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then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara called them illusions. So it seems probable that, after a period of paranoia in the 1940s and early 1950s, the government settled upon a negative hypothesis based, undoubt- edly, on the same kind of material I have outlined here. If intelligent beings actually do exist on Ganymede or Andromeda, it is even very possible that they, too, have been observing and wondering about the same kinds of unidentified flying objects that haunt our planet. Our astronauts and cosmonauts have frequently sighted mysterious objects deep in space—objects which appeared and disappeared just as enigmati- cally as the things flitting about the highways and farmfields of earth. The UFO phenomenon may be universal. And it may be unsolvable. Finally, we come to the problem: How do you investigate something that doesn’t exist? The answer is that you investigate and study the people who have experienced these things. You don’t investigate them by checking their reliability. You study the medical and psychological effects of their experiences. This cannot be done by teenagers with telescopes and housewives with tape recorders. It must be done by trained professionals. We need to know much more about the human mind and how it is linked up to the greater source. We must study the process of confabula- tion (falsification of memory) which produces the majority of our UFO landing and contact stories and demonological events. These victims genuinely believe that they have met splendid space beings, but as Goddard stated, they have really encountered ‘‘denizens” who “‘are eager to exemplify principalities and powers.”’ In my field work I have devel- oped interviewing techniques which separate the confabulations from the real experiences. It can be done. But a large part of the UFO lore is based entirely on confabulations. The elementals or ultraterrestrials are somehow able to manipulate the electrical circuits of the human mind. They can make us see whatever they want us to see and remember only what they want us to remember. Human minds that have been tuned into those super-high-frequency radiations, described early in this book, are most vulnerable to these manipulations. Discovering and understanding this process should be given top priority. The symptoms of the contactee syndrome usually appear in early childhood, even though overt contact may not be established until many years later. Many contactees, like Howard Menger, have a long sequence of experiences with the paraphysical entities before their real UFO encounters formally begin. Some contactees begin to receive telepathic messages sporadically years before they have overt contact. Those whose 268 / Operation Trojan Horse