I-Team: Mystery on the River Parts 1 and 2

It\'s a scary tale worthy of Halloween, only it looks like the spooks in this story might work for the government. The I-Team has been telling you about the strange object that crashed near the Colorado River back in May and was quickly scooped up by helicopters.

Residents say that after the choppers came the Men in Black.

The mystery surrounding the object that fell from the sky is pretty juicy by itself. But the stories the I-Team has been hearing about the X-Men agents in their spooky vehicles takes the tale to a whole different level.

\"Everyone that knows me knows I\'m crazy,\" said Bob. A lot of people have been searching for Bob on the River. His occasional home at the Topock Marina is easy to miss, tucked away as it is off the road and under a bridge.

When the story of the Needles UFO crash went national, Bob went underground, trying to avoid the UFO hunters who wanted him to lead them to the point of impact.

See the UFO crash site http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/Iteam/crash_vicinity.kmz (Requires Google Earth)

One the night before a network TV crew was to arrive, a large wildfire erupted and forced the evacuation of the marina. Bob wondered if someone was trying to wipe out clues at the presumed crash site, but this isn\'t where the UFO hit the ground.

\"This is the position, approximately where I was that night,\" he said.

The I-Team rode along as Houseboat Bob made his first return to the scene, approximately five miles up river from Topock. Pinpointing the exact spot is difficult because he had been floating downriver for a few hours in the middle of the night when it happened.

\"I saw this bright turquoise, blue-green flame coming directly down out of the sky,\" he said.

Within minutes, helicopters arrived and hauled the object away.

The FAA said it does not retain records of what might have been in the air over the river, but the I-Team obtained a single transponder reading from the morning of May 14, 2008, confirming the presence of at least one military chopper.

We also found a detachment of the special ops group known as the Night Stalkers at the Henderson Airport during the same time frame. But it isn\'t the helicopters that have spooked Bob and other residents of the area, it\'s the X-Men.

\"There have been some strange people in town,\" said Paul Fix.

KTOX radio station employee Paul Fix saw the mystery men and their blacked out vehicles in Neddles the morning after the UFO crash.

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