Dave Cameron and the Extraterrestrial by V Bertolaccini Page A

get who
had written it, but he was not sure how to go about doing it yet
and was unsure if their dating was accurate, and could give him the
wrong time and be off by many years.
    Fogler’s plan was clearly to search where
they had not looked or properly looked, and Simpson had given him
his information.
    Cameron soon became more interested in the
fire and keeping it going, especially for its bright light and
warmth it gave out, and he wondered again what had happened to all
the water at the bottom of the well and realized that the
underground water supply was either gone or buried below all the
mud and boulders.
    He suddenly wondered if the treasure
was behind any of the bricks making the surrounding well wall going
around him and he started to examine them in detail and even though
most had been removed and fitted back in place he was surprised
that one part of the wall was covered in a thick layer of dried
muck and when he pulled chunks of it away he eventually found
a black slab embedded in
the dried muck, and that it looked like some form of shiny black
stone, measuring a foot by half a foot, and it interested him
greatly and he wondered why they had not properly searched the
whole wall, and what amazed him most was its accurate flatness and
shape, as all the other boulders were chiseled rocks.
    It was
perfectly manufactured and he could not realize how it had gotten
there, as none of them had believed the makers of the well had
manufactured it less than hundreds of years ago.
    The find soon
grasped Fogler’s attention and he eventually threw his tool down
and rushed over.
    Fogler grasped
at it furiously, making him wonder what he was doing! He looked
really angry at something and he was sure he now thought it was
just a perfect brick, as it seemed too heavy to be hollow!
    When he
uncovered all the muck from it he saw his point and that it looked
like it had been put there by someone else, and Fogler washed it
with some water he had!
    To their
surprise it was a corroded metal box, and had not been part of the
wall. Cameron was sure it had been on the ground and at one point
water had flooded the well and it and the muck had become embedded
on the wall.
    He recalled the
well wall when he had first been there and that the muck had also
been on the other sides of the wall and that it had been cleaned
away on the other walls by Simpson.
    Fogler started
banging the side of the box against a boulder on the ground and he
found their was a hollow sound after all and they both realized it
was really something, and Fogler shouted up to the others and gave
them a description of what they had found and they started climbing
down the rope to see it, and while they waited for their arrival
they checked it and tried opening it, and Cameron found a keyhole
and proved the metal box was locked.
    Clouds of powdered dirt and stones came
crashing down and also swirled about through the well in the torch
beams as the two soldiers raced down on the rope, and Cameron held
the ropes and allowed them to move down better and wondered if they
had made a mistake in giving them the impression that it definitely
was something, wondering what the outcome of it all would be, and
he considered seeing a specialist on memory loss and its
causes.
    Cameron watched them come down and land on
the ground and he was amazed that Fogler was already trying to
smash open the metal box with different objects, and they all
examined it and him at work, and when he stopped and allowed them
to see it properly Simpson picked up a hammer and chisel and
smashed the top off the box with one blow, and they stood with
their mouths open as it opened to reveal muck and stones, and
Simpson put a newspaper over the ground and emptied the box and
they rummaged through it and found nothing but dried muck and
pieces of smashed glass.
     

Chapter 13
     
    The NASA Investigation
     
    Early the next morning they were taken to
where the crash site was, to investigate what was there for