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came and took him to the h ospital, after which he told what had happened. On Friday, th e 1 2th, Flynn took his swamp buggy, camping gear and four dogs and set out for the Everglades, about eighteen miles east of the Big Cypress Indian reserva tion . On Sunday night three of the dogs jumped a deer and ran off. Flynn whistled and called until about midnight, then started the bu ggy and headed i n the direction in which he had last seen them. About an hour l ater, at 1 A.M. on Monday, Flynn saw a h uge light in the sky above the trees about a mile away. It moved from east to west and back to its original position four times . It then s ettled to the ground and ap peared to hover at about four feet altitude . Flynn drove closer, turned off the buggy's lights, then got out his binoc ul ars and watched the thing. It was a cone-shaped object about thi rty feet in height and about twice as wide as it was high . Eight feet from the top was a row of windows below which there were three more rows of windows of the same size-about two feet square. Around the windows was a black strip about two i nches wide. From the b ottom of the lowest row of windows to the bottom of the ship there was a distance of about twelve feet. Flynn estimated th e s ize and dimensions by comparing the object with surrounding cypress trees which were about twenty-five feet tall. Instead of coming to a peak like a normal cone, the object was rounded on top. A typical "disc. " The whole object appeared to be m etallic and .c omprised of pieces of m aterial about four by four feet and held together by rivets. The wbdows gave off a dul l yellow light and the area under the obj ect was l ighted by an orangish-red glow. Flyn n watched the obj ect for thirty to forty minutes with the aid of his glasses . By this time, Flynn was about one quarter mile from the object and decided to i nvestigate further, so he cranked up his bug�y and approached it. He got within a few yards of the edge of the light and stopped, switching off his lamp agai n . The dog he had on the buggy began to try to tear i �self out of the cage. The next details support the conte ntion of many that the UFOs are at be�t ind ifferent to man and at worst, ini mical. Flynn walked to the edge of the lighted area, r aised his arm and waved. He got no respoase and, after waiting a half a minute or so, he wal ked about six feet into the lighted area and raised his arm to wave ag21 i ll . A short beam of light erupted from just under the bottom of the lowest tier of windows and struck