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HANGAR 18 Force Base. nothing. four men—Gerald Light, Franklin Allen of the Hearst papers, Edwin Nourse of the Brookings Institute, and Bishop Mclntyre of Los An- 25 object that was deposited into a van that drove away. The following Monday a scuba diver removed a railroad lantern with a battery from the lake and the whole incident was then explained as a hoax. 18. Chili, New Mexico. May 17, 1974. An Air Force team is sup- posed to have removed a metallic circular object sixty feet in diameter from an impact area. The object was allegedly moved to Kirtland Air 19. Padcaya, Bolivia: on the Argentina border. May 6, 1978. A large luminous object is supposed to have crashed on a 13,000-foot mountain near this village. An expedition of soldiers and scientists was dispatched to the site, but it was delayed by bad weather and found These were some of the stories that surfaced when I reviewed the files. All of them were questionable. The sources were of very uneven reliability. There were another dozen reports that were so poorly de- scribed that they could at best be considered hearsay, and the same can be said about several new cases that have surfaced since 1978. How- ever, there is no denying that a few of the above accounts are well- documented. In particular, the Roswell, New Mexico, event has been investigated in depth by men familiar with the field, who have located and interviewed the major witnesses. But there is much argument about what really happened at Roswell. In their book about the event (The Roswell Incident, N.Y.: Berkley Books, 1988) Charles Berlitz and Bill Moore quote the late Meade Layne, director of a UFO organization called Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (Vista, California) regarding the alleged alien bodies found at Roswell. Mr. Layne stated that he knew a scientist named Dr. Weisberg, "a physics professor from a California university," who examined six occupants. That part of the wreckage was allegedly placed on a truck that drove from New Mexico through Flagstaff, Arizona, to Needles and Cadiz in California and finally to Murdoc, where Edwards Air Force Base is located. Another unconfirmed rumor states that on or about April 15, 1954,