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74 happened did he drive to Roswell, a formidable trek in those days and one that still involves traveling a lot of miles on unpaved roads. On Sunday, July 6, Mac showed up at the office of Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox with a few samples of debris he had picked up from the ranch. The sheriff quickly realized it was something unusual and called Roswell Army Air Field and talked with Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer. Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter-intelligence Corps then drove back to the ranch with Mac to begin the military's in- volvement with the crash. When Marcel returned from the ranch with a carload of debris, he stopped at home and rousted his wife and son Jesse out of bed to show them what he had found. As the discovery of strange materials had not yet been declared a classified subject by the army, he was breaking no rule in so doing. The eleven- year-old Jesse, now a successful medical doctor, army reserve helicopter pilot who served in Vietnam, and a qualified aircraft accident investigator, remembers the experience clearly. The crash and remnants of the device that I happened to see have left an imprint on my memory that can never be forgotten. The craft was not conventional in any sense of the word, in that the remains were most likely what was then known as a "flying saucer" that had apparently been stressed beyond its designed capabilities. I'm basing this on the fact that many of the remnants, includ- ing I-beam pieces that were present, had strange hieroglyphic typewriting symbols across the inner surfaces ... pink and pur- ple, except that I don't think there were any animal figures present as there are in true Egyptian hieroglyphics. The remainder of the debris was just described as nondescript metallic debris, or just shredded fragments, but there was a fair amount of the intact I-beam members present. I only saw a small portion of the debris that was actually present at the crash site. Sometime before the crash site was sealed off, Sheriff Wilcox appears to have driven out there and seen a lot. In early 1991, CRASH AT CORONA