Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93

Th piece he brought was brown in color, similar to plastic .... 'Mac' said the
;er material on the property looked like aluminum foil. It was very flexible and
0 ouldn't crush or biun. There was also something he described as tape which
~d printing on it. The color of the printing was a kind of purple ... ."
Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W.W. Brazel; 14 years old at the time of the
incident). Affidavit dated September 22, 1993. " ... The debris looked like pieces
of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were .small, the largest I remember
measuring about the same as the diameter of a basketball. Most of it was a kind
of double--sided material, foil-like on one side and rubber-like on the other. Both
sides were grayish silver in color, the foil more silvery than the rubber. Sticks, like
kite sticks, were attached to some of the pieces with a whitish tape. The tape was
about two or three inches wide and had flower-like designs on it. The 'flowers'
were faint, a variety of pastel colors, and reminded me of Japanese paintings in
which the flowers are not all connected. I do not recall any other types of material
or markings, nor do I remember seeing gouges in the ground or any other signs
that anything may have hit the ground hard. The foil-rubber material could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom ... "
Sally Strickland Tadolini (neighbor of W.W. Brazel; nine years old in 1947).
Affidavit dated September 27, 1993. " . .. What Bill showed us was a piece of
what I still think as fabric. It was something like aluminum foil, something like
satin, something like well-tanned leather in its toughness, yet was not precisely
like any one of those materials....It was about the thickness of very fine kidskin
glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the
other. I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it ... ."
Robert R. Porter (B-29 flight Engineer stationed at Roswell in 1947). Affidavit
dated June 7, 1991. " .. . On this occasion, I was a member of the crew which flew
parts of what we were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included...and Maj Jesse Marcel. Capt. William E. Anderson said it was
from a flying saucer. After we arrived, the material was transferred to a B-25. I
was told they were going to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. I was involved in
loading the ~29 with the material, which was wrapped in packages with
wrapping paper. One of the pieces was triangle:shaped, about 2 1/2 feet across
the bottom. The rest were in small packages, about the size of a shoe box. The
brown paper was held with tape. The material was extremely lightweight. When
I picked it up, it was just like picking up an empty package. We loaded the
triangle shaped package and three shoe box-sized packages into the plane. All of
the packages could have fit into the trunk of a car.... When we came back from
lunch, they told us they had transferred the material to a B-25. They told us the
material was a weather balloon, but I'm certain it wasn't a weather balloon... ."
In addition to those persons above still living who claim to have seen or exam-
ined the original material found on the Brazel Ranch, there is one additional
person who was universally acknowledged to have been involved in its recovery,
. Sheridan Cavitt, Lt Col, USAF (Ret). Cavitt is credited in all claims of having
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