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Dennis: Creature? What creature? Why would they treat an animal in a hospital for people?

Jane: It wasn't an animal or a human being. It was short with a large gray head. It had enormous eyes. The doctors cut open its skin and

were taking out its body parts. What was really weird was that I didn't see any blood coming from the creature. The doctors told me this was a top-secret medical examination and I was never to tell anyone I saw the autopsy.. They said that if I ever did, no one would ever see or hear from me again.

Dennis: This is unbelievable. You said the creature was short?

Jane Yes. He would be around three to four feet tall.

Dennis: About the same size as a small child?

Jane: Yes, I'll draw a picture of it on this napkin for you as long as we destroy it right after you look at it.

Narrator: Lloyd had been listening very intently to this conversation

from behind the rubber palm tree. As Jane draws the sketch of the alien on the napkin, Lloyd copies it on the sleeve of his white shirt.

Jane: Dennis, isn't that palm tree supposed to be near the front entrance of the bar?

Dennis: Yeah, that's where it usually is. I guess Dusty must have moved it for some reason.