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106 I think the first one was that old military Plymouth, and it had some kind of red flag ... a pennant like football fans take to the stadium. There was a big star on the side of it, and then there was another vehicle behind, that was a smaller, Jeeplike truck that had a bunch of radios in it and two big antennas. There was a guy sittin’ in there wearin’ earphones and he was talkin' on the radio. And then behind them was two of these big Army transport trucks with the covered-wagon-type tops. Was full of these sol- diers and they [got out] here; they were wearin' khaki uniforms and MP patches, and they had clubs and guns on their hips, and they were all carryin' rifles. They all came down here, screaming and hollering and run- ning us away from [the saucer]. There was a black soldier drivin' the car, and there was an officer with red hair that got out of the car, and he turned out to be the biggest [bleep] of all times. He was obviously in command, and let everybody know it real quick. He came down there and they started threatening people and pushing people around. I remember my Uncle Ted smacked one of them and knocked him right on his ass ... this guy just shoved him with a rifle and Ted just hit him! And then this Dr. Buskirk and my Dad grabbed [Ted] and pulled him back. [The soldiers] was makin' all kinds of threats and everything. They told 'em that they was never gonna see their kids again, that they was gonna go to jail if they ever opened their mouths. They threat- ened this one student ... they told him they knew he was a foreigner and they could take care of him real good! This red-headed guy ... was a captain (because my brother old me he was a captain)... his name was Armstrong, and that was printed on the uniform. They never frisked anybody, [but] hey took everybody's name and everything. Then they run us all out of there. They made us go back up north, up the arroyo, oward where we parked our car. They made Dr. Buskirk and the five students go up the arroyo with us ... all of us in a group. And here were soldiers with us. [Dr. Buskirk] protested and argued with them constantly that he had to go back the other way, that this was the wrong way for hem to go, they had to go back the other way [where their car and equipment were]. But I don't remember seein’ the other man, CRASH AT CORONA