This story is still in the process of being written. It is my unedited notes, thoughts and ideas. We kept a daily log at first but as the restoration drags on we get lazy. Someday I will edit the story and have it proofed.

Friday, January 6, 1995:

It was sticking out of the earth. About six feet of one end was all that could be seen and being covered with a moss-like substance made it easy to mistake for a very large tree stump. It was green with mold, moss and other grouths. We had to stumble through brush to get to it. Now that we are closer to it it's much bigger than we though. The brush is beat down up next to it. There's two paths one path leads off to the south and one leads toward Highway 9 to the East. Some animal most be dened up under the stump. Once when I was a teenager we found a Foxes den. Walking down the trail to the south, about fifteen feet, there is a few small animal bones in a pile. That's strange, usually small animals cleanup any bones in the woods and what animal piles up bones. No sign of anything scattering the bones.

We had been burning brush most of the day at Cliff and Kim's house. After eating we decided to walk down to the creek which runs along the back side of our twenty five acres. Cliff and I went first, Louis and the kids were about a 50 yards behind us. Cliff and Kim's house is on a hill about twenty five feet above the creek area. When we first looked at this property it was so thick with brush that you could not walk through the dense foliage. The twenty five acres is divided into two sections one ten acre plot and a fifteen acre plot Cliff and Kim live on the fifteen acre plot. Most of the timber was cut off the property twenty or thirty years ago except in the immediate area of our house. Most of the trees on the property are ten to fourteen inches in diameter. Since it is relatively new growth there is a lot of undergrowth. On the side of the creek across from our houses the undergrowth is even thicker. On our side of the creek is flat and somewhat clear, a good spot for a picnic area. It's about three hundred and fifty feet to the creek from our houses. The creek makes a series of sharp loops back and fourth with each loop being about one hundred feet long. They are very compact with the loops coming within twenty five feet of each other, almost forming islands. Cliff and I had crossed the creek and were on one of these "islands". Probably untouched by humans for twenty years. The dogs were running around someplace but they hadn't came up on the "island".

At first we thought it was a tree stump or a hump of dirt. We thumped on the side, it sounded hollow. This being an oil producing area we thought it could be an old oil tank or part of the body of some type of equipment. It was dusk so the light was not very good, but after a little probing around the area an entrance was discovered along the side. It was cleverly disguised with a growth of small trees and brush, but on close inspection we could tell that something had been using the entrance.

It must be the den of a Coyote or possibly the home of Raccoons. Cautiously we approached the entrance. The hair on the back of our necks stood on end. The dogs, Jeta a Chow/Shepherd mix, Chelsey a Rottwiler weighing 90 pounds and my grandson's Hound/Mutt had tucked their tails and stayed well behind us as we approached. Even Jeta and her a Chow with a curved up tail had lowered her tail. When that flag is down there is trouble. Of course Chelsey has no tail but her ears had a definite droop, not good signs. We knew that they had discovered the den long ago and their lack of courage gave us no comfort.

We poked a stick into the brush and tried to pull it back so we could see inside, of course it was dark. While Cliff, Louis and I stayed to guard the entrance the grandsons returned to the house to get flashlights. While they were gone we heard a sound that sounded like a machine shutting down, surly the noise didn't come from underground. It had to be our imagination.

When they returned with the flashlights we had dismissed the sound that we thought we heard. All three of the dogs had went to the house with the kids, two of them stayed at the house. Only the mutt returned. Down on our hands and knees we tried to peer into the dark entrance, this time using the flashlights. As you might know the entrance made a turn. Curiosity drove us on. I had lived in the woods as a kid and know better than to stick my head into a wild animals den. We discussed throwing in some firecrackers. Once, in my youth, I pulled a squirrel out of a tree by the tail and grabbed it under the front legs from the back. It took me sometime to let him go. Meantime while he was waiting for me to let him go he practiced opening a walnut on my thumb. After a lively conference as to who would go first, I got as far to the side as possible so whatever lived inside could run past me as instead of over me. All the time praying that it was not home or that like all animals have an excape tunnel, gulp. Intentionally or by accident someone goosed me, that and the resulting actions cleared the entryway. Louis volunteered to protect the kids over behind a tree. Cliff and I were amazed to see a sort entry keypad covered with strange symbols. Surly old oil field equipment or tanks would not have such devices.There was also a mechanical system of opening the door.

Time to open the door, hardly, this required another conference. It was determined that it was on my property and since I was the oldest that I should do the honor. Louis volunteered to continue to protect the kids over behind a tree, another tree further back across the creek. We couldn't read the symbols on the keypad, but we punched some of them anyway. If the door had opened I would have required a respirator. The keypad either didn't work or we didn't know the right numbers. What is this thing, was it part of some Russian or Chinese airplane? What or who was still using it and were they still inside? The door mechanism was easy enough to operate but strangely made. I pulled down and slid the lever to one side, the door did not squeak when I applied pressure to it. The door easily pulled down kind of like an upside down back hatch on a some cars. The door has five steps built in. It was dark inside except for an era glow. It slowly got darker until it went completely dark. Some moss and some animals glow in the dark. We didn't even think that it was radioactive, but it could have been, oh well it wasn't. Now it's dark inside, my head and shoulders are inside. If I get goosed again this isn't going to work out. I give a warning for everyone to keep their hands to their self, but as I look back they couldn't reach me with a 20 foot stick. They were really backing me up. As they come closer, I get braver and enter the dark cavern. It is deathly quite. The flashlights only light up a small area and what, is where the flashlight is not shinning. We hear a slight noise, both of us flash our lights in that direction. We both thought we saw a movement. It's time to evacuate. When we regain our footing outside, we peer back inside, nothing. This didn't really happen did it?

It's time to confer again. What do we do now? Cliff and I decide not to tell anyone else details of what we have found. Whatever this is "it's" on our property and we discovered it so it's ours. We know that we must go back inside. Bigger lights, a new day is needed we decide. Tomorrow is Saturday, we decide to keep watch tonight. We will build a fire and rotate the watch till morning. Meanwhile we decide that we can string a long electric wire from Cliff and Kim's house, about 350 feet, for better light. We plan send our wives into Shreveport for some #10 wire early in the morning. Louis then remembers my 600 watt generator. With it we could go into the thing tonight, thanks Louis. We could also borrow the Jennings larger generator but they would wonder what we needed it for.

