The Roswell Report: Case Closed

The Xxcription or something,“?” the so called “hieroglyphics,” were
a probable referenceto the lettering painted on the equipment support rack above
the panels. The lettering on the rack would be visible, but probably not readable,
to an observerthat quickly walked past the ambulance. Other wreckage “all over
the floor” that was “like broken glass,“?” was a probable reference to the clear
plastic 30-foot polyethylene balloon that was recovered following the balloon
training mission and placed in the back of the converted ambulance or the
weapons carrier for later disposal.
Dennis also recalled that he parked the vehicle he was driving near
three field ambulances and then walked up the ramp into the hospital.2’5 The
description of ambulances near a “ramp” is consistent with the recollections
of the Balloon Branch Communication Technician who drove the converted
ambulance to the Walker AFB hospital following the balloon accident.
While waiting for the injured pilots, A2C Ole Jorgeson, now a retired
Master Sergeant, recalled in a recent interview that he parked the converted
ambulance near a ramp at the hospital.“h A review of Walker AFB hospital
records revealed that there was only one ramp. The ramp was attached to
the hospital dispensary; Walker AFB Bldg. 317.*” The other ambulances
described by the witness were either the other ambulance from Holloman
Fig. 21. (Ahow) Enlergement
of stenciled writing from
photograph heluw. This
letterinf was apparently later
described as “hirruglyphics.”
Fig. 22. iBr/ow) St4 panels
painted Air Force blue (lower
ri& <MI l<ftJ described as
“bluish-purplish” “wrrckage”
that looked “kinda like the
bottom of a canoe.”
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