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82 they can be returned for a small reward. But he did say there were letters on some of the parts, which obviously could not be fitted together to form any words. Weighing heavily against the scattered wreckage being any sort of balloon was its condition: Pieces were spread out over an area of more than 250,000 square feet ("200 yards in diame- ter"). A helium-filled balloon cannot explode, nor can it hit the ground in such a way that it will be shattered into a lot of pieces. And even if it had, there would hardly have been enough of it to attract attention when spread out over an area the size of several football fields. And if that isn't enough to make it obvious that what Brazel found was not related to the balloon he described, recall that he said there was "a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks." Tinfoil certainly can be bright and eye-catching, but the same cannot be said for smokey gray rubber, tough paper, and sticks. And if he could bundle all of it up in a couple of small packages, why did the two vehicles of Marcel and Cavitt hold but a small portion of the total they found? Much of the rest of the story told by Mac Brazel on July 10 was totally at odds with what he said before and what has subsequently been well checked out: dates, places, and of course the description of the various types of debris. While no proof has been found that the government bribed Brazel to change his story and then keep quiet, there is evi- dence pointing in that direction. In the words of Loretta Proc- tor, nearest neighbor to the ranch: "T think that within that year, he had moved off the ranch and moved to Alamagordo or to Tularosa and he put in a locker there. That was before people had home freezers, and it was a large refrigerated building... you would buy beef and cut it up and put it in those lockers and you had a key to it and you could get your beef out when you wanted it. I think it would have been pretty expensive, and we kind of wondered how he could put it in with rancher's wages." Did Mac Brazel see alien bodies in the aftermath of the crash CRASH AT CORONA