When Louis got my generator running, it made us brave. We also decided to dress differently, no we didn't have to change close, well maybe Cliff did. Cliff promised to stay right with me. We each got a big stick, well, OK it was a club. From our first entry we thought it was about 8' x 10'. It later proved to be much larger as we found out later. We could find no more excuses, with our boots, two layers of pants, a heavy coat each, gloves, a hat and safety goggles for protection, we were ready to make a second entry. Oh yes the clubs. By now we have cleared the entry of the brush that was around the door. It's now 10:35 PM, dark; but we have the generator running. With two lights running outside and a reflector light ready to take inside. We double check that the cord is long enough to reach inside and that the cords are tied in a knot at the connection so they can not pull apart. If the light fails we still have the two flashlights to make a quick exit.

As we again slowly move toward the door allowing room for whatever is inside to excape past us, we hear a slight noise, we stop dead still in our tracks. As the light penetrates the darkness inside there is a quick flash of light from inside like when you shin a light in cat's eyes at night. It only lasted a moment and was gone. After pausing for a time, Cliff needed a Diet Dr. Pepper, nasty tasting stuff and bolstering our courage we proceeded. Thrusting the reflector light inside we could now see that it was much larger than we first thought much of the thing was covered with a thin layer of dirt and brush. Inside is clean, no dust has accumulated nor was the air musty as it would be if it had been closed up and water had seeped inside, peculiar. We are now inside the entrance. It is a narrow short passageway about four feet long. Another door is partially open, it is rounded at the corners like in a ship military airplane. The inner door opens to the left. Inching my head past the doorway I can see that the room is about 12 feet by 15 feet. At the furthest end of the room is a console with some type of seat. The strange glow must have came from what looked like a strange computer monitor that had just been turned off. It was larger at the top than the bottom. The computer monitor was now dark. There were many unknown gadgets clustered around the console. Strange looking computers.

There is no second exit that we could see. From the door and down the center of the room is a walkway. It is like the catwalk on an oil tank battery, underneath it is dark. There are faint shapes visible underneath. We are not walking on the catwalk. The floor to both sides of the catwalk is soft. Nothing very big could pass through the grating anyway to grab us, so we proceed. At the opposite end from the computers, to our left, is a door, its slightly ajar, gulp. We decide to open it and look inside since we can see the rest of the room. We could get cut off from the exit if something jumped out of the door. The door has rounded corners at the top like a ship. The door seems to slide into the door jam on both sides. We are not sticking our fingers in to open the door. Cliff's long black flashlight will do, the door moves easily. It's been used often. If we take the reflector light through the door then the room we are in will become dark. Another light is needed.

This presents a problem, I am not staying inside alone, I suggest that Cliff wait inside while I get another light, the chicken. If we both go out then something may excape or hide better. We both go outside for additional light. Going back outside, we find that Louis and the kids won't part with their lights. Louis is still protecting them behind the tree across the creek. The buddy system is now in practice, nobody will go anyplace alone. Louis, Blake and Trey go to the shed to get the drop light. Its 30 minutes later and we have our original problem, entering this strange place and not knowing what's inside. Blake suggests throwing the drop light inside, he doesn't understand that would break the element in the bulb. The situation is solved by clipping the reflector light on a stick and holding it well ahead of us. Once inside the light goes out, strange. The bulb just went out or did it. We take a bulb out of one of the lights that was outside.

The light is fixed. We stay closer to the light this time. Now Cliff and I are back inside. With one light clipped onto the wall we are now ready to enter the other room. The door is closed. I know it was partly open when we left. Someone or something is in here, much caution. As the door slides back again we think that we see something, but then it's gone. This is spooky. If something is hiding in the other room it may get vicious when cornered or because the door is small Cliff may hurt me getting out. Maybe we should call the Sheriff's office. Cliff and I discuss this, no way, we'd have notify the state or federal government. People would be crawling all over our 25 acres. With the drop light tied to the stick we thrust it into the room. There is another door to a smaller room. It's open and from we see it looks similar to a bathroom. It is a bathroom, very efficient but a bathroom. Guess it'll be my job to clean it up. Private family joke, I always have to clean the bathrooms of our rent houses.

Oh, the room that we are in is empty. It's a storage and work chamber. We look around. We look at each other. Thinking is going on. The same thing is in both our minds. We are considering where we are, a cold chill goes up our spine. We know something or someone is in here but we can not see it. We bolt, but the door isn't wide enough for both of us at once it stops us long enough to think. After calming down we know that if it could or wanted to hurt us it would have already. Now, we consider the real mystery. We know someone or something is inside, right now, but what! This is no Russian or Chinese hiding inside.

The hair stands up on our necks. The ship that we are inside of is not of this world. The thing that we know is in the ship with us is also alien to Earth. This raises the question again, if we should call some government agency. Are we required to call, who does this ship and it's opponent belong to, us or it! Cliff and I are the only ones that know that it is alien at this point. Louis has no great love for the authorities. We doubt that he will tell that we have found something. No one will believe the kids. We decide to keep most of the information to ourselves especially that we believe it to be alien in nature. What do we do now! First, we keep our mouth shut. We go out. We close the door. Thinking is happening again.

First, after much discussion, (a) we are going to keep this information to ourselves, (b) we will try to communicate with the alien that is in the ship, (c) bring the ship up to the house so we can study it better. If we can communicate with the alien maybe with our help we can get the ship to work again. Given a little time we can find a way to make a lot of money off this ship. The alien must have technology that we have yet to dream of.

Its about midnight now, we are tired. We can't leave the ship alone so we will keep watch tonight and proceed tomorrow. Cliff and I will stay outside the ship tonight. We will take turns keeping watch, I get the first one. I had Blake and Trey go to the house and get cookies and drinks. Also I asked them to bring me a cup of flour in a plastic bag. After our snack I had three chocolate chip cookies and left them, in the bag, laying on a stump about 10' away from the fire. After Cliff went to sleep. I sprinkled the flour all around the entrance to the ship and the area, very lightly. I got comfortable and watched the fire. There is something fascinating about watching a fire. It's never the same shape. Tree shapes change move and mingle among themselves. Creatures of the night send signals with the little reflectors of their eyes. What was that they are bigger and further apart, but they are gone. Sparks formed by a miniature explosion in the embers erupt and dance into the night. Watching the fire is like watching the ocean waves zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1995:

When I fell over, it woke me up. Startled, I looked around, Cliff is still asleep. how long did I sleep? The fire seems burned down a little must have slept thirty minuets. My mouth is cottony tasting. Cookie time, OOPS cookies gone, sorry Cliff, woke and eat my cookies while I slept. This presents a dilemma, if I accuse him of eating my cookies he will accuse me of sleeping on watch. Life's complicated. What is this, footprints. The prints lead from the ship to the stump and back to the ship. I wake Cliff up and we study the prints in the flour, there are two a left and a right, good. Well, there could have been four feet or eight, how would you like to deal with a spider that's smart enough to build a spaceship. Each foot print is about 8" long. The imprints are smooth and symmetrical like they were made by shoes or some kind of boots. One deep mark in the front and two of equal weight in the back like the heel of our shoes.

