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get violent." copies. In the first two volumes of this Alien Contact trilogy (Dimensions and Confrontations), | have shown that unidentified flying objects do exist. They are astounding physical anomalies that have the ability to affect REVELATIONS physicist and as a consultant to Los Alamos has evaporated. Lazar himself has some nasty things to say about other so-called whistleblowers, notably Bill Cooper. "I hate to call someone a psycho- path, but he really acts crazy," Lazar said in an interview with ufologist Don Ecker (UFO Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1990, p. 15). "He seems to believe a lot of what he says to the point he will fight about it and Cooper, on the other hand, says that most ufologists are fools and fail to properly investigate his claims. "They just sit around and call each other names," an observation not altogether wrong. Cooper has pro- duced a four-hour videotape lecture filled with unproven, terrifying allegations. This tape is being disseminated throughout the U.S. New Age groups in a way designed to increase the climate of rampant paranoia that surrounds the subject. People are asked to make copies for their friends, without revealing where they obtained their own As for Paul Bennewitz, who was kind enough to receive me at his home in New Mexico and to show me his data at length, he has no wish to discuss any of his observations with the ufologists, and I will honor his desire to remain behind the scenes. Few people today continue to believe that the revelations of John Lear and his associates about live aliens in the desert are based on reality, and accordingly many have turned away from UFO research altogether. Perhaps that diversion was the purpose of the whole opera- tion. Yet those who do believe in such tales have no lack of new evidence to keep them occupied. As soon as one group of puppets has left the stage, another group pops up behind the bushes to tell an even more exciting story, as I have shown at the end of Chapter Eight. A TEMPLATE FOR EXPERIENCE