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Giants in the Park he phone rang in my home in San Francisco on October 8, 1989, a quiet Sunday afternoon. A friend from New York, a journalist, was calling me about an extraordinary dispatch from the Associated 214 Press that had just come across on her teletype. "The New York Times will be running this tomorrow on the front page," she said. "It comes from Tass through the office of Associated Press in Moscow. It's a landing report from Russia that happened sometime between September twenty-first and October second. I thought you should see it right away." A few minutes later the full text appeared on my facsimile machine. It described some extraordinary events in the Soviet Union. "Scientists have confirmed that an unidentified flying object recently landed in the Russian city of Voronezh," the report went. "They have also located the landing site and found traces of aliens who made a short promenade about the park." The Tass report went on with the assertion that a large shining ball or disk had been seen hovering over the park by several residents. They