The Sun is coming up now Cliff and I haven't slept much since finding the footprints. We are hungry but we know that the women are not up yet. We decide that the alien has been here for sometime and can not leave or would have long since left. So we could go to the house for food. Protecting the alien or aliens is now our main concern. I decided to stay with the ship. Cliff went to his house to get some food, a pan and matches so we can make breakfast. When he came back Kim came with him. I got him to one side to see if he had told her that this was an alien ship. He had not and we decided not to tell anyone even our wives at this point.

Breakfast was uneventful, Kim cooked most of it Cliff helped her. I eat it, even eggs taste good in the woods. Kim took some of the pans back to the house. The kids may be up by now. The dogs didn't even come down to the creek and we know they hear us and smell the food. Chelsey has got to be scared to pass up food.

Once Kim is gone we can look around some more. The path to one side of the ship going South , past the bones, it ends in a small open area. that seems to be cultivated. Our first thought is that some one is using our woods to grow marajanta, but we find some strange shaped plants. One is a small Pine tree but the trunk is square and the bark or what should be bark is almost like a moss. It is nearly cloth like. Has the alien grown these. It must have because we have never seen anything like this.

We will have to keep the kids out of this part of the creek area from now on. Fortunately, the ship is on the far side of the creek. As mentioned before our creek makes several tight loops back and forth almost forming islands. In fact when it gets up after a big rain water bypasses the loops and forms islands of as much as an acre. We discuss whether to try to move the ship to the house and repair it or leave it here. We decide that we can move it to my house and tell everyone that I am building and office. Yes, the ship looks strange, but it's what everyone would expect me to build. Also most of our friends know that I tried to buy the spaceship shaped building in Marshall, Texas last year. I think we can pull it off.

We have decided to move the ship the question is how? There's Cliff's John Deer tractor, we put a wench on it recently and think we can move it to the house with the tractor. Since we are going to move it we decide to do it as quick as possible. If we try to work on it where it is we don't have a good supply of electricity. Once we start working someone might see the lights and discover our secret and it couldn't be guarded all the time. I go to Cliff's to get the tractor and some shovels so some digging can be done. Surprisingly we find that it can be dug up fairly easy. Well it's a lot of digging but after digging all day it's mostly loose, wish Louis would have been here. By using all of the chains that we have, going to Gill's Lumber and getting more chain and our wench that is fifty feet long we can move the ship. We had to make the cable into a block and tackle.

The ship is out of the ground. It has a set of landing skids on it, these were buried. The only way we can date the crash is that an Oak root about 3" was passing through the landing skids. We counted twelve rings. All of the time that we have been excavating the ship we have heard noises from inside. We wonder that once it's uncovered if it will blast off. The alien may have had time to make repairs but been unable to lose the ship from the ground. How big of a tree will we have to chain it to avoid this? Once it is all ready to move we must first get it across the creek and find places where it will pass between trees.

The day is spent as are we. It will be necessary to stand watch tonight. Cliff and I will have to do it alone. This time we plan better and in the morning is Sunday. We have set up a camp, had a fire going all day and have taken all of our meals near the ship. Kim and Della found our sleeping bags. There's no reason to try to stay awake, the ship is chained to a large Oak tree and a Pine tree. The alien has made no threatening moves, but as a measure of safety we chain Chelsey to a tree near our sleeping bags. She is at the end of the chain, She is in a state of fright. If the alien comes close to us she will raise cane.

As it gets dark the wives go back to the house. Here we set by the fire watching something that we can not see, smart watchmen. About 8:30 PM, its long since dark and there's nothing to do but go to bed. This used to be fun when I was a kid. Sleeping bags are not water beds. Sleep comes immediately for me. You have no doubt seen cartoons of a cat when a dog sneaks up on the cat and barks real loud. Chelsey barked real loud. While she was watching for the alien an opossum walked up behind her. Do you have to dry clean sleeping bags?

Wait a minute an opossum has a better nose and night eyes than that, did the alien drop the opossum on the dog? No way to know but if it did it has a since of humor. Cliff checks his watch it's about 10:45 PM, we're back to sleep within minutes. Chelsey is whining, I hate a whiner. Waking up we see that she is pulling at the chain. she has pushed out a hole about four inches deep. I make her come up by us and lay down and she quiets down, it's 1:30 AM.

Dogs sometimes stink, well they always smell like dogs anyway. She wakes me up she's shaking, its 3:15 AM. The alien must be moving about, wait are those glowing eyes, no, now we are spooked. It takes longer to go back to sleep this time. It's because I have already slept some, you believe that, right. There are some places on my body that are yearning for the waterbed. We discuss the alien in whispers, of course, it could be standing a foot from our lips. How would we know we can't see it. Quickly, so as to catch it of guard, I stick out both arms to see if I can feel it. Opps, I touched Cliff. When he hollered Chelsey broke the chain. We heard the chain whipping the brush all the way to the house. We knew when she went under the house. The chain made a much louder noise when it slapped against the vinyl underpin of our trailer. I wonder how much of it I will have to replace. One thing is for sure she won't come out as fast and shouldn't tear up anything if she ever comes out.

Now, we're alone, Chelsey could probably smell the alien. All we smell is raw fear. Calm down, if the alien wanted to harm us it would have already. You know, it's probably as scared as we are, NO! Logic is now discussed, the only way the alien can ever hope to rejoin it's kind is with our help. It's been on Earth for eight to twelve years from counting the rings on the root we had to cut. So if it could repair the ship it would have. Cliff stokes the fire. The alien is probably happy that we found it, sleep returns. As the sun begins to lighten the early morning sky the door of the ship is open. I open one eye just a bit, I can peek through the fabric of the flap on the sleeping bag. There is that erie light coming out the door of the ship. What is this a vague shape of something in the door. It's the alien, I nudge Cliff, He says he has been awake for thirty minutes watching the ship, sure. It is the alien. It is about four and one half feet tall. About the size of a teenage human. Two arms, two legs, one head, good. Just as quickly it's gone. It didn't seem to move but just vanished. At first I thought the alien must be a shape shifter. I was wrong. It has the ability to bend light waves around it's self making it invisible. There is a theory that with a strong magnetic field, light rays can be bent. Consider that if you put your hand in a flowing stream the water runs around your hand and rejoins it's self on the other side. If light was somehow forced to flow like water then we could not see what it flowed around.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1995:

The alien has had a good nights sleep while we worried all night. This morning is Sunday morning. I have to substitute teaching a class, what am I going to tell the class. That I stayed all night in the woods watching an alien spaceship, sure. They think I'm a little off anyway. No, I'll go, teach the class and since the ox is in the ditch, so to speak, Cliff will stay with the alien, alone. It's going to be hard to concentrate this morning.

