Index
Reading edition
A
accelerometers, 21, 30
Aero Medical Laboratory, USAF 20–21, 23, 32, 104–105, 107, 117, 121
Aeromedical Field Laboratory, USAF 32
AFM-143-1, Mortuary Affairs, 99
agents, federal, 50
agents, government, 78
Air Force, 1–3, 5, 8–10, 13, 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 37–38, 41–42, 44, 46, 48, 51–53, 55, 57, 61–62, 68, 75–76, 79, 86, 89–91, 95–101, 103, 105, 109, 111–113, 116–117, 121, 123, 125.
See also U.S. Air Force
Air Force Letter 35-3, 86
Air Force, Secretary of the 1–2, 13
Air Materiel Command (AMC), 19–20
air samples, 42
aircraft
A-26, 112
B-25, 96
B-26, 112
B-29, 93–94
B-47, 93–94
B-52, 115
C-131, 105, 120
C-47, 30, 64, 93–94
F-4, 112, 121
F-51, 96
KB-29, 93–94
KC-97, 3, 93–97
KC-135, 93–94
L-20, 30, 64, 124
T-33, 93–94
X-15, 32
airman, 76, 86
Alamogordo Army Airfield, N.M., 37
Alamogordo, N.M., 32
Alaska, 47
Alderson Research Laboratories, Inc., 21, 34, 59–61
alien(s), 1–3, 5, 11–12, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28–29, 33, 36–39, 46–47, 55, 61, 75, 78, 96, 109, 113, 118, 123, 125
ambulance, 76–78, 99, 105, 109, 113–116
Anderson, Gerald, 14, 60–61, 67.
See also interview in Appendix C
Antarctica, 47
APO (Air Post Office), 82
Apollo, 32, 59
Arizona, 47
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), 99
arms, 62, 97
Army Air Forces, 1, 13, 76, 81, 90, 96, 113.
See also U.S. Army Air Forces
Army Nurse Corps (ANC), 81
Artesia, N.M., 67
Ashland, Wisc., 105
Atlantic Ocean, 112
autopsies, preliminary, 77, 91, 98
autopsy, alien, 1
autopsy protocol, 96–97, 99
autopsy; ies; ied, 1, 12, 77–78, 94–95, 97, 99
Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review, 84
Aztec, N.M., 83–85
B
Ball, Guy, 19
Ballard Funeral Home, 76, 97
ballast, 57
Balloon Branch, 30, 37, 43–51, 57–58, 61, 65, 102–103, 105–107, 110, 113–115, 124
balloon control package, 57, 64
balloon controllers, 47, 57
balloon drops, 28
balloon failure, 58
balloon, high altitude, 3, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 32, 36–38, 43, 45–49, 52–53, 55, 57–58, 61, 64, 66–67, 91, 96, 100–104, 109, 117, 125, 157
balloon, polyethylene, 40–42, 58, 66, 106–107, 114–115
balloon, tethered, 45–46
balloon train, 5–6, 11–13
balloon, “Vee”, 47
balloon, weather, 5, 40
balsa wood, 6
bandages, 62, 64
Barnett, Grady L. “Barney”, 58, 67
base histories, 94
Baylor University, 31
Bean, Alan, 120
Behind the Flying Saucers, 84
Berliner, Don 8, 60
Biodynamics of Space Flight, 102.
See Man High
“black sergeant”, 86
Blankenship, Robert, 49
Blauw, Alfred S., M.D., 99
blimp, 60–61, 64, 67
body bags, 35–36, 91, 96
Bravest Man, The.
See Stapp, John P., Col. (MC), USAF (Ret)
Britain, 41
Brooke General Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., 83
Buck Rogers, 111
Bush, George H. W., President, 32
C
Cahn, J. P., 85
Cambridge, England, 83
camera(s), 30–31
canoe, 76, 78, 91, 113, 115
cargo trailer, 1½-ton, 65
Carlsbad, N.M., 67
Carswell AFB, Tex., 81
caskets, 35, 76
Chavez, Dennis, Sen. (N.M.), 87
Cheney Award, 31–32
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 118
Clouthier, Charles E., 83.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
cold soaking, 64
Collier’s, 26–27
Coltman, Charles A., Jr., Col. (MC), USAF (Ret).
See Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
commissary, 95, 98
community relations, 58
con-men, 85
Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB, N.Mex., 1947–1958, 41
cooperating witnesses, 6
Corona, 43
cosmic ray particles, 42
cover-up, 8–9, 26, 83, 110, 123, 125
Crash at Corona, 8
D
debris, 1, 6, 57
debris field, 11–12
Dennis, W. Glenn, 75–78, 81–86, 88–90, 96–97, 99, 110, 114, 197
Denver, Colo., 44
Department of Defense, 46
Discoverer XI, 43
Discoverer XII, 43
Discoverer XIII, 43–44
dispensary, 114–116
doctor(s), 76–78, 91, 96, 98–99, 110
dog food, 77
doll(s), 16, 61
dolls, plastic, 14, 60–61
“Dr. Gee”, 85
drones, remotely-piloted, 15
drug smuggling, 50
drug store supervisor, 97
dummies, anthropomorphic, 3, 9, 14, 16–17, 19–21, 23–26, 28, 32, 34–36, 38–39, 41, 47, 55–62, 64–65, 67–68, 91, 101, 103, 109, 112, 123, 156
dummies, crash test, 17
dummies, parachute drop, 19–20
dummy drop, 23, 28, 35, 57, 157
“Dummy Joe”, 19
E
ear, 61
Earth, 5, 41, 44, 46, 102
Edwards AFB, Calif., 21, 31
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President, 112
ejection, 32
ejection seat, 20, 21
El Centro, Calif., 120
El Paso, Texas, 106
Elder Statesman of Aviation, 112
England, 82
entry vehicles, atmospheric, 42
escape pods, 78, 113
Excelsior, 23, 25–26, 32, 38, 55–56, 59, 67–68, 101–105, 107, 109–110, 112, 124
Executive Order 11652, 1
eyes, 77
F
Fanton, Eileen M., 1st Lt., USAF, 82–83, 91
Farmington Drug, 83
Farmington, N.M., 78, 83–84, 90
Ferrell, Lee F., Col., USAF, 87, 91, 98
finger(s), 15, 33, 55, 59–61, 97
flight surgeon, 31, 107, 116
flightsuit, 28–29, 63
flying disc, 5–6, 78.
See also flying saucer
flying saucer, 1–3, 5, 29, 36–37, 41, 44, 47, 56, 58–59, 64, 67, 78, 85, 96, 123, 125
flying saucer wave [of 1947], 5
Foster Ranch, 11
Four Corners [region], 83
Franklin, Ky., 96
Frederick, S.D., 102
Friedman, Stanton T., 8, 60, 76
Ft. George Wright, Wash., 88
Ft. Worth AAF, Tex., 81
Fulgham, Dan D., Col., USAF (Ret), 106–107, 116, 121.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
Fund for UFO Research, The, 58, 60, 187, 213, 215
funeral home, 77, 95, 97.
See also Ballard Funeral Home
G
Galileo, 44
gamma rays, 46
GAO, 1.
See also General Accounting Office
gauges, strain, 21
Gemini, 32
General Accounting Office (GAO), 1, 125
General Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control, 48
generator, MB-19, 65
Gila Mountains, 124
Gildenberg, Bernard D. “Duke”, 8–9, 48, 102.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
glass, broken, 76, 114
Goddard, Joyce, Capt., USAF, 88–89
Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Championship, 112
gowns, surgical, 99
gurneys, hospital, 35
gyros, rate, 21
H
hands, 15, 33, 59–60, 97
Harmon Trophy, 112
Hawaii, 43
head(s), 15, 59, 61, 77, 97, 100, 107, 118–120
helicopter, 107, 110, 116–117
helmet, 107
helmets, pith, 60, 63
hematoma, 119
Hepburn, Audrey, 82
hieroglyphics, 113–114
Higgins, J.J., 19
High Dive, 23, 26, 29–30, 34, 38, 55–56, 59, 63, 67–68, 103
high-speed track, 17, 21, 38
hoax, 96, 123
Hodiak, John, 38
Holloman AFB, N.M., 8–10, 16–17, 26–27, 30–32, 35, 37–38, 41, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 52–53, 59, 63–65, 102–103, 105–107, 111, 113–114, 118–120, 124
Hollywood, 38
horseback, 30
human remains pouches, 96.
