Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
A: The ambulance service. You go out there, and you’ve got your splints
on a guy, you’ve got first aid, whatever, you can’t just throw them off
of your stretcher. You maybe help them... Sometimes you’re out there
two hours or three. Then while you’re waiting to get your equipment
back you sit in the coat room with the doctors and with the nurse’s
quarters. That’s where we always had our cokes and stuff.
Q: So you’d just shoot the breeze with whoever’s around.
A: You get to know these people. That’s the only way. See, she’d only
been there less than three months. Of course, I’m a crazy son of a
gun... Nearly everybody remembered her. She was a good looking little
thing, a beautiful little girl. We thought she was kind of lonely.
Q: As you well know, there’s been a major effort to try to find her.
[Skip in tape]
A: She was out here less than three months.
Q: So you went back there. Tell me what happened.
A: I started back there, and that’s when I got in trouble. I saw this
officer standing there, and I saw this debris in the back of the
ambulance. Two of them was full of debris. Like Bob [Shirkey] saw a
bunch little stuff, and there was a couple of pretty good sized.
Q: Two of the three ambulances had stuff...
A: One of them’s door was closed, but the other two... There was two
MPs standing right out, kind of just leaning up against the back of
those. I remember.
Q: Did they challenge you when you tried to go in?
A: No... Evidently because I drove up with that airman, and they just
figured whatever.
Another thing, when I was there, all the people that was there, that
nurse was the only person I saw that was permanent station. Everybody
else was all new in that whole hospital operation. Even in the coke
room, there wasn’t anybody in there that I knew. I started back and got
to the door, and I saw this...
(Pause)
We’ve been friends for years, but I don’t want to talk with him around.
Q: So the stuff you saw, you said it was not aluminum...
A: ...looked like hot stainless steel when it got hot. When you put
flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I know
what the stuff looks like.
Q: Oh, you’re a sculpture? I didn’t know that?
A: Yeah, I’ve been doing it for years. I had my own foundry... I did. I
don’t do it any more. I have my stuff done. But anyway, this stuff was
a blue purplish, it looked like hot stainless steel, is what it looked
like. Steel that got hot. It didn’t look like aluminum, it wasn’t even
melted like aluminum. I don’t even think it was melted, just like a
bunch of fragments.
Q: But there were some bigger things in there besides the fragments,
right?
A: Yeah. There were was two pieces.
Anyway, do you want to go back to the nurse?
Q: Yes, please.
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