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explanation. 221 GIANTS IN THE PARK not know the students in the other groups. We had them draw what they had seen independently." "What did they draw? To what extent were they in agreement?" The men pulled out a series of drawings, some of them by the children themselves, others based on their reports. "They drew some classically-shaped spheres and disks with four legs. The humanoid figures were very consistent in all the drawings. They did not have any neck. The head rested on the shoulders, like a target at a firing range." "Some of the reports I have read mentioned three eyes," I said. "Actually, some of the witnesses only spoke of two eyes, with some- thing else in the middle of the forehead. Others may have seen this third object as an eye." "What about the symbol itself?" "It was known to researchers in the area as early as 1984." "Then the UMMO story has circulated in Russia for a while?" The men looked at each other. Another researcher who attended our discussions, Boris Churinov from Moscow, raised his hand and said, "I have mentioned UMMO several years ago in one of my publications which circulated among researchers in Voronezh. It's not impossible that some of the witnesses could simply have picked up on it. They could have drawn the symbol on the side of the UFO in a naive attempt to give more credibility to their observation." The members of the Voronezh collective did not believe in this "The witnesses had never heard of UMMO," they assured us. But at this point we did not know whom to believe. The investigators had brought a videotape of the entire case. It showed the students, some of whom were very articulate teenagers, drawing what they had seen under strict instructions from the investiga- tors. It did seem to us that the reports were as independent as the conditions allowed. Did that mean that the Voronezh object actually exhibited the UMMO symbol? One of the drawings we saw even showed the very same symbol on the belt of two aliens.