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95 Right after that, these people came up the arroyo toward us from the opposite direction from where we had come. There was a man and five of his students—three guys and two girls— college-age students. They were in their late teens and twenties. The newcomers included five college students and their pro- fessor, Dr. Buskirk. They had been working on an archaeologi- cal dig near cliff dwellings a few miles away and had decided to hike over after seeing what they thought was a fiery meteor crashing the night before. When they arrived their reactions closely paralleled those of Jerry and his relatives: First with: "I don't believe what I'm seeing!," and then with shock when they realized these weren't dolls, that these were live, but nobody knew what they were. And here's this funny craft, and Glenn and them was still talking about men from Mars and stuff like this. Dr. Buskirk apparently is capable of speaking several lan- guages, because he had tried to communicate with this creature. He knelt down there with Ted and my Dad and tried to talk to this thing. I recognized one of the languages as German because I had German relatives that spoke German fluently. Ted was mar- ried to a Mexican woman and he spoke Spanish, so I understood that one. Of course, they got no response. I recall this Dr. Buskirk tried sign language, and there was apparently no response from that. And then another guy just showed up suddenly. I had went up the bank and was standing there by the trees, right by the saucer on top of the rocks. And there was a guy with a pick-up [truck], and it was one of those old-model pick-ups and it had a whip antenna on it, like a police car has. He walked over there and he looked like Harry Truman: he had a real ruddy complex- ion, he wore glasses and he had sort of khaki work clothes on and he had a straw hat. Back in those days, even the little kids knew who Harry Truman was: He beat the Germans and the Japs! This guy looked like him, and he walked over there and he got to talkin' to Dr. Buskirk and Ted and my brother and my Dad, and he said that he had seen it from out on the Playa. He had CIVILIANS FIND THE WRECKAGE