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explained. We talked about generalities for some minutes, then Norm wanted to return to the moments just after they spotted the UFO. "T'll just go back to when Dave and I separated. I got out of the car at Lawrence's house. Dad was living in one end of the house, the eastern end, and that's where I was staying at the time. I didn't realize until I got out of the car that the lights were still there." "I went into the house and got Dad to come outside. He had a look, then ran in to wake up Lawrence. The lights were still there when he came out. We jumped in his car and drove up the road. Before we reached the end of the driveway, the Mounties went by." Norm agreed. Chris said there was another Mountie who came in from the other direction. His name was Ron Pond. Norm and Lawrence followed them down the road, unsure whether the Mounties were going to a car accident or if they were investigating the strange object in the sky. This small mystery ended a few minutes later, when they rounded a turn just past Prospect Point and came upon the Irish Moss processing plant on their left. Cars were parked and people were gathered in a gravel parking lot that ended at the water's edge overlooking the sound and the approach to Shag Harbor. They were right behind the RCMP vehicle when they pulled off the road and onto the gravel lot. "The Mounties got out of their car and we were right behind them. We went right to the edge of the bank. I stood right alongside Mountie O'Brien. He was looking off at the water." Norm wanted us to be absolutely sure we knew the location of one particular bell buoy, which marks the outer limits of a sandbar that extends to Inner Island. Chris and I were both aware of it, and had 1 rh re ee ws a tea MHA 1 "When we were looking out there, the thing that we saw that night was close by, but it wasn't the bell buoy. I can guarantee you that. What we saw that night on the water, we didn't watch it for very long before it disappeared. But the bell buoy light was still there after it was gone." "So you had no trouble telling the difference between that and regular sea foam?" "Oh, Jesus, no," Norm stated emphatically. This was new. We expressed surprise. "Coming from Barrington Passage?" I wanted to establish the direction. "Yeah, Barrington Passage. Their light was flashing," Norm agreed. "That would have been O'Brien and Werbicki," Chris said. been told that it had been lit up on the night of the UFO crash.