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AREA 51 ter." more." 67 thing that had bothered me since my meeting with Lear. "I have heard from John, and also from Linda Howe, that the name of Allen Hynek was mentioned in Report 13... 2" "Mentioned?" Cooper reacted in astonishment. "He was the co- author of the damned thing! Hynek was completely involved in it, in the study of the abductions and the implants. He even made the statement that one person in forty has been abducted and has received an implant. Of course, many more people have simply been abducted. The scary part is, what if the people who are in the government have all been implanted already?" "All I can tell you is that I knew Hynek very well, and that what you say about him makes no sense to someone who knew the man's charac- "And all I can tell you is what was in that document," he replied dryly. "Hynek's name was on the cover, and inside there were pictures of the Holloman landing, photos of aliens, autopsy tables, and details of Project Redlight, where we actually try to fly their craft, and Project Snowbird, a cover for Redlight using conventional technology, and so on. By the way, their craft don't crash when they are disabled, they settle in the impact crater where the dirt has been pushed aside." "There is a contradiction here. Blue Book, from what I saw, was mostly a public relations project. There was no follow-up on cases, in fact. Hynek kept complaining about that." "There was no follow-up because they already knew what those things were. But they still had to explain them to the public. One of the documents said specifically that the cases they can't explain should be referred to Philip Klass, who works in cahoots with the intelligence community. You know, things are never what they seem to be any- "What do you think is the purpose of the implants?" I asked. "Nobody knows. When an attempt is made to remove them, the person dies." "Wait a minute. If this has been going on since 1953, many of the implanted people must already have died of perfectly natural causes. It