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As one of the lights winked off, their car engine died and their tape deck quit playing. Later, it seemed to the brothers as if they had lost about ten minutes of time. They made a report to RCMP Constable Ralph Keeping, who was a friend of Lawrence's. We were later able to locate and read this report to Lawrence. One part of it was new to him: Keeping hadn't told him that he had passed on the information to Colonel Rushton of NORAD. Alec was impressed by this unusually solid sighting at Bear Point. Our discussion would later be interpreted by Alec as a suggestion for the show, and would lead, by the end of the third day, to a classic breakdown in communications. September 29 was to be our third and final workday on the water. I was aboard again, having missed the previous day while in the air. In only a few hours we finished scanning the sound. No targets of a highly unusual nature were discerned during our interpretation of the scrolls. It was decided that the afternoon would be spent either making another attempt at locating the Navicula target on the Rip, or doing one more dive for the purpose of shooting additional footage for Sightings. After a lunch break Bruce Addams, the skipper of Murphy's Law, informed us that the weather was going to deteriorate and that the Rip would not be the place to be when it did. It was obvious that the weather was going down. Using a cell phone, I checked with Flight Services in Yarmouth, because I, too, was worried about the weather. After some speculation I decided I would take the dory back to shore and, with Lawrence Smith's help, get to Yarmouth, pick up my plane, and fly it back to Halifax. Otherwise the aircraft would be pinned down in Yarmouth for several more days. You have to worry about airplanes almost as much as you 1 Fi wed Meanwhile, the technical crew from CSR got back to work, while the divers suited up, preparing for their final dive, an exercise primarily to obtain underwater film footage. However, it was agreed that it would be done in an area where several minor targets had been detected. Lawrence, our dive master, planned to cover as much area as his air supply would allow. Eventually the divers surfaced several hundred feet away from our boat with nothing unusual to report. Before the dive ended, however," we had a visitor. A Cessna flew in from the west and over the boat, circling us in a steep bank. Someone was filming us with a large professional camera. This continued for about five minutes before the pilot waved and left the area. We decided the plane had probably been chartered by one of the local television affiliates. When the dive ended and all three of the men were back aboard, the weather deteriorated as if someone had thrown a big "nasty" switch. Murphy's Law plowed through the chop gamely as we made our way to shore. We were all looking forward to a hot supper, as well as some time to reflect. Supper was not long in coming; however, reflection would have to wait. Interviews, taping, and more problems lay ahead before this little expedition could be considered officially over. During the evening meal director Alec Griffith told us that day four would be spent interviewing Lawrence Smith and producing a segment about the Smith Encounter near Bear Point Road. appeared, together forming a pattern somewhat like the Big Dipper, with the "handle" missing. worry about your children.