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FART TWO In September 1953,1 spent right hours inside the Great Pyramid in Egypt producing a radio programme which was aired throughout Europe over the American Forces Network (AFN) the following month. Egypt so impressed me, and archaeology so fascinated me, that I returned to Cairo the next year and lived there for several months, wading through the musty libraries and museums, prowling the desert, and visiting the ancient tombs. During a trek to Aswan and the Upper Nile I saw my first flying saucer, a metallic looking disk, with a rotating outer rim, which hovered for several minutes above the Aswan Dam in broad daylight. I had written and produced a radio documentary, Things in the Sky, in 1952, and my earlier researches into unidentified flying objects had already convinced me that such things not only existed, but that they had been present in our skies since the dawn of man. Eventually my travels took me to Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and a thousand places in between. I walked among the ancient ruins and puzzled over man's illustrious but forgotten past. In India I wandered alone into the Himalayas and crossed the border of Tibet (which has since been sealed by the Chinese). As I travelled, I interviewed archaeologists, historians, and assorted experts and Spent endless hours in remote libraries poring over rare old books. I was puzzled at first to discover that none of the leading authorities seemed to agree on anything. Indeed, a large part of the scientific literature is devoted to theorization and incredibly vicious attacks on the theories of Chapter Eight; Mimics of Man 79 Chapter Nine: Men-in-Black Lore and the CIA 90 Chapter Ten: Rendezvous with the Damned 101 Chapter Eleven: Not One of Them, Etc 113 Chapter Twelve: The Demise of the Gods 125 ''tTb» Secret of the A*es 137 PART THREE Chapter Fourteen: 'HeUoj Central. Give me Ganymede' 155 Chapter Fifteen: Where Is Everybody Going? X71 AJiifipfer Sixteen m TheRerohitioaoftieMind 184 INTRODUCTION