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Retrieval and Shipment Corona and Plains of San Agustin crash sites are skimpy. As this was all done by the military in remote areas where the few residents were consciously patriotic, it was a lot easier to keep secret the details than elements of the crashes that had been observed by civilians. Just who was involved, and where the remains were taken, is still a subject for investiga- tion. What is known is that Mac Brazel started it all by bringing a few samples of debris from the Foster ranch to the office of Sheriff George Wilcox in Roswell on July 6. After Major Marcel and CICman Cavitt left Roswell for the ranch, the samples apparently were left behind at the sheriff's office, as there was no point in taking them back to the ranch. According to the daughters of Sheriff Wilcox, interviewed in 1990, the army arrived, created quite a stir, and took the strange pieces away. They almost certainly went straight to the office of Roswell Army Air Field commander Col. William Blanchard. Just what Blanchard did with the samples can only be sur- mised, but it seems increasingly likely that he had them flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, where Dem of the retrieval of wreckage and bodies from the 110