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92 Her company was paying for her room so expenses would be minimal. “Oh, thank you. I’d love to go with you. You can tell me all about your new job.” I interrupted Bob’s work in his studio to tell him about the chance to go see a mutilated cow in Kansas. He grinned and waved his brush as if to cre > 4 4 > a 1199 say, “If you’ve seen one dead cow, you’ve seen then all.” He turned back to his work with the words, “Have a good wrod od 1 ad 19 time. We’ll be here when you get back.” I raced up the stairs and in seconds had my overnight bag packed, then in just a few minutes more I’d bathed and put on comfortable traveling clothing as she had suggested. All I had to do when she honked in my driveway was to kiss Bob and run to the door. We headed toward Kansas I felt great. 1 boss and two other people who were the photographers from the plane. After dinner in the motel coffee shop, all five of us talked and talked into the evening. “Barbara, since you’re looking for a job, why don’t you come join our crew?” The boss asked. “You can make good money if you work hard and you can be home lots of nights and almost every weekend.” I accepted his offer on the spot. This was the answer! I could be working while at the same time. I could be looking into UFO sightings and mutilated cattle reports. I could actually talk to the farmers and ranchers who were the citizens who had been most affected by the waves of UFO sightings over their homes and by the mutilations of the cattle on their lands. I now realize that I had awakened that morning after having had an alien encounter which was held, probably, to prepare me for my friend’s call. She told me on our drive north that even though we were only Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding and the cow she’d seen so recently. We searched and searched but no matter how much we searched we could not find the cow nor the farm where she’d seen it. That night she’d arranged for us to meet her