abbreviations: H= Halt, E= Englund, B= Ball, N= Nevels, V=voice, bg= background/ radio communication; comments in brackets
H: 150 feet or more from the initial, I should say, suspected impact point
V: right
H: having difficulty to get the light-all to work, seems to be some kind of mecanical problem. I think about getting another light-all. Meantime, over, take some readings with the Geiger counter and er, chase around the areal but wait for the light-all to mark it.
bg: six ... Sgt. ...ning to security control ... that's [knocking sound] mark one on the pod ... pod number [chair moving sound]
H: ok, we are now approaching the area within about 25/30 feet, what kind of readings, we get anything ?
N: just minor clicks
H: minor clicks
bg: [seems to be in a room] ... to the last hour ? Here? Yeah.]
H: where are the impressions ?
V: there's one...
H: is that all of debris we have?
E: well, there's one more well-defined over ...
bg: Sgt. Bustinza to security control
H: we are still getting clicks. clicks.
bg: Sgt. Bustinza ... [name mentioned ?] here ... security ... worrying[?] ... east gate
H: you want to read that on the scale ?
N: yes, sir, but now on the 5/ 10th scale and we are reading about, er, four Becquerel
H: ok we are still comfortable good safe here
bg: don't have a light-all ... for take three ... east gate ... security ... can't you hear me Sgt. Bustinza
H: still minor readings
[now here's a passage where two voices (one is Halt) seem to speak at the same time, I've put these voices over each other:]
v: never one ... will care ... about orientation
H: second ... pod ... of the indentations
bg: security states security
N: nope.
H: this one is dead. Let's go to the third one over here.
bg: Sgt. Bustinza
N: yes, now getting some residual
H: I can read out. The meter is definitely giving a little, pulse.
bg: you have the order ... electronic [or: Leary to Harvey?]
E: ... about the centre
H: that's what I was gonna say, let's go to the center of the area next to see what kind of reading we get out there
bg: cigarette [two knocking sounds]
H: you're reading the clicks, I can't get the clicks
V: yes, sure I do
H: now about the center, Bruce ?
N: yes
H: ok, let's go to the center, here
N: yes, I'm getting more
H: that's, that's supposed to ... best deflection [of the] needle I've seen yet. Ok, can you give me an estimation, we're on the point five scale ... we're getting ... we are having trouble reading the scale
E: at, er, approximately 01:25 hours
bg: [sound]
N: I'm getting right at, er, half a millirem
bg: [piano sound]
H[?]: best point
H: I don't see any, go any higher
V: the list won't fly around
H: ok, we'll go out toward it ... there
N: now it's picking up
H: this is out toward the number one indentation where we first got the strongest reading. Yeah, it's similar to what we got in the center.
N: right in the pod, it's right near the center
E: it's right in the area, here approximately, it could be a clash
[again two voices over each other, E + H:]
E: it's in the center of the triangle
H: it's hard to tell. Here, gonna take this, my fingers are about to freeze
V: here's to
E: up towards seven
H: what ?
E: just jumped to about towards 7/10th
H: seven tenths? right here in the center ?
V: that's right
H: we found a small blast what looks like a blasted or scuffed up area here. We get pretty positive readings. [Let's] see, is that epicenter ?
E: yes, it is. This is where we would assume would be the dead center.
N: it's picking up more as you go along the whole area here now.
H: Up to seven tenths ? Or seven [bg: five], seven units, let's call it on the point five scale. Ok, why don't we do this. Why don't we make a sweep. Here, got the gloves on here. Let's take a sweep out around the whole area about ten foot out. Make a perimeter run around it, starting right back here at the corner, back the same first corner where we came in, let's go right back here. Don't let depend them on you counting the clicks.
N[?]: right
H: okay let's
N: it's ditzy here to get kind of
H: right, put the light on it. Let's sweep around it.
V: whose light ?
H: put it on the ground every once in a while
E: this looks like an abrasion on the tree
H: ok, we'll catch that on the way back, let's go around, move back, hit it then
E: and there in the entrance right over here. It looks like an abrasion, pointing into the center of the ...
