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This item was actually published this summer, but it's more than a little spooky... Lt Walter Haut was a PR officer at the Roswell Army Air Field at the time of the reputed UFO crash. He died in 2006, but left behind a signed affidavit concerning what happened that summer...


Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.
Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar. 

He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies. 

He wasn't the first Roswell witness to talk about alien bodies.
Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins.
When he arrived at the base, he was apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been recovered. 

But Haut is the only one of the original participants to claim to have seen alien bodies.

I am ambivalent about the theories concerning Roswell. I don't believe that it's impossible that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life, but I have always viewed the New Mexico conspiracy believers with more than a little skepticism. But why would someone like Haut lie, and only make the lie public _after_ his death? If he wanted the visibility, wouldn't he have pushed for it while he was still around to enjoy it?

Then there is also this, which I guess I had never heard before:
This wasn't just the world's first UFO sighting, this was the birth of a phenomenon, one that still exercises an extraordinary fascination.
Military authorities issued a press release, which began: "The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc."
The headlines screamed: "Flying Disc captured by Air Force". 

Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a "flying disc" was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.

Posted: Wed - October 3, 2007 at 10:35 PM        

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