Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Out performs & more features than any Tesla.











Interesting product name with 20g of 'spiked' protein:





Neither of you two bitches fooled me.



Weird photo of the day: Soviet Yeti water polo player Petre Kako Mshvenieradze with his grandson, 1990s. Ooof!

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On January 20, 1961 - 62 years ago today - John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States, and the 1st Catholic and 1st to be born in the 20th century.

Phil Stern's request of Frank Sinatra to be appointed photographer for JFK's inaugural gala of 1961.


Phil Stern Archives


Invitation to JFK inaugural events, starting with "Distinguished Ladies," this week 1961:



JFK's inaugural top hat and gloves on display at Kennedy Library, 2017:




JFK's inauguration was watched on TV by approximately 60 million people... and *at least* 1 cat.



Frank Sinatra at rehearsal for JFK inaugural gala.



Here's Nancy Pelosi at JFK's inauguration gala.



Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas at JFK’s birthday gala, 1962.



Maria Callas, La Divina ("the Divine one") mistress to Aristotle Onassis before he married Jackie Kennedy.

In 1957, while still married to husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, Callas was introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis at a party given in her honor by Elsa Maxwell, the original party girl.

Learn from a master...

Maxwell told interviewer Mike Wallace in 1957:

I did not feel fit, to be only married. I belong to the world. I knew it instinctively when I was quite young. I belong to the world. Certainly I am the most shall we say immodestly, [among] the best-known people in the entire world today. Why, because I did not marry and I felt that I was not for marriage. It wasn’t my … thing to do.

She died of heart failure in a Manhattan hospital.

Her longtime friend Dorothy “Dickie” Fellowes-Gordon was Maxwell’s sole heir.

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The last thing you see before being hunted for sport on a private island.






Artificial Woketelligence™ - Heel tha plenit! Seyv dee urth!










The Seedy Side of Davos



WTF is going here?

This is what ya call a GenZ glowjob.



This looks almost as peaceful as 2020 did!

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Vintage Vixens




Carrie Fisher at Stinson Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, October 1983. (photo by Aaron Rapoport for Rolling Stone magazine)



Personal memory: Back when I was going to Naval school, on the weekends me & the boys would often drive the scenic Hwy 1 out to Stinson Beach. Next door was a nude beach which provided surreal eye candy for curious sailors.







Lunchtime on Gilligan's Island. Look at the Skipper devour that lobster!




Gilligan’s Island


1963: Raquel Welch auditions for the part of Maryann on Gilligan's Island.


I really need a time machine!


Richard Burton and his 3 leading ladies, Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr, & Ava Gardner. THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA directed by John Huston, 1964.



A premiere of Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward, 1952.




Magnificent Ava Gardner




Lilly Christine, a.k.a. "The Cat Girl," (Dec 17, 1923 - Jan 9, 1965) was a famous and beloved burlesque exotic dancer and men's magazine model of the late 1940's up until the early 1960's with a mesmerizing stage presence, a wild mane of long peroxide blonde hair, and a simply spectacular 37C-22-35 voluptuous bombshell body. Lilly was born as Martha Theresa Pompender on December 17, 1923 in Dunkirk, New York.  Christine graced the covers and posed for centerfolds in such adult publications as Rogue, He, Modern Man, Gala, Tempo, and Cover Girls. Her belly dance-inspired moves fascinated audiences up until her tragically early death due to peritonitis.

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Reckless gaslighting media parasites to publish this headline after the murders in Monterey Park & Half Moon Bay. Clickbait desperation.



LOL, they changed the headline:






Live look at Mike Pence’s neighbor:



Bait...


Archived for near future reference.








WTF is this @DoD_AARO ??



Final scene of The Sting 1973:

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'Safeguarding the college student' — American cartoon (ca. 1948) showing the soldier of 'Christian Home Training' protecting college students from the arrows of unbelief, communism, atheism, radicalism, modernism, humanism, evolution and doubt. The cartoon is by U.S. Abell and was published in the Christian magazine 'Moody Monthly', for which Abell worked for almost three decades.




Soviet cartoon (1972) showing an American general wringing coins out of his European allies before depositing them in the 'NATO' bin. The factory of 'U.S. military industry' meanwhile chugs away in the background.




