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a tiny residue of the data. It is most difficult to judge the situation at all on the basis of such a small sampling. The problem is compounded by the fact that the majority of UFO witnesses and contactees tell no one outside of their own circle of family and friends. I have concentrated, therefore, on the hidden incidents and the little-known, seldom officially reported nneantn Af thn ahannanne aspects of the phenomenon. Individually, the sighting reports are nothing more than anecdotes. Thoroughly investigated, objectively reported cases are very rare. Even so, when you collect together all the available data, as I have tried to do, and view it quantitatively, you naturally expect that this mass of informa- tion will ee some positive factors. Instead, an astounding paradox is presented. The ane The scope of the phenomenon and the overwhelming quantity of reports negates its validity. The various UFO organizations and cultist groups, and the few interested scientists, had tried to deal with all this on an anecdotal basis, selecting those anecdotes which seemed to contain the best descriptions and had been reported by the most reliable witnesses. Thus, the actual scope of the phenomenon has escaped them. And the best reports rarely contain details that can provide correlations with other reports. In short, the great bulk of all the anecdotes are worthless and can provide little or no insight into the real problems. The statistical data that I have extracted, and which I have tried to summarize briefly here, indicate that flying saucers are not stable ma- chines requiring fuel, maintenance and logistical support. They are, in all probability, transmogrifications of energy and do not exist in the same way that this book exists. They are not permanent constructions of matter. Operation Trojan Horse has made us believe, first, in angels and phantom armies, later in mystery inventors, ghost airplanes, and ghost rockets, and finally in the splendid Venusians. Because the scope of the phenomenon far exceeds the limits of the tiny residue of known reports, we can leam almost nothing from studying the observations of a minute group of pilots and police officers. However, by carefully investigating many flap areas in depth, I have come up with an alternate line of research. I discovered that the witnesses and people living in these areas experienced direct manifestations of a different sort. If we can put the witnesses themselves under our micro- scope, we may find that a wide variety of psychological and hallucinatory factors are involved. This is something we can investigate thoroughly and 162 / Operation Trojan Horse systematically.