We return from church and quickly change clothes. When I get back down to the ship I find Cliff in a state of nerves. He explains that some strange things have accrued. First, the door opened and closed. Second, he was setting by the fire and a stick floated past his head and into the fire. I suggested that it might have fallen out of a tree. He gave me "a look" and said that limbs don't fall sideways. Third, after the stick was on fire it went into the ship. I then got excited and said why didn't you go see what happened. The alien could be setting the ship on fire. I got "the look" again.

As far as we know the alien has not had a fire anyplace around the ship. There were no burnt areas around the ship nor did we find any cooking devices that used fire inside the ship. How could a race develop without fire?

The ship has not moved overnight. Time has came to figure how to move it, where to move it to and how. I have looked around and decided to put it outside our backdoor. With it located there I can protect it and call it my office. This will throw people off on knowing what it really is. Figuring out what to do with it will come as we figure what it is. We hope that we can get to know the alien and get the ship to fly. Surly the alien can understand some of our speech, after it has been on earth for over ten years. As I write this account I will make sure to leave it around so the alien can find it and maybe read it. In this way we hope it can understand that we wish to help and mean it no harm. The biggest problem will be keeping the government from finding it and confiscating it. We have seen how the government handles something they don't understand at Waco and Rubyridge.

What route will we use? From our house to the creek is no problem. It will fit between the telephone and the big tree out the back door. Getting it across the creek is the hard part. Chris has some highway guard rails we might be able to use them. We also have the pipe that we have not yet used on my garage, we can use that. We don't want to ask anyone to help us because of expanding the number of people who know.

Our discussion is to build a bridge across the creek with the guard rails that Chris has at his house. I called Chris about the guard rails and he said that he would help me load them into my truck. I leave Cliff and go to get the rails. I tried to get the kids to go with me but only Blake came along. Blake is the main worry he is the older and the most inquisitive. Trey will stay close to Cliff. Chris asks a lot of questions and I don't want to lie to him so I dodge the questions. He hasn't been out to my house for a while so we hope he will think we have built the spaceship in the yard. The best cover story that we can come up with is to claim that this is a alien craft and that I am going to use it as my office.

MONDAY, JANUARY ??, 1995:

The first thing that we had to do was close the outer door. We bolted the guard rails together and they were just long enough to reach across the creek. Cliff had to call in to his work and take a day of vacation. We then blocked logs that we had cut to make room for our houses underneath for support. The next step is to attach the ship to the tractor with the chains and cable. We laid 2 1/2" pipe on the ground parallel with the skids on the ship, we then laid some 10' x 2 1/2" pipe across the other pipes this made the ship pretty easy to move. The cross pipes act as rollers. We don't know what the alien is doing at this time but we are sure he will come along with his ship. We got the ship onto the makeshift bridge and one log went down into the mud. The ship weighs more than we thought. After raising the ship with Cliff's chain come-a-long we reinforced our bridge. Our worst fear at this point is that the ship will fall into the creek. The creek isn't deep enough to come above the landing skids but it would sustain further damage and be hard to get back up the bank.

We got across the creek without further mishap. We had to take down two trees coming through the woods. We hated to cut the trees but had no choice. Now we start up the right-of-way it is slow progress because of being short of laborers and having to continually move the pipes. It takes two people to move the long pipes that we lay on the ground. One can move the cross pipes the tractor is doing pretty well. When we start up the hill the tractor is slipping so we have to use the wench to help pull. Most of the remaining trip is up hill but the ground dries out as we go higher. About two thirds of the way up the tractor will now pull without the wench.

We are hungry, its about 1:30 PM and Della and Kim have brought us some lunch. While we are eating lunch some of the food mysteriously disappears. Della and Kim thinks that Cliff eat it. We are glad we don't have to make up any stories. I think that Trey saw the alien get a couple of cookies. He is little and no one will believe him if he tells. He was reaching to the cookie sack and I saw two cookies come out of the sack and disappear. His Eyes got big and he went behind his mother, Kim. His finger went into his mouth. Later I saw him talking to Blake and heard Blake say "you, sure". Blake thought it was his imagination. Blake also has an imagination and we wonder what he is thinking. The wives know that this is not an oil tank. They have not been inside so they can not tell much yet. We have decided to let them think it is some type of aircraft that has been crashed and lost.

Cliff and I don't understand how the alien makes it's self invisible but we hope it doesn't become visible in the presents of all of us. He must have some kind of energy shield that causes light to be bent around him. If so then he can probably control his environment inside the energy field and can it withstand, say a bullet if someone shot at him. We don't know. There's too many unanswered questions. We have great hope that he will trust us and that we can communicate. If he reveals himself in front of the women or the kids we hope he is not too ugly. They might freak out on us.

Lunch is now over. Kim and Della have taken the lunch materials back to the house. Trey went with them. Blake is helping us. As we reach the top of the hill the pulling is much easier. Once we get off of the right-of-way the ship will be hidden from the road by trees. When we topped the hill and until we were back behind the trees we parked two of our vehicles up by the road to block the view as best we could.

Finally we have the ship in my yard. We turned it so it faces the road. When we can lift off with it, someday, we hope it can lift straight up because we don't have room for a runway. We positioned it about 16' outside the back door. I will build a deck out about 12' and the door should just about drop down onto it to allow entry. The next thing we decide to do is to wash it off with the garden hose. As I am spraying it something goes through the water. You could see the water splash off it but could not see a body. I don't think anyone else saw it.

Wrong, Blake is asking Cliff what he saw in the water. I can't tell what Cliff told but it's taking too long to explain. We have trouble, Blake won't leave this alone. He wants to spray the water, no way is he getting the hose. Our two dogs are under the house and have not came out, we hear a low rumbling growl from time to time. Strangely the cats seem to have no fear of the ship or it's occupant. They didn't much like the water. once we put up the hose they came back around us. Of course tip toeing around the water puddles. We opened the door back up and AJ, that's the big white cat, went inside. Later he came back to the door rubbing against it like he was happy at home. I guess the alien doesn't eat cats.

