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Not only had the general public lost interest in the subject after the awesome waves of the 1960s, they were now too broke to buy the book! All over the world, hack writers sharpened their pencils, though, and stole from OTH as if the copyright laws did not exist. It became one of the most quoted and most plagiarized books in the field. In addition, many of the people drawn into the New Age of the early 1970s were reaching conclusions identical to my own. The great flying saucer mystery that had been whipped up by Ray Palmer, Richard Shaver (Chapter Two) and their associates in the 1940s had now been solved and explained to the satisfaction of millions around the world. Thousands of learned articles and books would follow. The UFO cults would diminish in size in the early 1970s until no one was left except for a very small group who built their dark, paranoid personal worlds around the semi-religious concepts of the contactees of the 1950s and, later, the abductees of the 1980s. Young academics and fledgling scientists filled the libraries with new books expanding upon the things discussed in Operation Trojan Horse. The surviving hard-core UFO cultists (there are fewer than 1,000 in the U.S.) responded by simply ignoring this vast literature and making fools of themselves on the tabloid television shows by promoting their now- archaic extraterrestrial theologies. When all else failed, they desperately concocted shameful hoaxes, doctored photographs, tales of crashed sau- cers and endless, mindless feuds and teacup tempests. When you read this book keep in mind the simple fact that American ufology is based upon psychological factors that have been well under- stood for thousands of years and which have led the human race into many dreary Dark Ages. As this shell-shocked century draws to a close we are not confronting some splendid extraterrestrial civilization. We are facing ourselves. New York City 1996 8 / Operation Trojan Horse John A. Keel