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168 REVELATIONS control tower at Okinawa had to go to that list of addressees. The machine was programmed that way, and it was up to the addressees to decide if they wanted to use the message, file it, or throw it away. Thirty years later some UFO group will sue the NSA under FOIA and, after much argument in court, it will uncover the amazing fact that Mrs. Brown once saw a light somewhere in Japan. By then, of course, the report will have acquired very special significance. It will glow in the aura of privileged information, extirpated from the bowels of our most secret agency. The sad reality is that the report, classified or not, is a piece of garbage. Although I admire the patience of researchers of UFO history who are assembling the pieces of the official reaction to the phenomenon, I am constantly amazed at their naivete. This childish attitude reaches a peak when it comes to the belief in crashed saucers and little aliens. Most ufologists have become so frustrated after years of difficult research, not to mention the ridicule from friends, colleagues, and relatives, that they have a deeply rooted need for vindication. This need is so strong as to exceed even their stated respect for the truth and the basic standards of validation of elementary facts. Thus the claims for the existence of MJ-12 have been immediately accepted by many otherwise sane researchers, and several good people I know have dropped everything to ponder the meaning of the anatomi- cal details in some alien pictures that were simply constructed by com- puter in Hollywood for the Seligman Cover-Up documentary, also known as the Strawberry Ice-Cream Show. The latest revelations of Lear, Cooper, or Lear's alleged informant, Robert Lazar, about flying saucers at Area 51 have become the major topic of debate at meetings of UFO researchers, while actual UFO sightings, which happen by the dozen every month, go on without anyone seriously studying them or even bothering to go look at the physical traces! Someone is using the believers' eagerness to know the horrible truth about UFOs. Someone has manufactured a story of little aliens, just as someone has invented UMMO and exploited Pontoise. As we will see