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Show 35. inside the UFO. When he had finished, Mike urged JD to take his story to Mr. Crawford at the Times as well. "There was a report-middle of last week," Mike said, "that came into Cheyenne from a tourist couple. They were down in the Utah Canyon-lands and said they'd been followed in their car by a big orange light that started and stopped when they did. The papers down there said it was Venus. This guy got mad as hell when he read it, so he reported the whole story again in Cheyenne." "Is that right?" Garth shook his head. "The officer over here," Mike nodded toward the highway patrol sector, "was followed once himself in the middle of the night. Just last fall when the Uintah Basin was think with them." The deputy sheriff wasn't saying anything. "'Course, Lenny, here, he don't believe in UFO's," Mike said. "Neither did I," JD shoved his hands in his pockets and shifted his weight, looking uneasy, "but I do now. I tell you, I do now!" Then Mike produced a clipboard and some paper. "Sit down over there, JD. He pointed to a school type desk under the "Wanted" posters. "Let's have you write it out. Just the bare bones of it. But give the place and time as best you can and some detail in the description. Write what your sister saw that you didn't and we won't have to bother her." JD raised his eyebrows at Garth with an expression that said, "Look what you got me into." Garth shrugged and smiled, mostly because he couldn't help himself. JD needed a shave and his eyes looked like two pee holes in a snowbank. He'd think twice before he saw another flying saucer. It was pouring down rain when they left the police station in JD's car. Garth asked JD if he could stand to tell his story one more time. "Crawford will put it in the paper, that's for sure. He's so short of news he prints funeral sermons just to fill space." "Yeah, but maybe I don't want to go on record to the whole townJ' "Why not?" "Hell, Garth, everyone will think I'm some kind of weirdo." "Suit yourself. You'll have to tell Crawford what happened to the camera, won't you? I don't think you should be afraid of the publicity, JD. These folks in Red Butte know you." |