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events. 203 THE MYSTERY LINGERS APEN who were eager to find an intermediary "to get some secret information out." Sound familiar? Manuscripts were sent anonymously to various researchers, with a request that they be forwarded to various magazines for possible publi- cation. The British UFO researchers, who are either smarter or simply more cynical than their American counterparts, smelled a rat and de- clined to cooperate. This failure to co-opt the researchers into the hoax did not stop APEN. Fake sighting information was sent to Randies and others, genuine witnesses were given an APEN number to call, and an effort was even made to send the police into an investigation of nonexisting When a serious inquiry was made to uncover the source of the letters, the paper used by APEN was traced through its watermarks and the style of printing. The trail led to Sansome Design, the printer of the respected Flying Saucer Review] Clearly the perpetrators of the hoax had attempted to create total confusion and to provoke hatred and suspicion among British researchers. The APEN operation seems to have stopped in 1978 or 1979. A game is being played. But the cards are printed with invisible ink; the table is set at the center of a maze of mirrors; and the players we are expecting may never have existed; they may be dead, or, like the late Mr. Teesdale whose existence is so clearly demonstrated by the tangible nature of his inheritance, they may be dead men who have never existed except in the imagination of their solicitors. THE MEETING IN LAS VEGAS I have told the story of Billy Meier and the even more bizarre stories of Teesdale and APEN to dispel any notion the reader might still have that "this is not really happening" or that "it is entirely within people's imaginations," a product of the weirder side of human consciousness,