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hearing it. I watched it, saw it, observed its birth, growth, action and reaction upon the vehicle to which the super-field was being applied; I smelted it, and as smell is part of the taste bud system, my mouth 186 REVELATIONS something of a philologist and joker himself, a man who was quite capable of twisting words to derive a personal benefit from his ability to convince or intrigue others. I felt I was corresponding with a con man, and I nearly dismissed the whole thing, but in his very next letter Carl Allen became quite specific. He told me I must find out as much as possible about a ship called the SS Maylay and its voyage of late May and early June of 1947, during which, according to Allende, "it was nearly capsized by a kilo- tomic [sic] explosion ... it is the only ship to have survived the explosion of a UFO. It is the only ship to have had holes (tiny ones) burnt through its metal plates by a UFO of about 1600 feet diameter ... It was covered, next day, by the so-called Angel Hair. 1 ought to know, I was a crew member, steering the ship at the time." When the Coast Guard was consulted in an attempt to locate rec- ords about the Maylay it found no trace of such a merchant ship in a 1968 listing. The Marine Documents Branch referred us to the Bureau of Customs in New York, where our search died for lack of information. If any of my readers has additional data about the ship and its where- abouts during the indicated period, I would be most interested in THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT In his longest and most interesting letter, which he began in Colonia Roma, Mexico, and mailed from Minneapolis, Carlos Allende wrote that he still wanted to sell his book to a scientist, but never to a "nonphysical scientist." He reiterated the statement that he had witnessed a tremendous experiment in force-field physics directed by Albert Einstein in person: