They were paddling so fast, that the canoe seemed to go right up on the shore. The UFO was moving around over the water, and suddenly 'imploded', reappearing at intervals as it raced off into the sky. This gave the effect of a strobed object, except that it also changed like the phases of the moon as it left, similar to the multiple exposures of an eclipse. The blue beam was still on and illuminated first the front and then the rear of some altocumulus clouds (they form typically at about 14,000 ft).

They walked back to the camp and found the giant bonfire ONLY EMBERS. All of them had a peculiar disinterest in investigating what had happened to the time, but elected to just go to bed. They should have been animatedly discussing the whole event, but all were drained of energy. The next morning they didn't talk about it much, but later asked a ranger they ran into about it. He said it was searchlights crossing, and then asked, "Did you get your rayguns out, fellahs? Everyone's always complaining about the bugs and bears, and now Martians."

12 years later, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire had an accident where he fell 1 1/2 stories which resulted in temporal epilepsy. He was diagnosed in 1983, and therapy reduced his seizures. In 1988 he started having terrible nightmares, where he was in a room and creatures were doing painful things to his body. Sometimes he woke up thinking there was something in his room, and once felt a tugging on his shoulder. Due to lack of sleep, his seizures began increasing. He went to his doctors and told them of John Mack's studies, which the doctors said was crazy. Luckily, one week later he went to a MUFON meeting and heard about Ray Fowler. Ray was interested in the missing time and the fact that 4 people were involved, two of them identical twins.