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soil and sod. is true." manure spreading, Wilcox never makes clear. At any rate, the aliens told him not to be alarmed, so the farmer simply stood by and watched the humanoids go about their business of obtaining specimens of When they began to question him about earthian farming procedures, Wilcox decided that it was no gag. He also decided to answer their questions politely and in a patient manner. The aliens told the New York farmer that they had come from the planet Mars. Then- mission was to seek methods by which the soil on Mars might be rehabilitated. They asked for a sample bag of commercial fertilizer that they might bring back to their planet with them. Wilcox brooded about the incident for a couple of days before he reported the episode to the Tioga County Sheriff in Owego. "| don't care whether anyone believes me or not," Wilcox said. "It doesn't mean anything to me one way or the other. | told them what | saw and heard. | thought | should." Wilcox's brother, Floyd, stated that he believed his brother was telling the truth: "If Gary says this thing happened, it really happened. He has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by telling a story like this. | know it Floyd Wilcox did have a point there. His brother differed from the other contactees in that, to date, he has written no book or signed up for any lecture tours. And, other than making his report to the Sheriff, he has not done another thing to draw any more publicity of any sort to himself. Surely, one must keep an open mind - skeptical, but open. Again, one cannot help observing that it is only the contactees who describe the alien saucer crews as being humanoid. To the embattled Kentucky farmers at KellyHopkinsville, the aliens were long-armed, floating monsters that proved invulnerable to their firearms. To the desperate Swedes, the aliens were horrid protoplasmic blobs that tried to envelop them.