business under the rug from the beginning. It has lied, ridiculed witnesses, and even denied before Congress that some of the most convincing cases had been reported by its own officers.