Index
A
accelerometers 21, 30
Aero Medical Laboratory, USAF 20-21, 23, 32, 104-105,
107, 117, 121
Aeromedical Field Laboratory, USAF 32
AFM-143-1, Mortuary Affairs 99
agents, federal 50
agents, government 78
Air Force 1-3, 5, 8-10, 13, 21, 26, 28, 31, 35,37-38,
41-42,44,46,48, 51-53, 55, 57, 61-62, 68,75-76,
79, 86, 89-91, 95-101, 103, 105, 109, 111-113,
116-117,121,123,125. SeealsoU.S.AirForce
Air Force Letter 35-3 86
Air Force, Secretary of the 1-2, 13
Air Materiel Command (AM C) 19-20
air samples 42
aircraft
A-26 112
B-25 96
B-26 112
B-29 93-94
B-47 93-94
B-52 115
C-131 105, 120
C-47 30,64,93-94
F-4 112, 121
F-51 96
KB-29 93-94
KC-97 3, 93-97
KC-135 93-94
L-20 30, 64, 124
T-33 93-94
X-15 32
airman 76, 86
Alamogordo Army Airfield, N.M. 37
Alamogordo, N.M. 32
Alaska 47
Alderson Research Laboratories, Inc. 21, 34, 59-61
alien(s) 1-3, 5, 11-12, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25,28-29,33,36-39,
46-47, 55, 61, 75, 78, 96, 109, 113, 118, 123, 125
ambulance 76-78, 99, 105, 109, 113-116
Anderson, Gerald 14, 60-61, 67. See also interview
in Appendix C
Antarctica 4 7
225
APO (Air Post Office) 82
APOLLO 32, 59
Arizona 47
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) 99
arms 62,97
Army Air Forces 1, 13, 76, 81, 90, 96, 113. See also U.S.
Army Air Forces
Army Nurse Corps (ANC) 81
Artesia, N.M. 67
Ashland, Wise. 105
Atlantic Ocean 112
autopsies, preliminary 77, 91, 98
autopsy, alien 1
autopsy protocol 96-97, 99
autopsy; ies; ied 1, 12, 77-78, 94-95, 97,99
Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review 84
Aztec, N.M. 83-85
B
Ball, Guy 19
Ballard Funeral Home 76, 97
ballast 57
Balloon Branch 30, 37,43-51,57-58,61,65, 102-103,
105-107,110,113-115,124
balloon control package 57, 64
balloon controllers 47, 57
balloon drops 28
balloon failure 58
balloon, high altitude 3, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 32,
36-38, 43, 45-49, 52,-53, 55, 57-58, 61, 64, 66-67,
91,96,100-104,109,117,125,157
balloon, polyethylene 40-42,58,66, 106-107, 114-115
balloon, tethered 45-46
balloon train 5-6, 11-13
balloon, "Vee" 47
balloon, weather 5, 40
balsa wood 6
bandages 62, 64
Barnett, Grady L. "Barney" 58, 67
base histories 94
Baylor University 31
Bean, Alan 120
Behind the Flying Saucers 84