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"Case closed," Scotty said slowly, "because the body isn't around. No proof of death, or even of accident. Pending proof of death meaning the body the jury finds that Joe Doakes is missing under mysterious circumstances and may have met with death or an accident by misadventure while engaged in his lawful business of crabbing." "That's about it," Steve agreed.
Someone rushes in and tells you that Joe Doakes has been carried off by a flying saucer. You don't believe in flying saucers, but you know Doakes. You investigate. His boat has been found, but his body is missing. What do you assume? That he was really toted off by some mysterious object? Nope. You assume he was hurt or killed falling out of the boat.
"Well, you got your nerve about you, I'll say that," McKenna commented. "You sit there and talk about it like it was something that was going to happen to Joe Doakes and Oscar Zilch." He looked at Rand intently. "You want us to keep an eye on you?" Rand leaned over and spat into the brass cuspidor, a gesture of braggadocio he had picked up among the French maquis. "Hell, no!
The highlight of his lecture, when he awes his audience, is when he whips out his proof: a blood smear on a slide genuine Venusian blood, an affidavit from his landlady stating he wasn't home on three occasions, and a photo of a Venusian walking in Los Angeles' McArthur Park. The mere fact that the Venusian looks like any Joe Doakes walking down the street is a picayunish point.
Airline pilots are considered responsible people airline pilots had seen UFO's. Experienced military pilots and ground officers are responsible people they'd seen UFO's. Scientists, doctors, lawyers, merchants, and plain old Joe Doakes had seen UFO's, and their friends knew that they were responsible people.
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