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66 concerned about the reports? The navy? The marines? The cavalry? Or maybe other groups within the USAAF? Also, what is behind the words "there were several unsuccessful attempts to utilize aircraft in efforts to pursue reported discs in flight"? Attempts to intercept UFOs in the early days have never been made public, though they make sense, and the classic bureaucratese in which this was written suggests its author had spent considerable time in the government. The second paragraph refers to the discovery of a crashed saucer on a remote ranch in New Mexico and fits very neatly with what has been learned from other sources. The third paragraph continues to fit the increasingly com- plete knowledge of the aftermath of the discovery of the wreckage. That a secret operation to recover the wreckage was begun on July 7 or 8 is well established. And the finding of the bodies of several "small human-like beings" some distance from the Brazel ranch fits with what is now known of the claims of several witnesses. The length of time the bodies were said to have lain out in the open conforms to the latest chronology of the crash: "ap- proximately one week" is the time between the crash on July 2 and the most likely day of the discovery of the bodies by the main military search team involved in the recovery. It is rea- sonable that the bodies had by then undergone considerable decomposition by the elements, and perhaps further damage by predators. Removal of the bodies and wreckage can be traced to some extent, though evidence that wreckage was "removed to sev- eral different locations" has only recently come to light. The "debriefing" of civilian and military witnesses is hardly sur- prising, especially in light of the testimony that rancher Brazel was held incommunicado by the army for a week, during and after which he "agreed" with them that the wreckage was mundane. The "weather balloon" cover story has been testified to by several ex-military people who have since admitted to being aware that it was phony. Page four concerns highly classified efforts to learn the na- CRASH AT CORONA