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115 Funeral Home, had the contract with the Roswell Army Air Field to provide mortuary services. He drove a combination hearse and ambulance for both the civilian part of the business and the airbase assignments. On numerous occasions he had been called upon to help collect mangled bodies from military plane crashes and then prepare the remains for shipment back to the survivors. Dennis was fully familiar with the air base and "could go wherever I wanted to." It was this unusual ease of access to an otherwise secure military installation that en- abled him to see and hear a lot more than he was supposed to. In August 1989 Dennis was interviewed by Stanton Fried- man in Lincoln, New Mexico, where he managed a historic tourist hotel. Even though the interview had to be squeezed into the turmoil of the annual celebration of Billy the Kid Day, Dennis was fully able to communicate the sense of excitement that surrounded his blundering into a particularly sensitive part of the Corona crash. Later he added information in other interviews. The date was July 9 or 10, 1947. Glenn Dennis was as yet unaware of the discovery of the strange wreckage at the Foster ranch, and had heard nothing about alien bodies. He had gotten several puzzling phone calls from the Roswell AAF mortuary officer, who was more of an administrator than a technical specialist familiar with the intricacies of handling corpses, human or otherwise. The officer wanted to know about "her- metically sealed caskets: What was the smallest one they could get," Dennis recalled. Then he wanted to know "what the chemical solutions were that we were using for the vats and all that. He asked me about the chemical composition of blood, about the breakdown of tissue, what happened to tissue when it has laid out [in the sun] for several days." This is what was so interesting. See, this is why I feel like there was really something involved in this, because they didn't want to do anything that was going to ... make an imbalance. They kept saying, "OK, what's this going to do to the blood system, what's this going to do to the tissue?" Then when they informed RETRIEVAL AND SHIPMENT