See also body bags
Hynek, J. Allan, 117–118
I
identification specialist, 95, 98–99
instrumentation kit, 30
insulation bags, 35–36
intimidation, 61
irregular [research] methods, 8
J
Jagger, Dean, 38–39
jeep, 15, 56, 65
Johns Hopkins University, The, 53
Jorgeson, Ole, A2C, USAF, 107, 113–114.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
Jornada Test Range, 67
Jupiter, 44
K
Kaufman, William C., Capt., USAF, 105–107, 116, 119.
See also statement in Appendix B
Kelso, Wash., 96
Kentucky Air National Guard, 96
Kittinger, Joseph W., Jr., Capt., USAF, 25–26, 48, 101–107, 109–112, 117–120, 124.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
Knight, Alice, 15, 58, 67, 213.
See also interview in Appendix C
Korea, 88, 121
Kovatch-Scott, Ethel, Col., USAF (Ret), 89
L
Las Vegas AFB, Nev., 111
legal claims, 58
Life magazine, 26–27
lights, strobe, 41
“little men”, 84–85
livestock, 58
London, England, 41, 78, 82
Long, Lonely Leap, The, 26, 110
Lordsburg, N.M., 104
Lovell, Jim, 120
Luftwaffe, 20
Lutz, Roland H. “Hap”, SSgt., USAF, 117.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
M
M-342 5-ton wrecker, 29, 58.
See also wrecker
M-35 2½-ton cargo truck, 30, 58.
See also six by six
M-37 ¾-ton utility truck, 30, 58, 65, 113.
See also weapons carrier
M-43 ¾-ton ambulance, 65, 113.
See also ambulance
MAD [magazine], 26
Madison, Guy, 38–39
Madson, Raymond A., 1st Lt., USAF, 29–30, 63.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
Maltais, Vern, 15, 58–59, 67, 214.
See also interview in Appendix C
Man High, 26, 32, 48, 101–104, 110–112
Man in Space Soonest (MISS), 103
Marcel, Jesse, Maj., USAF, 6
Mars, 44
Martin Marietta Corporation, 44
masks, surgical, 99
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 103
McClure, Clifton. 1st Lt., USAF, 102, 104
McCook Field, Ohio, 19
Mercury, 32, 103–104
“Mercury Seven”, 32
meteorological data, 42
Mexico, 96
MiG-21, 112
Military Police, 76
Milner, Martin, 38
Minnesota, University of, 31
missile, ballistic, 5
missile, intercontinental ballistic (ICBM), Atlas F, 17
missiles, 5, 13, 16
missing nurse, 78, 81–83, 87–90, 96–98, 121.
See also Fanton, Eileen M., 1st Lt., USAF
Mitchell, Cameron, 39
ML-307B/AP.
See radar targets
Mogul, 1–2, 5–6, 9, 11–13, 40, 42, 78
monkeys, 16
Moon, 44
Moore, Charles B., 8–9, 40
morgue, 97
morning reports, 81, 88, 89
mortician, 76, 98–99
mortuary, 76
MPs, 77, 116.
See also Military Police
Muroc AAF, Calif., 21, 31.
See also Edwards AFB, Calif.
museum, 3, 75
mystery witness, 75
N
NASA, 37, 41, 44–46, 59, 103, 111, 120
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 19
National Aeronautics Association, 112
National Archives and Record Administration, 81
National Aviation Hall of Fame, 32
National Geographic, 26
National Medal of Technology, 32
National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), 81
NATO, 111
NCO [Non-Commissioned Officer], 86
Nenninger, Richard L., Maj., USAF, 124
New Brighton, Minn., 102
New Mexico, 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 14–15, 17, 19, 23, 30, 34, 36–37, 41–42, 46–48, 55, 58, 60, 64, 67, 84, 91, 95, 109
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 9
New York, N.Y., 21, 82
New York University, 9, 40
newspaper accounts, 41, 94
newspaper announcements, 8
newspapers, 31
Newton, Silas M., 85
Nixon, Richard M., President, 1
nondisclosure agreements, 13
Nordstrom, Frank B., Capt. (MC), USAF, 83, 89.
