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There is more evidence of the roadblock from other people living in the area at the time, but they are unsure of the dates. One couple had a close encounter near the blocked-off area on a rocky roadway leading down to the shores of Shelburne Harbor. They were so traumatized by this event that even thirty years later they will not discuss it. A friend of theirs disclosed that the couple came upon four to five entities near the shore. Something transpired there that the couple still will not disclose. Very curious happenings were definitely going on around that base. We talked earlier in this book about the adventures of the navy diver Harry, one of the few who would talk to us, and Jim, the aircraft recognition specialist, who quite accidentally came out with the same story and remembered overhearing one of Harry's conversations. The Shelburne UFO flotilla has been referred to by four of our witnesses: Jim, Harry, the ELINT crewman, and Earl the weapons specialist. All four were experts in their fields and all of them confirmed details of the other three without realizing it or being prompted. No conspiracy could be successful without a cover story. An odd event occurred at this time which suggests it's part of such a cover story. A few years back, while Chris was looking for evidence of the naval vessels, he came across a story in the Shelburne weekly newspaper of October 12, 1967, the Coast Guard. The headline read, "U.S. Barge at Shelburne with Atomic Furnaces." The story went as cu follows: A large American steel scow being towed by a tugboat of the Moran Transportation Company of New York was brought to Shelburne for repairs last Friday night with a cargo of two huge atomic furnaces, en route from Philadelphia, Pa., to an atomic power plant at Sodus near Rochester, NY. The units, which were loaded on low bed trailers, were too high to pass through overland routes, necessitating transportation by water up the Atlantic coast and through the St. Lawrence Seaway. During the trip up the coast, the huge barge somehow partially filled with water so that there was only three feet of freeboard. Workmen at Shelburne Industries, Ltd., worked all Friday night to get the vessel pumped out while three divers from Atlantic Divers, a Liverpool, Nova Scotia, concern, made underwater inspections and repairs to the hull. The barge is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide and is owned by the S. C. Loveland Company, Inc., in Philadelphia. The towboat is the Ann Moran and it left Shelburne with her valuable cargo at 11:50 A.M. last Saturday. Atomic furnaces? It would be a good cover story. Anything atomic keeps away the curious. If you are as suspicious as Chris and I, you start to wonder about every detail of everything that took place in and around October 4, particularly near the town of Shelburne. We suspected the barge was actually used in an attempt to recover an alien craft. If this was the case, how would the crew get it to the surface about eighty to one hundred feet above and what would they do with it once they got it to the surface? At this point we have no idea what kinds of vessels were standing over the UFOs, but we assume that they were smaller ships such as destroyers or naval supply vessels. We know that the Dark Object was about sixty feet long, and we estimated its weight at about sixty tons. We based our estimate on measurements that have been made of soil depressions attributed to landings of UFOs that were approximately thirty feet long. The depth of these depressions indicates that some of these objects had to have weighed at least thirty tons. Doubling the length would not necessarily double the weight, but it's the only way we could think of to guess the weight of the object.