Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
A: It was a pretty tight squeeze in there. You couldn’t get very many
cars in there.
Q: How many of those ambulances were back there?
A: There were three old box ambulances. I call them box ambulance. I
guess you call them... I wasn’t in the military so I don’t know what
all the terms were.
Q: Like these old field ambulances.
A: They’ve got the old square field ambulances, you know.
Q: The airman walked up that ramp with you. Both of you guys went
into...
A: The airman and I both went in.
Q: Did he see that stuff in...
A: He wasn’t paying any attention because he had, I had a tourniquet
and towel over his busted nose, and he went right on in.
Q: Got himself into a little trouble in town, did he?
A: Rode an old motorcycle. The reason I remember it is because he had
an old Indian motorcycle, and I’d just bought one. I paid $40 for one
and he [rode] one, and I didn’t have any fenders, and I was thinking of
maybe of...
Q: So you took him in there, and then basically after you got him taken
care of you figured you’d go look up your friend, the nurse.
Let’s get that straight.
A: Stan Friedman, I think, somebody thought that I was having a
relationship with this nurse. I was not. This girl wouldn’t even think
about going with me, and she was going strictly, when she got her
time paid back to the service she was going into an order of the nuns,
sisters, and she was going to be in education and later on she changed
to the nursing deal. The only reason she was in it, because her folks
were in debt and she went in the service to get her education. She got
her education and then she was going to pay back the church what they
owed her. Her whole thing in life was, from the day she was born, her
life was planned that she was going to be in an order.
Q: Did she ever tell you which order that was?
A: It was in St. Paul, Minnesota. That’s all I know.
Q: That’s where she was from.
A: That’s where she was born and raised. She never went out of the city
until she went to... My understanding was she never went anywhere and
she never lived anywhere. She was raised up from the time... Strictly
raised by the church. That was the only life she ever planned. She
wouldn’t date a man if her life depended on it. She’d get around and
talk and everything, but there was no way. But everybody said I was
going to marry her and... That’s bull shit.
Q: The implication was that she was cute and...
A: She was cute. I could have been interested. If I wouldn’t have
played second fiddle to the Catholic church, because that’s what she
would have been.
Q: How did you get to know her, just being out there on the base?
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