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72 REVELATIONS example, a newspaper in England, the Cambridge News, got me con- fused with Whitley Strieber (who had written the foreword for my book) and claimed that I had been abducted and examined by flying- saucer aliens! Obviously, the reporter had merely scanned the dust jacket before writing his review of the book. A newspaper in Mexico assured its readers that I had said there were UFOs flying around the space shuttle Challenger when it exploded in 1986. The depth of stupidity was reached in 1990 when someone spread a rumor within the MUFON group, alleging that I had once been mysteriously teleported in a car driven by psychic researcher Ray Stanford! The list of such silly fabrications would be too long to enumerate. I generally attribute these false reports to lazy journalists who fail to check their sources. Such confusions are attached to every author, especially when the subject of his work is controversial. But here was Bill Cooper, who claimed to be a serious investigator, trying to expose the greatest conspiracy in history, and he was seriously quoting similar garbage. "I don't know where you heard all that," I said. "It is true I am going to speak about our research in Brazil. We looked into human injuries, not mutilations, among UFO witnesses. In two cases the witnesses died, but in our opinion based on conversations with people who witnessed the deaths, they died of heart failure. We also investigated cases in which, according to American tabloids, all the blood had been removed from the bodies. We could find absolutely no evidence for it." I was wasting my time. "Are you trying to find the truth," Cooper asked in the accusatory tone of a prosecuting attorney, "or are you trying to hide the truth?" "I wouldn't be traveling all the way to Brazil with my own money if I wasn't trying to find the truth," I said, getting a little hot under the collar. After all, I went there and Bill didn't. Let him buy a ticket to Manaus and check my work, I thought. Cooper lashed out at me. "We think you weren't using your own money. We know who you're working for. . . ." For the first time in my life | hung up on someone. And as the stream of Cooper's accusations went suddenly silent, I realized I had now been promoted from a simple investigator doing his best to understand the