Free Secret Journey to Planet Serpo by Len Kasten Page A

superseded civilized curiosity.
    But from another viewpoint, that paranoia may have been fully justified, since we knew nothing about the aliens’ motives. After all, this craft was evidently scrutinizing the most sensitive military installation in the world. If an alien civilization was contemplating an invasion of Earth, it would certainly begin by checking out the most powerful military capability of the most powerful nation on the planet. It is supremely logical that the military would have come to that conclusion, and that possibility alone justified sending the alien to Los Alamos. In fact, as more and more of the secret information about the Roswell crash emerged over time, it began to appear that the alien craft may indeed have been conducting a spy mission in advance of some sort of mass landing. Army Colonel Philip Corso apparently believed that when he wrote in his book,
The Day after Roswell:

    Cielo supercomputer at Los Alamos *15
    The real truth behind a fifty-year history of a war that looked like the ultimate defeat of humankind . . . can now finally be told because we prevailed. It was because in the dark hours before dawn in July 1947 the army, only dimly recognizing that we were on the edge of a potential cataclysmic event, pulled the crashed spacecraft out of the desert and harvested its parts just like the inhabitants of that vehicle wanted to harvest us.
    This dramatic supposition was evidently based on a top secret report that human body parts had been found on the crashed alien craft!
    And then, of course, there were the security considerations. Since the government had immediately decided, right after the crash, to keep the entire matter in top secret containment, the site chosen to host the alien had to be extremely secure, and no facility was more secure, at that time, than the home of the Manhattan Project. That requirement alone ruled out a university location. Even the Pentagon itself, which was only four years old in 1947, did not have as high a level of security as Los Alamos in those early years, since the Pentagon was right in the middle of a very busy section of northern Virginia. By contrast, the only entrance to Los Alamos was over a single mountain road tucked inside a canyon.
    THE FIRST MESSAGES
    The major concern in dealing with the alien was, first and foremost, communication. And evidently it was believed that if the most brilliant scientists in the country could not learn to communicate with the ET, then nobody could. Furthermore, once the alien was in a secure location, other, more appropriate language personnel could be brought in, as needed, to facilitate communication and interaction. And they, of course, would be thoroughly investigated and made to sign security oaths before gaining admission.
    MJ-12 decided to refer to the Roswell aliens as “Ebens.” This was simply an unimaginative derivation of EBE, standing for “extraterrestrial biological entity.” After being comfortably ensconced at Los Alamos, the alien, who was given the designation Ebe1 by MJ-12, willingly cooperated in attempting to overcome the communication barrier. But the language differences were huge and seemed insurmountable. As shown in
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie (see chapter 18), the Eben language consisted of tonal variations, and sounded almost musical. One contributor to the Serpo website described it as “high-pitched singing.” Some of the sounds were not even reproducible by the Americans. For the entire five-year period that Ebe1 remained alive, he was only able to teach the Los Alamos scientists about 30 percent of the Eben language. Anonymous reported that “Complex sentences and numbers could not be recognized.”
    Ebe1 identified a piece of equipment found intact on the alien craft as a communications device for sending and receiving messages from his home planet, and he showed the scientists how to use it, but they