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The End of the Story

They stood over the crib. What stopped them was kept off the record.

A thin grey being with long fingers leans over a baby's crib under a red light.

The End of the Story

1976–1992 · Christmas, Florida · West Plains, Missouri · Bill · Dan and Joyce Ahrens

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Witness record

A man who cleaned buildings at the Kennedy Space Center woke three times to his dogs. The third time he could not move, and then he came off the mattress, held in the air over his own bed while his wife slept beneath him. Something in the room was laughing.

In the fall of 1976, in West Plains, Missouri, Dan and Joyce Ahrens watched a red light four or five feet wide come across their bedroom ceiling and settle over their baby's crib. Both of them were awake. Neither of them could move. They did not speak about it for sixteen years.

In 1992 a MUFON investigator on Florida's Space Coast, Joe Jordan, began putting cases like these on tape with his partner Wes Clark. Hundreds of them. And they all ended the same way, which is the one part of the story the people who heard it asked to keep quiet.