Now that the ship is washed down I will try to describe it in some detail. The size and shape are measured roughly. Later we will make more accurate measurements and description. It is 30' long overall and 18' wide. It sets on landing skids that are 4' high. The body is 8' high. This gives it a total height of about 12'. The main body is 20' long and shaped kind of like a squished pipe. On the back end is two box like structures on each side. There are also exhaust tubes on the back and smaller exhaust tubes on other parts of the ship. The ones on the back are 2' in diameter and the others are less than 8" in diameter. The back ones are some type of drive units or rockets. You can see where something has etched them as they were in use. There is no trace of exhaust residue left after 10 years if there ever was any. The back ones are for forward thrust and others must be like on America's space scuttle for yew, roll and pitch. in space. If there is no other type of engines it won't lift off from where it is setting. If the rockets are it's only means of thrust they must have some powerful fuel because we haven't seen any large fuel tanks. We don't know what is in the boxes or what they do. Between the box shapes is a rounded center just like the sides. There are two windows in the back.

It has a short stubby wing on each side that is 6' long. They make almost a 90 degree turn down on the end about 2' with a tube 10' long. The wing tube sticks out in the front about 1 1/2' and is rounded. It sticks out past the back of the wing 2 1/2' and is open, but something is up inside about 1'. The wing is 6' from front to back. On the top there are two small fins sticking up one on each side at the back.

The front of the ship has one of the box shapes on each side. In the middle is the same rounded shape but it sticks out about 6' and sags down. Above the front boxes are clear windows that resemble a bugs eyes. The front has three windows that are slightly triangle shaped.

There are other things that protrude out from the surface in odd places. Most of them will take more study to know what they do. On the top is a bubble that contains what seems to be a camera or some type of viewing device. With the amount of things protruding outside the ship it's apparent that it could not travel very fast in an atmosphere because of the wind drag. Although if their technology has developed energy fields they could generate an energy field around the whole ship. The part of the ship is covered with some type of mold, skin or something. It appears to be about 1" thick and made up of a cellular structure. The ship's "skin" is the same material that we found on the outside of the pine tree in the alien's garden. The garden is going to be a problem. If the alien leaves it in the woods that will be OK but if it moves it here by the house how will we explain the strange plants.

Our next challenge is to explore the inside of the ship and find out if we can get at least some of it working. I don't know if we can run electricity inside or not. We can first use drop cords, but this time I want plenty of light before I go back inside. It's getting late now we have to quit and Cliff can not take off another day from work. I will have to wait for him to come home and we will go inside then.

January 9, 1995

Cliff gets home and I have everything ready to enter the ship. I have rigged up plenty of lights. I have kept watch on the ship today. I have noticed some activity on the inside. Mostly I heard noises and some times I heard creaking noises as if the weight had shifted inside. We don't have any idea what we will find when we go inside after the alien has had all day to get ready for us.

We are now ready to go into the ship. We had to close the outer door to move the ship and it has been closed since we moved the ship. We unlatch the door and it swings down easily. With our lights hooked up we approach the inner door which is also closed. This was the spookiest part while the ship was down by the creek. With the ship now near the house we have renewed courage. I hand the light to Cliff, he holds it so that I can see to go in. That's not what my plan was. Anyway I proceed up the steps.

Five steps are built into the door like a small passenger aircraft. there is a small landing allowing two humans room to stand with both the inner and the outer door closed. This area evidently works as a small air lock. If so then the makers of this ship could cycle it and go from the vacuum of space into the ship or into the atmosphere of a planet with a hostile atmosphere. The hair on the back of my neck again raises. The dogs have been out in the yard today but when the door came down Jeta's tail went down. Chelsey took that as a signal to go back under the house, but she was not quite quick enough to beat Jeta. The cats have been under our feet as usual and strangely show no fear. With their sharp noses and ears they have to know that there is something inside the ship.

Anyway, the hair on the back of my neck. Does it really stand up like a dogs or have we as humans lost the ability to actually raise it. It may be that the muscles are still there and that they do tighten but don't have the strength to move the hair. I look back to see if the hair is up on Cliff's neck. I can not tell but this is no time to be looking back or making scientific studies. Eyes back on the inner door. Lights on, bright. I slowly turn the handle of the inner door. There is no squeak, it operates smoothly. The door cracks open, its dark inside. We thrust the light inside nothing happens. Slowly we go inside. Once inside the lights reveal the same things that we saw when we first entered, but we are braver now. The computer console is still there, strange looking. The door to our left is closed this time. Cliff suggests that he stand by the inner door holding it open while I explore the computer area. No way, we are going to do this together. We again have the problem of the rear compartment being too close to the door to allow any comfort while we are in the forward part of the ship. It's no use we have to see what is in the rear compartment.

I remind Cliff that nothing hurt us when we entered the rear compartment before. He is convinced and is going to enter the rear compartment first this time. We have our lights ready. I use my pen to stick into the crack of the door. It slides in and I push to the left. Both doors slide apart. Its dark inside, again we quickly thrust the light inside. Again nothing happens. Cliff goes through the door. I stand just outside, but with my head inside so I can see. If a quick exit is necessary I won't be in the way. The door, as it moved, made a swishing sound as it moved like air was being discharged. Cliff is inside now only to find two additional doors. The one on the right is small as if it goes to a closet or is an access to some equipment. The door to the left is larger and there is, judging from the dimensions of the ship, an area about five feet square. What could be inside? We will find out. I decide to stay where I am. The door on the left swings toward us. It seems to have some type of a small latch but no lock. Cliff unlatches it. There is a slight noise to my right, I see a movement, but there is nothing there. Maybe it was just air moving past me. The hair again but I hold my position. We know that the alien is in this rear compartment. We are afraid what it might do if cornered. Some way we have got to give it some room to excape. Cliff tells me to move back to allow it to pass me.. I move back into what must be the control room. I feel air rush past me. Now we know that the alien is in the control room or has went outside.

We can now explore the rear compartment and the side room. Cliff opens the door to my left it turns out that the room is the head. There is no bathing facility in it but it does have a small sink and a strange looking commode like fixture. Well I guess the alien is not so alien after all.

