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HANGAR 18 31 and it is reached through Gate 5. I gave my name to the guard and was immediately escorted into Dr. Miller's office, a windowless, paneled room with a portrait of General Patton and various impressive tes- timonials on the walls. Dr. Miller wore a black suit, a shiny white shirt, a bright red tie, a bright red handkerchief, and bright red socks. He closed the door to his office, sat in an armchair in front of me and smiled. "How can I help you?" he asked. This astonished me since he knew perfectly well that our meeting had been arranged as a follow-up to his discussion with Hynek. All right, I thought, so we are here to play games. I told him that I was an associate of Dr. Hynek, that I had a longstanding interest in UFOs going back to the 1954 wave of sightings in France, and that I under- stood he had had a personal experience with unidentified objects. He told me he was perfectly familiar with my books and with my background. He himself held two doctoral degrees, one in political science from Heidelberg University in Germany, the other, interest- ingly enough, in theology. He had indeed experienced several sightings over the years. The first one took place at White Sands in 1956. While filming a rocket launch he was suddenly aware of something above him and to the left. He looked up and saw a very large circular object hovering over the base. A jeep arrived at high speed. An officer came out, confiscated all the film, and told all personnel present that what they had seen must not be discussed. "They [the UFOs] must have been observing our technology," Dr. Miller said to me. The second sighting took place about 1980, in the desert eighty miles away from Mojave. He had driven there alone to hunt and to take some pictures when he suddenly heard a whirring sound and saw an object which, however, was not located in the same place as the sound. "It was as if it was able to project the sound to a different place," he said in answer to my questions. The craft was curved and it landed on four pods, about six feet in length and six inches wide. After a while a ramp was lowered. A man approached the opening. He wore a small mask over his nose and a