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stream of stories and reports, many from police officers, school teachers, and other ‘“‘reliable witnesses,’’ describing how they encountered a grounded UFO and observed the occupants busily making repairs of some kind. In many instances, the ufonauts deliberately get out of the object and inspect its underside with a flashlight. These instances have been reported in Italy, Australia, Scandinavia, South America and the United States. The basic details in these stories are so similar that it seems as if the ufonauts are following a carefully rehearsed procedure. The ‘‘superior technology”’ of Operation Trojan Horse has apparently produced a line of faulty flying machines that constantly break down. Pieces of the damned things are always falling off where they can be grabbed up by eager UFO investigators. If the UFOs were real, it would be logical for a saucer in trouble to seek out a very isolated hilltop to make repairs. Instead, they prefer to land in the fields of occupied farms and on major highways close to big cities. A fifty-six-year-old electronics engineer from Temple, Oklahoma, William ‘Eddie’ Laxton, became the center of considerable attention after he reported a bizarre incident in the gray predawn hours of March 23, 1966. At about 5:30 A.M. on that bleak March morning Laxton was driving along a deserted stretch of Highway 70 near the Texas-Oklahoma border, on his way to work at the Sheppard Air Force Base outside of Wichita Falls, Texas, where he teaches electronics, when a huge fish- shaped object suddenly loomed up in front of him. He jammed on his brakes, he said later, and pulled to a stop about 50 yards from where the object was blocking the road at a 45-degree angle. The thing was, he estimated, about 75 feet long and 8 feet deep. “There were four very brilliant lights on my side,”’ he said. “‘Bright enough so that a man could read a newspaper by the light a mile away.”” He also observed that it seemed to be lit up inside and that it ‘had a plastic bubble in front which was about three feet in diameter, and you could see light through it.” It had a tail structure with horizontal stabilizers that measured about 2 1/2 feet from the leading edge to the trailing edge. Friends and associates have confirmed that Eddie has always been blessed with a phenomenal memory, and they believe him when he says he was able to distinguish a group of earthly numbers painted vertically in black on the side of the fuselage. He remembers them as reading either: The Physical Non-Evidence / 159