Reed recounts his October 1996 encounter in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he claims a creature killed his golden retriever by ripping the dog apart before Reed struck it with a branch. He describes the aftermath, including crippling sickness, close-up photographs of the being, and a mysterious obelisk found nearby.
Art examines the photographs and evidence, noting that the story falls into a category where the evidence is considered too good for many skeptics to accept. Reed describes ongoing threats to his safety, having lived in his car and faced multiple assaults since the alleged encounter.
Key Moments
Strike that killed the alien: Reed describes the alien's suit extending over Susie's head before he swung a baseball-bat-sized stick, splitting its skull. Dark cherry-red blood. Crippling nausea, vomiting and diarrhea hit him like a freight train within seconds.
Cameras and rolls of film: In shock, Reed remembers his pack, pulls out a Nikon 35mm camera and shoots three rolls of color slide and print film plus 10-15 minutes of videotape of the obelisk and alien body, partly to preserve his own sanity.
Obelisk as biomorphic portal: Reed reframes the hovering obelisk: not a craft (too small for the creature) but a doorway anchored in two places at once - Earth and wherever the entity came from. Possibly a 'biomorphic gate.'
Body weighed only fifty pounds: Reed wraps the corpse in a thermal blanket and discovers it weighs about 50 pounds - 'incredibly light.' He carries it back to his Jeep, then drives home throwing up blood the whole way.
Storing the body in the freezer: Home in shock, Reed lowers the wrapped body into a casket-style chest freezer in his garage with a half-broken lock. Later he reopens it convinced he must have killed his dog instead - 'and it wasn't my dog.'