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mild concussion. spaceman. Then, as Flynn burst into a clearing, he could only blink his eyes in astonishment as he saw his hounds noisily moving about a large, metallic cone-shaped machine. From four banks of portholes, a softly glowing light emanated. The Floridian moved in closer to investigate the strange contraption that had landed in a clearing in the Everglades. The last thing that Flynn remembers about that night was receiving a "sledgehammer blow" on his head. When he staggered back to civilization that next morning, he was found to have suffered a Because James Flynn was a highly respected citizen of Fort Myers, Florida, he fared much better than if he had been some "swamp-rat" who had come out of the Everglades with an aching skull and a story about a cone-shaped, glowing space machine in a swamp clearing. Flynn's story was investigated by intelligent and knowledgeable men, and they found a large, circular area fringed with burned underbrush and tree foliage in the spot where Flynn claimed to have seen the UFO. March of 1965 was a busy month for aliens in Florida. On March 2nd, the wire services carried a story date-lined Weeki Wachee Springs that told of a Floridian who bad had his picture taken by an outer- John Reeves is a 66-year-old retired New York City longshoreman, who lives alone in a small house at the site of his trailer court. Reeves likes to go for long walks in the open air and just think about things. It was on one of these walks that he saw the UFO across the "flats." He had approached the machine slowly, using bushes for cover, being careful not to make a lot of noise. He was within 150 feet of the disc-shaped thing when a "five-foot-tall being" stepped out from behind some bushes, just 100 feet away from him. Reeves froze, watching the creature move toward the machine. It was humanoid in appearance, Reeves remembered later for reporters, but "strange." Its entire body was clothed in canvas-like material of a silver-grey color, and it appeared to be wearing some kind of mittens. Non-oxygen breathing, the being wore a bowl-shaped helmet over a human-like face with extremely wide-set eyes and a very pointed chin.