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79 veterinarian. The veterinarian had to nail my heel back onto my shoe... quite reluctantly, I might add. The vet seemed to think I had broken the high heel from my shoe just to irritate him. It was on that trip that I learned that the stepping in manure is considered “good luck” in France. Whenever I was with this unemotional European model of decorum, it seems, my mind was not firing on all synapses. I think his up-tight perfection made me seem, by comparison, more than a little dizzy. I do know that whenever Vallee and I worked together I could expect something dreadful when I got home. Luckily Bill Blair was interested in my adventures so I was able to hang on to my job with his TV studio. However, in my personal and private life, some member of my family or a part of my household would always have met with sickness or accident or some other terrible happening. A sinister energy has always operated behind the scene to make problems for my family and me throughout my career as an investigator. [ll talk more about this problem in a later chapter. When we arrived in Bentonville on our first trip, our first interview was with the Deputy Sheriff whom I had interviewed earlier in my preliminary work with the lawmen and townspeople. He was the only lawman who admitted to having seen the UFOs or to having been affected by them in some way. During the years that I worked with Vallee, we visited sites in New York, Arizona, Arkansas, all over rural Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and Missouri. Because I love animals I shuddered with fear and anguish for the poor animals who had been so mistreated. At that time most of our trips were to investigate instances of mutilated cattle. We gave little or no consideration to abductions in those years. Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator