Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
Another similarity to Dennis’ account is that of the 11 victims of this
accident, only three were autopsied—the same number of bodies that
were allegedly autopsied in the missing nurse’s account.[142] Finally,
records revealed that due to limited facilities at the Walker AFB
hospital, the autopsies were performed at the Ballard Funeral Home in
Roswell.[143] This is the same funeral home where Dennis claimed to be
employed in 1947 until 1962.[144][*]
[*] It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since
city and phone directories listed him as co-owning a different
funeral home in Roswell, as vice-president of another funeral home
in Roswell, and as having been employed as a drug store supervisor
and oil field worker during the periods when he claims he worked at
the Ballard Funeral Home.
=The Odor.= Transportation of remains to a small base hospital was
unusual since the hospital did not have the necessary facilities—a
preparation room, refrigeration equipment or a morgue, to accommodate
multiple deceased persons. Records of other crashes involving Walker
AFB showed that the remains of crash victims were transported either to
another facility on Walker AFB or directly to a local funeral home.[145]
[Illustration: Fig. 9. Three of the 11 Air Force members killed
in the June 26, 1956 KC-97 accident were autopsied at the Ballard
Funeral Home in Roswell. The actual descriptions of the remains
(only three were autopsied), closely corresponds with Dennis’
descriptions regarding the “little bodies.” Additionally, this is
the same funeral home where Dennis claimed to be employed from 1947
until 1962.]
In fact, the Air Force manual that prescribed the policies, standards
and procedures relating to the care and disposition of deceased Air
Force personnel in effect in 1956, Air Force Manual 143-1, _Mortuary
Affairs_, did not direct that remains be brought to a hospital. It
encouraged the local commander to “improvise facilities” and make
use of “garages, warehouses, large tents, or other facilities for
processing groups of remains.”[146] Nonetheless, records of the June
1956 crash and interviews with the persons who processed the remains
indicated that the victims were brought from the crash site to the
Walker AFB hospital.[147] During the identification procedures, the
odor became too strong and the bodies and the identification activities
were moved to a refrigerated compartment at the base commissary.[148]
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