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CONCLUSION graphs?) 235 It could well be that the same kind of fanaticism that leads people to join neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, or survivalist movements in the Ameri- can southwest also induces them to believe in the imminent arrival of aliens from the sky. It could be that those groups who are convinced that government secrecy is abused in order to hide political truths from the public also believe that the reality of UFOs has been kept from us: this is a belief that has some root in reality. But it could also be that some intelligence agency, or some rogue group within such an agency, has been bending the latent paranoia of some extremist political move- ments to its own ends, just as many cults from Jim Jones's Peoples' Temple to UMMO may have served as useful, convenient test beds for covert psychological experiments. Even those intrepid researchers who spend their time suing the U.S. Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act, and clamoring for immediate congressional hearings on UFOs, have not dared investigate these murky and dangerous, yet highly relevant connections. When reviewing the social organization and the political systems of our alleged visitors, as it can be derived from the voluminous texts that describe such otherworldly civilizations as UMMO or ERRA, it is difficult not to be struck by the paramilitary structures they involve. Misery and hunger have long been eliminated on such worlds, claim the true believers. But their society resembles more closely Adolf Hitler's ideal Reich than a modern democracy. In Billy Meier's Pleiades, minor moral transgressions are punished by permanent exile. (By the way, who is putting up the money for the dissemination of Meier's glossy photo- It is always a matter of great wonder to me that the gentle adepts of the New Age are always the first to enroll under the banner of such movements whose vision of the future is basically a fascistic one. Other questions do remain, no matter how tirelessly we try to sweep them under the rug. Never mind the fact that the anonymity of such birds as Condor, Falcon, and the others is a joke, since the first people to know their identity would naturally be their own employers in Washington if they were real intelligence officers.