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Incident. were seen. picture. 188 REVELATIONS a perfectly explainable, albeit classified experiment, and turned it into a platform for speculation about aliens among us and secret pacts between them and the U.S. government. Who were the authors of this interesting piece of deliberate confu- sion published ten years ago under the title The Philadelphia Experi- ment? None other than Charles Berlitz and William Moore, the two men who would again collaborate a few years later in a similar work of disinformation, the work that gave UFO research a sinister "spin" into the realm of alien bases and secret autopsies, a book called The Roswell Note the contradictions here. If the Navy had contacted live aliens in Philadelphia in 1943, why would the Roswell crash of four years later come as such a surprise? And why should Moore consider it as the first instance when the U.S. military was faced with the alleged humanoids? The story makes no sense, just as it makes no sense that none of the alleged witnesses of the Roswell crash has ever mentioned smell in connection with the little corpses. Just as it makes no sense that commu- nication with the alleged extraterrestrial aliens should have been estab- lished so easily and almost, one might say, so casually that the USA could have entered into a technological pact with them... . What we have here is another exercise in misdirection and in the promotion of an absurd belief system. Physical events of undeniable reality—like the Roswell crash and the Philadelphia radar test—are used as convenient points of entry to splice a manufactured story into the mind of an unsuspecting public. Few people will stop to consider the contradictions, to question the motives. There is nothing in my own correspondence with Carlos Allende to suggest that the experiments were anything but a radar shielding test, nothing to suggest that it had anything to do with UFOs, or that aliens About 1983 Carlos Allende showed up in Boulder. My friend Linda Strand, a science writer, managed to interview him and even took his Her recollection of the man she met that day at a student hangout called Herbie's Deli is of an odd character who made off-the-wall state-