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AREA 51 83 (event B) at Nellis Air Force Base. And even if such disks existed, where is the evidence that they have anything to do with the UFO mystery? It is a similar flaw in the published statements about Roswell that makes me hesitate to regard it as a genuine UFO crash, in spite of the excellent field research that has been done. What we have is evidence that something did crash on a ranch (event A) and was covered up by the Air Force, which used a ridiculous explanation to deny the facts. Yet the debris showed no evidence of being disk-shaped, and there were no bodies present. Another site with a disk and bodies was said to have been discovered miles away nearly a week later (event B) by different witnesses. So where is the logical link between these two events, and why do ufologists automatically merge these two radically different episodes together as "the Roswell incident"? The material recovered in the crash itself, while it remains fascinat- ing, was not necessarily beyond human technology in the late Forties. Aluminized Saran, also known as Silvered Saran, came from technology already available for laboratory-scale work in 1948. It was paper-thin, was not dented by a hammer blow, and was restored to a smooth finish after crushing. Pitfall Seven: the Magnification of Secrecy Believers in the extraterrestrial theory are often seen on television and in lectures brandishing heavily-censored government documents as evi- dence that they are right. The public loves an expose, so these men derive a great measure of prestige and additional leverage by claiming that formidable government agencies are trying to hide the facts. In reality such censorship could come from a great variety of trivial reasons, which go from the obvious requirement to protect new techno- logical capabilities to mere bureaucratic stupidity. When such censor- ship is lifted, the hidden text often turns out to be purely technical in nature. The believers have simply magnified the nature and the mean- ing of the secrecy. The very fact that the U.S. military has been doing its own secret research, interrogating certain witnesses and conducting discreet labo-