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were really being operated by ‘‘nice guys,” by Big Brothers from outer space who had our best interests at heart. Dantnntan Wasened Man nnn ennnetnd COTA an annals ane andes Cone Contactee Howard Menger reported, ‘“They use people not only from this planet, but people from Mars as well.* And also other people of your own planet—people you don’t know about. People who live unobserved and undiscovered as yet....”” What kind of “undiscovered people’? Could he have meant the ren Ps) elementals? The late General Douglas MacArthur, a man who must have been privy to much secret information, repeatedly made public statements asserting that the next war would be an interplanetary conflict with mankind uniting to combat “‘evil forces” from some other world. Having been trained in psychological warfare during my stint as a propaganda writer for the U.S. Army, I have been particularly conscious of this double-barreled threat and particularly concerned over the obvious hoaxes and manipulations apparently designed to foster both belief and disbelief in the reality of the flying saucers. I have tried objectively to weigh all of the factors, pro and con, throughout my investigations and in this book. Frankly, I have gone through periods when I was absolutely convinced that those Trojan horses were, indeed, following a careful plan designed to ultimately conquer the human race from within. The physical Trojan horse concept seemed alarmingly valid to me for a long time. But I am now inclined to accept the conclusion that the phenomenon is mainly concerned with undefined (and undefinable) cosmic patterns and that mankind plays only a small role in those patterns. That “other world” seems to be a part of something larger and more infinite. The human race is also a part of that something, particularly those people who seem to possess psychic abilities and who seem to be tuned in to some signal far beyond our normal perception. Perhaps the U.S. government was equally concerned with the Trojan horse possibility in the 1940s, and perhaps that explains the peculiar official machinations of the early years. Nobody in Washington has been inclined to confess to me that this is so, but at a press conference in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters that flying saucers were hallucinatory and existed only in the minds of the observers. In 1966, You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard / 267 The photos retuned by our Mariner space probes in 1969 indicate that Mars is uninhabited and uninhabitable.