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AREA 51 so strongly. 69 know what we had for dinner tonight, so I couldn't keep it secret even if I wanted to!" He shook his head and stood his ground and stubbornly repeated that Reagan had ordered that no one doing any kind of business with the U.S. government must discuss UFOs. That statement seemed obviously absurd, and it made me uncomfortable to hear Bill Cooper insist on it I changed the topic while he ordered a third Chivas. "Let's talk more about the aliens. Why are they coming here in the first place?" "There is a document about Project Aquarius that deals with the history of the aliens and their interaction with Homo sapiens for the last twenty-five thousand years. This interaction culminated with the Basque culture and the Assyrians. But Project Aquarius was closed." I had the feeling I was now listening to a third-rate science-fiction plot, except that the man in front of me obviously believed it. I, on the other hand, had seen that movie a hundred times. "Their planet has turned into a desert following a war they had with another race. They have been devastated, they are in evolutionary decline, their digestive system is atrophied. They come here in search of new genetic material." "That doesn't make sense," I insisted. "The government believes it." "How long do the aliens live?" "They told us they lived four hundred and fifty years. The live alien who was left on earth after Holloman was named Krill. He gave lots of information, scientific data, some of which was published in the open scientific literature under the name of O. H. Krill, after being sanitized. Very advanced stuff. Krill is still alive." I told Cooper I had a lot of trouble accepting the fact that aliens from a distant star would just happen to took like us and have the same organs, or very closely the same anatomy, and would match our culture to such an extent. He didn't seem to find that a problem. "Their biology is well-understood," he said with a shrug. "They are air-breathing creatures like us, although the heart is connected to their