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being heard. selves." REVELATIONS cosmos," he said. He told me flatly that several human civilizations, notably Atlantis and Lemuria, had destroyed themselves in the past, and that the UFO beings were trying to warn us not to repeat such mistakes. Government secrecy, unfortunately, was preventing the message from "It should be fairly simple for the UFOs to circumvent such petty human secrecy," I pointed out. "All they have to do is show them- Scott replied without a moment of hesitation. "They are probably bound by ethical principles not to interfere with our free will. They are waiting to be invited by us." This argument made no sense, of course. The mere fact of causing thousands of UFO sightings to happen—if such beings are in fact responsible for it—already creates a major interference in our culture. Witness the hundreds of books, films, magazines, and television shows that have been inspired by this intrusion. Scott said he believed strongly in the survival of the soul, thus the destruction of an entire continent might not be regarded as an irrepara- ble disaster by a higher race. Such an argument is very dangerous since it can easily be twisted to justify genocide: if we follow this slippery concept, perhaps Hitler's millions of innocent victims have already been happily reincarnated, and thank the Fuhrer every day in their prayers. I came away from Norton Air Force Base unimpressed with what I had seen and heard. There was no high technology at DAVA. On the contrary, the building appeared as a backwater government service facility filled with old film machines that had been phased out of Hollywood editing rooms many years before. Scott and Miller were two friendly contactees who were trying to validate their own beliefs, I later told Hynek. But there was no indication that they actually knew of any unreleased evidence, or that they would have the clout to get it released if it did exist. Both men were political appointees. (Miller said he had once served as the first Hollywood agent of a promising actor named Ronald Reagan.) Their careers at DAVA were soon terminated when a new Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, replaced them the following year.