See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B
nosecone, 43
nuclear accidents, 13
nuclear weapon, 5
O
oscillograph, 30
odor, 77, 91, 95–97
officers’ club, 77.
See also Roswell AAF Officers’ Club
oil field worker, 97.
See also Dennis, W. Glenn
Omni magazine, 83
On the Threshold of Space, 26, 38–39, 63
Orlando, Fla., 112
“Oscar Eightball”, 21
P
Panama, 47
paper, 5, 8
paper, aluminized, 6
parachute, 19, 23, 25–26, 28, 31, 49, 57, 62, 64, 103, 124
pathologist, 95, 98–99
pay load, 17, 40–44, 46–48, 53, 57, 61, 64, 66–67, 91
Pease AFB, N.H., 115
pediatrician, 76, 78, 81, 83–84, 86, 89–91, 99, 121
pharmacist, 83
phone directories, 97
Pioneer, 44
police, 49
polyethylene, 40.
See also balloon, polyethylene
polygraph examination, 60
Popular Mechanics Magazine, 26–27
POW, 112.
See also Prisoner of War
Pre-Astronauts, The, 110
predatory animals, 97
preparation room, 97
Prisoner of War, 110
Project 119L, 42
Project Bluebook, 117
Project Gemini, 120
Project Mercury, 111
Project Mogul.
See Mogul
property damage, 58, 66
R
radar, 6, 41
radar guided missiles, 42
radar targets, 6
radio stations, 31
Ragsdale, James, 14, 56, 67, 214.
See also interview in Appendix C
ramp, 114, 120
rancher, 5, 37
Ray, Hilary, 120
Recollections of Roswell, Part II, 58, 60, 187, 213, 215
reconnaissance, photographic, 42
redheaded captain, 60, 77, 91, 100, 109–110, 117
redheaded colonel, 77, 87, 91, 96, 98
redheaded officer, 77–78, 86
remote control, 56–57
research methodology, 11
reward, 66
rocket sled, 32, 39
Rosie O’Grady’s Flying Circus, 112
Roswell AAF, 6, 12, 15, 37, 45, 75–78, 81–83, 88–91, 116, 121, 197
Roswell AAF hospital, 12–13, 75–78, 81–83, 86–90, 97, 109
Roswell AAF Officers’ Club, 81, 87
Roswell Army Air Field, 3, 5, 12–13, 45, 68.
See also Roswell AAF
Roswell Daily Record, 8
Roswell Incident, 1, 3, 5–6, 9, 11–12, 16–17, 21, 37–38, 42, 44–45, 60, 75, 78, 84–85, 88, 90, 116, 118, 121, 125
Roswell Industrial Air Center, 37, 44
Roswell, N.M., 1, 3, 5–6, 8–13, 15, 23, 30, 33–34, 36–37, 44, 47, 49, 51, 56, 58, 61, 65, 67–68, 76, 78, 83, 95, 97–102, 106, 109, 113, 187, 215
Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, 2
rubber, 5, 8
Ruidoso, N.M., 124
S
SAC.
See Strategic Air Command
Sacramento Mountains, 106, 124
safety belts, 19, 32
San Agustin Mountains, 67
San Agustin Pass, 67
San Agustin Peak, 67
San Agustin Plains, 11–12, 58, 67, 109
San Francisco Chronicle, 85
satellite, 41–44
saucer, 30.
See also flying saucer
Schiff, Steven, Rep. (N.M.), 1
Schmitt, Donald, 56, 214
Schock, Grover, Capt., USAF, 105
Schwaderer, George, 98
Schwartz, Eugene M., 1st Lt., USAF, 29
scientists, civilian contract, 13
Scully, Frank, 84–85
Selff, Naomi Maria, 81, 88, 90
sensors, 1
sensors, acoustical, 5
sheriff, 5, 49–50
Sierra Engineering Company, 21, 60
Sierra Madre, Calif., 21
“Sierra Sam”, 21, 29
Sightings, 96
Silver City, N.M., 50
Simons, David G., Lt. Col. (MC), USAF (Ret), 26, 48, 101–102, 104
six-by-six, 15, 30, 55–56, 58, 65.
