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163 events to prepare the analysts for such a novel experience. But as knowledge was gained from the remains of a first crash, methods and increasingly elaborate and sophisticated pro- cedures must have been devised and refined by the most tal- ented and creative people available. On the assumption that no English-language "owner's man- ual" was found in New Mexico in 1947, the analysts would have had to poke and prod and wiggle and twist and lift and thump every piece of the wreckage, before and after efforts to reassemble the craft in much the same way that airplane- accident investigators attempt to put a wrecked airplane back together from the broken bits found at its crash site. Study of the wreckage and bodies would have to be divided into logical subdivisions, with experts developing as knowl- edge was acquired: External design, internal design, construction, propulsion, flight controls, navigation, communication, life support, crew facilities, extravehicular devices, stealth technology, mainte- nance and repair, the occupants. The "crash/retrieval team": wreckage acquisition, recording of data, security, packing and removing the remains, team composition. Armed with the knowledge that there was at least one intel- ligent species out there in space, the government had to be terribly eager to establish communication in hopes of learning what the wreckage and bodies could not possibly reveal: who the aliens are, where they come from, why they are here, do they plan to harm us, will they teach us what they know? AFTER THE CRASH DESIGN OF THE CRAFT: DETECTION AND LOCATION OF CRASHES: ATTEMPTING TO COMMUNICATE