H: it is
E: landing area
H: it may be old though, there's some sap marks or something on it. Let's go on back around. Anything ?
N: these were the gifts, some extension on it
H: hey, this is an awkward thing to use isn't it ?
V: all this here, carry don't much it [wrong grammar ?] on my ears but this one broke
H: are we getting anything further, I'm goint to shut the recorder off until we find something
N: picking up good
H: picking up? what are we up to ? We're up to two, three units deflection, you're getting in close to one pod.
N: picking up something. picking up.
H: ok, it's still not going above three or four units
N: picking up more though, more frequent
H: yes, your status, you you stay steady up around two to three to four units now.
E: Colonel Halt?
H: Yeah
bg: laughing [?]
E: each one of these trees that face into the blast what we assume is the landing site, all have an abrasion facing in the same direction towards the center. The same...
H: let's see it
E: it likely was , it's obviously [or: still less around] the circle here, turn it back down here
bg: let me in
N: picking up some
V: correction
H: let me see that... that's got a funny, that's, that's, you worry about the abrasion. I've never, never seen a tree that's, er,
V: ... small sap marks
H: never seen a pine tree that's been damaged react that fast
N: got a bottle to put that in
H: yeah, yes, sample bottle
V: ... soil
H: yeah, here's such a sample ... ok, from now on let's let's let's let's indentify that as point number one, that stake there. So you all know where it is if we have to sketch it. You got that Sgt. Nevels?
N: yes, sir.
V: of course ...
H: ok
v: ... didn't work earlier
H: closest to the Woodbridge base
V: point one?
H: be it point one. Let's go clockwise from there
V: point two
H: point two. So this tree is between point two and point three
bg: about an hour between Burroughs and two other personnel requesting to Sgt. Ball in jeep at your location
B: tell'em negative at this time. We'll tell them when they can come out here. We don't want them out here right now.
H: the sample, you're gonna mark this sample number one.
N: yes, sir
H: have them cut it off and include some of that sample ... is between indentation two and three on a pine tree about, er, about five feet away, about three and a half feet off the ground.
N: I've got some more for the bottle
H: there's a round abrasion on the tree about three and a half, four inches in diameter. It looks like it might be old but, er, ..., strange, there's a crystalline pine sap that has come out that fast. You say there was other trees here that are damaged in a similar fashion ?
E: yes, so often they've gotten in this wood they set out a landing, sir.
H: ok, why don't you take a picture of that and remember your picture, we ain't gonna be writing this down, oh it's coming on the tape.
E: you've got a tape measure with you, sir?
H: this is the picture, your first picture will be at the first tree. The one between, er, mark two and three. Meantime I'm gonna walk a couple of these trees over here.
N: we are getting some...
H: you're getting readings on the tree you're taking samples from on the side facing the suspected landing site.
N: four clicks max.
H: up to four. Interesting, that's where you are taking the sample now. Four, that's the strongest point on the tree ?
N: yes, sir. If you come to the back, there's no clicks wahtsoever.
H: no clicks at all on the back, it's all on the ...
N: maybe one or two
H: ... side facing the ... interesting. The indentations look like something twisted it as it got ... you know as it sat down on'em. Looks if someone took something and slided down and twisted it from side to side.
V: uh huh.
H: very strange. ... We are looking at the same tree we took the sample of with this ... what ya call it - starscope ?
E: uh huh, starlight scope.
H: get a definite heat reflection off the tree about three or four feet off the ground ?
E: yes, where the spot is
H: the same ... the same place where the spot is we are getting a heat ...
B: and a spot on the tree directly behind us, I picked up the the same thing, and one off to your right.
H: three trees in the area, immediately adjacent to the site within 10 feet of the suspected landing site, we are picking up heat deflection off the trees.
E: seems like Bob and I [tape break]
H: What's that again ?
E: well, shine the light on again, Bob
H: we are, can we hear you ?
V: yeah
E: get right on the spot...
