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CONCLUSION 233 But wait! Perhaps there is such a superhuman agency, a magical and easy solution to our problems: those unidentified flying objects that people have glimpsed in increasing numbers since World War II may be ready to help. Perhaps the aliens are here, with their cosmic powers, their unlimited skills. The ufologists tell us that these aliens are so strange that they need to abduct, poke, scrape, and rape our people to fulfill their own bizarre fin de siecle appetites. Yet they are so close to us that they have no trouble, no trouble at all, communicating with our scientists in the secret tunnels under New Mexico. From that belief it is only a short logical jump to the idea that the U.S. military has secretly cracked the secret of their propulsion. Robert Lazar, who claims to be a physicist working on such a classified project when he does not operate a bordello in Nevada, told me he was con- vinced the craft used an antimatter engine powered by something he calls element 115. His claims sound almost reasonable. Unfortunately, we are told, this happy solution to all our troubles has been kept from us by those evil government agents who stamp every- thing top secret. They have hidden away the wonderful saucers in hangars as secure as the locked laboratories where car manufacturers keep next year's revolutionary model, with its shiny chrome and im- proved engine. And the same well-intentioned researchers tell us that we, the people, must demand an end to this absurd secrecy. Where can we turn to know the complete truth, if not to those few brave, heroic whistleblower like Condor and Falcon who have dared to reveal these horrible truths? We must trust them and believe what they tell us, but of course we cannot meet them face to face, we cannot be allowed to know their true names. They have to speak to us from behind a screen, because their employers in Washington would surely kill them if they came into the light... . Such is the incredible conglomeration of lies and stupidity many ufologists and much of the public have swallowed in the last few years. To even question that the aliens have been captured and their craft studied by the United States government is a faux pas of gigantic proportions among UFO believers. My plain, logical questions on this