the family dog. The family was on their way to visit her sister at Holberg, located at the northwest tip of Vancouver Island. Mrs. D.M. was an outgoing, pleasant person with a casual interest in UFOs. Inspection of their home did not indicate any interest at all in the occult, the psychic realm, or related subjects. Mr. D.M. worked at the lumber mill in Campbell River. Neither person claimed to have read any books specifically on UFOs, but had seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The husband was an avid science fiction fan in earlier years.

When asked what they had done immediately after noticing the disc on the photograph (some 18 days later on October 26, 1981), Mrs. D.M. replied, "Well, we didn't know what to do. Eventually we showed it to our neighbors and Mr. and Mrs. M. Sr. (husband's parents). "Mrs. D.M. phoned the Canadian Forces Base at Comox in mid-November 1981 concerning their possible interest in seeing the photograph. She ". . . just wanted to see if they were interested in it and if they knew anything about what the object could be." An Air Force representative (allegedly) said they were not interested in viewing it, but did take her name and address. It was not until the summer of 1982 that the family travelled to Vancouver, B.C. bringing one 4" x 5" color print with them. They visited the Vancouver Planetarium and spoke with the Director, David Dodge who called in David Powell who was interested in UFO phenomena. The couple were persuaded to lend the original negative to them to make enlarged copies. The negatives were delivered to Mr. Powell in June 1982 and were returned to Mr. and Mrs. D.M. on January 28, 1983. These dates may be significant since they suggest that the photographer was willing to wait a long time before pursuing an explanation for the disc-like image on her photograph. If this event had been a deliberate hoax it is more likely that some overt action to capitalize on it might have been taken soon after the disc had been discovered and not almost a year later. Of course this is not a conclusive argument to support this contention.⁵

The author found the photographer and her husband to be middle-class, hard-working people. Their property was well kept. Nothing could be found which pointed to a deliberate hoax. Both displayed genuine puzzlement about the origin of the disc on the photograph. Mr. and Mrs. D.M. were not defensive nor did they ever attempt to cover up anything as far as could be determined. For example, when asked if he owned a Frisbee, Mr. D.M. said yes and located it immediately for the author's inspection. It was a 9" diameter, dull black, "Professional FIFI model." He claimed to have been proficient in throwing it in the past, but had not done so in some time. There was no indication that some type of dome-like structure had been attached to it. The suspicion lingered throughout the investigation that a Frisbee or other similar object had merely been tossed up into the air and photographed. It became important to learn more about the subject of Frisbees and their "flight" qualities.