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Show 18. "You mean to say it landed?" Clarence studied their faces. "It must have. I grabbed my camera and got one shot standing behind the car. I didn't know what setting to use-it was so bright-- so I opened her up about half." Suddenly JD turned to his sister. "Hey, did you pick up my camera?" "No, I didn't see it," she answered. "Don't fuss about it now," Ruth said, busy with a mixing bowl, "we'll go out and look after we have some coffee and pancakes. It's not going anywhere before daylight." They all turned back to JD, "And then I started running . . ." JD looked confused. "I wanted to get closer, because I could see the lights were flashing on a kind of rim around the middle about then . . . but I can't remember if I got another picture . . ," he stopped talking. He frowned and looked at Stephanie, like maybe she could supply some answers, "Did you fall? Were you knocked out? You were just lying out there, you know," Stephanie prodded. "Steph, I don't know. I can't remember. I'm trying to put it all together . . ." Stephanie felt a rush of sympathy for him. JD, with the super confidence, always on top. Wrapped in the blanket, his face white and drawn right now, he looked like someone else. "You know," Clarence said, "there's been a lot of UFO talk around the Uintah Basin which isn't too far from here. But I always reckoned those Mormons were just seeing things," he laughed. JD's eyes narrowed. "So help me, God, Mr. Morris, what we saw was real." "Oh yeah. I can see you kids saw something," he agreed, smoothing it over. "I can see that!" "When did it leave?" JD asked, turning back to his sister. Then Stephanie told her side of the story, about the humming sound, the peculiar white color and finally the rapid rise and disappearance of the thing. "And we slept through all that!" Ruth invited JD to the table and poured coffee for everyone. "It gives me the chills." The pancakes Mrs. Morris scooped off the grill tasted awfully good |