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to analyze. REVELATIONS The story given by Lear comes straight out of the Bennewitz affair, which we now know to have been based on Sprinkle's questionable hypnosis of a single subject and amplified out of all proportion by Moore's disinformation efforts. Bill Cooper has failed to produce Dr. Mendoza, and he continues to claim seriously in his public speeches that the moon has a dark side. My associates have analyzed a dozen major data bases covering everything published in the last twenty years in fields ranging from chemistry and engineering to biology and theoretical physics. There is no scientific publication in any reputable reference journal under the name of either Crill or Krill. Once again, what could be checked has been checked and it leads nowhere. Far from hiding away in Albuquerque for fear of assassination, Bill English himself showed up in front of hundreds of people at the Las Vegas conference. He appeared very relaxed and spoke genially with archskeptic Philip Klass. He gave his story of having served in a low-level intelligence position in which he was asked to evaluate the probability that certain classified reports were true. It is in that context that he claims to have seen the very same Report 13 that Bill Cooper was asked I spoke with Bill English at the Las Vegas conference and I tend to believe him. He may well have seen such a report, just as Cooper may have seen it. If so, it may simply have been a test of their judgment or of their abilities as intelligence analysts. The ludicrous aspect of the alleged Report 13 is that Hynek's name was associated with photo- graphs and reports of alien autopsies, and that it mentioned close encounters in connection with UFO landings. The co-author of the report was Colonel Friend. As a former close associate of Dr. Hynek, I can assure the reader that he was highly skeptical of the existence of crashed saucers, and even more of the supposed aliens. He repeatedly met with a man named Leonard Stringfield, who claimed to have many sources of such reports but always declined to identify them or to let them talk to Hynek privately. He came back from such visits utterly frustrated. And my