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US Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men - military professionals who flew planes, commanded ships, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at air fields around the world - began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.

As if to match the tempest in my head, a long, black squall line rose in the west. The weather was calling for thunderstorms, but this was a monster. The wall of bad weather extended from one end of the Gulf of Mexico to the other. The sky above the Laura Fern was blue and fair, but the squall line was climbing quickly, which meant the wind driving it our way was violent. I turned the bow into the wind to take the growing waves. Bolts of lightning flashed against the black canvas of sky, followed after long seconds by the ancient rumble of thunder. As the maelstrom closed, the exploding ...

Things still linger in the creeks, swamps, and low places of our childhoods. They never venture into the road, nor rise to stand in open fields. They crawl about in the spider corners of aging barns, moan from mist-choked river banks, and stand hunched and patient in the shadows as we age and die. These beings neither heaven nor hell can claim.