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infant." 56 REVELATIONS Lear pointed out that the first communication between these aliens and our government took place on April 30, 1964, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, and he stated his main point: During the period of 1969-1971 . . . the U.S. Government made a deal with these creatures, called EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biologi- cal Entities) by Dr. Detley Bronk, the sixth president of Johns Hopkins University. The "deal" was that, in exchange for technol- ogy they would provide us, we agreed to ignore the abductions that were going on and suppress information on cattle mutila- tions. The EBEs assured Majestic 12 that the abductions were merely the ongoing monitoring of developing civilizations. This first part of John Lear's statement was replete with contradic- tions, of course. If the early crashes go back to World War II, contact with the aliens could have been established long before 1964. There is no evidence in our own technology that we have had access to any dramatic inventions which a civilization "a billion years ahead of us" could surely have provided to us. And the aliens would have about as much need to request Washington's permission to do anything they please as a squadron of F-16s needs clearance from the tribal chiefs of New Zealand when they fly over. Ignoring all these contradictions, John Lear echoes New York artist Budd Hopkins's belief that the purpose of the abductions is to conduct genetic engineering experiments, including "impregnation of human females and early termination of pregnancies to secure the crossbred Until now I have stayed away from the discussion of such crossbreed- ing because this hypothesis is so scientifically ludicrous that it does not even deserve to be refuted. It reveals a dramatic lack of information about the current state of the art in genetic engineering, not to mention developments that are forecast for the next ten years, developments that are already the subject of massive financial investments. The idea that anyone equipped with the best in molecular biology would need to perform complicated and risky maneuvers above populated areas at