'The NATO circus' — Soviet cartoon (1958) showing a NATO officer as a circus trainer forcing the British lion and French rooster to balance nuclear bombs.




Soviet cartoon condemning the alleged poisoning of western youth with 'tele-propaganda', violence and pornography. Drawn by Naum Lisogorsky for Krokodil magazine, 1978. Caption reads: "Hours of daily television propaganda of violence, cruelty and debauchery poisons the souls of Western youth and greatly contributes to the growth of crime in capitalist countries."


Full PDF issue: CROCODILE


'The sculptor of Germany' — German cartoon published in Kladderadatsch magazine in 1933 showing Hitler mixing genetic soup into German 'Aryan' super soldiers. Artist: Oskar Garvens.




'The Moloch of the plutocracies' — German cartoon (April 1940) showing Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill shovelling soldiers into Moloch's mouth. Published in Kladderadatsch magazine, illustration by Oskar Garvens.




'How that turned out...' — Soviet cartoon (1958) showing a captive Nazi officer gradually becoming a NATO officer. This was actually quite true, but fewer steps. Classic example here


Published in Krokodil magazine, 20 February 1958. The cartoon is by Herluf Bidstrup, a Danish communist cartoonist whose work regularly featured in Soviet publications.





Similar theme in this Romanian poster published the following year:
Romanian anti-NATO propaganda poster (1959) showing American hands placing a NATO label over a Nazi zombie's head: 'New label on old merchandise'. Text on the zombie's head reads 'Denazified'. Nazi ET tech had tablets back then too. Ironic considering Romania was an actual German ally with its own fascist movement, the Iron Guard.




Wartime propaganda intended to convince sceptical US audience that Britain presides over a commonwealth of trading nations, rather than an empire. Published around 1941.

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The Chinese built Nigeria's first deep seaport has commenced operations. The same day Nigerian politicians received visa restrictions from USA.
US foreign policy: Fvck 'em!


Nigeria opens first deep seaport


Big pharma censorship...The Daily Mail got a call and took down their article.



archived here





Hard boiled author Mickey Spillane complained that America was too woke.


Psychotronic Video magazine, Number 28, 1998


UFO scholar 'I been out too long in the Nevada sun' Jeremy Kenyon Lockheed Corbell has found an actual live alien for the History Channel. Finally some hard evidence!






Looks like a Winner! LOL



Even better!








In case you're interested, Lockheed is hiring for Antarctica.

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And we walk onwards, the curtains of cozening gently wafting to one side and heart-stopping
truth beginning to take shape.

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Good mornin'




On January 26, 1966, Cesar Romero’s Joker debuted in Don Weis & Robert Dozier’s "Batman" tv episode “The Joker is Wild” on ABC. Adapting David Vern Reed & Dick Sprang's 1952 story “The Joker’s Utility Belt”, the episode marks Joker’s debut outside of comics.



January 26, 1966: Cesar Romero as The Joker as Italian opera Pagliacci in Batman.






Today in 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger’s mission STS-51-L external fuel tank exploded and the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, FL, killing all six crew members, and New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe. Investigators found failure of O-ring seals in the right solid rocket booster was the cause.

The crew on board the Challenger:
Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnick, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.


The Crew of the Challenger Shuttle Mission in 1986

VP George Bush had announced that Christa McAuliffe would be Challenger's "Teacher in Space," 1985.



My mom was a teacher then and was quite ecstatic to hear this news AND she knew Gregory Jarvis. She had a tv in her classroom and watched in horror with her class. School was promptly cancelled and remained closed the next day. I remember my mom went into shock & deep depression from this tragic day forward.


President Reagan’s address to the nation that night quotes from John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight”

President Reagan, who had been planning to deliver his State of the Union speech that evening, instead consoled a grieving nation by giving one of the most powerful presidential addresses of the 20th century, concluding with the following paragraph that quotes from the first and last lines of the poem:

    The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”

C-SPAN

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Jan 29, 1964: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” opened in New York City, Toronto, and London. The original release date of December 12, 1963—and a special New York City preview on November 22, 1963 were postponed after JFK’s assassination.

“The wild hot-line suspense comedy!”