H: ok turn the light on
E: ... and then when you worm to my right you'll notice the white [sounds more like ''whike'']
H: hey ... you're right, there's another white streak on the tree
E: indicates a heat
H: let me turn around to this tree over here now. This second, watch 'coz you're direct on the tree. I can see it. All right, give me a little side light so I can find the tree. Ok, off.
bg: alpha two to security
H: I have lost the tree
bg: five
H: ok, stop, stop. Light off. Hey this is eerie.
V: why don't you do the pod spots, then the center ?
H: this is strange. Here, someone wanna look at the spots on the ground? Whoops, watch you won't step or walk on ...
bg: car going along, hooting
V: there's one step
H: okay, it's it's, step back, not walk all over it. Come back here, somebody put a beam on'em, we got to be back ten or fifteen feet. You see it?
V: yeah, ok fine
H: ok, lights off
bg: [TV voice?] he took this long to docu
H: What d'you think about the spot ?
V: wait
H: yeah
V: what's here, first spot?
H: ok, that's what we'd call our spot number three. Let's go to the back corner and get spot number one
V: number one
H: spot humber one, here's spot number one, right here. Spot number one right here. Do you need some light, there it is, right there. Focused ?
V: focused
H: ok, looking at spot number one through the starlight scope
V: pick up a slight increase in light when they go over it
H: slight increase in light at spot number one. Let's go up to spot number two. Spot number two is right over here. Right here. See it ?
V: we need a spot in spot on [?]
H: ok, get focused on it. Tell me when...
V: we got in
H: ok, lights off, let's see we get on it
V: slight increase
H: just a slight increase ?
V: try the center
H: the center spot ... well, where would you be is the center, it's slightly off centered. Try it there.
V: right here
V: let's mark that as the center
H: ok, we're gonna get your reading on it right there
V: ok
H: tell me when you're ready
V: ready
H: ok, lights out. It is the center spot we're looking at now, or almost the center.
V: slight increase
H: slight increase there? This is slightly off centre toward the, er, one-two side. It's some type of an abrasion or something any round where the pine needles are all pushed back, all. We get a high radiact, er, a high reading about, the deflection of the two to three, maybe four depending on the point of it.
V: wanna check it?
E: yes
H: you say there's a positive after-effect ?
E: yes, there is, definitely. That's on the center spot. There's an after-effect.
N: what does that mean?
E: it means when the lights are turned off once we are focused in, allow time for the eyes to adjust, we are getting an indication of a heat source coming out of that center spot, as, er, which will show up on the ...
H: heat is some form of energy. It's hardly heat at this stage of the game
V: it is
H: looking directly overhead one can see an opening in the trees plus some freshly, er, broken pine branches on the ground underneath. Looks like someone came off about 15 to 20 feet up. Some smaller branches about an inch or less in diameter. ... 01:48, we are hearing very strange sounds out of the farmer's barnyard animals. There's ...
V: 28..7
H: very very active, make an awful lot of noise
V: ... yes, in a fragmentation
H: you saw a light out there ...
V: yeah
H: ... by a guy's [?] barnhut, where?
E: right at this position here. Straight ahead, in between the tree... there it is again. Watch straight ahead off my flashlight there, sir. There it is
H: I see it, too. What is it?
V: we don't know, sir
bg: shall we get the tigers on ... four, five
H: that's a strange, small, red light. Looks we are maybe a quarter to a half mile, maybe further out. I switch off. ... The light is gone now. It was approximately 120 degrees from the site
V: there, it's back
H: is it back again?
V: yes, sir
H: well, douse flashlights then. Let's go back to the edge of the clearing, so I get a better look at it. See if we can get the starscope on it. The light is still there and all the barnyard animals have gotten quiet now. Yeah, we are heading about 110/120 degrees from the site out through to the clearing now, still getting a reading on the meter. About two clicks. Needle's jumped three to four clicks, getting stronger
V: now it stopped. Now it's coming up, hold on, there we go to about approximately four foot off the ground, at a compass heading of 110 degrees.
