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210 REVELATIONS this request with a letter, but the letter never arrived. Had it been intercepted by the government? "I'm afraid I've placed his life in jeopardy," the journalist said, obviously terrified. He told me what he knew about his shadowy informant. Without going into much detail—I certainly would not want to be responsible for anyone being targeted by a government hit team from Washing- ton!—let us say that the man was employed at a large Air Force base in California, which he claimed to be heavily staffed by personnel from Majestic 12 and where flying saucers were regularly observed. American jets would pick them up over the North Pole and accompany them to Area 51 in Nevada. There were other things going on, too horrible to describe, as usual. The man's phone was closely monitored, of course, and a suspicious car was often parked in front of his house. When I started asking a few detailed questions about this story, which sounded fascinating at first, 1 learned that our informant actually knew the fellow who monitored his phone. His code name was Spider- man. They met in a bar after Spiderman retired, and they exchanged some friendly words: "You're a good man," said Spiderman. "We're sure glad you're with the outfit. Just make sure you never talk to the media." Such a conversation is about as likely as Robert Lazar's claims of reverse-engineering antigravity drives with a voltmeter. When my jour- nalist friend added that his mysterious contact kept hearing clicks on his phone, and when I discovered the man had in fact been talking to at least four other people with direct links to the media or to UFO groups in California, I told him he could go home and sleep soundly, without worrying that his source would be assassinated very soon on the basis of a mere missing letter. "None of this makes any sense," I told him. "Given today's technol- ogy, someone would have to deliberately put clicks on your line when they were tapping it for you to hear it. It's been a long time since a specialist has had to actually touch a telephone circuit in order to listen to it. As for your informant, it is inconceivable that he would work at