January 10, 1995

The inner door opens to the left. Inching my head past the doorway I can see that the room is about 12 feet by 15 feet. At the furthest end of the room is a console with some type of seat. The erie glow must have came from what looked like a strange computer monitor that had just been turned off. It was larger at the top than the bottom. The computer monitor was now dark. There were many unknown gadgets clustered around the console. Strange looking computers.

There is no second exit that we could see. From the door and down the center of the room is a walkway. It is like the catwalk on an oil tank battery, underneath it is dark. There are faint shapes visible underneath. We are not walking on the catwalk. The floor to both sides of the catwalk is soft. Nothing very big could pass through the grating anyway to grab us, so we proceed. At the opposite end from the computers, to our left, is a door, its slightly ajar, gulp. We decide to open it and look inside since we can see the rest of the room. We could get cut off from the exit if something jumped out of the door. The door has rounded corners at the top like a ship. The door seems to slide into the door jam on both sides. We are not sticking our fingers in to open the door.



A long time intervenes here



April 13, 1996

There was a lot of wind and rain last night. Our cat who had a litter of kittens. They were all normal. No bio-engineering yet. We repaired the inner air lock door and installed it today. The seal is unusable we will have to substitute something. We have had the outer door repaired for some time and can now enter through the door instead of through the front windows.

April 17, 1996

The alien has started dismantling the remaining windows on the front of the spaceship. The clear panels that we would call glass are membranes like the clear shell over a locust's eyes. The last ten (10) years or so have not been good to the membranes.

April 18, 1996

This morning when I went out to the spaceship all of the windows were out. The alien had taped a scrap of glass over one of the window holes. This is it's way of telling me to use glass to fix the windows. Each opening is a triangle with sides about eighteen inches.

April 20, 1996

When I went into the spaceship this morning I discovered that our cat moved her kittens into the spaceship last night. The alien no doubt helped or at least encouraged her. The alien and the cats have some kind of a bond. There's no way to tell if they can communicate at this point, but it's for sure that they communicate at a higher level then us and the alien.

April 22, 1996

Something is going on with the kittens. This is the fastest growing and the healthiest litter we have ever had. I located some windows units that I can take apart and use the glass. I have cut 1/8" glass but have never tried cutting 1/4" before.

May 20, 1996

Surprisingly 1/4" glass cuts as easy as 1/8" glass. Much more care has to be taken to avoid getting cut, because the 1/4" is so much heavier. If it slips it will make a bad cut. I wear leather gloves and require anyone who helps me to wear leather gloves also. We are installing the glass and using something that the alien made for us. We found this alien moss like substance near where we were cutting the glass. The alien has been growing the material in buckets. Nasty looking stuff. All of the spaceships of the Rolacoyians carry cultures or frozen samples of all the various materials that they use in growing their spaceships or ship components. Many times with Earth transpiration we carry spare parts or have redunt systems to safeguard against equipment failure. We have been careful not to disturb it's work. The moss is applied by taking the moss solution and mixing it with a growth accelerator. Once the two are mixed, growth is almost instantaneous.

We still never see the alien but like the wind we see the results of his help. We have tried blowing powder around the spaceship so we can see the alien's trail but it is wise to us and will brush out it's tracks and sometimes leave a message written in it's language we guess. We have squirted water where we think it is and saw it's shape once. We found that unproductive because it would then turn off the water. We would turn it on and it would turn it off. So we discovered that if we want to get anything done we leave the alien alone. Someday it may reveal it's self to us.

The moss applies easy enough. We first place the glass in the frame holding it in place with small screws then pour a little of the substance along the edge it fills between the glass and the frame. Not very neat but it works great.

May 21, 1996

Things are not going well this morning. Della and Kim took the mother cat and her kittens to Marshall, Texas and left them at the animal shelter. First, my computer locks-up nearly every time I start it up. Second, the door got stuck and I couldn't get in for over an hour. My first thought was that the alien might try to lift off, But I remembered that the spaceship will not lift yet. I think that if it could lift off it would have traveled to Marshall.

After about 10:00 AM the alien must have left. I did not feel that he was here until around 4:00 PM. I think he went to Marshall to rescue the kittens. Maybe he thinks we eat cats like it eats dogs, or at least he did. Once the alien realized that the dogs were our pets and that they were here to help secure the spaceship it didn't try to eat our dogs or Kim's. He may still eat strays. This may seem strange to eat dogs but we eat cows and on his planet they may keep cows as pets.

The dogs don't try to come into the spaceship but they seem to have lost some of their fear of the alien. Many times the dogs will be asleep and for no reason that we can see they will get up and walk away with their head down and a low growl in their thoght. By this we know that the alien has passed too close to them. It's hard to say if other dogs come up missing. Sometimes we find the bones of small animals around, but most of the time the dogs probably get the bones.

May 29, 1996

We applied more of the moss like substance to the outer skin of the spaceship. Then after a week or so it matures and grows to the proper thickness. We will then jump into space. This will kill it and freeze dry it all at the same time. We have to take great care with these jumps. If we don't adjust the force field just right we take too much dirt and tree limbs into space.

The moss like substance will act as an insulator in space against the cold. While on Earth it will insulate us from the heat and the cold. The spaceships of earth use foam to insulate them, but Rollaway doesn't have our abundance of petroleum products. Instead they developed the moss through bio-engineering to do the same thing. Our spaceship does not need high temperature protection for atmospheric re-entry. When we re-enter the Earth's atmosphere we first make a jump to about one hundred and fifty miles above the Earth. Then we program the computer to build up a force field and make our next jump to the ground. The force field is some what of a cushion for landing. Once we have landed on the force field we can slowly reduce it until we are back on the ground at our landing site. For this reason the jumps have to be very precise because there is little room for error. When we jump into space it is much easier since the exact spot to which we jump is not critical.

Later we will be able to fly with-in an atmosphere but at this time we have not rebuilt the wings which will give us control and stability. Nor have we rebuilt the thrust engines. We are having trouble in that area. The frozen culture samples from the beetle whose genes were used to grow the engine thrust chambers on Rolacoy has died since the spaceship landed on Earth. The alien may be able to splice them in to some Earth beetle, we don't know yet. There are beetles on Earth that have the similar charecteristics. One mixes two chemicals that are produced in it's body in a chamber with the result of a deadly caustic substance being spewed out a tube which is used for self defense.

