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MAJESTIC 12 43 with eager expectations. Today they are still talking about the "revela- tions" it contained. These revelations consisted of computer reconstructions of alien anatomy and internal organs, complete with initials like FTD and mysterious-looking numbers. Such pictorial information was combined with the behind-the-screen statements by Condor and Falcon. Flying saucers have crashed on earth; they have been retrieved by the military; alien pilots have been captured and studied by our doctors. The dead ones, they claim, have been autopsied and the live ones (who are especially fond of strawberry ice cream, as it turns out) have been used to establish contact with one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. The whole thing is supposedly controlled by MJ-12 and is kept away from the U.S. public. The production, to which New York writer John Keel now refers as the "revoltingly amateurish Strawberry Ice Cream Show," was so badly scripted and directed that some of the professionals associated with it balked at the finished product. One of my technical friends, for in- stance, who was responsible for making up the computer simulations of alien anatomy and the mysterious numbers, demanded that his name be deleted from the credits. The production was of poor quality, and everyone was made to read copy from TelePrompTers, giving the par- ticipants a particularly wooden look. A piano piece was superimposed on the entire video. Even the truly interesting moments (like the testi- mony of the Cash-Landrum case victims explaining how they had developed cancer as a result of being exposed to the light of a strange flying object in Texas) were ruined by poor camera work and the happy allegretto of a ludicrous sound track. Several friends and associates actually called me after the broadcast to congratulate me for turning down repeated offers to participate. Two minutes of hard thinking can establish the nature of the hoax, or at least the full extent of the unanswered questions. There is no such thing as a government agent having an extensive contact by phone and in person with a community of amateur researchers and journalists and then testifying behind a screen "to protect his identity." It should be fairly obvious that the people presumably charged with