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surgeon: themselves. We can now come back to the larger problem of the motives for the disinformation games we have observed. My guess is that someone deep within the U.S. government structure is using the stories of crashed saucers to hide something else. The Pentagon is clearly in possession of the world's most extensive collection of UFO photographs and films, electromagnetic recordings, and radar REVELATIONS ratory analyses, demonstrates how little, not how much, they know. This is the kind of obvious contradiction many believers have been ignoring, blindly assuming that the government knew everything. Would there be a need to conduct covert experiments, to monitor civilian research groups, even to finance through devious channels the investigative efforts of certain ufologists, if the Air Force did have flying saucers sitting helpless in its hangars and little aliens under the scalpel of its The facts point to a different conclusion: the expectation of ad- vanced visitors from the sky is being fostered and exploited by various groups for their own purposes. Taken together, these seven fallacies lead to an important observation: anyone smart enough or devious enough to emulate the appearance of UFOs as physical objects can drive the conclusions of the research community into any direction he wants. He can capture the fascination of the public, and possibly the secret beliefs of the government experts If a test of the control-system hypothesis is ever designed, if a real signal is ever sent to the form of consciousness that may be governing the UFO phenomenon, the formula will be found at this level. The intelligence community does not control this capability. Once these flaws in human reasoning are understood, challenging the UFO control system is a game anyone can play. THE QUESTION OF MOTIVES