Interestingly, because of the delay, the film opened a year and a day after filming began:



After JFK's assassination Kubrick had to change a line in the movie: 

When Major Kong says "a fella could have a good time in Vegas" it's an overdub. The original line was "a fella could have a good time in Dallas."


"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"







Concerned that the fictional nuclear war scenarios depicted in 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” and “Fail Safe” would undermine public support for nuclear deterrence, SAC and the USAF produced a film (excerpted below) insisting there was really no cause for alarm.





For more about “SAC Command Post,” see The Air Force versus Hollywood


To watch the entire film (which strangely was never publicly released), see: Air Force Special Film Project 1236, "SAC Command Post"




Dr. Strangelove Potato redux




September 7, 1964:

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Jan 31, 1950: President Harry Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop “the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb” thermonuclear weapons even though the Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded in January 1948 “the majority of targets do not require a more powerful bomb because of area limitations." "It is part of my responsibility as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to see to it that our country is able to defend itself against any possible aggressor," Truman said. "The Bristish Communist party and the 'Red' Dean of Canterbury were first to criticize it."




Truman announced the development of the H-bomb or "Hellbomb" as the New York Daily News put it in their February 1, 1950 edition.





In other words, less than three years after using just one relatively small atomic bomb apiece to level Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US military had already decided existing atomic bombs were more than sufficient to pulverize Soviet cities and destroy most military installations.

Truman’s decision also defied the AEC’s eight-member General Advisory Committee (GAC), led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, which in October 1949 issued a unanimous recommendation against pursuing crash development of the so-called Super bomb, presciently arguing:


General Advisory Committee's Majority and Minority Reports on Building the H-Bomb



Major General Leslie Groves (1896 - 1970) (left), head of the Mahattan Project (which he named), talks with David E. Lilienthal (1899 - 1981), chairman of Secretary of State James Byrnes' Committee on Atomic Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, October 1946. In 1947, Groves and the military handed control of the project over the newly created Atomic Energy Commission, whose first head was Lilienthal. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty image)

A majority of the AEC agreed with the GAC, but Teller, Lawrence, and Alvarez strongly dissented. AEC chair David Lilienthal told Truman on Nov. 9, 1949, that building H-bombs would “intensify in a new way” the arms race and lead to a “costly cycle of misconception and illusion.”
Source: Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal by Rodney P. Carlisle, original published 1996 (PDF, pg 69)

Indeed, this decision—followed by an equally if not more momentous one Truman approved two years later—paved the way for the largely unrestricted (and often one-sided) nuclear arms race that defined the decades ahead and continues to affect us all today.

Jan 16, 1952: President Truman in a top secret meeting approved the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy’s so-called 50-150 expansion program, directing the Atomic Energy Commission to arbitrarily increase production of plutonium by 50% and highly enriched uranium by 150%.

Truman Library, PSF–Subject file, “Atomic Energy—Expansion of the Fissionable”


Press Conference at Atomic Energy Committee Room:

(Original Caption) Newsmen were given a "peek" for the first time of the new "protected" Joint Atomic energy Committee Room at the Capitol. Senator Brien McMahon, (D-Ct.), third from left, Chairman of the Committee, explains to newsmen some of the protective features of the room, such as bars and electrical tapes on the windows to prevent tampering. The Committee room is said to have the best security protection of any in the Capitol.
Photo source: Getty




American astronomer and director of Harvard College Observatory, Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) on left, hands a piece of Uranium ore to United States Senator from Connecticut, Brien McMahon (1903-July 28, 1952), Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy in Washington DC, United States on 2nd April 1946. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images)


Although the 50-150 program was highly-classified information, JCAE chairman Senator Brien McMahon (D-Connecticut) leaked word of it to the press immediately after meeting with Truman about it on January 17.



He was pro H-bomb arsenal.

U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949

By Steven Aftergood • September 2, 2010

The question of whether or not to disclose the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal “goes to the very heart of our democratic system of government,” said Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT) in a newly rediscovered 1949 speech (pdf) on secrecy in nuclear weapons policy.

“Do we possess five bombs, or fifty bombs, or five hundred bombs?  Are we strong or weak in the field of atomic weapons?  Only the Atomic Energy Commissioners, high-ranking military men, and a few others know the correct answer to these vital questions,” Sen. McMahon said.

