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76 pants in the drama, rather than merely observers. Frank Joyce of radio station KGFL got a phone call while on duty at the station one afternoon from a man who reported wreckage on his ranch—presumably Mac Brazel. He asked me what to do about it. I recommended he go to Roswell Army Air Base [sic]. The next thing I heard was that the PIO, [Lt.] Walter Haut, came into the station some time after I got this call. He handed me a news release printed on onionskin stationary and left im- mediately. I called him back at the base and said, "I suggest that you not release this type of story that says you have a flying saucer or flying disc." He said, "No, it's OK. I have the OK from the C.O. [Colonel Blanchard]." I sent the release on the Western Union wire to the United Press bureau. After I returned to the station, there was a flash on the wire with the story: "The U.S. Army Air Corps [sic] says it has a flying disc." They typed a paragraph or two, and then other people got on the wire and asked for more information. Then the phone calls started coming on, and I referred them to [the air- field]. Then the wire stopped and just hummed. Then a phone call came in, and the caller identified himself as an officer at the Pentagon, and this man said some very bad things about what would happen to me ... he was really pretty nasty. Finally, I got through to him: I said, "you're talking about a release from the U.S. Army Air Corps!" Bang! The phone went dead; he was just gone. Then [station owner Walt] Whitmore called me and said, "Frank, what's going on down there?" He was quite upset. He asked, "Where did you get this story?" In the meantime, I got this [USAAF news] release and hid it, to have proof so no one could accuse me of making it up. Whitmore came in to the station and I gave him the release. He took it with him. The next significant thing occurred in the evening. I got a call from [Mac] Brazel. He said, "We haven't got this story right." I invited him over to the station; he arrived not long after sunset. He was alone, but I had the feeling that we were being watched. He said something about a weather balloon. I said, "Look, this is CRASH AT CORONA