Q: But he wasn't launching balloons.
A: He wasn't launching balloons.
Q: So where did they get the equipment to take this picture? Did you leave equipment behind?
A: This is right outside of the hangar.
Q: Those are your people?
A: It's our equipment and my stepladder.
Q: Did you leave equipment there?
A: Yes. Everything
Q: Because you expected to return.
A: We were just going back...
Q: It looked pretty tricky. How did they know how to do that?
A: I just don't know anything about the hierarchy above us. I do know that I worked carefully with a guy named Larry Dyvad, a pilot, who later became a private pilot, running a fixed base operation in Alamagordo, and got killed 20 years ago. But I know I worked with Larry Dyvad whose name you'll see here. I don't remember Pritchard at all, but Dyvad was my contact with the radar. I know they didn't have balloons or anything else, yet they talk about boiling balloons there.
Q: So when you returned in September, did you see that somebody had tampered with your equipment and used up some of your balloons?
A: If it did, it didn't ring a bell.
Q: And no one mentioned it to you. No one said hey, look, we had to do something while you were gone.
A: I think we were just some ignorant, little innocent graduate student contractors on a military base, and things were going on that we didn't know anything about.
Q: So no one approached you to say they had used some of your equipment?
A: Not at all.
Q: This photo that's depicted here n the July 10th Alamagordo News, this could have been taken during one of your actual launches versus...