Sen. McMahon (1903-1952) was the principal author of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which established the Atomic Energy Commission and placed control of nuclear weapons in civilian hands.

“Though I have been a member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy since its inception, and though I have just been elected its chairman, I do not myself know how many bombs we possess or how rapidly we are making new ones,” he said.

“It is interesting to note that concealment of atomic production rates is secrecy of a scope which has never been attempted before during peacetime in the United States,” Sen. McMahon said. He indicated that he had not reached a definite conclusion as to whether the size of the stockpile size should be made public.

The text of Senator McMahon’s January 31, 1949 address to the Economic Club of Detroit was entered into his rather voluminous FBI file, which was obtained by researcher Michael Ravnitzky.

Illustrating the often glacial pace of secrecy reform, it was not until May 3 of this year that the current size of the nuclear arsenal was officially revealed for the first time.

From the Brien McMahon PDF linked above:



Elugelab was an island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was destroyed by the world's first true hydrogen bomb test on November 1, 1952, a test which was codenamed "Mike" shot of Operation Ivy. Prior to being destroyed, the island was described as "just another small naked island of the atoll".

"The island of Elugelab is missing!" President Eisenhower heard this short report on the Mike shot in Operation IVY from Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Source is Operation IVY "Q-Clearance" sanitized video.

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Dem' bombs, they can be tetchy !!

The Second Incident.

'On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin and seven other personnel were in a Los Alamos laboratory
conducting another experiment to verify the closeness of the core to criticality by the positioning of
neutron reflectors.

Slotin, who was leaving Los Alamos, was showing the technique to Alvin C. Graves, who would use
it in a final test before the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests scheduled a month later at Bikini Atoll.
It required the operator to place two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around the core to
be tested and manually lower the top reflector over the core using a thumb hole on the top.


The Saviour, Louis Slotin & where the screwdriver had to 'slot-in' to the Demon Core.

As the reflectors were manually moved closer and farther away from each other, scintillation counters
measured the relative activity from the core. The experimenter needed to maintain a slight separation
between the reflector halves in order to stay below criticality. The standard protocol was to use shims
between the halves, as allowing them to close completely could result in the instantaneous formation
of a critical mass and a lethal power excursion.

Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the
closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin's other hand. Slotin,
who was given to bravado, became the local expert, performing the test on almost a dozen occasions,
often in his trademark blue jeans and cowboy boots, in front of a roomful of observers.

Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued
performing the test in that manner. Scientists referred to this flirting with the possibility of a nuclear
chain reaction as "tickling the dragon's tail", based on a remark by physicist Richard Feynman, who
compared the experiments to "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon".

On the day of the accident, Slotin's screwdriver slipped outward a fraction of an inch while he was
lowering the top reflector, allowing the reflector to fall into place around the core. Instantly, there
was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical,
releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second.

Slotin quickly twisted his wrist, flipping the top shell to the floor. The heating of the core and shells
stopped the criticality within seconds of its initiation, while Slotin's reaction prevented a recurrence
and ended the accident.

The position of Slotin's body over the apparatus also shielded the others from much of the neutron
radiation, but he received a lethal dose of 1,000 rad (10 Gy) neutron and 114 rad (1.14 Gy) gamma
radiation in under a second and died nine days later from acute radiation poisoning.



The nearest person to Slotin, Graves, who was watching over Slotin's shoulder and was thus partially
shielded by him, received a high but non-lethal radiation dose. Graves was hospitalized for several
weeks with severe radiation poisoning. He died 19 years later, at age 55, of a heart attack.

While this may have been caused by Graves' exposure to radiation, his father also died of a heart
attack (suggesting that the event may have been hereditary).

The second accident was reported by the Associated Press on May 26, 1946:
"Four men injured through accidental exposure to radiation in the government's atomic laboratory here
[Los Alamos] have been discharged from the hospital and 'immediate condition' of four others is
satisfactory, the Army reported today.

Dr. Norris E. Bradbury, project director, said the men were injured last Tuesday in what he described
as an experiment with fissionable material."...'

