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“It was a clear January night, and 22-year-old Mathieu Robichaud was behind the wheel of his Chevy Cavalier, his girlfriend next to him, headed for the store the next town over. They were looking forward to a quiet Saturday night -- just the two of them together, watching movies back at the apartment they shared in the basement of her mother's house. The conversation between the two had fallen to silence. The familiarity of the road, the music on the radio and the tranquilizing hiss of the car heater cranked on high had lulled them into a quiet comfort. Then: "Jesus!" he exclaimed. "What's that?" Two lights low in the sky. Jenny Laplante noticed them just at that moment, too. "It's a plane," the 17-year-old high school student thought, "and it's about to crash." But as they drove closer, the details became clearer: two lights morphed to four white lights -- translucent, like light spilling through a distant window. Smaller blue lights were set between the white. There was no way, they thought, that it was an airplane: it wasn't the right shape and it moved too slowly. Craning his neck to follow it as it approached, Mr. Robichaud also noticed white lights on bottom. He quickly pulled into the nearest driveway and