


Proof that intelligent alien life exists in the universe can be found on Mars-or so claims Richard Hoagland, author of the book The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever. There’s no reason to think that anything alien is going on there, but where there is secrecy, there will be conspiracy. It is a top secret military base, and there are of course perfectly legitimate government and military reasons for keeping the base’s purposes secret that have nothing to do with aliens or UFOs 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl suggested that the area may be a dumping ground for toxic waste. The simple fact of the matter is that the public doesn’t really know much about what goes on at the military base near Groom Dry Lake, Nevada (popularly but not officially called Area 51). Some even say that it is an officially-sanctioned landing base for spaceships. government stores and studies extraterrestrial bodies and aircraft, including the unfortunate (and apparently poorly-trained) alien pilots that crashed in Roswell. Curiously, exactly the same phenomena has been attributed to not only aliens but also to Satanic cults and the dreaded chupacabra creature of Hispanic folklore. Research has shown that the "mysterious" features are in fact quite ordinary and are caused by natural decay processes and scavenger attacks. Livestock predation has plagued ranchers and farmers for millennia, but it wasn’t until the last few decades (during the public’s peaking interest in UFOs) that anyone thought to attribute the deaths to aliens. Since the 1970s, hundreds of animal corpses have been found with unusual or inexplicable features, including being drained of blood and having their organs removed with "surgical precision." When alien visitors are not abducting people (see number 2) or implanting things in them ( number 3), or making circles in crops ( number 7), they butcher cattle, either for research purposes or perhaps sadistic amusement.
