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179 THE COBWEB CORRELATION scientist had been persuaded by Bill Moore—acting, as he has now disclosed, under orders of the Air Force Office of Special Investiga- tions—that the aliens routinely abducted human beings. He believed the extraterrestrials took them to an underground facility in Dulce where they suffered various indignities. Bill Cooper and Bill English volunteered their own recollections of alleged secret documents that supported this thesis. I am not questioning the good faith of their testimony. The documents in question may have been nothing more than fabrications designed by their superiors to test their abilities to screen disinformation; both of them had clerical functions in an intelli- gence organization at the time. It would have only been natural to test their degree of gullibility and their analytical skill by thrusting under their noses a document that mixed some elements of reality with some preposterous claims, as any good piece of disinformation art would. If that was the case, they certainly did not pass the test. Bill English, in fact, was dismissed from his intelligence job shortly after the incident, a dismissal that is now offered by the believers as further proof that the information was genuine! It is as if a hundred spiders had been weaving a web out of human folly, a web in which the minds of many students of the mystery became ensnared and glued. Once we recognize the existence of this cobweb correlation among the various delusions that hide the real mystery of UFOs, we can tear it apart and scatter away all the ugly insects that have been busy weaving it in the darkness. Frivolous or important as it might be, there must have been a motive behind the hoaxes and the simulations I have tried to expose in this book. Only by better understanding this motive can we go on, as good detectives should, toward a solution of our problem.