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specimens on ocean floor. There was another guy Jerry who had come from Mississippi who was a businessman and on the side a part time naturalist, environmentalist and photographer. Jerry had read one of Jack's marine books and had called Jack and Jack had invited him down but was not comfortable having him run things on the large collecting boat while the divers were downside. I met up with Jerry at Jack's house and then the two employees of Jack showed up with their collecting equipment and diving gear and we loaded up the boat that is docked on Jack's dock in Dickerson Bay. We headed over to the marina where the fueler knew me and my interest in UFO's. Victor and Doug, Jack's employees also knew the fueler and stuck up a jovial conversation but then the fueler recognized me and said, "What are you doing with Eddie on board?" From there of course the subject got on to the UFO subject and discussion about the UFO's that had been chasing the flounder fishermen late at night over at Skipper Bay nearby. This led Jerry to comment that he had an experience but had not talked to many people about it. Jerry explained his experience to me on the way out to the collecting site about fifteen miles away on the boat that was going at about twenty five miles a hour. Victor and Doug nervously listened to the story as well. When we got out to about twenty two feet of water and about ten miles out from land Doug and Victor suited up and went downside. This gave Jerry and I time to socialize about life in general and ET's in particular. I gave him a short briefing of what exopolitics was about and about myself. It was beautiful weather out and Jerry was having the time of his life. There was just a light chop on the ocean. Later after the divers came back up with loads of sea urchins and other stuff we trawled for a different type of urchin and other stuff on a grassy mud flat about twelve miles out. We headed back and met up with Jack at the dock and then over to the lab to get these specimens back into the tanks before they died. Naturally I had to have Jerry tell his story to Jack and Jack had to admit that Jerry was the most credible person yet that he had heard such a story from. Later Jerry and I got Jack out of the lab and over for a very late lunch or early supper at the Coastal. After some more discussions Jerry had to leave, Jack had to go back to work, and I was tired and headed back home. Now on to Jerry's story. Jerry and his wife had been staying at their rustic getaway cabin in a isolated area that was without running water and electricity. Jerry had woken up in the early morning before light and went outside to pee off the porch. He was only in his underwear. Something very large floated over the house and tall pine trees blocking out much of the sky. The next thing he felt was being lifted off the deck and then was looking around the inside of a spaceship. There were some panels with lights and the ceiling was curved. There were no direct sources of light. In the ship there were around ten humanoid beings with large heads and spindly bodies who wore no clothes and seemed not to have sexual organs. They did not seem to him to have ears nor much of a nose or mouth. They looked at him and were very respectful and he looked back and was not afraid. He felt completely at ease and felt they meant no harm. Later he was to tell me he had a knack for reading people that helped him a lot in business and in his environmental work. He could tell when people were being insincere and or lying. As he had done all his life he just went with his feelings while feeling safe. The beings communicated to him mind to mind that they meant him no harm and that they were studying humans. They asked him if he would be willing to have them examine him and pointed to a 43