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103 seen two—I don't know what to call them,- UFOs, I suppose— anyway, had seen two of these things fly over very slowly at a very low altitude on a date, in the evening that he determined had been a day or two after the other one had blown up. These people said something about animals being affected, too. . .. Before he went back to Albuquerque, he told me that he was certain that this thing had gotten into trouble, that it had touched down for repairs, taken off again, and then exploded. He also felt certain there were more than one of these devices, and that the others had been looking for it—at least that's what he said. He was positive the thing had malfunctioned. The Air Force's explanation that it was a balloon was totally untrue. It was not a balloon. I never did know for sure what its purpose was, but it wasn't ours. I remember speculating with LaPaz that it might have been some higher civilization checking on us. LaPaz wasn't against the idea, but said he was going to leave speculations out of his report. Dr. LaPaz, who had been deeply involved in a 1950s study of "green fireballs" that had some UFO characteristics, unfor- tunately died before anyone became aware of his involvement in the New Mexico crash episode. His report is one of the many documents the government has been able to conceal from the public for more than forty years. In general, the government has done a wonderful job of keep- ing all details of the crashes secret. Few names of military people and others who visited the sites are known, and those who are known have, in most cases, been unwilling to talk. With one fascinating exception. In November 1990 Stanton Friedman was able to cap months of negotiations by interview- ing, in person, a man who says in a most believable fashion that he was there and he saw. F. B. was an Army Air Forces photographer stationed at An- acostia Naval Air Station, Washington, D.C., when he and fel- low photographer A. K. were hustled aboard an army B-25 bomber and flown to Roswell Army Air Field sometime during the second week of July 1947. He told Friedman: One morning they came in and they said, "Pack up your bags and we'll have the cameras there, ready for you." We didn't know THE MILITARY TAKES OVER