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Union. 18 REVELATIONS created by the unresolved problem of unidentified flying objects is evidently fulfilling a deeper social and spiritual need for millions of people. We may be witnessing here the birth of a powerful new myth, perhaps even the emergence of a new religion. Faced with this avalanche of conflicting rumors, Part One of this book is a skeptical survey of the alleged history of flying saucer "crashes" and the retrieval of aliens—dead or alive!—by the U.S. government. If we believe some retired and some active members of U.S. Intelli- gence, not only have we recovered crashed saucers, but the government of the United States is in league with hundreds of space aliens who are here on earth, working alongside our best scientists in underground cities and occasionally going out in their sophisticated spacecraft to abduct human beings. Such researchers as New York artist Budd Hop- kins and Temple University historian David Jacobs, who specialize in hypnotizing witnesses after UFO sightings, even believe that the pur- pose of the abductions is to procure ovulating earth females for the loathsome genetic experiments of the alien invaders, an idea that dates back to the 1958 sci-fi flick, / Married a Monster From Outer Space. According to some government scientists, like Dr. Bruce Maccabee, the higher echelons of the administration in Washington are so con- cerned about the potential menace posed by the aliens that they have designed a complex technological response—the so-called Star Wars system—not to aim its lasers and its particle beams at targets on earth, as the public has been told, but to zap possible invaders from above! If we believe many vocal researchers in the mainstream of today's UFO research, the American taxpayer is actually subsidizing the development of a network of weapons destined to protect the earth itself against the UFOs, under cover of SDI and with the full cooperation of the Soviet This is a fantastic and complex belief, a piece of twentieth century mythology elaborated in successive layers to the point of extreme aber- ration. Yet it claims the fascination and the loyalty of thousands of believers, some of whom, as you will now read, do occupy responsible