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 _Dennis Claims Nurse Quickly Transferred, Reportedly Killed In Air Crash_
   Dennis said he tried to call the nurse several times during the next
few days, without success.  Then he says he was told that she had been
transferred.  Several weeks later, he says he received a letter from the
nurse saying she was in England and providing him with an APO (Army Post
Office) number.  But when he wrote to her, he said his letter was
returned unopened -- stamped "DECEASED." Dennis says he later heard that
the nurse had died in a military aircraft accident.  _However,
Randle/Schmitt report in their second book that their search of the New
York Times index, National Transportation Safety Board and Army records
failed to find any such crash_.
   Dennis told a different story when he was interviewed on Dec.  31,
1991 by UFOlogist _Anne MacFie_, as reported in her article in the April
1992 _MUFON UFO JOURNAL_.  He explained to her (as he had done to _SUN_)
that the 23-year-old nurse was from St.  Paul, had been raised in a
convent and wanted to become a nun when she finished her service in the
Army, which had funded her last two years in college.  When MacFie asked
if Dennis knew whether the nurse was still alive, he responded: "I don't
know.  I heard she died years ago [1988], but that's only hearsay."
MacFie asked if Dennis had ever tried to contact the nurse "to see if she
would talk now that others have?" Dennis replied: "I never did try and
contact her...._She did join an order [became a nun] after she got out of
the Army_.  But I don't think she would [talk].  She was so disciplined
that if her superior told her to walk across fire, she probably would
have done it."
   _If Dennis' story was true, it seemed odd that a person of such high
character, who had been in the Army for only three months, would
knowingly violate military security by revealing highly sensitive
information to a casual acquaintance she had known for less	three months.
So SUN asked Dennis: "Did you date her?" Dennis replied: "No, no, no.
She had no interest in men whatsoever.  Her whole life was planned.  She
was gonna be a nun_."
   But this Dennis claim was challenged in a video "UFO SECRET: The
Roswell Crash." produced by _Mark Wolf_, in which Dennis is interviewed.
In introducing Dennis, narrator Wolf said: "We should note here that
Glenn's concern for Judy [nurse's pseudonym] was serious.  _Marriage had
been discussed_." On Mar.  14, 1993, we wrote to Wolf, pointing out that
the foregoing claim was contrary to what Dennis had told _SUN_.  We
asked: "How certain are you of the accuracy of the above statement?"
_SUN_ also asked if Wolf had a video or audio tape of Dennis making such
a statement.  Wolf promptly replied saying: "That is what he [Dennis]
disclosed to me during one of several lengthy background discussions
prior to taping.  He added that her family did not approve of him, since
they were Catholic and he was Protestant."
   _Don Schmitt_, who was with Wolf at the time of the interviews and
filming, confirmed Wolf's account in discussions with _SUN_ in Roswell in
late March of last year.  According to Schmitt, Dennis said that when the
nurse's brother visited her in Roswell and learned that she was
considering marriage to Dennis, he had "lectured" her against the
marriage.  [The new R/S book reports (p.  67) that Dennis "had dated" the
nurse.] On April 16, I wrote to Wolf to report Schmitt's statement,
asking if Wolf's recollections corroborated those of Schmitt.  Wolf
called while we were out, but left a message on the answering machine
which confirmed Schmitt's statement.  But Dennis, according to a friend,
says the Wolf/Schmitt statements are false.
   _If Dennis' basic story were true, one should expect that he would
have eagerly read the first R/S book in the hope of learning more about
the mysterious ET bodies from the many new "witnesses" R/S had
discovered.  Yet when SUN talked with Dennis -- six months after
publication of R/S #1 -- he said that his wife had read the book but he
had not_.
 _DENNIS IGNORES SOLEMN OATH AND RECONSTRUCTS "MISSING" ET SKETCH_
   _After Dennis described having given his "solemn oath" to keep secret
the nurse's ET sketch, SUN asked what he had done with it.  One might
expect that he would have stored it in a safe deposit box, or hidden it
in his apartment.  INSTEAD, DENNIS SAID, HE HAD PUT THE ET SKETCH IN HIS
PERSONAL FILES AT THE BALLARD FUNERAL HOME_.  When Dennis left Ballard
around 1962 to go into business for himself, he left behind the ET
sketch.  Dennis told _SUN_ that he and Friedman had earlier visited
Ballard to try to find the ET sketch.  _According to Dennis, ALL of the
old files were there, including 1946 and 1948.  But ALL of the 1947
files, including his own with the ET sketch, were MISSING_.
   Although Dennis had not seen the (alleged) nurse's drawing for at
least 30 years, he [seemingly] remembered the details well enough to make
a rough sketch, which he gave to an artist friend to refine.  _SUN did
not ask Dennis why he had made the effort to reconstruct the ET sketch
and asked his artist friend to enhance it -- violating his "solemn oath"
to the nurse.  But SUN did ask Dennis how the new sketch found its way
into the first R/S book_.  Dennis replied: "That's what I'd like to know,
because I only gave it to one person." When _SUN_ asked the name of that
person, Dennis refused to say.
   When _SUN_ inquired if Dennis had asked this person how the ET sketch
got into the R/S book, Dennis replied: "Well, but he says he's not
responsible for it." _SUN_ asked: "Does he swear under _solemn oath_ that
he did not [give the sketch to R/S]?" _Dennis replied: "I did not ask him
any solemn oath because I don't believe in solemn oaths_."  Then Dennis
laughed.
   _SUN_ found it hard to believe that Randle/Schmitt would resort to
covert means to obtain the ET sketch and publish it without Dennis'
permission -- risking serious legal repercussions.  When we checked out
this Dennis claim with Randle on Dec.  29, 1991, he said the ET sketch
had been supplied by Dennis, who was credited in the caption.
   When Roswell researchers sought the name of the nurse to try to locate
her, or some hard evidence that such a person ever existed, Dennis
provided it.  _NAOMI MARIA SELFF_.  But in Karl Pflock's "Roswell in
Perspective" report, he admits that: "To date, no official records of the
existence of the nurse -- birth and school documents, military service
files, and so on -- or her presence at Roswell AAF in July 1947 have been
found.  Similarly, no record of her family has been located.  The search
continues, but so far she seems to have disappeared without a trace." _An
alternative explanation is that Naomi Maria Selff never existed_.
[Other major discrepancies in the tale of the nurse and the ET bodies
will be reported in SUN #32].
*E-O-F*
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