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bird. true and correct." "Calling my tenant, Gid Heslip, and my son, Wall, we seized some axes and ran to the corral. Meanwhile, the ship had been gently descending until it was not more than 30 feet above the ground, and we came up to within 50 yards of it. It consisted of a great cigar-shaped portion possibly 300 feet long with a carriage underneath. "The carriage was made of panels of glass or other transparent substance, alternating with a narrow strip of some other material. It was brilliantly lighted within ... lt was occupied by six of the strangest beings | ever saw. There were two men, a woman and three children. They were jabbering together but we could not understand a syllable they said. "... upon catching sight of us, they turned on some unknown power, and a great turbine wheel about 30 feet in diameter, which was slowly revolving around the craft, began to buzz ... and rose as lightly as a "When about 30 feet above us, it seemed to pause, and hover directly over a three-year-old heifer ... Going to her we found a cable about half an inch in thickness, made of red material, fastened in a slip knot around her neck, one end passing up to the vessel. ... "We tried to get it off but could not ... we stood in amazement to see ship, cow, and all rise slowly and sail off, disappearing in the northwest. We went home but | was so frightened | could not sleep but arose early Tuesday morning, mounted my horse and started out to find some trace of my cow, but coming back to LeRoy in the evening found that Lank Thomas, who lives in Coffey County about three or four miles west of LeRoy, had found the hide, legs and head in his field that day." Eleven prominent citizens of the area signed an affidavit testifying to Alexander Hamilton's reputation for truthfulness and prefaced their signatures with these remarks: "As there are now, always have been, and always will be skeptics and unbelievers, whenever the truth of anything bordering on the improbable is presented, and knowing that some ignorant or suspicious people will doubt the truthfulness of the above (Hamilton's) statement, now, therefore, we, the undersigned, do hereby make the following affidavit. That we have known Alexander Hamilton from 15 to 30 years and that for truth and veracity we have never heard his word questioned and that we do verily believe his statement to be