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HANGAR 18 altitude. 23 alleged to have witnessed the crash of an object and the recovery of bodies in an area located thirty-eight miles south of Laredo, in Mexico. The information comes from a man named Todd Zechel, who turned it over to the NBC affiliate in Chicago. The original story by Steve Tom appeared in Midnight Globe, a tabloid of dubious reliability. It is based on a rumor circulated by someone who was "in the Army Security Agency or in NSA in the Sixties." 7. Death Valley, California. August 19, 1949. Two prospectors named Mace Garney and Buck Fitzgerald are said to have observed an object crashing in the desert. It was a disk twenty-four feet in diameter. Their story appeared on page thirteen of the local Bakersfield newspa- per the next day. 8. Mexico. Before 1950. Mr. Roy L. Dimmick, a sales manager for the Apache Powder Company of Los Angeles, reported talking to a man from Mexico and to a man from Ecuador who had seen a saucer crash near Mexico City. The story is told by Frank Scully, notorious author of the colorful book Behind the Flying Saucers. Scully did not hesitate to reprint the wildest rumors of his time. 9. Argentina. April 1950. In a remote region of Argentina, Mr. E. C. Bossa found a strange disk and four small dead pilots. He returned to the site the next day with a friend and found only a pile of warm ashes. A cigar-shaped object was seen briefly as it flew over at high 10. Brady, Montana. 1953. Mr. C. M. Tenney, who was returning from Great Falls to Conrad, saw an oval object that followed his car while balls of fire fell all over the road. Later that day his phone rang and a colonel from Malmstrom Air Force Base told him to come to the base at 10:00 A.M. the next day. He was escorted to a windowless building surrounded by a wire fence. He was asked to give and sign his story. While he was doing this, he saw two men carrying large laundry bags containing humanoid bodies. The source is the tabloid National Tattler, January 5, 1975. 11. Kingman, Arizona. May 21, 1953. During a special assignment with the USAF a man assisted in the investigation of a crashed disk resembling aluminum, which had impacted twenty inches into the