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101 me as to what the whole thing was. Like I said before, I knew quite a bit about the material used in the air, but it was nothing I had seen before. And as of now, I still don't know what it was. So that's how it stands. Once high-ranking (and thus influential) people in the mili- tary realized they were dealing with very unusual materials beyond their experience, they quickly organized a mission to recover all of it, in order to learn as much about it as they could and to make certain it did not fall into the wrong (meaning public) hands. Whatever it was, it had to be kept secret at least until the top brass in Fort Worth or Washington could decide what to do with it. A large group of soldiers was sent to the "debris field" on the sheep ranch near Corona, including a lot of MPs whose job it was to limit access to those the army wanted on the scene. It was apparent that the scraps in the field were not all of whatever-it-had-been, and so a wide search was launched to find the rest. This was undoubtedly done on the ground (using Jeeps and trucks) and from the air, probably using small liaison planes suitable for rough-field landings if necessary. It couldn't have been more than a day or two before the expanded search paid off. A few miles from the debris field the main body of the craft was located, and a mile or two from that several bodies of small humanoids were found. The startling news (possibly including the word that one of the humanoids was still alive) was shot back to headquarters, and the entire nature of the operation changed. Any lingering thoughts that the debris could have come from some advanced Soviet missile or aircraft vanished with the realization that the crew, and therefore the craft, were not from the Earth! An important operation instantly became an absolutely vi- tal mission. Never before in history had anything like this happened: Man had just come face to face with beings from another world. Decades of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon and B movies paled by comparison with this startling reality. We were being visited by an advanced civilization whose motives THE MILITARY TAKES OVER