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22 REVELATIONS Wright Field in Ohio. The plane made a stop at Fort Worth, where General Roger M. Ramey took charge of the operation, ordered the men not to talk to reporters, and released a statement ascribing the whole affair to a weather balloon. Researchers William Moore and Stanton Friedman later interviewed ninety-two persons about the case, including thirty firsthand witnesses. Jesse Marcel told them the material consisted of small beams made of something like balsa wood, hard and flexible, with "some sort of hieroglyphics." There was also an unusual parchmentlike brown substance, and a quantity of light and extremely durable tinfoil-like metal, as well as "a black metal box a few inches square" (The Roswell Incident, Berkley paperback edition, p. 72). In other versions of the Roswell story, investigators are said to have found a crashed egg-shaped vehicle and three or four humanoid bodies several miles away from the primary site. 5. Aztec, New Mexico. February 13, 1948. Three radar units are said to have picked up an object on a falling trajectory. When it did not answer attempted radio contact, military personnel in the area were alerted and a message was allegedly sent to General George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, who in turn requested that a search party be sent from Camp Hale in Colorado. According to William S. Steinman, the helicopter team located the crash site on a rocky plateau twelve miles northeast of Aztec. After breaking in one of the "portholes," the scien- tists managed to open a door. They found the remains of two charred humanoids. One of the team members, Dr. Detley W. Bronk, is said to have examined the bodies. This story was first reported by Robert S. Carr, lecturer in mass communication at the University of South Florida, who used to work for Walt Disney on "classified projects involving nonverbal communication." Carr placed the site twelve miles west (as opposed to northeast) of Aztec. He stated the disk was thirty feet in diameter and contained twelve (not two) humanoids who were taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, where they remain in cryonic suspension. The four-foot-tall bodies were wearing "dark blue uniforms made of metallic, flexible cloth." The disk was stored in Hangar 18. 6. Mexico, south of Laredo, Texas. August 1948. Four officers are