Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
An additional similarity between Fanton and the “missing nurse”
is that her personnel record indicated that she quickly departed
Roswell AAF and it is probable that the hospital staff would not
have provided information concerning her departure. Fanton’s
unannounced departure from Roswell AAF, on September 4, 1947 was
to be admitted to Brooke General Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas,
for a medical condition.[55] This condition was first diagnosed
in January 1946 and ultimately led to her medical retirement
in 1955.[56] Therefore, if someone other than a family member
contacted the Station Hospital at Roswell AAF and inquired about
Fanton, as Dennis stated he did, the staff was simply protecting
her privacy as a patient. The staff was not participating in a
sinister “cover-up” of information as alleged by UFO theorists.
The Pediatrician
In at least two interviews, the witness stated that a pediatrician
stationed at the hospital was involved in the events he described.[57]
When asked by an interviewer how he knew the pediatrician was
involved, Dennis was quoted as replying, “I know he was involved
because I saw him there.”[58] Dennis is also quoted as saying that
he and the pediatrician were “pretty good friends,” and after the
pediatrician left the military he [the pediatrician] set up a practice
in Farmington, N.M. “I used to go fishing all the time up north and
I visited him several times up there and he was involved,” Dennis
said. “I don’t remember his name, I think he is still practicing in
Farmington.”[59]
A review of personnel files and interviews with former members of the
Roswell AAF/Walker AFB hospital staff, revealed that only one physician
ever relocated to Farmington, N.M. following his military service. The
former Capt. Frank B. Nordstrom served at Walker AFB from June 1951
until June 1953.[60] Records also revealed that Nordstrom was indeed a
pediatrician and while at Walker AFB, served as the Chief of Pediatric
Services.[61] When Nordstrom, a resident of the small town of Aztec,
N.M., was interviewed for this report, he stated that he did not recall
ever meeting Dennis and could not recall any events that supported any
of his claims (see signed sworn statement in Appendix B).[62]
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