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The Gipsy religion is a curious mixture of witchcraft, Black Magic, and elementalism. Periodically, all the Gipsies will spring into their Cadillacs in the middle of the night and drive off to some isolated forest or hilltop where, according to reliable sources, they converse with materializations. Gipsies also have a curious habit of turning up in Window areas during UFO flaps. Morris K. Jessup caused the Gipsies to become part of the UFO lore in the 1950s, when he received a series of strange letters from one Carlos Allende. A couple of these letters were released to the UFO buffs and have been a source of controversy ever since, In 1955 a paperback copy of Jessup's The Case for the UFO arrived in the mail at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The pages of the book were covered with marginal notes pencilled in by three different hands. These comments indicated that the anonymous writers were extremely knowledgeable in UFO matters and made a number of pointed references which suggested they were Gipsies. Although Jessup himself dismissed the annotations as some kind of hoax, the ONR was so impressed that they had the whole book retyped and reproduced with the marginal notes printed in different colours. The reproduction was prepared for the Navy by the Varo Corporation in Garland, Texas. One of Allende's letters to Jessup, dated January 13th, 1956, was postmarked in Gainesville, Texas, which is about sixty miles north of Garland. Only a few hundred copies of this Varo ' edition were printed, and they were carefully distributed to a select few within the Navy. Since it has always been almost unobtainable, very few UFO buffs have ever even seen this interesting document. The annotations discuss the Great Ark (which supposedly circles Jupiter and has already been discussed) and try to answer some of the questions Jessup raised in his book. Jessup was found dead in his automobile in Dade County Park near Coral Gables, Florida, on April 20,1959 - an apparent suicide. But Carlos Allende has gone marching on, A fantastic array of Allende imposteis have turned up over the years to bedevil and bewilder the UFO buffs. He has managed to turn up in several different states at the same time. All kinds of letters and phone calls have been received by buffs in his name. Those who claim to have met him describe him as a swarthy man of Cuban or Spanish extraction. He rides around in a black Cadillac, of course. Until the late 1960s Allende was nothing more than a myth bandied about in very limited UFO buff circles. Then author Brad Steiger obtained a photostated copy of the Varo edition and used it as the basis of an article in Saga magazine. He was instantly inundated with new AJlende letters and even a letter from a woman claiming to be Allende's widow. In 1969 a man claiming to be Carlos Allende visited the Lorenzens, who operate the civilian UFO research group, APRO, in Tucson, Arizona. He presented them with an original copy of the Vaio publication. How he managed to acquire the copy was not determined. (The real Allende, if there is a real Allende, would not have had access to a copy.) Other mystery men oE the Allende type have haunted the UFO researchers for years. La the early 1960s a man calling himself Zdeen Alexander toured the United States, amusing some flying saucer enthusiasts and terrifying others. He answered to the usual description. Some buffs claimed he was able to disappear in front of their eyes. He visited prominent ufologists in New