See also M-35 2½ ton cargo truck
Slattery, Lucille C., Capt., USAF, 88–89
Smithsonian Institution, 103
Society of Automotive Engineers, 32
Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftain, 6, 9
Socorro, N.M., 8
Sonic Wind Nᵒ 1, 31
Southeast Asia, 110, 112
Soviet, 5
Soviet Union, 43
space, 42–44, 46, 102–104, 121
Space and Missile Command, Test and Evaluation Unit, 46
space probe, 37, 42, 44
Galileo, 44
Pioneer, 44
Surveyor, 44
Viking, 37, 44
Voyager-Mars, 45
spacecraft, 44, 47
spaceship, 6, 12, 38, 46, 67
Sputnik I, 43
St. Catherine’s Academy, Springfield, Ky., 82
St. Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital, Louisville, Ky., 82
Stack, Robert, 38
Stafford, Ariz., 124
Stapp Car Crash Conferences, 32
Stapp, John P., Col. (MC), USAF (Ret), 20–21, 31–32, 38–39, 104–105, 107, 109, 111–112, 117, 120
star witness, 75
Stargazer, 49, 101–105, 109–110, 112, 117–118
statement, signed sworn, 56, 84
sticks, 5, 8
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 94, 115–116
stretcher, military, 35
sunglasses, 96
Surveyor, 44
symbols, 76
T
tanker, 95
tape, 5, 8, 62
tape, red [duct-type], 29, 62
targets, missile, 42
Ted Smith Company, 20–21
Texas, University of, 31
Texas, West, 47
threats, 61
Time, 26–27, 32
tinfoil, 5, 8
transducers, 21
transducers, pressure, 30
transmitters, radio, 41
transponders, 41
truck, pickup, 56, 58
True magazine, 84–85
Tularosa Valley [N.M.], 23
Twentieth Century Fox, 26, 38
U
U.S. Air Force, 1, 3, 14, 17, 19, 23, 37, 41, 43, 45–49, 55, 64, 67, 76, 82, 85–86, 90, 102–105, 111, 123, 125
U.S. Army, 53, 86, 112
U.S. Army Air Forces, 1, 5, 8–9, 12, 20, 31, 40, 75–76, 86, 120, 123
U.S. Army Special Forces, 112
U.S. Government, 1, 14, 42, 67
U.S. Government Printing Office, 2
U.S. Navy, 43, 103–104
U.S. Navy Aerospace Recovery Facility, 120
Ubon Air Base, Thailand, 121
Udorn Air Base, Thailand, 112
UFO, 2, 5, 9, 12, 37, 41, 44, 47–48, 58–59, 96, 117–118
UFO Crash at Roswell, The Truth About the, 46–47
UFO enthusiasts, 60
UFO Museum and Research Center, The International, 3, 75
UFO organizations, 60
UFO proponents, 123
UFO researchers, 81
UFO theorists, 11, 47–48, 60, 67, 75, 78, 82–83, 85, 96, 113–116, 120, 123
unidentified flying object, 41
Units
1st Air Commando Wing, 111
6th Bombardment Wing, 94, 115–116
47th Air Division, 115
427th Army Air Forces Base Unit, 81
Squadron “M”, 81
509th Aerial Refueling Squadron, 94
509th Bombardment Wing, 94, 115–116
555th Tactical Fighter Squadron (“Triple Nickel”), 112, 121
579th Strategic Missile Squadron, 17
4036th USAF hospital, 95
7510th USAF Hospital, 82
unrecorded interviews, 8
Unsolved Mysteries, 38, 60
Upper Darby, Pa., 20
USS Haiti Victory, 43
V
Vandenberg AFB, Calif., 43
Variety, 84
Venus, 44
Vietnam, Hanoi, 112
Vietnam, North, 112
Vietnam, Republic of, 111, 121
Vietnamese, North, 110
Viking, 37, 45
“Vince and Larry”, 19
Voyager-Mars, 44
W
Walker AFB, N.M., 15, 17, 45, 83, 86–89, 91, 93–95, 97–102, 107, 109–110, 113–117, 120–121
Walker, Chalma, 89
Walt Disney World, 112
Walter, John. SSgt., USAF, 98
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 99
Wasem, Martha, 89
Washington, D.C., 99
weapons carrier, 15, 30, 55–56, 58, 65, 113–114.
