This series of events occurred not far south of me in Dearborn County. On a sunny afternoon in January 1967, schoolboy Reed Thompson took an amazing photo of a monitor-type UFO as it moved slowly through the trees within 32 feet of his home. Dead tree limbs later marked its route. This was the start of a series of events that I would investigate continuing into the 1990s. Reed experienced lost time during the event, and later had nose-bleeding problems.

On a warm April day in 1973, two thin, long-haired, grotesque-looking individuals entered Reed's auto parts store in Milan. Reed's shepherd dog ran to a corner and whined in terror. Several patrons in the store could not remember the event. The beings were dressed in tan jump suits, and wore heavy gloves. It was their faces that were upsetting. A local news reporter later coined the term, "Plastic facers" to describe them. One of the creeps speaking in a mechanical monotone voice and knew exactly when Reed had taken the UFO photo. He demanded the photo and negative immediately.

Being of a stubborn nature, Reed replied that the photo was in a bank vault and would stay there. "Plastic face" said it didn't matter they would get it anyway. Meanwhile a man named Craft, a friend of Reed's, had hurried outside to see the car in which these weirdos had come. It was a 1969 bright yellow Buick LeSabre.

Peering through the dark glass, Craft was stunned to see that the auto had no steering wheel or seats. As the creeps neared the car, Craft's elbow brushed one of them and this seemed to disturb it. Craft died two years later and two autopsies failed to find the cause of his early demise. Reed hoped his strange visitors were gone but as he was enroute to the welding shop.

In Versailles, a wild twilight chase began when his nemesis appeared inches from his bumper. At the welding shop the Plastic facers parked right behind him and followed him to the shop door like shadows.