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92 And while I was doing this, Dad and Ted were kneeling down next to this creature that was alive, and Ted was trying to talk to it in Spanish and it wasn't responding. When someone moved suddenly, it would recoil and put its hands up like it was afraid it was going to be hit. It seemed to be in pretty good shape. Its uniform was torn in a couple spots. The others, they were obviously injured, their uni- forms were in pretty sad shape. They looked like they'd been through a helluva fight! I didn't see anything that looked like blood, though. There was some kind of a container, a metal box, next to this one that was alive, that had this same kind of [ban- dagelike] material in it and some other stuff in it. It may have been a first-aid kit. The one [whose] chest was moving funny, one leg didn't quite look right, like it might have had a fracture. The others really didn't show any deformities or anything like that. I'm convinced that the one I [touched], his eyes was open, staring blankly, was dead. It felt dead when I touched it, it was very cold. In looking back now, I think it was probably rigor mortis, 'cause it was stiffened up by this time. The odd part about it is, I've often wondered why the other one didn't cover him up. We cover up dead humans because I think we're afraid to look at dead things. I think it's funny it didn't cover up its dead crew members like that. Unless that doesn't mean anything to 'em. See, I thought they were dolls. I didn't think they were real, even though I'd seen this one moving and reacting. I remember putting my hand against the side of the saucer, and it was cold, almost like it was refrigerated. Being out there in the sun and being real shiny, I probably expected it to be hot, but it wasn't. It was very cold! Like it was wintertime and you were touching something metal. And the area right next to it was very cool, compared to the other areas around [there]. The area around the spaceship was blazing hot. I remember the desert sun: It was unbelievably hot. I was about as close as you are to me right now—we're what, about three feet apart? I didn't get as close as my Dad and my CRASH AT CORONA How close did he get to the alien that was alive?