Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

CHAPTER 11"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously."—Mikhail Gorbacheti; Soviet Youth, May 4, 1990—"LITTLE GRAY ALIENS?" Melissa Kelley asked mockingly. "This is all aboutthe little gray guys we see on TV? Let's just go back to the first lie.""I understand your skepticism, Dr. Kelley," Neil responded calmly, "but I canassure you that this is no joke—and no lie. You wanted us to come clean; so we are." Shejust shook her head."The Colonel thought there was a possibility we might have to reveal this to all ofyou, but deemed it best to try to get what we needed from you without divulging thisinformation. After all—and I speak from the perspective of the Defense Department—this is our country's most closely guarded secret. Nothing is classified any higher.""Just what do you mean by `get what you need from us?'" asked Melissa."All of you have certain areas of expertise that are relevant to a careful andsuccessful handling of a public disclosure of this information. Surely you can see howyour expertise in apocalyptic cults fits into this picture. Your presentation earlier thismorning was the first in a series of informational installments we hoped—and stillexpect—to glean from you. We hoped we could draw everything we needed from yourresearch and informed opinion without actually disclosing our knowledge of intelligentextraterrestrial life by substituting another extraterrestrial scenario. Likewise we wantedto tap Deidre, not only for her work in group psychology, but also abductionpsychology.""Abduction psychology?""Yes. Your colleague has very quietly established herself as an expert in the alienabduction psychology—specifically in terms of profiling and psychotherapy.""Is he kidding?" Melissa turned her attention toward Dr. Harper."Nope," she answered abruptly, "that's my specialty. What he's saying makessense to me.""You believe this line?" Melissa asked incredulously."Yeah, I do. It just figures that our government would impersonate leeches beforethey would do the unthinkable and tell their own employees the t r uth. Entirely consistentto me," she droned sarcastically."Look at the rest of the team," Neil continued. "Brian and Father Benedict werechosen to help us break this news to main-stream western religious communities. Brian isone of the few conservative religious scholars in the world to address this in an academicpaper, and the apologetic angle he took in that monograph will be quite useful towardpersuading most conservative Christians that their paradigm will remain intact even if ETis here."104