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CLAIMS alien pilots. 17 ALIEN RETRIEVALS who were preparing to film a real movie of an acceleration test that same angry after this exercise in which sensational information had first been dangled then withdrawn at the last minute by the Air Force, in a classic pattern of manipulation. After all, what good did it do to suggest that such a scene might happen in the future, or might already have hap- pened, if real footage actually existed? This was not a case of one group wanting to release the film and another one holding on to it. In recent conversations I have learned that the footage exists and is not even classified. It would seem that anyone could leak it out without severe penalties, especially if it is credibly deniable as simple theatrical footage. Clearly, this is a case of the Air Force playing games. The John MacArthur Foundation put up the funds for the Sandler documentary. Curiously, according to Bob Emenegger, the Foundation requested at the last moment not to be listed in the credits, and it gave no explanation for this action. COVER-UP In the last few years several sensational television programs, including a 1989 documentary distributed by Seligman Productions and entitled Cover-Up, have presented alleged evidence of the infiltration of extra- terrestrial aliens on earth. The government, claimed the producers of these shows, is holding secret crashed saucers and the bodies of their What was once the province of a few isolated zealots or the cate- chism of weird occult groups, has now become an influential subculture with its own magazines, congresses, and pilgrimages. This subculture exploits the genuine experiences of thousands of persons who have been baffled by UFO sightings, providing answers out of its own fantasies. It is able to channel its imagery to the media and to influence the general public in powerful ways. What began as a series of delusions