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AREA 51 51 all sat around a table and I found myself drawn into a discussion of what Bill Moore described as his continuing contacts with the two alleged "members of the intelligence community" whom he called Falcon and Condor. Linda Howe, on the other hand, spoke about her own contacts with a flying ace and investigator extraordinaire named John Lear. It was in that context that I heard for the first time that even in the extremely rarified atmosphere of the MJ-12 conspiracy theory, there were many people, including John Lear, who thought that Bill Moore and his associates were far too timid and that they were simply used by the government to disseminate irrelevant information (or rather, disin- formation) while the real, infinitely more dangerous and frightening truth remained completely secret. That ultimate truth had not yet been revealed: it had to do with the aliens, of course. Not the dead aliens that various doctors were said to have autopsied, but live aliens who were working even now alongside the best American scientists in hidden bases throughout the west. Naturally, if these allegations were true, then Majestic 12 was only a fairly irrelevant incident in a much wider and more fascinating drama that could engulf the whole planet at any time. Majestic 12 might indeed be a pure diversion, a piece of disinformation art, a bone that was purposely thrown to the gullible ufologists to lead them off the track. If there were live aliens working under the desert at Area 51— some estimates put the total number of such aliens at over 600—then Stanton Friedman, Bill Moore, and all their friends were wasting their time looking for remains of crashed saucers. They might even be doing irreparable damage, unwittingly promoting a government hoax while the real truth—the actual invasion of our planet by diminutive gray humanoids—was going on irreversibly under the nose of the President of the United States in our own secret military bases like Area 51. To this argument I heard people reply that Majestic 12 was, in fact, the only really important secret and that the subsequent tales of live aliens had only been manufactured by the government to discredit Bill Moore's research and Friedman's findings. In other words, researchers such as John Lear and Linda Howe, who spoke openly about Area 51, were really the ones acting as agents provocateurs and should be disre-