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Now it was all being driven again into the foreground, all of that which had for so long been hanging out in the wings—some of it coaxed from its entrenched reluctance on the strength of increased (probable) acceptance for testimony formerly subject to ridicule and indifference, some eagerly leaping to the opportunity like folded acts that had just got news of vaudeville's revival... There was the "old stuff ("old", that is, for the cognoscenti), that hadn't enjoyed the real buzz of currency in decades, things that hadn't been spoken with topicality for years such as the Allende letters and the Mcn-In-Black fate of Morris K. Jessup; the perennial Hangar 18; the mysteries of Mothman trotted out of mothballs; the anomalies of the Bermuda and Great Lakes Triangles and the Toronto underground....and there was truly fresh stuff to update and even upstage the standbys, the business with Area 51 and Dreamland in Nevada, the Roswell crash landings that seemed to be accepted ‘ * 4 Fa Sd ie eo “ ha +p eb bseze a Baie wy already as de facto curtain—raiser of the modern era, the Los Alamos genetic experiments and joint Soviet/American space ventures both predating the supposed advent of molecular genetics on the one hand and human planetary exploration on the other... Indeed the next day at the 11:00 press conference we would sample just such a cross-section of old and new presenters composing the present circuit, who therefore on the basis of pure box-office calculation represented a fair mirror of the audience cross—section— the composition of the general public with respect to the current status of America's most secretly savored topic. In assessing just this current mix (some would opine "mixed nuts") and finding once again as always the same breathtaking range wrapped in one compass, one was reminded that the whole topic of UFOs had ever resembled what was once observed about visiting the Sudan: i.e., while a tourist to that desert would gaze upon its formidable expanse and see nothing but vacant hillocks to the far horizon, his Arab guide could identify every tribe encamped behind each dune and name the relations on either side of the chiefs' families to the fifth generation. In exactly this way, a cross—section taken on the general state of knowledge with respect to the "UFO" phenomenon at any given time would yield a range from the vacant headscratching of "John Q." pondering on 81 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm