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government. 26 REVELATIONS geles—examined five spacecraft that were under scientific investigation at Edwards. In a letter to Meade Layne, Gerald Light added that President Eisenhower himself had gone secretly to Edwards to view the disks and the alien bodies in person, and an official statement to the country was being prepared for the middle of May 1954. Checks into this story led nowhere. Light was a frequent "astral traveler," and he may have thought that he witnessed the happening during one of his remote viewing sessions. Yet this rumor is very interesting because it represented the first of many imminent releases of the truth about crashed flying saucers to be attributed again and again to the U.S. In their book, Berlitz and Moore added that fragments of the Ros- well wreckage were later gathered with the other material from Roswell inside a structure known as Building 18-A, Area B at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. That building became the legendary Hangar 18—to which many UFO books refer as the shelter of the ultimate secret, the place where our government is hiding crashed saucers and their little occupants. A movie by that title was eventually made in 1980 by director James Conway, with Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn in leading roles. Although Hangar 18 is meant to be serious and appropriately terrifying, bad casting and a very uneven script combine to make it one of the funniest flicks of the genre. I especially relish the scene in which govern- ment assassination experts are sent to kill the two astronauts who have discovered the proverbial Truth about flying saucers. The assassins enter a refinery where the astronauts steal a tanker truck and drive madly toward the exit. One of the men in black is heard ordering the other marksman, as they carefully aim their powerful rifles at the fleeing target, to blow out their tires. Surely there are better ways to stop a fully-loaded gasoline truck in the middle of a refinery than trying to hit the wheels. In the face of such careless incompetence on the part of the government agents, the truck naturally escapes! In May 1989, while attending a meeting of European UFO inves- tigators in Lyon, France, I heard freelance journalist Bill Moore de-