APOLLO, 32, 59 Arizona, 47 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), 99 arms, 62, 97 Army Air Forces, 1, 13, 76, 81, 90, 96, 113. _See also_ U.S. Army Air Forces Army Nurse Corps (ANC), 81 Artesia, N.M., 67 Ashland, Wisc., 105 Atlantic Ocean, 112 autopsies, preliminary, 77, 91, 98 autopsy, alien, 1 autopsy protocol, 96–97, 99 autopsy; ies; ied, 1, 12, 77–78, 94–95, 97, 99 _Aztec_ (N.M.) _Independent Review_, 84 Aztec, N.M., 83–85 B Ball, Guy, 19 Ballard Funeral Home, 76, 97 ballast, 57 Balloon Branch, 30, 37, 43–51, 57–58, 61, 65, 102–103, 105–107, 110, 113–115, 124 balloon control package, 57, 64 balloon controllers, 47, 57 balloon drops, 28 balloon failure, 58 balloon, high altitude, 3, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 32, 36–38, 43, 45–49, 52–53, 55, 57–58, 61, 64, 66–67, 91, 96, 100–104, 109, 117, 125, 157 balloon, polyethylene, 40–42, 58, 66, 106–107, 114–115 balloon, tethered, 45–46 balloon train, 5–6, 11–13 balloon, “Vee”, 47 balloon, weather, 5, 40 balsa wood, 6 bandages, 62, 64 Barnett, Grady L. “Barney”, 58, 67 base histories, 94 Baylor University, 31 Bean, Alan, 120 _Behind the Flying Saucers_, 84 Berliner, Don 8, 60 Biodynamics of Space Flight, 102. _See_ MAN HIGH “black sergeant”, 86 Blankenship, Robert, 49 Blauw, Alfred S., M.D., 99 blimp, 60–61, 64, 67 body bags, 35–36, 91, 96 Bravest Man, The. _See_ Stapp, John P., Col. (MC), USAF (Ret) Britain, 41 Brooke General Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., 83 Buck Rogers, 111 Bush, George H. W., President, 32 C Cahn, J. P., 85 Cambridge, England, 83 camera(s), 30–31 canoe, 76, 78, 91, 113, 115 cargo trailer, 1½-ton, 65 Carlsbad, N.M., 67 Carswell AFB, Tex., 81 caskets, 35, 76 Chavez, Dennis, Sen. (N.M.), 87 Cheney Award, 31–32 _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_, 118 Clouthier, Charles E., 83. _See also_ Signed sworn statement in Appendix B cold soaking, 64 _Collier’s_, 26–27 Coltman, Charles A., Jr., Col. (MC), USAF (Ret). _See_ Signed sworn statement in Appendix B commissary, 95, 98 community relations, 58 con-men, 85 _Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB, N.Mex., 1947–1958_, 41 cooperating witnesses, 6 CORONA, 43 cosmic ray particles, 42 cover-up, 8–9, 26, 83, 110, 123, 125 _Crash at Corona_, 8 D debris, 1, 6, 57 debris field, 11–12 Dennis, W. Glenn, 75–78, 81–86, 88–90, 96–97, 99, 110, 114, 197 Denver, Colo., 44 Department of Defense, 46 DISCOVERER XI, 43 DISCOVERER XII, 43 DISCOVERER XIII, 43–44 dispensary, 114–116 doctor(s), 76–78, 91, 96, 98–99, 110 dog food, 77 doll(s), 16, 61 dolls, plastic, 14, 60–61 “Dr. Gee”, 85 drones, remotely-piloted, 15 drug smuggling, 50 drug store supervisor, 97