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Fox closes the door to his room (number 245) and starts to stride down the hallway towards the stairs. His steps become hesitant and he starts to look around....up, left, right, back over his shoulder. He stops in front of a small cabinet in the wall and opens the small door that gives access to a fire extinguisher. Fox takes the magnetic key card for his room's door lock out of his shirt pocket and slips it behind the fire extinguisher. Fox hurries out into the night. From the balcony he can see a neon sign: Ashville Motor Lodge is at the top with Valley MUFON Conference in small, removable letters at the bottom. Fox follows the balcony along the entire street-side length of the second floor and then down the stairs at that end. He crosses the parking lot to the lecture hall where the MUFON conference is being held. A poster stand by the door holds the announcement: Saturday Night Owl Session, Guest speaker TBA.

Fox enters with a few other late arrivals and takes a seat near the back. While Fox is entering and getting seated, a MUFON member is making some announcements about the Sunday schedule over the loud speaker system. When the announcements are done the speaker says, "Now Rick will introduce our guest speaker for tonight."

Richard Wells, the president of the Valley MUFON Chapter takes the microphone. "Thanks, Judy. And thank you all for getting back here in good time after dinner. But I knew you would because we are all very pleased to have Dr. Dana Scully here tonight. As you all know, Dr. Scully is a medical doctor who once worked for the FBI. Over the past few years she has been involved research at Fort Detrick, working as a consultant. Her topic for tonight is, "The Alien Genome Project."

The audience applauds and Dana rises from the first row. Wells clips the microphone on Dana's jacket and shakes her hand. She picks up a laser pointer and a remote control for the projection system and brings her first slide to the screen at the front of the room behind her (it is the title of her presentation). "Thank you for inviting me speak to you tonight. This is the first chance I have had to speak in public since leaving my position as medical consultant with the Army. I think you will be very interested to hear what I will tell you, but I must say right at the start that I am still under certain restrictions. When we get to the Q and A, I will not be able to answer some of the obvious questions that you will be forced to ask. I know this will be frustrating for you, and all I can say is that it is my hope that I will one day be able to more fully describe all of what I have been witness to."