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in 1988. When I was through, to my surprise, he said he believed me. The

next day I showed him and the rest of his family two of the pictures. I know

some of them didn’t know what to think and others simply couldn’t accept

it. Among the non believers was mister Popo. Afterwards though, and by

his own personal experience, he changed his mind. After my friend

recommended it and after seeing that his family’s reaction was not

negative, I decided to exhibit the enlarged picture on my hot dog cart. I

mistakenly thought that maybe someone would come up and tell me they’d

seen the same object over the skies in Cabo Rojo. Maybe even someone

who had seen it that same morning. To the people who did inquire I didn’t

give details. I only told them I had taken the picture one day coming home

late from work. The specifics where intense and too hard to believe. They

would have required too many explanations from my part and I didn’t want

to complicate things.

The enlarged picture of the UFO and the military plane did get some

attention but not the one I was hoping for. People started to make fun of

me. They called me crazy and a liar. People got ketchup and mustard all

over the picture; they all wanted to see it but no one mentioned they had

also seen it. They drove by and yelled obscenities and called me

extraterrestrial or Martian. None of this was good for business. A few days

after that I decided to just remove the picture and put it back in my

bedroom drawer. The drawer of oblivion.

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