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162 all knowledge surrounding the New Mexico crashes has been nothing short of outstanding, though of questionable morality. For several decades, the crash was seen as a misidentification of no real importance. The radar-reflector cover story was ac- cepted without question or exception by the press, and by the time a private UFO community emerged, the trail was so cold and faint that no one bothered to try to follow it. The concealment of the research into the nature of the re- covered wreckage and bodies was equally superb, as was the hiding of the great extent of the hardware that must have resulted from as few as two or as many as a half-dozen crashes. And the mountain of paperwork that must have been generated by the recovery, transportation, study, analysis, and conceal- ment of the material and bodies was also adeptly handled. Once the U.S. government had its hands on enough wreckage and bodies to convince its leaders that it was dealing with an alien civilization that was, in some ways, far ahead of our own, it had no choice but to organize an unprecedented effort to learn everything possible about this new force in our society. First, the remains would have to be studied by the best brains available, within the limitations of extreme security. Only scientists who were willing to keep their involvement totally secret could possibly be trusted with such volatile in- formation. The dangers inherent in even the smallest leak of information were so great that total trustworthiness had to have been at least as important as the most awesome of scien- tific qualifications. Once the collected wreckage, bodies, living beings, reports, photographs, and other evidence of a crash had been delivered by a combination of government air and ground vehicles to one or more secret "alien material research centers" or specialized departments within publicly known government or private facilities, the work of analysis could begin. At first, this must have been a relatively crude process, as there had been no prior CRASH AT CORONA STUDYING THE REMAINS