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saw that the object was still there. Several of the neighborhood dogs, Frisky included, were clustered around it, barking at four people, two men and two women, all normally dressed, who were moving around outside the oblong thing. One of the men, Clark later told reporters and investigators from the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, was trying to grab Frisky, but the dog growled and backed away. He said that these people were talking in a guttural tongue which sounded like the German soldiers he had seen in the movies. The man did catch one of the other dogs, but it snarled and snapped at him, and he let it go. Then the strange quartet turned and seemed to walk right through the walls of the craft, ‘like walking through glass,’’ Clark said. One of the men had seen the boy watching them and had made a motion for him to approach, but Clark declined. Dante, Tennessee, lies outside of Knoxville and is a long, long way from Kearney, Nebraska. Schmidt’s story of the day before did not appear in the area until after Everett Clark had made his initial report. Reporter Carson Brewer of the Knoxville News-Sentinel found an elongated im- pression in the field where the grass had been pressed down in area 24 feet by 5 feet. APRO’s investigators found that Clark was regarded as ‘‘a serious and honest boy’”’ by his high school principal, and his grandmother said he had called her immediately after the incident (his parents had already gone to work) and that he was “‘hysterical.”’ Later that very night another farmer, John Trasco of Everittstown, New Jersey, reportedly went outside to feed his dog, King, when he saw a brightly glowing egg-shaped object hovering above the ground near his barn. A weird “‘little man” stepped timidly toward him, he said. He was about 3 1/2 feet tall, had a putty-colored face with large, bulging froglike eyes, and was dressed in green coveralls. “We are a peaceful people,” Trasco quoted the little man as saying in a high ‘‘scary” voice. ‘We don’t want no trouble. We just want your dog.” The taken-aback farmer said he managed to snap, ‘‘Get the hell out of here!” The ‘“‘little man” scurried back to the object, and it shot off into the evening sky. On Wednesday night, November 6, true to the Wednesday phenome- non pattern, there were the landings in Montville, Ohio; Dante, Tennes- see; and Everittstown, New Jersey. Another weird contact took place near Playa del Rey, California, when three cars stalled along a highway called Vista del Mar. The drivers, Richard Kehoe, Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas, got out to see what was wrong. The answer seemed to lie in the 188 / Operation Trojan Horse