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hovered." pitched sound." be sent in pursuit. "The jets stopped and a light was switched on in what appeared to be a... glass roof or dome, which glowed. The bottom appeared Jo be of a grayish metal color. There was a faint hum in the air as it Mrs. Moreland's early morning marvels had not yet ceased as she noted next that "there were two men in it, dressed in fairly close fitting suits of shiny material. The only thing | can think of to describe it is aluminum foil. Opaque helmets rose from their shoulders. | could not see their faces. "One of the men stood up and put two hands in front of him as if leaning to look downwards. He then sat down, and after a minute or two, the jets started off again and, tilting slightly at first, the thing shot up vertically at great speed and disappeared into the clouds. When it did this, it made a soft but high- Understandingly, Mrs. Moreland admitted to local authorities that her experience had left her "dumbfounded for a moment." As she stood in the trees to regain her mental equilibrium, she noticed the "smell of something which resembled pepper in the air." With feminine logic, Mrs. Moreland continued about her chores and finished milking the cows before she went into the house to awaken her husband, who had worked a late shift at the Air Force Station the previous night. At his insistence, she phoned the local constable and the local press. Within a week, she was re-telling her story for an investigating officer of the New Zealand Air Force. UFO investigators have often puzzled over the fact that so many sightings occur in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Antarctic, and that so many of these same sightings include prolonged visual contact wtih the alien beings that pilot the UFO's. The aliens may relax their security when they are "down-under" because they are aware of the communications lag between that area and the rest of the world. Never have aliens remained in view for longer than the four-hour period recorded by Father Gill and his mission at Papua, New Guinea. Imagine the furor such an incident would cause if it were to occur over New York City, London, or Moscow. Air-raid sirens would blare and rocket-armed jets would Jacques Vallee, French-born consultant on NASA's "Mars Map" project, commented on such backward area sightings in his Anatomy of a Phenomena: "The few cases when direct contact with men is said to have been made (i.e. gestures from a distance of a few meters) were associated with deserted areas, or,