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From the surface of Mars--where the sky is salmon and Earth is a blue morning star--you probably would have noticed the spaceship coming. It may have been the noise the thing made that caught your attention; although the Martian atmosphere is spent and shredded, it's not too tenuous to carry sound. And it's certainly not too tenuous to make anything that tries to punch through it pay the price, causing the interloper to glow like a meteor as it plunged toward a touchdown somewhere on the ancient world. That you couldn't have missed...
...most provocative evidence is secondhand. Industrious UFOlogists may spend years tracking down slim leads like the one attributed to a former cafe owner in Taos, N.M., who told interlocutors that an old customer, a desert rat named Cactus Jack, once told her he was "out there when the spaceship came down" and saw dead aliens with blood "like tar." But despite the best efforts of Kevin Randle and others, no one has yet been able even to confirm Jack's existence, let alone his veracity. Hunting spacemen can be as daunting as finding the lady who dried her poodle...
McCaffrey's book Restoree, published in 1968, was a send-up of other science-fiction novels of the 1950s and '60s that portrayed women as weak, damsel-in-distress types. "I got so goddamn tired of the heroines' sitting in the corner of the spaceship wringing their hands and crying," McCaffrey says. "I would have been in there kicking and screaming, doing anything to help the hero...
...professional astronomer, former astronaut and new-paradigm scientist, I was a guest on Art Bell's radio talk show [NATION, April 14] on Feb. 16. To Bell's credit, I had the opportunity to make very clear that I saw absolutely no scientific evidence for any spaceship companion to the Hale-Bopp comet. But I also cited positive evidence for the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence through the UFO phenomenon. It is easy to use the Heaven's Gate tragedy to debunk the entire range of phenomena associated with possible visitations, ignoring government cover-ups of reverse engineering and of radical...
...power to persuade 38 followers to abandon their lives and families and commit suicide in the hope of leaving the earth aboard a spaceship, then maybe it is time for all of us to find our own comet and get as far away from this planet as possible. ALEX HOEFINGER Amherst, Massachusetts...