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14. Seth Shostak, interview with the author, April 6, 2011.

CHAPTER 13: ”A FLYING SAUCER CRASHED NEAR ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, IN 1947 AND

THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT.”

1. ”RAAF Captures Flying Saucer in Roswell Region,” Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947.

2. B. D. Gildenberg, ”A Roswell Requiem,” Skeptic 10, no. 1 (2003): 6061.

3. Ibid., p. 61.

4. Ibid., p. 62.

5. Ibid., p. 63.

6. Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The Roswell Incident (New York: Berkley Books, 1980).

7. Joe Kittinger, interview with the author. Quoted in Guy P. Harrison, ”I Was the First Man in s.p.a.ce,” Caymanian Compa.s.s, October 26, 2001. The complete interview with Joe Kittinger can be read at /custom.html, under the heading ”I Was the First Man in s.p.a.ce.”

8. Ibid.

9. Gildenberg, ”Roswell Requiem.”

10. Air Force Web Information Service, ”The Roswell Report: Case Closed,” US Air Force, June 24, 1997, /wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/ (accessed July 4, 2011).

13. Frank Newport, ”What If Government Really Listened to the People?” Gallup News Service, October 15, 1997, /poll/4594/What-Government-Really-Listened-People.aspx (accessed January 11, 2011).

14. Linda Lyons, ”Paranormal Beliefs Come (Super) Naturally to Some,” Gallup News Service, November 1, 2005, /poll/19558/paranormal-beliefs-come-supernaturally-some.aspx (accessed March 15, 2011).

CHAPTER 14: ”ALIENS HAVE VISITED EARTH.

AND ABDUCTED MANY PEOPLE.”

1. Frank Newport, ”Americans More Likely to Believe in G.o.d Than the Devil, Heaven More Than h.e.l.l,” Gallup News Service, June 13, 2007, /poll/27877/Americans-More-Likely-Believe-G.o.d-Than-Devil-Heaven-More-Than-h.e.l.l.aspx (accessed November 3, 2010).

2. Susan A. Clancy, Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 2829.

3. Ibid., p. 33.

4. Kat McGowan, ”Past Perfect,” in ”The Brain,” special issue, Discover (Fall 2010): 6970.

5. Clancy, Abducted, p. 59.

6. Elizabeth Loftus, interview with the author, March 27, 2011.

7. Clancy, Abducted, p. 35.

CHAPTER 15: ”ASTROLOGY IS SCIENTIFIC.”.

1. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, ”Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths,” Pew Forum, December 9, 2009, pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/Many-Americans-Mix-Multiple-Faiths.aspx (accessed March 10, 2011).

2. Time Staff, ”Good Heavens! An Astrologer Dictating the President's Schedule?” Time, May 16, 1988, /time/magazine/article/0,9171,9673891,00.html (accessed March 10, 2011).

CHAPTER 16: ”ALL SCIENTISTS ARE GENIUSES.

AND SCIENCE IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”