Former U. S. Marine, John Click, who flew on President Carter's Air Force One and was a long-time firefighter and paramedic, retired to truck driving in 1996 and eventually became an ordained Baptist minister in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Back in August 1996 or 1997, between Upland and Campbell, Nebraska, he encountered an "unearthly creature" that looked like a crab and scorpion combined atop a cow bellowing in pain.