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SUBJECT: Roswell Testimony FILE: UFO117
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PART 13
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5.9 Robert Smith
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[Robert Smith was a member of the First Air Transport Unit,
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which operated Douglas C-54 Skymaster four-engined cargo
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planes out of the Roswell AAF. He was interviewed in 1991.]
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A lot of people began coming in all of a sudden because of
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the official investigation. Somebody said it was a plane
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crash, but we heard from a man in Roswell that it was not a
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plane crash, it was something else, a strange object. There
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was another indication that something serious was going on.
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One night, when we were coming back to Roswell, a convoy of
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trucks covered with canvas passed us. When they got to the
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[airfield] gate, they headed over to this hangar on the east
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end, which was rather unusual. The truck convoy had red
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lights and sirens.
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My involvement in the incident was to help load crates of
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debris into the aircraft. We all became aware of the event
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when we went to the hangar on the east side of the ramp.
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There were a lot of people in plain clothes all over the
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place. They were inspectors, but they were strangers on the
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base. When challenged, they replied they were here on
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Project So-and-So, and flashed a card, which was different
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from a military ID card.
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We were taken to the hangar to load crates. There was a lot
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of farm dirt on the hangar floor. We loaded [the crates] on
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flatbeds and dollies. Each crate had to be checked as to
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width and height. We had to know which crates went on which
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plane. We loaded crates on three [or] four C-54s. We
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weren't supposed to know their destination, but we were told
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they were headed north.
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All I saw was a little piece of material. You could crumple
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it up, let it come out. You couldn't crease it. One of our
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people put it in his pocket. The piece of debris I saw was
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two to three inches square. It was jagged. When you
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crumpled it up, it then laid back out. And when it did, it
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kind of crackled, making a sound like celophane. It
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crackled when it was let out. There were no creases.
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There were armed guards around during loading of our planes,
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which was unusual at Roswell. There was no way to get to
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the ramp except through armed guards. There were MPs on the
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outskirts, and our personnel were between them and the
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planes.
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The largest [crate] was roughly twenty feet long, four to
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five feet high, and four to five feet wide. It took up an
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entire plane. It wasn't that heavy, but it was a large
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volume. The rest of the crates were two or three feet long
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and two feet square or smaller. The sergeant who had the
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piece of material said [it was like] the material in the
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crates. The entire loading took at least six, perhaps eight
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hours. Lunch was brought to us, which was unusual. The
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crates were brought to us on flatbed dollies, which was also
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unusual.
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Officially, we were told it was a crashed plane, but crashed
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planes usually were taken to the salvage yard, not flown
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out. I don't think it was an experimental plane, because
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not too many people in that area were experimenting with
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planes. I'm convinced that what we loaded was a UFO that
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got into mechanical problems. Even with the most
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intelligent people, things go wrong.
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[The C-54 into which I helped load the single twenty-foot
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crate] would have been Pappy Henderson's. I remember seeing
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T/Sgt Harbell Elzey, T/Sgt. Edward Bretherton, and S/Sgt.
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William Fortner.
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End of part 13
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