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the space-traveling psychometrists wrote that the Martians used it widely for building their homes, flying machines, and cooking utensils. Denton's studies convinced him that the Martians had been examining our planet and had found us out as a people early in the 1800's. "I believe that we can in time learn to hold communication with them," he wrote. "Perhaps they are psychometers!" The Dentons made a very comfortable living on the lecture circuit, giving demonstrations of their psychometric prowess and telling about life on other planets. Each of the more imaginative contactees of our time has used the same pattern: establish contact with a superior alien culture, receive their particular secrets - secrets for which the "world" is not ready - then tell the world about those secrets for a reasonable fee. The contactee, unfortunately, has come to represent the sort of person who takes UFO's seriously in the minds of the Air Force, large sections of the scientific community, and the bulk of the citizenry. Two positions of the contactee have always seemed particularly untenable. Why did the aliens seek out him, of all earth's inhabitants, as the one capable of receiving such high-powered information; and why, if the knowledge contained in this message was too potent to reveal to the Pentagon, the Parliament, or the Politburo, do the aliens allow the contactee to disseminate the message in cheaply printed, poorly written books and in speeches from the lecture platform? As for the contents of the celestial sermons, they can usually be boiled down to some occult-oriented philosophy mixed with equal parts of the "power of positive thinking." It may not be difficult to believe that aliens have been observing this planet. And certainly one cannot shout "liar" at the clergyman in New Guinea, who said he observed them for four hours and communicated with them by arm signals, or the poor boy in Brazil, who claimed that they kidnapped his father, or the two young men, who were nearly sucked up inside a UFO outside of Helsingborg in South Sweden. But if the crews of the flying saucers truly are revealing their secrets to the contactees then one can not help questioning the aliens' choice of confidantes. George Adamski certainly did not keep any cosmic secrets. His book on UFO's sold extremely well, and his lectures were always attended en masse by the UFOlogists and the curious,