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223 GIANTS IN THE PARK "Biolocation is the detection of the bioenergetic field and its applica- tion to the analysis of terrain, including the geology. A member of our group, Professor Silanov, has wide experience with this technique from his days searching for minerals in Siberia. It's a technique based on what you call dowsing. He also measured the magnetic field and the magnetic capacity of the soil at the landing site. All these measurements were consistent—there was no increase in temperature at the spot, but radio- activity had doubled. The grass was flattened. The four main indenta- tions were three to four centimeters deep." "What about the radars in the area?" "They did not detect anything," said Mosolov. "But perhaps these objects are invisible to radar under certain conditions." We thanked the members of the Voronezh collective, who had traveled ten hours by train to meet us in Moscow. As far as we could tell, the case was closed. But the next evening, as we were having a quiet dinner with a small group of researchers at the home of Professor Azhazha, the phone rang and our host excused himself. "It was a call from Voronezh," he said as he came back to the table. "They have just had another sighting. An object hovered over the nuclear power plant and sent a beam toward the ground. The beam has burned the asphalt." I knew that there would still be smart people in the West who would continue to claim that the phenomena could not have happened, be- cause if they had, all their preconceived ideas about the world would have to undergo a painful readjustment. It would be reassuring to hypothesize that someone has been flying oval balloons over the Russian countryside with the UMMO symbol prominently painted on the side. After all, if the UMMO cult in Spain is the result of a psychological manipulation, anyone can play the game, in any country. But that hypothesis failed to explain all the other sightings at Voronezh. We came back from these conversations with a new appreciation for the complexity of the whole problem. Over the following days, Martine Castello and I met with members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, with cosmonaut Valentin Zudov, who directs the training of Soviet teams for space flight, and I debated