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We had a few more questions for Norm. I asked him when he heard about all the excitement down in the sound adjacent to the harbor, and we were both surprised by his answer. "So you were out with Brad Shand and Lawrence Smith was out there too," I said. "Did you see any foam?" Chris followed up a point about the foam. "According to the newspaper the next day, when they talked to Brad Shand, he said the area of foam was about eighty feet wide and a half mile long." "Well, Brad's boat would have been thirty-eight feet long, wouldn't it, Dave? When we sailed through it, it was about two boat lengths wide, so it would have been about eighty feet wide. And coming down through the sound, it would have been around a half mile long." "Scared, because I didn't know what the hell it was. We didn't have a clue what it might have been, although we all thought it might have been a big plane that had come down. We didn't know what we Chris found the press clipping he was looking for. He read the part of it reporting that Brad Shand, in his boat the Joan Priscilla, had steamed through the foam, called "the mysterious substance" by the paper, about twenty-five minutes after the light had disappeared. "No," Norm said. "It was just a steady row of lights," said Dave. "That's what Laurie claimed he saw, and he wasn't the only one," Chris told them. "I was out on a boat that night," said Norm. "So you were out with Lawrence Smith?" Chris asked. "No, I went out with Brad Shand. He was David's uncle." "Oh, yeah, there was no problem seeing that," said Norm. "What were your feelings when you were out there that night?" I asked. were gonna see when we were out there." "Right, you thought maybe you were going to see bodies drifting around out there," I offered. Norm nodded. "There's all kinds of things that go through your mind." "Did this foam look different or funny to you at all?" I asked. "It was yellow! Yellow foam," Norm answered. "Really yellow?" I pressed. "It was almost like it was a glittery, shiny foam, like it was shining on top of the water," Norm