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revelations. 212 REVELATIONS wanted to throw UFO researchers off the track by sending them on another idle chase after a bunch of harmless technocrats. The real secret group must have been in existence since the Forties. I personally suspect it was probably reorganized in the early Fifties and has been in continuous operation ever since. Why do I know this? Simply because I have met enough trustworthy individuals who have come to me with stories when photographs were confiscated, when witnesses were told by military officers that they should forget whatever they had seen in the sky. In one case a South American engineer was approached by two men from the local U.S. Embassy after his close encounter was briefly men- tioned in a newspaper. The man, whom I interviewed at great length when I met him in Costa Rica, gave me the details of his involvement with an American UFO investigation group that flew him to the Wash- ington area. The specific account he gave me—the description of the house, the surroundings, the interrogation techniques, the interaction among the various specialists—could not have been invented or known to him. This happened in 1974, many years before the alleged Pentagon meeting chaired by Colonel Phillips, a meeting whose members seem to have known next to nothing about the subject, its background, its history, and the alternatives to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The Colonel Phillips secret group is not the real secret group, it is only the latest carrot dangled in front of a public always eager for new In July 1990 six American soldiers stationed in Germany as part of an intelligence unit left their post and disappeared. They were found in Gulf Breeze, Florida, where they expected flying saucers to come and pick them up. Armaggedon was imminent, they said, and Jesus would come back in a UFO to initiate the rapture. Their own mission was said to be the killing of the Antichrist. Apparently the soldiers also believed that the UFOs would take them to a secret saucer base in New Mexico. ... There is clearly an endless supply of such stories, and they are always volunteered to people who are prone to believing them but have no ability to check them. Is that the way a real Deep Throat would