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                           A GULF BREEZE QUICKIE
			   (For what it's worth)

	                      by John Decker

		               Evergreen, CO
			     November 14, 1991




		On November 8, 1991 I stopped in Gulf Breeze, Florida
	on my way from Orlando to Evergreen, Colorado.  I spent about
	four hours in Gulf Breeze, just poking around, looking for
	insights about Ed Walters and THE GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS.

		What I found was a tiny, upscale beach town (far smaller
	than expected) about a mile long, straddling a busy thoroughfare on
	a sandy white peninsula.  I saw no UFO monuments, no UFO T-shirts,
	not even a UFO postcard for sale.  I was surprised that the
	potential for the UFO tourist dollar is (if it exists) ignored in
	Gulf Breeze.

		A Chevron employee, Brian, about 30, answered me:  "No, I
	haven't seen any UFO's...in this area."

		Turns out Brian is from New York and did see something as a
	teenager on a hunting trip in the Finger Lakes area.  "Lights," he
	saw, that did things lights don't do.

		The rest of our conversation, as I remember it, was this:

	
				BRIAN
		People try to make out that UFO's don't exist, but come on,
		everybody knows there's something's to it.


				DECKER
		I've read THE GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS.  What
		do you think of it?


				BRIAN
		Well, Ed's pretty slick.


				DECKER
		You know Ed Walters?


				BRIAN
		Sure.


				DECKER		
		He seems awfully convincing to me.  What do you
		mean he's slick?


				BRIAN
		He's just one of those kind of guys, you know?
		I mean, he saw something, no doubt about that.
		I don't know what it was.


				DECKER
		What do you mean he's slick?  Is he trying to fool
		everyone, or what?

	
				BRIAN
		Well, I wouldn't say he's trying to fool everyone.
		He did see something, no doubt about that.  But he
		made a lot of money off the book.


				DECKER
		I'm sure.  You think he did it for the money, faked
		the whole thing?

		
				BRIAN
		Well, you know, like I said, Ed's slick.  His business
		wasn't doing too good, then he writes the book.  But
		I'm not saying he didn't see something.


				DECKER
		From what I read it wasn't just Ed.  Thirty or forty
		people stood there and saw these things.  Wasn't the
		mayor there?


				BRIAN
		Not the mayor, no.  A lot of people were there.  It's
		a very political deal.  There's a lot of political shit
		going on about it.


				DECKER
		Because of the sightings?


				BRIAN
		Yeah.  A lot.  Everybody's fighting.  It's a mess.



		At this point two paying customers came into the gas station
	and I had to leave Brian to his work.

		I went to the beach on the bay side of the peninsula, parked
	my car and watched two girls looking out over the water where many
	sightings have been reported.  I was there about fifteen minutes
	when they got up to leave.  It was about 7:30PM.  I got out of my car
	and introduced myself as someone who is interested in UFO's.  I asked
	if they'd ever seen anything.  They said they hadn't though they'd
	seen reports of the Gulf Breeze UFO's on television.  In their opinions
	the sightings were not UFO's but airplanes from the military bases
	around Gulf Breeze.

		I went to have dinner at a gulfside fish house.  The bar
	tender and the two local patrons I spoke to had heard of the GULF
	BREEZE SIGHTINGS but didn't know Ed Walters and had never had a UFO
	experience.

		Eventually I got to Evergreen and wrote my report.

		Duty done.

						-- DECKER