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71 Encounters of the Third Kind premiered across Arkansas. That was in December, 1977. Jacques called and I told him about all the UFO’s that were filling the sky above Eureka Springs and about the series of cattle mutilations that were taking place night after tatoos night in that area. Our relations! Our relationship, born in 1977, grew into an investigative partnership that lasted for years. The physicist, practiced in the methods of objective scrutinization of almost everything that appeared before him, became my mentor. I learned the art of scientific interviewing and the craft of interrogation. I learned to recognize a thread of evidence, then learned the patience required to follow that thread through a maze of deception and masked memories. I learned to follow the thread until it born in 1 1977, grew into lasted for years. methods of obje into an that The the methods led to a conclusion, putting aside all my own prejudices and preconceived notions. I didn’t work for Vallee but with him. The cases came to me and together we investigated a them. I believe the same synchronicity that led me to meet Bob Bartholic that evening in Tulsa, also brought me to work with Dr. Jacques Vallee. When Vallee left Tulsa after viewing the Bo and Peep film I took him to the airport. As the announcement of his flight came over the speaker he reached for his attaché case and smiled down at me. work right away.” “Wonderful,” I answered, still unsure how I should address my new friend and investigative partner. I had agreed to work with him, I just didn’t quite understand what that work would be. I watched his airplane grow smaller until it disappeared into the eastern sky, then I walked toward the parking lots at the front of Tulsa International Airport. Outside I glanced at the sky again. Cumulus built and soared to the heavens. Lightning Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator “ll call you from San Francisco, Barbara. We can start