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egg-shaped machine sitting on a nearby beach, surrounded by a blue haze. Two men apparently came from the object and spoke to the trio in difficult-to-understand English. According to Kehoe, the men were about 5 feet 5 inches tall, dressed in black leather trousers and light-colored jerseys. Their skin, he said, appeared to be yellowish green. They asked some very ordinary questions, Kehoe reported, such as, “What time is it? Who were we? Where were we going? And so on.” Chalk up still another apparently meaningless contact. After the men flew off in their strange machine, the motorists were able to get their cars started again. A final contact was reported that morning by a truck driver named Malvan Stevens. He said he was driving near House, Mississippi, about 7:25 A.M. when a large egg-shaped object dropped out of the sky and landed on the highway directly in front of him. Stevens, a forty-eight- year-old resident of Dyersburgh, Mississippi, said that he thought at first that it was some kind of weather balloon. Then he noticed that there seemed to be a propeller on either end and on top of the object. He got out of his truck and was confronted by three people, two men and a woman, all about 4 1/2 feet tall, with pasty white faces. They were dressed, he said, in gray suits, and they tried to talk to him in a rapid-fire language that he could not understand. One of them tried to shake his hand. After a few minutes of futile attempts at conversation, the beings got back into the object and flew off. Stevens later told some of his coworkers about the episode, and one of them passed it on to the Meridian, Mississippi, Star. Later, when the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization investigated, they found him to be highly regarded as ‘‘a reliable family man” and not one to make up tales or play practical jokes. The big picture for 1957 is awesome in scope. There were apparently reliable contact reports earlier in the year from South America; Professor Guimaraes in Brazil early in July; Signore Galli in Italy, also early in July; the Argentine Air Force guard on August 20; Mr. Cook of England on September 7. And remember, both Cook and the Argentine airman claimed that they had been warned about our upsetting the balance of the universe. Cook had never heard of the Argentine report that preceded his alleged experience by about only three weeks. The Argentine airman said that “‘the voice’’ told him that flying saucers would soon be showing themselves all over the world. That prediction certainly came true in November 1957. “You Are Endangering the Balance of the Universe!” / 189