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be born somewhere in Judea. By making this appearance before King Herod and spreading this story, they made certain that the impending birth would be recorded in the court records and preserved for the ages. After successfully carrying out this mission, the trio ‘from the East” proceeded to Bethlehem, where they created another stir and focused attention on the Christ Child. Then, instead of retuming to King Herod to report, as they had promised, they ‘‘went home by another way.” If these men had come from India or even farther away, it would have taken them many months or even years to travel by sea and land to Jerusalem. This would have taken considerable planning and expense and would have demanded that they have advance knowledge of the event. If they had been mortal men, they would almost certainly have created a similar stir when they arrived home in India or wherever, and it is likely that some written record of their story would have been preserved. There a ee ae) seems to be no such record. Like our mystery inventor, they appeared in the area of the action prior to the event. They visited the most important personage they could find. They circulated their story. And then they vanished. Our UFO mystery men usually travel in threes, also, and have become popularly known as the three men in black. They usually wear somber clothing, have olive complexions, and in most cases, high cheek- bones and Oriental eyes. According to Hart, the 1896 inventor had ‘‘three assistants with him, all of whom are mechanics.” The secret inventor was a tremendously successful ploy in 1896, and it was reused again with many added embellishments in 1897. The story was carefully sustained through a series of landings and occasional planted messages. Saturday, April 17, 1897, two boys were playing in Chicago’s Lincoln Park when they spotted a package wrapped in brown paper resting high in the limbs of a tree. Daniel J. Schroeder, twelve, shinnied up the tree and retrieved it. When they unwrapped their prize, they found a pasteboard box ‘‘containing the remnants of a luncheon,” and attached to the box there was a beautifully engraved card on which was printed the following inscription: ‘‘Dropped from the airship Saratoga, Friday, April 16, 1897.” The card was folded and had ‘‘an embellished front page.” In the upper corner were printed the words ‘‘air ship” and below them was a gilded ensign of a boy standing on a pair of outstretched wings. It was made of fine cardboard and looked expensive. Besides the printed words on the first page, this memo was written in blue pencil on the inside: ‘9:41 86 / Operation Trojan Horse