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AREA 51 63 "With UFOs and with the aliens. There are four types of aliens—" The conversation stopped when the waitress come to take our order. I was not very hungry, and I wanted to make sure I did not lose any detail of Bill's statement, even though some of the things he had said seemed very questionable. "There are four types of aliens," resumed Bill Cooper after the waitress had brought him a second Chivas. "There are two kinds of Grays, including one race, not commonly seen, that has a large nose. Then there are the Nordic types, tall blond Aryans, and finally the Orange ones." "Where do they come from?" "I remember seeing several points of origin mentioned: Orion, the Pleiades, Betelgeuse, Barnard's star, and Zeta Reticuli." "You mentioned we had a treaty with them?" "Since 1964." Why would they go to the trouble of entering into a treaty with us, since their technology is far ahead of ours? John Lear mentioned a billion years." "They needed the government to keep their presence secret. Re- member, we had one of the aliens in our custody. Our radar affected their navigation system and threw their craft off-balance." I didn't tell Bill that I had spent the whole afternoon being briefed on advanced microwave devices by an electronic warfare company. That company, based in Orange County, made a radar simulator among its other military products. The idea that our primitive radars of 1949 would have repeatedly knocked alien spacecraft out of the sky was utterly ludicrous. Our own aircraft carry a device lovingly known in the electronic warfare trade as a DERFUM (for "digital radio frequency modulator"), which is a little bigger than a shoe box and has the capability to learn instantly all the characteristics of the electromagnetic sources that are operating in its vicinity, to respond to them and even to provide false information if necessary in a matter of seconds. It is hard to believe that visiting spacecraft a billion years ahead of us would not have similar, or superior, capabilities. "How are their ships powered?" I asked.