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86 Bill Brazel Jr.'s memory of his limited personal involvement in the Corona crash is clear and sharp. Though he appears, sitting quietly in his simple home, to be a man uninterested in the world beyond the scenic, sparsely populated land of his origins, his duties in the navy and later with a geophysical exploration firm took him around the world twice. His days of travel and adventure may be behind him, but his awareness of the world remains. As does his puzzlement at the behavior of the army so many years ago. He saw only a few small pieces of the debris that fell on the Foster ranch, yet the attitude of the military when it came to retrieve it convinced him that what fell there was no weather balloon. A former neighbor of Brazel, Marian Strickland, recalled in 1990 a visit Mac paid to her and her family a week or two after he had been released by the military from his period of confine- ment. Mac, her late husband Lyman, and several of their chil- dren were sitting around the dinner table while she was "carryin' the coffee. I heard pieces of the conversation: How nasty the officers at the air base were. The whole neighborhood was scandalized that the army would treat people like that... people who had good intentions. "He made it plain he was not supposed to tell that there was any excitement about the material (he found on the ranch). He was a man who had integrity. He definitely felt insulted and mis-used, and disrespected. He was worse than annoyed! He was definitely under some stress, and felt that he had been kicked around. "He was threatened that if he opened his mouth, he might get thrown in the back side of the jail. He gave that impression, definitely." All this because a ranch foreman saw some shapeless pieces of scrap material? In all probability, there was more to it. While no direct testimony exists that Mac saw bodies, the behavior of the military points in that direction. CRASH AT CORONA