See also M-37 ¾-ton utility truck
weather equipment, 5
Whenry, Jack, 1st Lt., USAF, 98
White House, The, 32
White Sands Missile Range, N.M., 16, 42–43, 45, 67.
See also White Sands Proving Ground, N.M.
White Sands National Monument, N.M., 29
White Sands Proving Ground, N.M., 23, 25, 42, 106, 124
White, William C., 103–104
Wickenburg, Ariz., 50
Williams, Carol, 89
Wilson, Capt., 77–78, 87, 89
Wilson, Idabelle M., Maj., USAF (Ret), 90
Wilson, “Slatts”, 77–78, 87–91
Wimpole Park, Cambridge, England, 83
Winzen, Otto C., 101, 105
Winzen Research International, 102
World War I, 19
World War II, 19–20
wreckage, 76–77, 91, 99, 109, 113–114
wreckage, bluish-purplish, 76, 78, 91, 113, 115
wrecker, 15, 29–30, 55–56, 58, 65.
See also M-342 5-ton wrecker
Wright Field, Ohio, 19, 21, 77
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 12, 77–78, 91, 95, 98, 100, 104–105, 107, 117, 119–120
Transcriptions
Transcription of Fig. 7
Harassed Rancher who Located ‘Saucer’ Sorry He Told About It
W. W. Brazel, 48, Lincoln county rancher living 30 miles south east of Corona, today told his story of finding what the army at first described as a flying disk, but the publicity which attended his find caused him to add that if he ever found anything else short of a bomb he sure wasn’t going to say anything about it.
Brazel was brought here late yesterday by W. E. Whitmore, of radio station KGFL, had his picture taken and gave an interview to the Record and Jason Kellahin, sent here from the Albuquerque bureau of the Associated Press to cover the story. The picture he posed for was sent out over AP telephoto wire sending machine specially set up in the Record office by R. D. Adair, AP wire chief sent here from Albuquerque for the sole purpose of getting out his picture and that of sheriff George Wilcox, to whom Brazel originally gave the information of his find.
Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.
At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not pay much attention to it. But he did remark about what he had seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.
The next day he first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered if what he had found might be the remnants of one of these.
Monday he came to town to sell some wool and while here he went to see sheriff George Wilcox and “whispered kinda confidential like” that he might have found a flying disk.
Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where they picked up the rest of the pieces of the “disk” and went to his home to try to reconstruct it.
According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all. They tried to make a kite, out of it, but could not do that and could not find any way to put it back together so that it would fit.
Then Major Marcel brought it to Roswell and that was the last he heard of it until the story broke that he had found a flying disk.
Brazel said that he did not see it fall from the sky and did not see it before it was torn up, so he did not know the size or shape it might have been, but he thought it might have been about as large as a table top. The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been about 12 feet long, he felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter.
When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds.
There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.
There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction.
No strings or wire were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of attachment may have been used.
Brazel said that he had previously found two weather observation balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these.
“I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon.” he said. “But if I find anything else, besides a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it.”
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Transcription of Fig. 8
Authors seek UFO witnesses
Co-authors of a major book on the 1947 crash of at least one alien spacecraft in the New Mexico desert will be at the Golden Manor Motel in Socorro on Monday, Nov. 16 to seek out additional witnesses to these events.
Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and aviation/science writer Don Berliner, whose “Crash at Corona” is now in its second printing, want to meet with people having knowledge of the 1947 crashes.
Their book, being published in August by Paragon House of New York, is being prepared for a made-for-TV movie. It is the story of the discovery, retrieval, shipping and cover-up of what the authors call the most important scientific discovery of the past thousand years.
It is based on dozens of interviews with first- and second-hand civilian and ex-military witnesses to various parts of what is referred to as a very complex series of events.
