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in question. 182 REVELATIONS George Hoover, who was Special Projects Officer. In 1957 Jessup was called to Washington to discuss the matter with them. When he saw the annotations, Morris Jessup was amazed at the variety and apparent familiarity with UFOs they displayed. They were filled with odd, scientific-sounding expressions like home ship, measure markers, vortices, and magnetic nets. And the Navy officers were obvi- ously fascinated with the whole thing. One passage in the annotations referred to a secret Navy experiment that had taken place in 1943, an experiment in which a ship was allegedly made to disappear! That was a remarkable coincidence. Jessup had seen such statements in other documents, namely a series of letters he had been receiving since the fall of 1955 from a man named Carl M. Allen or Carlos Miguel Allende, who wrote to him from Gainesville, Texas. Mr. Allen, or Allende, claimed to have witnessed the experiment Cooperating with the Navy's request, Jessup showed the letters to Commander Hoover. It is apparently at the instigation of Hoover and Sherby that the Varo Manufacturing Company of Garland, Texas, a high-tech firm heavily involved in military research, privately reprinted the annotated text of Jessup's book, with an introduction that contained several of Allende's letters. Allegedly, 127 copies were produced. When I became involved in American UFO research in the early Sixties, this Varo edition was regarded among collectors and amateurs as a treasure of the greatest rarity. Those who owned a copy kept it under lock and key as a librarian might keep an original Gutenberg Bible! The Varo document played the same role for UFO buffs in the Sixties as the MJ-12 documents and the Dulce papers played in the Eighties: it was supposed to contain the absolute final truth about the nature of flying saucers, their pilots, and even the secret of gravity. And it seemed to confirm the fact that there were high-level government scientists who were deeply involved in UFO research. The Allende revelations, complex and murky as they were, repre- sented a horrifying mystery to Morris Jessup. This bizarre correspon- dence soon became an obsession for him. In connection with a car accident and marital difficulties that plagued him at the time, the letters