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4 mask was removed before the cameras A clip from television coverage of the press conference is featured in I Know What I Saw.

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5 which could be seen for 150 miles Senator John McCain, letter to constituent (name redacted), United States Senate, October 9, 1997.

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6 were, in fact, flares Dr. Bruce Maccabee, “Report on Phoenix Light Arrays,” 1998, http://brumac.8k.com/phoenixlights1.html. This detailed study concludes with the following:

“The most parsominous explanation for these lights is that they were flares (as so stated for the March 13, 1997, lights by the Maryland National Guard). This analysis is therefore consistent with that of the Cognitech Corporation (Dr. Leonid Rudin) done for the Discovery Channel documentary (November, 1997). It is also consistent with the analysis of Dr. Paul Scowen, professor of astronomy at ASU, as reported by author Tony Ortega in the Phoenix “New Times” newspaper, March 5–11, 1998, which showed that the lights were farther away than the mountain peaks in the K video. In that newspaper article the author also reported that an “Arizona National Guard public information officer, Captain Eileen Benz, had determined that the flares had been dropped at 10 P.M. over the North Tac Range 30 miles southwest of Phoenix at an unusually high altitude of 15,000 ft.” Except for the stated distance, which should be more like 60 miles (and up to 100 miles away), this statement is consistent with the analysis presented here.”

A second paper by Dr. Maccabee, “Supplementary Discussions of the Phoenix Lights Videos of March 13, 1997,” January, 2006, can be found at http://brumac.8k.com/PhoenixSupplement/.

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7 “any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs” Dennis Roberts, reporter for the Modesto Bee, a Northern California newspaper, attended the press conference in Stockton, California, and taped it. He sent me a transcript in an e-mail on March 1, 2000.

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8 over the Royal Air Force base at Cosford See chapter 17 by Nick Pope, “The Real X-Files,” for a review of the Cosford incident.

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9 as Goldwater has written in his letters See the previous chapter for excerpts from these letters.

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1 I cofounded the Coalition for Freedom of Information See www.freedomofinfo.org for more information on the Coalition for Freedom of Information, CFi.

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2 as a way of saving face MSNBC presidential debate, October 30, 2007. Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21528787/page/22/< /a>.

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3 “for for the benefit of science” Go to www.freedomofinfo.org for the full text of the International Declaration to the United States Government, first released in November 2007.

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1 the overwhelming evidence for its existence Alexander Wendt and Robert Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO,” Political Theory, vol. 36, no. 4 (August 2008), pp. 607–33. Sage Publications has posted the paper on its website, http://ptx.sagepub.com.

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2 a bad fairy had administered a sleeping potion Hynek, “The Roots of Compacency,” 1985, op. cit.

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