![]() ![]() He was average in appearance and could easily pass unnoticed in a crowd, and usually did. His person in fact exhibited no distinguishing feature. He was of moderate height and medium build. Nick was the rounder of the two, from the face down. It had been this way from the point of memory, growing as boys into classmates in the schools of anthracite Pennsylvania, then to fellowship, as men. It was as if each needed these traits in the other, for team balance. Where one might stop for the sights, smell the roses, and dally in the excursion, the other was clearly serious, goaldriven, and worked to a schedule. He also knew that the forest would attract Bruce like a bee. ![]() Nick understood Bruce’s vulnerabilities, including his ongoing bout with discipline. They shared a wordless understanding and mutual regard that was almost symbiotic. Their relationship was free of the encumbrance of competition or envy. Bruce’s charm and easy manner were qualities that complemented his more serious companion. ![]() Nick asked Bruce to accompany him on the junket. Like binary stars they were tethered to each other, now teaching as colleagues at the same college. Those in search of extraterrestrial intelligence use science for their job, but like Verne, Bradbury, and Asimov at times they stray into a fictional world, for the sake of self-preservation.īruce Bonner had been his friend since kindergarten. The scientist in him scoffed at the tale, but the dreamer in him tugged at his curiosity. He had followed the Roswell story since childhood. Nick was drawn to the dramatic when it came to long-shot expeditions. ![]() More likely still it may have been a meteorite, a chunk of rock stripped from a comet. It may have been a piece of “space trash” overcome by the earth’s gravity, causing it to depart the orbiting graveyard of senescent satellites and plunge into the forest. His observations at the SETI Center two weeks previously might be earthshaking.Ī more mundane explanation was probable. For Nick Casperson it could be a career boost. Bruce called it their “junket.” It was spring break, and the two snowbirds from New Jersey were migrating to the forests of Brazil. ![]()
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