June 8, 1996

We have been programming the computer most of the day and running simulated jumps. We plan to make our first jump into space tonight after dark. We hope there will be no trail of ionized air to light up and call attention to our activities. We are not very worried about being picked up on radar because the spaceship contains very little metal. The shape is so rounded that radar beams which may hit us will be bounced back defused. Also since the spaceship will use no thrust rockets and burn no fuel we should be nearly impossible to pickup. The best camofloug though is the way the Liner Shifting Molecular Expanding Generator, the drive unit, operates. Since the spaceship will expand-jump-collapse it will be too much like a vapor until it collapses at the destination.

Once the force field builds up the spaceship starts to expand. This expansion is nearly at the speed of light, very fast. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The spaceship is about 32 feet long. In one tenth of a second the spaceship expands to 576,000 feet long or about 110 miles. This means that the bow is almost to Texarkana and the stern is over Toledo bend Lake. One second after the expansion starts the ship is thousands of miles long. The drive unit's very center is still where it started. Travel is made by moving the center of the drive unit to another location within the spaceship. When the center is moved we then collapse the ship to it's original size and we can move the ship thousands of miles in seconds.

June 23, 1996

Today we lifted up near the sun to char the surface of the moss on the outer surface of the spaceship. We didn't have any way to make a test run and our sun is a little different than the sun of the planet Rolacoy. The alien programmed the computer for the jump. Our computer is quite different from the bio-computers it is used to working with. Also the alien was not a navigator but a dock worker. Fortunately he had cross training in many other areas. We don't have any kind of mind link with our computers at this point, although he is working on linking our computer with what is left of the original on board computers.

Because of the strangeness of our computers and inadaquitcy of them he made a small miscalculation and we went too close to the sun on the first jump. HOT! The procedure is very similar to toasting marshmallows. Cliff and I do not yet trust the alien to return with the spaceship to Earth so I went as the pilot and operated the program the alien had set up. We think that he went also although we still can not see the alien. It is like the wind, we don't see it, just the results. As I stated above we got too close to the sun on the first try. We were toasting the bottom on that jump. The plan was to re-condense about at the Mercury orbit, and stay for one second, we were well inside. I was at the keyboard and didn't do anything but a couple of keys were depressed and we quickly made a jump to near Mars. This return to a cold reign of space put out the fire on the outer skin. I don't know how close we came to being burnt to a cinder. I had an urge to go to the head. This gave the alien time to adjust the program to make a return jump to the sun to toast the top of the spaceship. I would have just as soon returned to Earth and let the alien go by it's self. This time when I pushed the buttons we re-condensed about 90 degrees ahead of Mercury in it's orbit. The program ran great and we jumped back near Mars. This time I wondered why we set there so long, about 10 minutes.

I noticed a snuffling behind me near the radio on our first jump. This time the alien was differently messing with the radio. I think it heard a signal from the ship that went down on Mars. Or it could have been from some part of the mother ship that is in the asteroid belt. If this is true we may be able to salvage some much needed parts form one of the wrecks. If the signals came from Mars their may be survivors.

July 7, 1996

This is a great day the alien has finally made direct contact with us. Always before it has indirect. The alien thinks there are survivors either on Mars or in the asteroids.

SPACESHIP CONSTRUCTION:

General Ship Construction: The alien race have the ability to genetically modify plants and animals to produce mechanical products. If they need a 2" x 4" x 8' board they would grow it to shape and size. It would be rectangular in shape, each board is divided with a plastic like membrane between it so they can be separated. There are also perforations at each 8' joint like some grass stems that grow on Earth. We would grow a tree and then saw the board out of it. Their way is much more efficient. Most of the ship was once alive. Genetic engineering is a big part of their technology since their planet named Rolacoy does not have the abundance of heavy metals that we of Earth take for granted. The hull and superstructure of the ship grown from a genetically altered beetle. A rapid growth harmone is used and a ship of the size or ours can be grown in 18 of our months. A mold like fungus was grown all over the ship inside and out. This growth bonded the whole structure together and provided an air tight structure. The mold fungus also insulated the spaceship for space travel.

Outer Skin: They evidently use some form of alien sponge like creature that grows on the outside of the hull it adds to the structural strength and acts as an insulation.

On-Board Computer: The ship also originally possessed intelligence of a sort, the on board computer was a biological mass of brain cells and nodes, however, not self-aware. It was programmed much like our present computers. It was also capable of limited mind links with the pilot and the computer had highly developed speech capabilities. The nodes were grown at various locations in the ship. This arrangement allowed for security of data since some data was "backed up" on more than one memory node. The nodes are much like our external hard drives linked to our computers. They shared information and acted as backups for information so if one was damaged or died all of it's information was not lost. They are linked by strands of something like our fiber optics. They feed off of energy which feeds through the fibers. They can also draw energy for any light source. Unfortunately the central brain mass was severed from it's fibers on impact with the earth and it died.

DATE AND HISTORY OF THE CRASH:

From examining some of the still living memory nodes we are assembling the story of how the ship got to Earth and where it came from. It appears that a larger ship brought our spaceship to our galaxy. Our spaceship seems to be a shuttle craft. The large ship planed to bring the shuttles to a parking orbit outside of the orbit of Pluto our outermost planet, but through a miscalculation it ended it's jump inside the orbit of Mars in our solar systems asteroid belt. The Liner Shifting Molecular Expanding Generator collapsed it's field in the asteroid belt. An asteroid about the size of a compact car appeared in engineering and since the ship had no velocity when it arrived and the asteroid did the asteroid tore through the ship from the inside out. Some of the crew who worked in the shuttle bay area were able to quickly enter shuttles and excape the rapidly decentagrating ship. The was spinning as a thick mass of smaller asteroids approached. Because of the spin most of the scuttles received some damage exiting the scuttle bay doors. From what we can piece together six shuttles excaped into space.

The first one out the bay doors immediately crashed into another asteroid and was destroyed. Number two was heavily damaged and had to land on Mars. The third shuttle was less damaged also made for a Mars landing. The fourth out was struck by a very small asteroid and made a hasty jump to unknown space. Number five made a very short jump away from our sun and reappeared near Mars, but elected to take time and make a jump back toward Earth since it is the planet most like their home world. The shuttle that we found is number six it had a near miss with a small asteroid and jumped toward Earth. It's calculations were also hasty and it's Liner Shifting Molecular Expanding Generator (LSMEG) collapsed it's field about fifty feet above where we found it. There was no time to use the thrusters, so it was buried in the ground in our woods. We believe that the fifth one appeared above our atmosphere and upon entering atmosphere was shot down and destroyed by one of the nations of Earth.

