Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| PM: | Probably. | |
| INT: | Yeah. You talked about that. And then again, do you remember either Partin or Runyon asking if you'd want to come up to look at the object? | |
| PM: | Right. | |
| INT: | And, you know, this is interesting because Jack Partin says that at that point, he remembers everyone wanted—his words are, "Everyone tried to get up in my lap." | |
| PM: | That could be. | |
| INT: | Everybody wanted to come forward. | |
| PM: | Now Tom and everybody might've wanted to do that, but I don't remember Ritchie and I—we were the only ones with downward ejection seats, and I don't remember Ritchie wanting to get up there, and I certainly didn't. I didn't want to go up there. I mean I may have wanted to, but— | |
| INT: | We already talked about this—the scope photos. I mean would you say that they had been confiscated from you? Were they taken by people that you normally hand your film over to? | |
| PM: | My memory is that they were taken by the same people that would ordinarily come out. | |
| INT: | Yeah. Well they'd have to process it. | |
| PM: | Some wing official, yeah. But ordinarily they'd just wait for us to hand them in at the debriefing or whatever. We were met when we walked into the building by people wanting the film. | |
| INT: | Oh, okay. They were waiting for you? | |
| PM: | In fact...yeah. That part of it was unusual. | |
| INT: | But the point being these were just the normal guys you'd see. These weren't like people from SAC or— | |
| PM: | My impression was these were—they wouldn't have had time to get people there, unless they were already on the base. But my impression was these were just the same people that would ordinarily be out there. They would just you know, they weren't waiting for us to come to them in this case. |
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