In order to strengthen their case for government knowledge of what they call “the truth behind almost 50 years of UFO sightings,” the authors are seeking out additional, reliable witnesses. It remains their policy to honor requests to keep the names of witnesses private.
For more information, contact Don Berliner, 1202 S. Washington St., Alexandria. VA., 22314 (703-548-0405); or Stanton T. Friedman, 79 Pembroke Crescent, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 2V1, Canada (506 457-0232).
Witnesses are invited to call either author collect or to make arrangements to meet them at any of their stops in New Mexico, which include the cities of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Roswell.
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Transcription of Fig. 15
“I’LL JUST BRACE MYSELF WITH THE STEERING WHEEL”
Who are you trying to fool? There’s no way a steering wheel can stop you from slamming into a dashboard. Only a safety belt can. Stop making excuses and start buckling your safety belt.
YOU COULD LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY. BUCKLE YOUR SAFETY BELT.
A Public Service Message US Department of Transportation
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Transcription of Fig. 26
The Long, Lonely Leap
World’s highest jump tests a new type of parachute for high-altitude flyers and scientists returning from the threshold of space
By CAPT. JOSEPH W. KITTINGER. JR., USAF
Illustrations by National Geographic photographer VOLKMAR WENTZEL
OVERHEAD my onion-shaped balloon spread its 200-foot diameter against a black daytime sky. More than 18½ miles below lay the cloud-hidden New Mexico desert to which I shortly would parachute.
Sitting in my gondola, which gently twisted with the balloon’s slow turnings, I had begun to sweat lightly, though the temperature read 36° below zero Fahrenheit. Sunlight burned in on me under the edge of an aluminized antiglare curtain and through the gondola’s open door.
In my earphones crackled the voice of Capt. Marvin Feldstein, one of our project’s two doctors, from ground control at Holloman Air Force Base:
“Three minutes till jump, Joe.”
I was ready to go, for more reasons than one. For about an hour—as the balloon rose from 50,000 to 102,800 feet above sea level—I had been exposed to an environment requiring the protection of a pressure suit and helmet, and the fear of their failure had always been present. If either should break, unconsciousness would come in 10 or 12 seconds, and death within two minutes.
In our altitude-chamber flights at the laboratory, I always [...]
“Lord, take care of me now,” I pray, then take the big step-off that begins my return from the edge of space, a 13-minute, 45-second plunge to an earth wrapped in clouds. The lanyard attached to my parachute pack is my last link with the gondola. It starts a timer on a small stabilization chute that will open 16 seconds later and prevent horizontal spinning. Without stabilization, man could not survive a jump from these high altitudes.
A National Geographic camera mounted above the gondola took this remarkable photograph at 102,800 feet.
MS Ektachrome National Geographic Society
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Transcription of Fig. 39
Loss of MR Equipment
WCUSS-22WCRDB-4 19Jan 56 ATTN: Mr. R.L. Mason Lt. Nielsen/1bc Ext. 2-4194/B.33
1. On 17 November 1955, an anthropomorphic dummy, B-15 jacket and a stop watch were lost during a high altitude dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
2. The drop was performed to determine the effectiveness of a two stage personnel parachute in lowering a man-like dummy from 85,000 feet. The test was part of a continuing task “High Altitude Escape Studies”, 7218-71719. The point at which the dummy reached the ground was not known to the recovery crews at the time and an extensive search lasting through the first week of December 1955 failed to discover the lost items.
3. Lost are:
a. 1 ea., dummy, anthropomorphic, Sierra Engineering Co. model 120, stock no. 3500-NL-30010,
b. 1 ea., jacket, B-15, spec. 3220, size 36, stock no. 8415-269-0512,
c. 1 ea., stop watch, Fisher Scientific Co. P/N 14-646, stock no. 8TAA 98545.
4. Because of the loss of these items as a result of a test, it is requested that Lt. Henry P. Nielsen be relieved of the responsibility for these items.
