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15 ALIEN RETRIEVALS forty-niner—thirty-four degrees southwest following an erratic approach course... ." The controller, sipping his coffee, responds: "Probably a stray—civilian maybe? Keep me informed." He turns to his associ- ate. "Check with Edwards." When the unknown objects fail to respond to requests for identifica- tion, the base commander is contacted and an alert is declared. By chance, cameramen, a technical sergeant, and a staff sergeant, of the base photographic team, are aboard a base helicopter on a routine photographic mission at the time, and they run off several feet of film of three objects in the sky over Holloman. One of the objects breaks away and begins a descent. A second high-speed camera crew, set up to photograph a test launch, turn their camera toward the object and run off approximately six hundred feet of 16mm color film. The cameras continue to roll as the extraordinary vehicle comes into view. It hovers, almost silently, about ten feet off the ground for nearly a minute, and yaws like a ship at anchor. Then it sets down on three extension arms. The commander and two officers, along with two base Air Force scientists, arrive and wait apprehensively. A panel slides open on the side of the craft. Stepping forward, there are one, then a second, and a third— what appear to be men dressed in tight-fitting jumpsuits. Perhaps short by our standards, with an odd blue-gray complexion, eyes set far apart. A large, pronounced nose. They wear headpieces that resemble rows of a ropelike design. The commander and the two scientists step forward to greet the visitors. Arrangements are made by some inaudible sort of communication and the group quickly retires to an inner office in the King I area. There they are met and guided to the end of Mars Street to the west area building number 930. Left behind stand