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their area at attention and were prohibited from looking around or Level 1. There were other sentries on Level 1, whom he did not directly at anybody. They were not allowed to talk to each other know. or to anybody else. Socialisation off-duty was discouraged and He saw naked alien bodies pickled in a liquid and preserved little conversation or discussion took place in the facility, making standing erect in a large, transparent, tubelike case. A metal band everyone pretty much a loner. around the waist held the bodies erect. The eyes in one of them The men were given physical examinations every three months, seemed to be sunken back some. during which they were always hypnotised for about one hour. Over time, a small camera was successfully taken into the facil- Even their most secret thoughts were probed. ity, pictures were taken and the film was brought out. This These men were allowed three days of rest and recuperation became a dangerous game, and its possible discovery during one leave in groups and were taken to Las Vegas once a month. They of the hypnotic sessions may have been the real reason for his were dropped at the Imperial Palace Hotel on Las Vegas sudden separation. If this was the case, and he really did have Boulevard in the afternoon of the first day, and were picked up at Hodgkin's disease, the implications were fearful. He may have 16:00 on the third day to go back to their been given this disease by his own work facility. Rooms were provided in a superiors to terminate him for what special reserved section of the Imperial he had seen! This had already Palace maintained by the security agency. He saw naked alien bodies occurred to him, and he was very The men were searched on the way out of worried because he was still in per- the secure S-4 facility, and were searched pickled ina liquid and preserved fect health and had no history of again and given a polygraph test on the standing erect in a large such a disease in his family. way back into the facility. His retaliation, if this turned out On his last quarterly physical, our guest transparent, tubelike case. A to be true, was to release some 52 was told that he had Hodgkin's disease metal band around the waist photographs taken inside Level 2 of and would be given a medical discharge, S-4. If successfully brought out, he which was done. He was distraught at held the bodies erect. could blow the lid off such a nefari- being kicked out of his choice service and ous operation which was truly the a career which he loved and counted on. work of "mad scientists". He wanted to go all the way to his retire- Connor felt his hand was being ment in this service. He was frightened at forced by the freezing of his money the prospect of being ill and debilitated by a killer disease when supply, and he now sought to get out of the whole thing. He he felt perfectly well. He had always been very active. shipped his "weapon", the set of 52 photographs, in the starter box only 20 minutes before he got on the bus to come to Tucson. None had begun to take an interest in what was going on Other sets were strategically stashed in case of intercept of one or and ha kh. in tha in the facility, and he began to look around and at things. He saw seven disc-shaped craft stored there in Level 2. Three of them were alike and the remaining four were all differ- ent. He saw some of them occasionally taken up to Level 1, and sometimes one would be taken outside when all satellite activity was clear. The craft were kept on rolling platforms, and they were always moved on these same platforms from his Level 2 to Cr had begun to take an interest in what was going on more. 66 = NEXUS He saw naked alien bodies held the bodies erect. DECEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998