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70 It wasn’t long until he showed up in Tulsa. At the airport when I went to pick him up he said something that affected my life for years to come. “Barbara, I knew I would be with you again because I coin woe feel I know you from the future.” I said nothing and only made small talk as I drove because I didn’t understand. We went straight to the studio to look at our tape of the Heaven’s Gate people, Bo and Peep then, of course. Even though I told Bill again about the warning against showing the last five minutes of tape they both merely looked at me as if I were some sort of weirdo. Peep had told me privately that the documentary, especially the last five minutes, was supposed to be shown only after they had been taken up in a space vehicle. It was a perfectly calm, starry, beautiful Oklahoma night. At the first second of the last five minutes of tape, a wind rose and circled the building. Then tumultuous rain, thunder, and lightning burst in the sky above and around where we were. As soon as we’d finished the last 5 minutes of tape and Bill turned off the machine, the storm stopped as abruptly as it had started. Dr. Vallee was puzzled but he didn’t want to give credit to either Bo or Peep nor did he care to hear of their testimonials. He refused to speak of the display which had just engulfed us. His reserve was unbreakable, seemingly, and he would not comment on the weather nor on the Bo and Peep tape at all. The next day before he left he told me he was interested in cattle mutilations and he asked me to call if I heard of Springs, Arkansas and she said they were having a rash of cattle mutilations there. In fact, I wasn’t aware of it yet but I had just been linked up with the largest cattle mutilation case in the United States. The mass mutilations in Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding such incidents. I promised I would do so. wert at 1 Atle AL ate Within three weeks a friend had called me from Eureka The mass mutilations in Arkansas, by the way, started the night that the film, Close