The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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Having seen the wreckage in the rear of the ambulance and believing there had been an accident, he asked another officer in the hospital if there had been a plane crash. The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you?" When he responded he was "from the funeral home," the officer summoned two MPs to escort him from the hospital. $ ^{14} $

However, before Dennis and the two MPs had left the hospital, he heard someone say, "We're not through with that SOB, bring him back here." $ ^{15} $ When Dennis turned around, he observed a redheaded captain (in one version of these events Dennis is quoted as describing this person as a "big redheaded colonel" $ ^{16} $ ) who said, "You did not see anything. There was no crash here. You don't go into town making any rumors that you saw anything or that there was any crash... you could get in a lot of trouble." $ ^{17} $

Angry about being called an SOB, Dennis informed the redheaded officer that he was a civilian, not under his authority, and that he, the redheaded officer, "can't do a damn thing to me." $ ^{18} $ The redheaded officer was alleged to have threatened Dennis by responding "Oh yes we can"... "Somebody will be picking your bones out of the sand"... "We can do anything to you..." That we want to." $ ^{19} $ A black sergeant, whom Dennis recalled had accompanied the redheaded officer, allegedly stated he would "make real good dog food." $ ^{20} $ Following this exchange, Dennis claimed he was "picked up...arm and arm" and escorted back to his place of business by two MPs. $ ^{21} $

The following day, July 8, 1947, Dennis attempted to telephone the nurse he had seen in the hall at the hospital to find out "what was going on." $ ^{22} $ He stated that he was unable to reach the nurse but did reach another nurse, a "Captain Wilson," who explained to him that the nurse he was trying to contact was not on duty, but "Wilson" would give her a message to call him. $ ^{23} $ The nurse called Dennis later that same day at the funeral home where he worked and agreed to meet with him at the officers' club at Roswell AAF that afternoon. $ ^{24} $

When the two met, the nurse appeared disturbed and ill. $ ^{25} $ Dennis asked her to explain what was going on when they met in the hospital the day before. The nurse explained that, in the course of her normal duties, she entered an examining room to get some supplies and encountered two doctors whom she did not recognize that "supposedly were doing a preliminary autopsy" on "three," "very mangled," "black," "little bodies." $ ^{26} $ The doctors requested the nurse remain in the room because they needed her assistance. $ ^{27} $ She allegedly explained that there was a terrible odor in the room that made both her and the doctors ill. $ ^{28} $ Due to this terrible odor and inadequate ventilation, the nurse allegedly told Dennis that the autopsies were moved to another facility on the base and then "everything" was taken to "Wright Field" (now Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio). $ ^{29} $

The nurse described the little bodies in detail and even provided a diagram. $ ^{30} $ She described "little bodies" three to four feet in length that had large, "flexible," heads, and concave eyes and noses. $ ^{31} $