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the press. phenomena." M. Masse has a solid reputation in the mountain village for being a calm and solid citizen. A gendarme substantiated Masse's story by telling newsmen that he had seen strange tracks that the alien being and his spacecraft had left in the farmer's lavender field. "We don't think it was a gag," the gendarme told Hardly any thinking man considers UFO's as merely a "gag" in 1966, but nearly everyone continues to be confused by the conflicting reports issued by the Pentagon, the professional astronomers and trained observers, and the thousands of eye-witnesses to saucer activity. The Alameda, California Times Star echoed the sentiments of millions of bewildered Americans when it said: "It would surprise almost no one to learn that some UFO's are space-craft from elsewhere in the solar system or beyond. In fact, it would be even more surprising to learn that they were not. Hence, the only way in which the public interest can be served in this matter is for the Govern- ment to disclose what it knows about these 8. The Terrible Flying Jelly Bags A report made by two young men is the strangest of all the cases in the archives of the Swedish Defense Staff. According to Hans Gustafsson and Stig Rydberg, nightmarish creatures from a flying saucer attacked them and tried to kidnap them on the morning of December 20, 1958. Fantastic as the story sounds, two psychologists, who conducted extensive tests with the young men while they were under hypnosis, concluded that the two Swedes were telling what they considered to be the truth and that their story rested on an actual occurrence. Detailed accounts of the alien attempt at kidnapping were carried in more than 70 European papers, including the Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholf Tidnigen, Helsingborg Dagblad, and the Swiss Weltaumbote. A thick mist had slowed their speed to about 25 milesper-hour that morning as they drove to Helsingborg from Hoganas. Just before 3:00 A.M., they had come to a clearing in the thick forest that lined both sides of the highway. It was there that they saw the mysterious light.