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respects." too long." Reeves submitted to a polygraph (lie-detector) test, and the operator concluded that Reeves was not guilty of deception or of lying in giving the answers to the questions asked him in regard to seeing the UFO and the alien. Mr. E. J. Edwards, the polygraph examiner added: "A further and most significant point of interest is, at the conclusion of the tests, Mr. Reeves first remarked, 'Now, would you like to see the place where | saw the saucer?’ The usual reaction of a guilty subject with respect to not answering truthfully is more likely to have been 'Well, how did | make out?' There was, in Mr. Reeves, a complete unconcern about the polygraph test outcome. It is my opinion, therefore, that he was truth-telling in all Two months later, the Air Force returned the alleged alien script with the charge that the whole thing was an obvious hoax. According to Air Force investigators, who had decoded the ciphers, the message read: "Planet Mars - Are you coming home soon - We missing you very much - Why did you stay away Reeves, confused and troubled by the Air Force's charges, insisted that the sheets which the investigators returned to him were not the same ones which he gave them on March 3rd. And there the matter rests. Stale-mate. One can accept the Air Force's charge that the 66-year-old retired longshoreman was capable of perpetrating an elaborate hoax - complete with strange footprints, landing gear indentations, a detailed description of an alien, and a convincing manuscript on peculiar tissue paper - or one can accept the NICAP's charges that the Air Force is once again "covering up" a major clue to the UFO mystery. 23. How Do They Move? "We are spending millions to develop our own rocket boosters to get our spacecraft to the moon and beyond. Imagine what a great help it would be to get our hands on a ship from another planet and examine its power plant."