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headlines announcing the sudden death of Harry Agannis. He decided to call the phone number on the slip of paper given to him by the man in the white suit. It was in Massachusetts, and a woman answered. Savalas told her he wanted to speak to Bill, the name on the paper, There was 1 a awo4aw "You met him last night?* she interrupted, choking on sudden tears. Then she told him that her husband Bill had been dead for three years. Later she met with Savalas in New York and told him that her husband had been buried in a white suit. She showed him the last letter her husband had written, and ha was startled to see that the handwriting exactly matched the handwriting on the slip of paper given him by the Cadillac driver. The whole fabric of psychic belief is woven from such stories, which number in the many thousands and are accepted by millions as proof of survival after death. But investigators informed in the antics of the ultraterrestrial mimics are obliged to look deeper. These entities labour to cultivate belief in various frames of reference, and then they deliberately create new manifestations which support those beliefs. Savalas rode in a physically real Cadillac and spoke with a seemingly real man. If the incident was only a joke of some land, it was a very complicated and pointless one. Phantom campers, vehicles with built-on trailers, have been widely reported in the western states in recent years. And we have reports of phantom airplanes and helicopters by the hundreds. In the 1930s thousands of people in northern Europe saw formations of mysterious aeroplanes over Norway, Sweden and Finland. Despite extensive searches by the military forces of several countries, the source of these ghost fliers, as they were called, was never determined.* During World War n military intelligence groups collected a number of phantom aeroplane sightings from pilots returning from missions. Crews of several bombers from the Ninety-Second Group reported the following over Germany: Four P-47s, thought to be friendly American aircraft flown by the enemy, were observed on the approach to the initial Point at 22,000 feet, heading 120° magnetic. These aircraft flew out to the side and parallel with the combat wing formation in the manner of fighter escort. They suddenly executed a 90° turn in towards the head of the combat wing formation. These aircraft were orig- inally at 800 yards on port beam. They approached to 300 yards, when they nosed up and away, showing a full-plan view of themselves. Positive identification is claimed. The aircraft had brown fuselages, and the wings were a very dark colour, almost black. No white cowling and no white tail markings were observed. No insignia was observed, and the aircraft did not open fire. Several B-17s fired on them. The last P-47 escort had long since departed, and the enemy aircraft Lean nae At Oo at ee ete te The opening theory expressed in this intelligence report - "Four P-47s, thought to be friendly American aircraft flown by the enemy' -was proven invalid. The mystery planes did not fire at the American bombers, but were fired on instead. If the Germans had attempted such a ploy with captured aircraft, they certainly would have painted appropriate insignia on the planes. And after a pause, and another woman came on the lire. 1 fust met Bill last night,’ Savalas began, "and something happened, and I wanted—' had been attacking for some time at this point.