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Dem' bombs, they can be tetchy !!

The Second Incident.

'On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin and seven other personnel were in a Los Alamos laboratory
conducting another experiment to verify the closeness of the core to criticality by the positioning of
neutron reflectors.

Slotin, who was leaving Los Alamos, was showing the technique to Alvin C. Graves, who would use
it in a final test before the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests scheduled a month later at Bikini Atoll.
It required the operator to place two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around the core to
be tested and manually lower the top reflector over the core using a thumb hole on the top.

Them screw drivers can be lethal! When I read such stories I wonder how in the hell are we all still here!

I clicked on this name from your link:

Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II. He accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945, during a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico and died 25 days later from the resultant radiation poisoning.

Horrible way to go at 24 yrs old.

Spooky 'demon core' Trinity go kaboom - portal to hell has been opened.

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That moment when you get it.

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The Day of the Balloon horror.



BREAKING: Ocean has been destroyed by Chinese Spy Balloon...












The mighty American Fighting Force defeated by the Chinese Spy Balloon...










Enjoy the show.

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Balloon Bonus::

The plot of tonight’s Twilight Zone, "The Fear" the penultimate episode of the series, involves a giant terrorizing a small town in the mountains that turns out to be...a balloon sent by small aliens to try to terrify humans.






The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
… She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
...Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad.

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By the way, the memo from Nichols (above) regarding Senator Brien McMahon's view of miltary cost in nuclear weapons,
does raise an issue many today fail to understand. The income of the average family was $3,100 in 1949 and by 1953,
there were 27,000 millionaires in the US. However, the dollar had decreased from its soaring rates of the forties and stood
alone at its actual worth of one US dollar. (Today, one 1949 dollar is equal to $12.47)

John Davison. Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion when he died in 1937, Cornelius Vanderbilt I's worth was $100 million upon
his death in 1870. There were many others who had attained vast riches through diverse means, but what caught my eye was
the lackadaisical manner McMahon -and Nichols, mentions the use of 'billions' being frittered away on atomic testing.

Most of the public -if not 95%, grew up believing millionaires were scarce and it wasn't until recently in the early 2000s that the
word 'billionaire' became common parlance when speaking of the celebrity circuit and commerce. Somone being a billionaire
was beyond my imagination during the seventies, eighties and even nineties, a perception primarliy carved by the mainstream
media.

With the advent of the computer industry, overnight millionaires were spoken about and the top-slot of being a billionaire was
exclusively held by Bill Gates as far as the same fourth estate were concerned. But what surprised me was the casual use of
the word!

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In memory of Chyna's balloon.

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Feb 5, 1958: a F-86L interceptor collided with a B-47 bomber on a simulated nuclear attack run, severely damaging both aircraft. To land safely at Hunter AFB, Georgia, B-47 pilot Maj. Howard Richardson jettisoned a 3.4-Mt Mk-15 H-bomb into Wassaw Sound. It was never recovered.



7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 H-bomb


Here is a partially-declassified version of the official US Air Force accident report about this 1958 Broken Arrow:

B-47B/F-86L Aircraft Mishap Report, 5 February 1958

In a 2001 report (PDF) responding to a local congressman’s request, the Air Force announced that even if the bomb could be located, its recovery posed potentially unacceptable explosion and contamination risks and that leaving it in place was the safest option.

You might ask why on earth would the military deploy an actual H-bomb in a simulation?

Because for more than 20 years, the Strategic Air Command believed that the best defense was a continuously ready nuclear offense, to the point that it routinely downplayed or ignored the enormous risks such a posture entailed.


Be safe, follow the white rabbit.




Since nukes & black budget UFO's go hand in hand...

This is ground control to Major Dog.












UFOs are slowly going back to their roots... The National Enquirer in the grocery store check out line. Elvis back on the front page too! The world is healing.

"UFO Danger Is Rising!"


The Office of the Director of National intelligence recently announced 510 incidents where aviators saw unidentified objects – but the 'Enquirer' ignores the section where the report added: "there's no evidence of extraterrestrials."

'Enquirer' "experts," however, "conclude America's defences are being tested by extraterrestrials." Just the sort of thing the Lizard People would say to throw us off their tracks.