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sound. Don Tennopir, a 44-year-old truck driver from Beatrice, Oklahoma, found out the hard way that "there's something out there" and whether the Air Force wants us to know about it or not, he, personally, never wants to learn another thing about flying saucers. Pale and shaken, the truckdriver told his story to police officials and newsmen: "| was driving north of Highway 15 about 25 miles south of Abilene. | was carrying a full load of peanuts and was enroute to Lincoln, Nebraska. | guess it was about 1:30 A.M. when all of a sudden the lights on my truck went out. Then came back on, then off, then back on again. "About this time, this thing, saucer, or whatever, went over my truck with a sizzling or wind-like blowing It scared the hell out of me. It seemed to almost touch the cab, maybe it was 20 feet in the air, and it just swooped down over the road and hovered there not more than 100 feet in front of me. "| tell you | was standing on those brakes. | just didn't know what was happening. It looked like it was going to fall right in the middle of the road, but it didn't. "| got my rig stopped and about that time this thing raised up a bit and slowly took off to the west and then headed south. | don't know how long it was there. It seemed longer than 20 seconds, but | was just too damned scared to tell time. "The thing looked round to me. I'd guess it was about 14 or 15 feet in diameter and sore of orange- colored. It shot off reddish rays, kind of in spurts. The rays weren't really steady, kind of flashing. "The object appeared to be like a saucer. I'd guess it was about two feet thick and the edge was round. There was a hump, or something like that in the middle. This hump stuck up about four feet or so. There was a dark spot in the hump, and this might have been a window or something. | just don't know."