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114 suspected that Jacques was himself an alien in human form. He was almost too superior in behavior, appearance and Woo ad We learned that a young man of the community had been indulging in alcohol and crank at a party which my girls were attending. They refused to dance with him or to talk to him because of his condition. He drove straight to our house and set the Toyota, which was in the street, on fire. He then raced to the back and poured gasoline over the ship and torched it. Four teenaged boys who had been standing at the far end of our field observing a UFO ship were also watching the activity as well as the ship, they reported later. The all saw a UFO vessel hovering over the fire for the better part of the two hours it took to consume ne re 4 tou that 1" 1 the boat and its wooden shelter, as if the aliens were also monitoring the destruction. Nothing with 69 on it here, folks, just an alien ship hovering overhead to give me my message. Bob had not even known the boat was on fire at first. He’d just awakened when he saw the flames in the car. He went out to try to put out the fire in the car and it was too late by the time his son Kevin and Kevin’s friend, John, had noticed the flames in the high windows of the sheltering building. Bob then realized that the building in the back pasture was also on fire. The fire department could save nothing. The local news media spread the story of our loss across the papers and onto the local and national TV and radio programs. There was something about a concrete boat burning that struck a chord with the reporters. Our loss was a great story for them. The boy was a minor so he was turned loose. Nothing ever happened to him for all that 4 destruction. We gave up all our ocean dreams that night. When Jacques called the next day I refused to even consider another trip of investigation. Our searches had, over the years, cost the Bartholic family a great deal but I Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding intellect to be human.