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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to my friends at Harper-Collins West who helped me navigate this book home, especially my editor, Shirley Christine, for being a wise guide and shrewd interpreter of the mysteries; Beth Weber, for keeping the project on the radar screen; and Annie Kook and Bob Albert, for their levitating book design. My deep gratitude also to Linda Berlin, for her diligent research; Karin Mullen, for her vigilant copy editing; and Brenda Knight, for believing that this ship could fly.

For their valuable assistance, I would also like to acknowledge John Timmerman of the Center for UFO Studies, who graciously supplied us with several key questions, sources, and photographs; Mark Weiman of Regent Press for permission to reprint several images from his book; Tom Morgan of the Mary Evans Picture Library; Glenn Campbell, the indefatigable researcher and watchdog in Nevada, for his insights into Area 51; Jerry McCormack of the Roswell Daily Record, for granting permission to reprint the headline for the article on the Corona Crash; David C. Burgevin of the Smithsonian Institution for his photo research; Abe Dane from Popular Mechanics, for his help in procuring military photographs; Professor David Jacobs for providing valuable background material; and John Price of the Outa Limits UFO Enigma Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, for his gracious hospitality and help in providing charts, photographs, and historical background.

I'm also grateful to the Beban brothers for their far-out movie and music lists, and Keith Thompson for his wit and wisdom regarding the phenomenal realm of ufology. And special thanks to my friend Sarunas Marciulionis for helping me appreciate the global fascination with UFOs by sharing close encounter reports from his homeland of Lithuania.

Finally, my uforic thanks to Jo Beaton for her help in launching this book, keeping it in orbit, and bringing it safely back down to Earth.

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