The Case of The Missing Drowned Alien
The Case of The Missing Drowned Alien
By David Rhodin
The case of the missing drowned alien or the wet wet playing possum. One day in 1967 or 68 a call from Stockton station came over the radio, (everything in Livermore came over the repeaters due to the vast geographical area the Sector covered) they were reporting that they had spooked some aliens and one of them was drowned in a ditch off of a levee.
Bruce Long was the Chief at the time in Livermore and he was a hands on Chief and immediately got a plane up and headed for Stockton. When the PIs (Bob Nelson a legend in his own time there in Stockton) was on the radio and had taken part in the raid that had transpired. They had to go back to the car to make the radio call. As they believed they had a dead alien in the canal ditch they gave him no concern as far as staying to watch him. To make a long story short when they got back to the ditch the dead alien had up and gone with no sign him anywhere. It appeared the alien had been playing possum face down in the ditch. Other then a massive amount of egg on their face the story turned out all right except for the fact that the wet -wet was not dead but had escaped. There are many stories about Bob in that area including one where he wrote a memo to the Chief about the Senior not allowing him to attend church. Bob who was a Mormon and gave a sermon on skid row in Stockton on Sunday mornings. He had requested the late shift on Sundays. The Senior did not acquiesce to his request thus his memo to the Chief. I believe Bob won that one but soon after left the service to join the Bureau of Indian Affairs around Salt Lake City Area. ---------------------------------------------------------