The Roswell Report: Case Closed

The "inscription or something," $ ^{213} $ the so called "hieroglyphics," were a probable reference to 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 observer that quickly walked past the ambulance. Other wreckage "all over the floor" that was "like broken glass," $ ^{214} $ 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. $ ^{215} $ 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. $ ^{216} $ 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. $ ^{217} $ The other ambulances described by the witness were either the other ambulance from Holloman

Fig. 21. (Above) Enlargement of stenciled writing from photograph below. This lettering was apparently later described as "hieroglyphics."

Fig. 22. (Below) Steel panels painted Air Force blue (lower right and left) described as "bluish-purplish" "wreckage" that looked "kinda like the bottom of a canoe." (U.S. Air Force photo)