The Roswell Report: Case Closed

to be a C-47 setting there. And how we didn’t hear that land is beyond me
and how he landed-well, of course, I guess you could land it if you’re a
good pilot out there as there were no poles or anything.
And it was-they had tom the fence down on the north side of the
highway and a11this equipment was setting back up there. The plane was
up there and they were taking stuff out of the plane. There was military
ambulances and there were trucks with-like wreckers, cranes on them. And
there was tankers, like maybe had fuel or water in them. There was just-
everywhere you looked there was military.
Q: A major recovery operation?
A: Yes, it looked like an invasion force. It really did.
And they were a11wearing these light khaki uniforms. They didn’t
look like, you know, olive drabs. They were light khaki and they all had the
same patch over their-that kind of blue funny patch with the circles on it,
was on his shoulder.
And a lot...
Q: Do you have a clue as to where they came from? Did your
brother or your uncle?
A: No. I don’t know where they came from. No, I don’t think
anybody ever ascertained that.
There were a lot of MP patches and some of them were wearing
nightsticks off of these webbed utility belts. They had night sticks and they
had .45’s in holsters, you know, the automatics, full holsters. And these were
the people that were giving most of the orders.
They had the road barricaded off out there and we sat there for a
very long time and, you know, we were getting thirsty and everything and we
asked if we could go back to Horse Springs to get some water.
“Oh, no, no. You can’t through there.”
And right after that, they said, “Now you just turn around and you
head out of here now and you go to Socorro,” and this is the redhead again,
“Keep you mouths shut. Just keep going and don’t look back.”
Well, as we drove away, you know, dad, “The hell with it, we’ll go
to Magdalena. We’ll get water in Magdalena.” You know, because that’s
where John Trujillo lived, a relative of Ted’s,
And so as we drove away, I was looking out the back window and I
could see Dr. Buskirk and these kids and that guy, the guy in the pick-up was
standing there and this Dr. Buskirk was doing just like this in this redheaded
offtcer’s face and he kept pointing back behind him and I guess that meant,
you know, we’ve got to go back that way and he was fed up with this guy or
something and he was shaking his finger in his face when they were yelling
at each other and that’s pretty much the last I saw of the whole situation. I
don’t know what happened after that becausewe just kept going.