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72 cial conference on crashes held by the Fund for UFO Research in Washington. And since both Mac and her husband had died long before anyone got on the trail of the crash mystery, she was the most direct link to the beginning of the story. Loretta is a wonderful example of a Western ranch lady: open, hospitable, and not the least interested in publicity that might compro- mise the solitary life she leads in an old ranchhouse at the end of a hilly dirt road. [Mac] had this piece of material that he had picked up. He wanted to show it to us and wanted us to go down and see the rest of the debris or whatever, [but] we didn't on account of the transporta- tion and everything wasn't too good. He didn't get anybody to come out who was interested in it. The piece he brought looked like a kind of tan, light-brown plastic ... it was very lightweight, like balsa wood. It wasn't a large piece, maybe about four inches long, maybe just a little larger than a pencil. We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn't burn. We knew it wasn't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn't have real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn't have any grain ... just smooth. I hadn't seen anything like it. In a series of papers published in the 1980s, Stanton Fried- man and Bill Moore reported on interviews with others who had seen and handled bits of the Corona wreckage before the a: Sc: ie ae army clamped down: Mrs. Bessie Brazel Schreiber, Mac Brazel's daughter: The waa a sort of aluminumlike foil. Some of [these] pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them ... [but] even though the stuff looked like tape, it could not be peeled off or removed at all. Some of these pieces had something like numbers and lettering on them, but there were no words we were able to make out. The figures were written out like you would write numbers in columns ... but they didn't look like the numbers we use at all. ... apiece of something made out of the same metal-like foil CRASH AT CORONA material resembled