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75 Kevin Randle interviewed Miss Barbara Dugger, granddaughter of George and Inez Wilcox. The sheriff had died when Barbara was quite young, but she lived with her grandmother while going to college and became very close to the elderly but still dynamic Inez Wilcox. According to Barbara: [My grandmother said] "Don't tell anybody. When the incident happened, the military police came to the jailhouse and told George and I that if we ever told anything about the incident, not only would we be killed, but our entire family would be killed!" They called my grandfather and someone came and told him about this incident. He went out there to the site; there was a big bumed area and he saw debris. It was in the evening. There were four "space beings." Their heads were large. They wore suits like silk. One of the "little men" was alive. If she said it happened, it happened! As for the death threat, Barbara's grandmother made it clear: "They meant it, Barbara—they were not kidding!" "She said the event shocked him. He never wanted to be sheriff again after that. Grandmother ran for sheriff and was defeated. My grandmother was a very loyal citizen of the United States, and she thought it was in the best interest of the country not to talk about it." Inez Wilcox died not long after- ward, at the age of ninety-three. There is a very clear pattern concerning threats to wit- nesses: Those who saw only wreckage have gotten away lightly, while those who saw bodies were treated much more severely. Since even direct contact with wreckage would not by itself prove the alien nature of the crash, it is understandable that witnesses whose experiences were limited to hardware would not be considered serious threats by the military. But even a brief glimpse of a body would have made it pretty obvious that this was a nonhuman event; it is just as under- standable that the government would choose to apply much more drastic pressure to those who had seen bodies. Members of the local press involuntarily became partici- CIVILIANS FIND THE WRECKAGE