Since the time of the catastrophe faint commutation has been received from Mars but it stopped two years ago. Our spaceship carried a crew of seven but not all of the crew made it into the ship when the mother ship broke up. Two dock workers did get inside. All but one was killed on impact with Earth. The remaining alien is one of the dock workers. We have no clue as to what happened to the bodies. Although remaining alien is of a highly advanced race it's expertise is in handling freight and maintenance of freight handling equipment. We hope that it is cross trained enough to know the basics of their technology.

DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS:

The spaceship seems to have a triad of drive systems. Travel up to Earth orbit is achieved using the anti gravitational attractors. The ship is also equipped with small thrusters used for yaw roll and pitch. The thrusters point the ship toward the desired destination. For interstellar travel it uses a Liner Shifting Molecular Expanding Generator (LSMEG); (a modified microwave oven mounted on a track running from bow to the stern.) The drive operates the same as a common microwave oven, except that instead of causing the atoms to rotate faster, thereby creating heat. The spaceship's generator uses one silica molecule as the exact center of it's location in time and space. The Liner Shifting Molecular Expanding Generator accelerates all of the molecules that are contained within the ships enegery field. The molecules expand at the speed of light using the one silica molecule as their center.

Once they expand to the desired amount the generator moves three dimensionally in a magnetic field. The generator is controlled by our computers and the whole operation can be view in real time on the computer monitor. As the molecules expand, including the passengers, Earth gets relatively smaller and smaller until the complete Earth is seen on the monitor. The whole operation called a jump can be pre-programmed or can be controlled manually. When it reaches the proper location the atoms collapse to their original orbits around their nucleus. Since the generator has moved the spaceship reappears based on the location of the center of the single silica molecule.

Light travels at the rate of one hundred eighty six thousand miles per second. The maxim range of the ship, in a single "jump", is twenty two million, three hundred twenty thousand miles. Since light travels at 186,000 miles per second, with the generator set at it's lowest rate of travel, the spaceship is capable of traveling from Earth to the Earth's moon, about two hundred fifty thousand miles, in one point three four seconds. The generator would have traveled only point eight inches.

Distant locations can in theory be reached with one "jump" from any landing site, however they are not recommended since some of the landing site may fall within the energy field and be transported the destination. In extreme cases well wishers present at the launching site can lose hands and part of their waving arms if those extremities happen to come within the energy field while the ship is making a "jump". Single "jump" landings are risky to the ship and it's traveler's if it happens to reappear at a location which may be occupied by a planet, mountain or even a large person, since two solid masses can not occupy the same space.

SIMPLE EXPLANATION:

Let's say that you are six feet tall and take three foot strides. Stand on one foot. Where are you? You are where your foot is. Take one stride, where are you now? You are three feet from where you started. Suppose that as you began to take one stride suddenly you were ten times your size how long would your stride be? Your stride would be thirty feet. Just as suddenly you returned to your normal six feet tall. Where would you be now? You would be thirty feet from where started.

ORIGIN OF SPACESHIP:

The spaceship was discovered partially buried on the property, that we purchased in December of 1994, apparently it had been in the location for sometime. It showed signs that someone or something still occupied it. We could not find the occupant immediately, but after much searching we were able to tell where it was not. The condition of the craft upon discovery was poor. We have partially restored it and plan to make it space worthy. We suspect that the occupant is allowing us to repair it with the hope of taking it and returning to the mother ship.

DESCRIPTION OF THE OCCUPANT OF THE SPACESHIP:

As stated above although we have not seen the occupant we know it exists. You can not see a black hole or the wind, but you can see the effects. The ships occupant is not a shape shifter but master chameleon. We will tame it as it likes the chocolate chip cookies we have been leaving about. It's a kindred spirit. A strange truce exists between us and the alien, like a cat and it's owner (does anyone own a cat?). Anyway since we moved the ship to our yard we have not put any type of lock on the ship, only what it had, the alien never locks it nor do we.

The alien is strangely like a cat it seems to tolerate us. It does not appear to us, it stays out of our way and we do not bother it. Sometimes we find that it has repaired some part of the ship. If we see that it is working on something we stay out of that area. By the same token it does not bother what we are doing. Although some times it leaves hints as to what we should do, arranges parts so we can work on them and switches connections around when we hook them up wrong. We know that it is living in the ship and we stay out of it's way. Often we see or hear the door cycle and know that we are getting too close and it goes outside. One strange thing that we notice is that the dogs give it a lot of room. The cats on the other hand seem to thrive on it's company. It's careful to not let us know where it is even to the extent of quickly removing a cat from it's lap when we come around. We can tell that the cat has been disturbed. It's just like when the cat is in our lap and we put it down or make it get up. Sometimes we see the cat rub up against something that's not there. We know that the alien has been watching us work and the cat has rubbed against it's leg.

We are not sure what the eating habits of the alien are but they seem to be much like ours. We have seen parts of small animals just like if we had bagged some game and prepared it to eat. Later we may see the left over bones. We think that most of the time the cats get the leftovers. The dogs would like to have the bones but will not get close enough to beat the cats to them. More than once we have seen the cats eating something and the dogs standing at a distance wanting to run the cats away but wouldn't come close. We have noticed some m

issing groceries from the house. So far we have managed to keep the chocolate chip cookies hidden.

It's a little unsettling to know that it can come and go and not be seen in our house. We have attached small bells to the doors and sometimes we see the leaves move as it brushes by them. More than once as we ate a meal something will Diaspora from the table or while we are setting in a room a leaf of a house plant will move. We don't let the dogs in the house but sometimes we see one of the dogs get up and walk away looking over their shoulder. We don't think that the dogs can see the alien but they must smell it. The alien now knows that the dogs are our pets and has not tried to eat them, so they tolerate each other. The cats love the alien. If you think about the alien's abilities, it can understand our speech, it can make it's self invisible, it can go about anyplace it wants.

Once we noticed movement in the back of the pickup and know it went into Waskom with us. I don't know when it came back but it could get into any car or pickup while they were parked and hitch a ride back to our house. The people would never know it was there unless they touched it or it opened the door and got out. We saw a car stop just past our road once and the driver got out and looked under the hood then got back in, started the car and drove away. The alien had probably made some noise, like a flat or it may have simply turned off the ignition, waited until the car stopped and got out.

We have already discussed a problem that may come up. It is that we lack funds to do some of the repairs. The alien could go into the bank and "withdraw" whatever we need to do the repairs. We are not going to allow that to happen. We wish it would let us see it and communicate with us. It would speed up the repairs. We could sell some of the alien technology and generate plenty of money for repairs.