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required the concerted effort of every available scientist or the incalculable factor of the random, gifted amateur they were always scouting for in those days—you know, the surprise element of undereducated ‘naivete' that stumbles on something the experts overlook just because of the gaps in formal comprehension..." "Let's get back to what you were saying about the 'crashed UFOs'," Fonda succeeds in tugging the meandering circuit of his mind through the associative links of conversation, back to the theme that had generated the rippling undertone, the 'Vibe" of tacit menace. "Well, that all has to do with how and why the military—corporate power structure developed its strategy for handling the situation in the first place. It seems the secret government was a little dubious about these 'spacebrothers' since they first crashlanded in Roswell, New Mexico and four corners in the years between 1947 and 1949, since they not only recovered alien bodies from the wreckage but the spare parts of missing military personnel..." "What!" Fonda's bloodshot eye slides to its very corner under a limp awning where it peers obliquely at Nicholson. "You mean these spacebeings were carving people up, and this was all known from the very 1 sot an beginning?" "It seems there was all manner of confusing specimens aboard those first crashed ships, and it was never really clear to the ‘powers that be' whether these wrecks and their contents weren't staged for maximum emotional impact, you know, in order to create deliberate confusion. There was all sorts of weird stuff on board those ships that were subsequently taken to Holliman and Edwards Air Force bases; there was allegedly an array of spaccbeing fetuses hooked up to tubes and surgically altered to have more human features, and there were carcasses of dead crew that showed bizarre insides at autopsy, like a chlorophyll—based circulatory system suggesting some nutritive process of do-it-yourself photosynthesis..." "Wait a minute," Hopper interjects, "if this stuff was originally discovered before the government even made a formal face—to—face treaty with these...aliens..." he snorts in a private amusement..."what happens to the idea about 'cosmic law' and all that stuff, huh? Answer me that, Mr. Bible—belt barrister! What about the idea that these negative beings have to obey some kind of quasi-spiritual rule about being invited first, before they can assume they've got the go-ahead to start cutting up! Got you there, huh Mr. William Jennings Bryan!" "Not a bit, cap'n," Jack grins his Cheshire grin, "for it seems the power-structure is so damnably compartmentalized with its nests of secret groups and agencies inside other secret groups and agencies that all along the left hand has not really known what the right hand has been doing." "Uh huh, that is correct, my friend. On a limited basis FDR had already made an agreement on the open seas before WWII with one of the negative alien subgroups, for certain technological advantages and training that could be used during wartime. Of course the aliens had already entered into an even more extensive agreement with the Nazis, but Roosevelt didn't necessarily know about this." "Boggles the mind." Hopper's mind seems to drift off with the attenuated distraction of his voice—disconnected segments, misce laneous bits will occur to him in the course of the next day, no one edge Cut ‘ a "Of course, the spacebeings had always been beaming the electromagnetically enhanced thought—waves toward Earth people and especially influential figures, so as to entice them subconsciously and lead them—without their knowing it of course—to the point of psychic readiness where they'd be willing to enter into some such pact once the beings revealed themselves and demonstrated something of their marvelous 69 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm "You mean...somebody in the government had already extended the invitation to them!?" fitting to any other...