HARVEY E. SAVELY Chief, Biophysics Branch Aero. Medical Laboratory Directorate of Research CONCURRENCE:
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Transcription of Figs. 42 & 43
WADC TECHNICAL REPORT 57-477 PART I. ASTLA DOCUMENT No. AD 130965
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON DUMMY DROPS
PART I. THE UNSTABILIZED DUMMY DROPS
RAYMOND A. MADSON, 1ST LT., USAF
AERO MEDICAL LABORATORY
OCTOBER 1957
WRIGHT AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER
WADC TECHNICAL REPORT 57-477 (II)
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON DUMMY DROPS
II: THE STABILIZED DUMMY DROPS
RAYMOND A. MADSON, 1ST/LT, USAF
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS LABORATORY AEROSPACE MEDICAL LABORATORY
AUGUST 1961
AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO
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Transcription of Fig. 3
Maybe these con men didn’t know a flying saucer from a hole in the ground. But they used both to sucker their victims. They were almost $100,000 ahead when TRUE’s reporter broke the amazing case of the ...
Flying Saucer Swindlers By J. P. CAHN
[Start of article...]
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Transcription of Fig. 4
the FLYING SAUCERS and the MYSTERIOUS LITTLE MEN by J. P. CAHN
Had flying saucers manned by crews three feet tall actually landed on Earth? That was the question. This is how TRUE and Mr. Cahn found the answer
For four months, across 4,500 miles and five western states, I tracked down visitors from the planet Venus.
It was a fantastic assignment. The story I was to dig up if I could was the weirdest that any reporter could dream of having handed to him. If I found the Venusians, I couldn’t interview them, even if I knew how to speak their language. For they were dead, those strange little beings, from unknown causes—half of their number crisped by heat to a dark brown color.
They’d come out of the sky in flying saucers. My job was to bring their story down to earth.
I got it—their full inside story. And though I didn’t find the dead Venusians, I uncovered some rather fantastic living characters....
On the crest of the wave of public excitement about flying saucers in the spring of 1950 came news from the West that topped any of the hundreds of saucer reports that had been recorded up to that time. Newspapers everywhere printed and reprinted the rumour that, in Denver, several businessmen had been shown pieces of metal, small gears, and a curious little radio set. These things, it was said, had been taken from a fallen flying saucer.
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Transcription of Fig. 27
CLINICAL RECORD COVER SHEET 8511
1. ADMISSION NOTES 1045 hrs A or N: No
2. WARD 1
3. TYPE OF CASE IRJ
4. LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE INITIAL FULGHAM Dan D
5. SEX M
6. Religion P
7. PREV. ADM. NO
8. REGISTER NO. 16059
9. SERVICE NO. 44734A
10. GRADE Capt
11. RATING OR DESIG. Sr Pilot
12. DEPARTMENT Air Force
13. ORGANIZATION AND BRANCH OF SERVICE ARDC Wright Patterson(a)
14. FLYING STATUS Yes
15. NAME AND ADDRESS OF EMERGENCY ADDRESSEE Joyce Fulgham (W) 5540 Gross Drive Dayton Ohio
16. AGE 31
17. RACE Cau
18. LENGTH OF SERVICE 12 yrs
19. DATE OF ADMISSION 12 May 59
20. SOURCE OF ADMISSION From duty
21. ADMITTING OFFICER L. E. Eason Capt USAF MC
22. CONTINUATION OF ITEMS 12 AND 20. (a) AFB, Ohio
23. DIAGNOSES 8715 Hematoma, traumatic, n.e.c. forehead LD: Pending AF Form 348 AI: Approximately 0600 hours, 21 May 1959, North of Roswell, New Mexico, patient states he was taking part in a military project involving balloon testing. When he and two others landed in the balloon the “gondola” upset, and hit him in the head causing injury.
24. OPERATIONS AND SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES None
25. SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE DATA None
26. PHYSICAL PROFILE
27. DATE DURATION THIS FACILITY ALL 3 IN HOSPITAL OR INFIRMARY 3
28. NATURE OF DISPOSITION Duty
29. DATE OF DISPOSITION 24 May 59
30. SIGNATURE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN LESLIE E EASON CAPT USAF HC
31. SIGNATURE OF REGISTRAR OR RECORDS OFFICER ROLAND E DOZOIS CWD W-3 USAF
32. NAME AND LOCATION OF MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITY 6580TH USAF HOSPITAL HOLLOMAN AFB NM
33. REGISTER NUMBER 16059
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