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86 “Tt was so bright,” he said, “I could see the shoreline, the water, the trees on the hillsides. Everything was visible, everything for miles around was just bathed in brilliance.” Several days later, in that same Mt. Magazine area, something happened on one small farm owned by an older woman who lived alone. She got out of bed because she saw a bright light from her window. She looked out to see what she thought was her pasture on fire. She called the Sheriff. She told the dispatcher that her pasture and woods were on fire. They poopoohed her complaint and told her to go on back to bed. She then called her brother-in-law who woah tata wo4 , came soon but the light had gone. He and she walked out to where she’d observed what she’d thought to be a fire, only to find that some large vehicle had landed in the center of the clearing. Proof was in the imprint of the large pods which had created deep impressions in the moist earth of the pasture. Something bearing considerable weight, probably tons of weight, had landed there not long before they had made their trek from the house. In those days we heard very little about abductions and such, but we heard a very great deal about UFO sightings and cattle mutilations. In fact, other than from Bo and Peep, I’'d never heard of people going onto the alien ships. The Southeast Missouri, Northeast Oklahoma, and aro. ad a Southeast Oklahoma, and Ozarks, were constant hotbeds of UFO activity, constantly observed by teachers, farmers, kids, teens, lawmen, oil field workers, cowboys, housewives and store owners. The kids and the old folks, the educated, and the uneducated, the rich and the poor, the believers and the nonbelievers, all saw, and reported on, the brilliantly lighted vehicles that swarmed in the sky each night. Even though I’d seen, over and over again, what the aliens from the UFOs had done to cows, I remained my optimistic naive self. The people in the alien craft above us were here merely to observe us. 1 told myself that and I also Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding Northwestern Arkansas areas centered in or near the