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215 GIANTS IN THE PARK saw the UFO land and three creatures, similar to humans, emerge, accompanied by a small robot. "The aliens were three or four meters tall (ten to thirteen feet), but with very small heads. They walked near the ball or disk and then disappeared inside." The report also mentioned that scientists, including professor Gen- tikh Silanov, Director of the Geophysical Laboratory in Voronezh, a city located three hundred miles southeast of Moscow, was studying the case, and that the path followed by the aliens had been ascertained "through the use of biolocation." The people who had seen the aliens "were overwhelmed by a fear which lasted for several days." When the report appeared in the New York Times of October 9, the word biolocation had been garbled by the prestigious newspaper into bilocation, which made no sense whatsoever. The editors had failed to realize that biolocation was a special term in Soviet psychotronic litera- ture that designates dowsing, or radiesthesia, the detection of hidden mineral, water, or living entities by paranormal means. Dowsers often use a pendulum or a stick for such work. The Russians seemed to be saying that they had a team of official scientists studying UFOs using the techniques of parapsychology, but the reputedly smart and aggressive American press, led by the New York Times, missed the real story. In the following days the situation became even more garbled, cour- tesy of the Western media. Instead of investigating and clarifying the original claim, radio and television stations across the U.S. consulted experts whose sole expertise consisted in turning the sighting into a joke. Thus, Paul Kurtz, chairman of a Committee of Skeptics, commented that the reports were "largely uncorroborated." On San Francisco radio station KCBS Kurtz openly mocked the lack of hard evidence, pointing out that two strange rocks reportedly found by the Russians at the site sounded to him like simple pieces of outer- space excrementa. In other words, alien shit. Another expert pointed out that if such an event had actually happened, Gorbachev would have announced it personally, because it would have been too important to