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120 crash recovery. Besides, he never saw a single alien body, though he must have been within a few feet of several of them. One of the few people Glenn recognized in the hospital building during the brief, hectic period before he was forceably removed was a pediatrician who was then in the army. They talked several years later, when the man had returned to pri- vate practice. According to Dennis, "He didn't have a lot to say. We were pretty good friends. 'Hell,' he said, 'I don't know what it was. Whatever happened was completely out of my field of medicine.'" " 'That's what he told me,'" Dennis added. "But he was involved, and he and I discussed it." Roswell was just a convenience. It was the military base down the street from the sheriff's office to which Mac Brazel brought his samples of material, and so it became a center of activity. But it was a flying field, not a scientific installation. If the materials and bodies recovered from the wilds were to be dealt with properly, they would have to be removed from Roswell AAF as quickly and as quietly, as possible. Officers streamed into Roswell AAF from military bases around the country, shoved the local people out of the way and proceeded to turn the already secure airfield into an armed camp. People and buildings were commandeered as if nothing else in the world mattered, which just may have been the case. With an urgency borne of mystery and of pressure from the very top, Roswell AAF became the starting point for some unusual journeys. It was necessary to ship every scrap of wreckage and at least three bodies and possibly one live alien to various installations where they could be handled and studied under conditions of greater security, and in more appropriate facilities. Roswell AAF would then have to be returned to its normal, precrash status as rapidly as possible, to reduce the chances of informa- tion leaking out and posing a serious threat to security. The first flight out of Roswell with wreckage from the Foster ranch was probably on July 6 and consisted of the few pieces CRASH AT CORONA