bout fifteen years ago, I spent some time in Taos, New Mexico, and met with an interesting, and now dead, character named Dan Salter (see his book, Life With A Cosmos Clearance). Dan claimed to know the inside story of Roswell, crashed UFOs, dead aliens, and high-level conspiracies of truly dizzying varieties. Dan also claimed to be a recently-retired employee of the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office.
When I met Dan at a diner in downtown Taos on my second morning in town, it was clear he was not in good health: he was elderly and frail, had then recently suffered several strokes, both his physical health and his speech had been impaired to a considerable degree as a direct result.
Nevertheless, Salter fully retained his mental faculties, and was highly motivated and upbeat. And, over a wonderful Mexican meal and Margaritas, he regaled me with entertaining tale after entertaining tale about his claimed out-of-this-world exploits and decades-long career as a Fox Mulder-like 007.
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