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"Tt was at a greater distance than the first object we spotted two weeks earlier. This one was maybe a mile-and-a-half away." "Well, that's a question we ask ourselves," young Giacomo answered. "And the only thing we can think of is: it's a fairly unpopulated area." I couldn't buy this. "It would seem to me," I said, "that a spacecraft coming from another solar system to keep the Earth under surveillance would want to cover some populated areas. Don't you think so?" He smiled. "At school, at the Newark College of Engineering, we were just discussing something like that the other night. And the point we arrived at, the general consensus at school, was that if a UFO - or something you might see over Wanaque - were to appear over, say, Newark, New Jersey, nobody would ever know about it. Because at any time, in a big metropolitan area, you can look up at the sky at night and see hundreds of blinking lights from aircraft passing by. You might even see man-made satellites moving across the curve of the sky. How would you be able to distinguish the UFO wheat from the chaff of routine flight phenomena? It would be pretty tough - even if you were looking for UFOs. "So at school we decided that UFOs become much more apparent when they appear over isolated areas. There they can't be confused with the normal clutter of light in the sky that are normal to big cities." I thought that this was an interesting and even a profound observation - whatever UFOs may be or may not be. I told him so and he smiled. "You know," he said, "flying-saucer watching has become a popular pastime at the Wanaque Reservoir. Not only do people clutter up our roads by driving down or up from such places as Connecticut or Philadelphia to park along the reservoir for a possible sighting - but saucer-watching is also a good excuse for males of all ages to take a girl for a ride and pull their cars off on the side of the road to wait for a UFO - if you know what I mean?" He laughed and added that some of the males were serious about UFOs, but all of them were definitely romantic. Much more scientific in his approach than either the romantic males or the scientifically minded 20- year-old John de Giacomo is the veteral electronic specialist, engineer and Avionics Editor of Aviation Week 6 and Space Technology, Philip J. Klass. Mr. Klass, due to extensive research in the field, is an authority on the relationship between electrical gases and the UFO phenomena. He has written two brilliant articles on the subject for his trade journal, the most eminent and respected in its field. Because he was trying to be scientifically honest, he has been both criticized and praised for his efforts. l interrupted John. "Did it light up the clouds in any way?" "No," he answered. "It didn't seem to light up the clouds. It didn't cast any light." "But why," I asked, "why do all of these UFOs appear in the area of the Wanaque Reservoir?"