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cover! result. bers... He also offered to sell me "the long suppressed annottated [sic] version of Proffessor [sic] Morris K. Jessup's book" with the annotations printed in red ink. "The book has been continually marked on since and now contains a wealth of information and corroboration not available to any 184 REVELATIONS following the paperback publication of Anatomy of a Phenomenon. There is a pattern here: Allende had waited until The Case for the UFO came out in an inexpensive mass edition to contact Morris Jessup. Mr. Allen is simply not the sort of person who buys UFO books in hard- In his first postcard—a night view of "the beautiful Sanger Harris Department Store in Dallas, Texas"—he informed me that for the mere sum of $750 I could purchase his instructions on "how to build your own flying saucer." He also wrote that his deductions, research, and other papers accumulated over the last nineteen years "have arrived safely into the USA from old Mexico with me." Oddly enough, although the card was posted from Dallas, Carl Allen gave a return address in Minneapolis. The style was identical to that of the letters to Jessup, down to the bizarre underlinings and the empha- sized passages in bold capital letters. We corresponded during 1967 and 1968, and I accumulated many pages in Allen's clear, closely-spaced handwriting, including one as- tounding letter of fifteen pages about the Navy's experiments and their implications for Einstein's physics. He had observed a destroyer escort that was heavily instrumented; a field was created, and something like an explosion took place. Several men suffered long-term injuries as a In one of his first letters—he wrote to me from Monterrey, Mexico, in October 1967—Allende described to me his observations of the Philadelphia Experiment and its medical impact: After this tremendous explosion my hair came out in bunches in my comb and I observed same result in other Deck -crew mem- other person in these United States . . . the book is truly the only copy