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68 talk of UFOs. I know now that it was my lack of background and my paucity of information about the UFO Phenomenon ‘that kept me from _ understanding and voata phenomenon 1 from phenomenon that kept me from understanding and appreciating his program. I did want to meet him to see if he might be my man from the piano. The full skirt of my borrowed purple dress brushed against my bare legs and felt silky and beautiful to me. I had combed my hair and put on fresh makeup before searching him out. I was ready for this meeting. Really, there was no hurry. The crowds still surged about him, hundreds of people, all of them wanting to get near him or talk to him or ask him for his autograph. I kept putting myself at the end of the line so, when I finally was able to talk with him, neither of us would feel hurried or pressured to move on. I realized that someone or something important to my own future was only minutes away. I don’t know what I asked him but I distinctly remember what he said to me. “Would you like to have coffee and discuss this wae = 4k 999 and matter?” New crowds of searchers again surged between us so I went on to the next lecture. I looked around during that session and was shocked to see Dr. Jacques Vallee hunkered down against the wall a few feet from where I eu tA 1 was sitting. A man, one of the acquaintances with whom I’d had breakfast, took me to Vallee and introduced us. When I tried to talk my throat locked. I could hardly speak. I was usually not intimidated by fame. I asked myself what was wrong but could find no answer. When he spoke to me and we had left the lecture hall to walk to the coffee shop aos awed youd soa As we talked, people kept coming up to him but the interruptions didn’t seem to matter. I now felt at ease with him. Like a colleague. It was as if we had known each other c forever. Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding that movement seemed to break the barrier between us. He was very interested in the idea of the documentary we had just produced, the story of Bo and Peep -