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83 near Corona? He certainly never claimed to have seen bodies, but circumstantial evidence suggests he probably saw at least one, as well as a lot of wreckage. Had Mac seen nothing more than the sort of scrap material recovered from the sheep ranch by Major Marcel and CICman Cavitt (when accompanied by Brazel), there would hardly have been any need for the army to take such extreme action against him. Why take him into custody for a week and then possibly bribe him to keep quiet about matters which do not seem that serious? He was already on record as having seen a large quan- tity of scrap material and, while escorted by soldiers, gave a newspaper interview in which he stated clearly that the wreckage was not that of a weather balloon. Why did the army give him such special treatment if all he knew was common knowledge already? That little cat was out of the bag, leaving no obvious reason for the army to exert unusual pressure on Mac to change his behavior. It seems entirely possible that he could have been flown over the ranch, which stretched for miles, on a reconnaissance mis- sion, as he knew the land far better than the army did. He could thus have been involved in the discovery of the main part of the craft, which is rumored to have landed some two and a half miles from the field of debris. Had he been in a small plane, such as one of the army's four-passenger Stinson L-5 liaison planes capable of operating off rough ground, he could have seen the disc on the ground. If the information given civilian mortician Glenn Dennis by the Roswell AAF mortuary officer (see Chapter 9)—that the bodies were found a mile or two from the crashed craft—is correct, their discovery from the air makes sense. Moreover, if what the nurse told Dennis is accurate (that the bodies were found in small "escape capsules" such as he saw in the rear of some GI ambulances) they probably could not have been recog- nized for what they were from the air. Only from close-up ground observation, after a spotter plane had first seen them and then landed close by. Brazel, a quiet, rugged cowboy of the old school, died in 1965 CIVILIANS FIND THE WRECKAGE