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York and offered to finance a newsstand UFO publication. In California he predicted the appearance of UFOs in Santa Barbara, and those predictions came true. After shaking everyone up, he simply dropped from sight. The next mystery man appeared in Boulder, Colorado, during tie Colorado University UFO research project. He arrived in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, inarched straight into the office of Dr Edward U. Condon, head of the project, and announced that he was Mr Dixsun and represented the Seventh Universe. He was, of course, a swarthy little man wearing dark glasses. He offered to help Dr Condon contact the space people, provided he received a substantial amount of money. Condon was not exactly enthused, so Mr Dixsun got into his Cadillac and drove off to rendezvous with Mr Alexander and Mr Allende. It is likely that some of these characters were actually Gipsies playing some little game of their own. Many of these hoaxes were very complicated and expensive, and the perpetrators obviously had both imagination and a sense of humour. Flying saucer enthusiasts are notably lacking in these qualifications. But why would anyone bother to spend inordinate amounts of time and money contriving and executing elaborate pranks against random cultists? The answer seems to be that believers have always been dished up manifestations which appeared to support their beliefs. Believe in the devil and he will appear, the old saying goes. An even older saying, dating back to the dawn of history, states that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. PART THREE *] daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was younger* I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things 10 1 wea High on a bleak mountainside 6,000 feet above sea level outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a weird looking tower Jutted 135 feet into the air in the summer of 1899. It was designed and erected by a tall, gaunt man named Nikola Tesla - the now forgotten genius who perfected An ancient madness is overtaking the human race in these closing years of the twentieth century. "Why don't they contact us?' the sceptics ask. It might be better for us to ask, "Why didn't they leave us alone?’ Alice laughed. There's no use trying,' she said, 'one can't believe impossible things.* before breakfast.' —LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking Ottos CHAPTER FOURTEEN "HELLO, CENTRAL. GIVE ME GANYMEDE'