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AREA 51 minutes." THE 71 "I am going to get the information out. I have resigned from my job. To begin with, I'm organizing a symposium at Anaheim. The profits will be used to build up a reward fund for those who want to come up and reveal what they know. Then I'll take the symposium to all the major cities." Bill offered to take me to Dulce and let me go inside the cave of the aliens. I told him I wasn't going to do that. He snickered, and said with an angry laugh, "You see, that's the problem with you scientists. People want to know all that, and when you give them the opportunity to really check it out, they won't do it." "I may be a stupid scientist," I countered, "but if you told me to jump from the top of the Empire State Building without fear because you were going to send a flying saucer to save me at the last moment with an antigravity beam, I wouldn't do that either, Bill) Who knows what's inside that cave in Dulce? For all you know, it's an abandoned federal radioactive storage facility where I'd be cooked alive in five The three of us walked over to the elevators. I told Cooper that our conversation was important because I was starting from square one again in my attempt to understand the UFO phenomenon. Yet when he left, he was disappointed and suspicious of me because | hadn't shown the absolute, unconditional enthusiasm he was obviously seeking. HOW | WAS ACCUSED OF JOINING CONSPIRACY I only heard once from Bill Cooper after our dinner. One evening, in June 1989,1 received a phone call from him. Some- one had told him that I was going to address a meeting on research | had done in Brazil "concerning human mutilations perpetrated by UFOs." I had to laugh when I heard that. Over the years there have been several spurious rumors that pur- ported to be based on my actions or statements. These rumors are generally more amusing than serious. In a review of Dimensions, for