(Stribling Valley crater, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, first official photograph, Nov. 2001)

Miggy Finch: Next caller is Rick from Santa Rosa, California. You're on the air.

Rick: Hello, Miggy. Hello, Professor Stacey. Thanks for taking my call. First, Professor Stacey, I want to say how much my reading group enjoyed your book - your latest one - on the theory of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra as a--

Miggy: We got 30 seconds before the break, Rick. What's your question?

Rick: Professor Stacey, I would like to know... I would like to ask whatever happened to... See, I heard you speak at the World Fantasy Convention in Sacramento--

William T. Stacey: Thanks for attending, Rick!

Rick: Yes, Sir. So, I was wondering about your book on Shrouded Rock and what's going on with it?

William: Ah. Frankly, Rick, it's been one disappointment after another.

Rick: Sorry to hear that.

William: Without a doubt... Miggy, do most of your listeners know about Shrouded Rock?

Miggy: Best explain, Bill.

William: Shrouded Rock is the largest, natural freestanding boulder in the world, but no one has ever photographed it or rendered it artistically, due to a long-standing dispute between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes that has made it virtually inaccessible, not to mention a boatload of innuendo fed by UFO theorists who think it's an intergalactic meeting place, environmental protestors who think it's a designated nuclear waste dump and New Age spiritualists who believe it has a magnetic-vortex inner chamber with acoustic healing effects. It's called Shrouded Rock because the Indians once covered it in an enormous tarp of sewn blankets. But, that's a whole 'nother story.

Miggy: Where is it supposed to be, Professor?

Rick: Um, the Right to Know Map of the Universe says Wyoming.

William: We just don't know. The Indians have an oral history, but the exact location is unknown and the government sure isn't going to say. But, the cognoscenti say it's situated deep inside a military base somewhere out west.

--Transcript from July 7, 1997, Radio Free Planet: With Miggy Finch.


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