that gives rise to the supposition that strange, undulating entities may be constantly cruising overhead and all our human eyes perceive are plain, old, ordinary clouds. If that is true, then our world is a mysterious place indeed.

On the afternoon of November 3rd, 1973, A Mexican banker and his family spied a strange object rocketing in a westerly direction over Cocoyoc, Mexico. The banker’s wife claimed that the object was roundish and did not resemble any traditional aircraft that she knew of.

The banker stopped his car for a better look at the unusual object. He and his wife quickly exited the vehicle and watched as the UFO blazed across the brilliant blue sky.

Thankfully, the banker had the presence of mind to grab his camera and he managed tothree paddlewheel steamboats (the Delta Queen, the American Queen, and the Mississippi Queen) that provided overnight passenger cruises along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways of the United States. The DQSC also operated a vessel (the Columbia Queen), acquired in 1999, that provided overnight passenger cruises in the Pacific Northwest: DQSC was the largest provider of overnight cruises in the domestic waterways and rivers cruise market. (DTE 16 at 8).
On or about May 1, 1999, Delta Queen Coastal Voyages contracted with Atlantic Marine, Inc. ("AMI") to manufacture two new vessels (together, the "Coastal Vessels"), which were intended to cruise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada, with winter destinations in South and Central America. The first Coastal Vessel (the cv. Cape May Light) originally