H: er, turn the meter off. Let's say that again. About four feet off the ground, about 110 degrees, getting a reading of about four clicks?
V: yes, sir [sneezes] excuse me. Now it's dying.
H: now it's dying. I think it's something other than the ground. I think it's something, it's something very large
V: large reading right on the tree [do both say large ? anyway, I'm sure Halt does]
H: we just bumped the first night-bird we've seen. We are about 150/200 yards from the site.
V: another one
H: every nest is deadly calm. There's no doubt about it, there's some type of strange flashing red light ahead
V: yeah, it's yellow
H: I saw a yellow tinge in it, too. Weird. It, it, it appears to be maybe moving a bit this way ? Yes, it's brighter than has been.
V: yellow
H: it's coming this way ...
V: also
H: it is definitely coming this way
V: it's a bit shooting
H: pieces of it are shooting off
V: at eleven o'clock
H: there's no doubt about it. This is weird!
V: to the left
H: yeah, definitely moving left, two, two lights. Two, one light above, one light to the left. Keep the flashlights off. There's something very, very strange. Get the headset on to see if it gets any stronger.
N: I have
H: ok, give us gives you
N: well in the hard case this is on a beta reading, too
H: hard beta reading?
N: the beta shield has been removed
H: ok. pieces are falling off it again
V: they just moved to the right
H: yeah
V: off to the right
H: strange ... huh ... well, one to the left ? Let's approach, approach to the edge of the woods up there. You want do it without lights? Let's do it carefully, come on ... ok, we are looking at the thing, we're probably about two to three hundred yards away. Looks like an eye winking at you. Still moving from side to side and when you put the starscope on it, it, it's sort of, there's a hollow center, right, a dark center. It's ... I suspect [whispered] ... more like a pupil of an eye looking at you or winking. And the flash is so bright to the starscope that, er, it almost burns your eye. ... we've passed the f. ... passed the farmer's house crossing the next field, now we have mulitple sightings of up to five lights with a similar shape of it. They seem to be steady now rather a pulsating or glow with a red flash ... we just crossed the, the creek
V: it really got strong
H: and, er, we are getting what kind of readings now?
V: clicks
H: getting two, three good clicks on the meter and we are seeing strange lights in the sky ... about 2:44, we are at the far side of the farmer's, the second farmer's field and made sighting again about 110 degrees. This looks like it's clear after the coast, it's right on the horizon. Moves about a bit and flashes from time to time. Still steady or red in color. Also after negative readings in the center of the field we're picking up, er, slight readings, er, four or five clicks now on the meter. ... 3:05, we see strange, er, strobe-like flashes to the ... rather sporadic but there's definitely something there. Some kind of phenomenon. ... 3:05, at about, er, ten degrees, horizon, directly north, we've got two strange objects, er, half-moon in shape, dancing about with colored lights on'em. At, er, guess to be about five or ten miles out, maybe less. The half moons have now turned into full circles as though there was a dilept ... eclipse or something there for a minute or two. ... 03:15, now we've got an object about ten degrees directly south, ten degrees off the horizon
N: to the left
H: and the ones to the north are moving, one's moving away from us
V: moving ... all
N: moving out fast
V: this one on the right it's heading away, too
H: they are both heading north
V: well
H: hey, here, here he comes from the south, he's coming towards us now
V: weird
H: now we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground ...
V: colors
H: this is unreal ... 3:30 or 03:30, and the objects are still in the sky although the one to the south looks like it's losing a little bit of altitude. We're turning around and heading back toward the base. ... the object to the s, the object to the south is still beaming down lights to the ground. ... 04:00 hours, one object is still hovering over Woodbridge base at about five to ten degrees off the horizon, still moving erratic and similar lights and beaming down as earlier.
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I've come across some interesting passages. Unfortunately I did not mark them while I was writing down the transcript. I've marked one line in red, though. Maybe I'll mark more later.
@ Ian:
I've noticed (of course
) that the word millirem is mentioned. So even though it does not make much sense that the word Becquerel is mentioned as well it could be possible that they simply mixed up the measuring units.
