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less to me. THE UFO's." This attempt to convince me that Jessup had employed "a sly and left-handed bit of jocularly inclined phrasing" showed Allende to be 185 DEATH OF AN ASTRONOMER left and is said to be 'the book that killed Einstein' (so hard was its psychological blow on the good & gentle Einstein)." Carlos Allende, who showed himself as a persistent promoter, re- duced the price of this valuable document from his initial demand of $6000 to a paltry $1950, representing fifty dollars for every month of research: "I need the money for an operation in cardiac area." The letter closed with the revelation that the Gypsies were related to UFO landings in Assyrian times. Over the next few months Carlos Allende and I played a hide-and- seek game with each other, as he tried every trick to sell me his valuable document. I wrote to him that I could not consider paying very much for a copy of Jessup's book, annotated or not: Although he did much pioneering work in gathering reliable UFO observations, his hypothesis that the source of the UFOs is the neutral point of the system Sun-Earth-Moon appears quite worth- I invited Allende to tell me what it was Jessup actually meant. My mysterious correspondent answered, not without humor: Having returned to America and secured a pair of reading glasses, I now am able to see, better, your ENTIRE message herein. Proff. Morris K. Jessup spoke an East Coast dialect of English as do, also, I myself. "The MOON" in the general East Coast dialect means "ANYWHERE," "NOWHERE" and "The NEUTRAL" is pretty well "IN THE MIDDLE" ... So in translation it very strongly seems that Proff. Jessup was attempting a sly bit of a joke because the translation comes out—UFOs come from "the MID- DLE OF NOWHERE" ... in short, our quixotic and highly inventive and imaginative proffessor [sic] ... is saying (it seems) "| DON'T KNOW FROM WHENCE COME