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Peter Card Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Peter Card Peter Card, 77, of Chattanooga, TN, passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2021. He was born in South Kingston, RI (1944) to the late Arthur Frank and Louise Chase Card.
He graduated from South Kingston High School in 1962 and was recruited by Don Zimmer as a stand-out high school baseball pitcher. He chose instead to attend the University of Utah on a full athletic scholarship in baseball and football. He apprenticed at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, CT and was selected to weld his initials onto the keel of a newly commissioned submarine. Pete served aboard the Admiral’s Ship, the USS Yosemite, during the Viet Nam War. He helped build (from the onset) the Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant in Chattanooga.
It had started out as a normal night for police officer Sherley Brown and his partner, another hot summer July night near the town of Austell, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was a quiet, rural area where not much ever usually happened, the two typically using the time to chat or to merely watch the night and lane lines go by. Yet on this evening they were about to turn a bend and come across a strange tale, and the night was about to turn out to be one of the most bizarre they’d ever experienced, complete with UFOs and what seemed to be a dead alien.