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Conclusion in July 1947. They were not weather balloons, or test rockets, or secret military airplanes. By every indication, what crashed were two alien spacecraft, along with their crews of small humanoids. Dozens of firsthand and secondhand witnesses have attested to the details of the crashes, to the retrievals of wreckage and bodies by the military, to their shipment out of New Mexico aboard military aircraft, and to the thorough and continuing cover-up by the U.S. government of perhaps the most impor- tant event in the past thousand years. Except for a few hours on July 8, the story remained com- pletely hidden for more than thirty years, thanks to an unusu- ally effective job of government disinformation. It began to emerge only in 1978 when one of the first two military men to reach the scene of the Corona crash told his story to one of the authors. Slowly, more witnesses were found and added their testimony, enabling a more complete picture to be assembled. Hundreds and possibly thousands of men and women have been involved in the huge, costly official effort to cope with the crashes, to transport, examine, and store wreckage and bodies and house at least one live alien, to learn who and what was involved and to keep it all secret. Those who initiated this process are long gone, and most of the others have successfully maintained their anonymity. But more and more public- spirited citizens are coming forth with new bits of information to help clarify this very complex matter. r \wo VERY STRANGE devices crashed in central New Mexico 12