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96 apparently worked out there, and he acknowledged that he made maps or something like that. [It is assumed that this man was Barney Barnett.] At this point, with almost a dozen people swarming around the wrecked craft and the four strange little beings, the U.S. Army arrived and everything changed. The bulk of the detail on the San Agustin crash comes from one man who had been just a youngster at the time of the incident. Charges have been made that Gerald Anderson in- vented the story of seeing wreckage and bodies. In 1991 the Fund for UFO Research paid for a polygraph examination of Anderson. The American Polygraph Association was contacted and recommended a member in the area, a man named Robert Riggs—a professional polygraph examiner for over ten years and himself a former policeman. Riggs first met alone with Friedman for over an hour to review the story and a whole host of possible hoax scenarios. He then met with Anderson for more than two hours checking on all aspects of the story. Finally, he hooked Gerald up to the machine and asked his key questions. At the end of this session Riggs informed Friedman that he found no evidence of decep- tion or of pathology, and that Anderson had an outstanding memory. While no other firsthand witnesses have been found to cor- roborate Anderson's testimony, Friedman did find a member of his father's church who recalled overhearing the father talking to two men about a flying disc and government people restrict- ing his access to it. (This conversation took place after Gerald's father had retired from his job at Sandia Corporation, where he had required a high-level security clearance because of the company's nuclear weapons-related manufacturing activ- ities.) Psychiatric social worker John Carpenter, who trained at the Menninger Clinic, has worked with Gerald for more than a year. They have gone over and over the complicated story, at times using regressive hypnosis in an effort to bring out greater CRASH AT CORONA