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Deathbed testimony supports Roswell claims
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 ROSWELL, United States. As the former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air base in New Mexico on 8 July 1947, it fell to Lt Walter Haut (right) to issue a news release revealing that a “flying saucer” had crashed near the town.
He did so on the instructions of the base commander, Col William Blanchard, who told him they had in their possession “a flying saucer or parts thereof” and that the base intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel, was going to fly the material to Fort Worth. That story was soon denied, with the explanation that it was just the remnants of a weather balloon.
Haut always played down his role in the Roswell Incident and never claimed to have seen the wreckage nor any other evidence. But now, less than two years after his death at the age of 83, his signed affidavit – just released – testifies not only to seeing the remains of “some kind of craft” but also the bodies of its alien occupants.
Despite his apparently nonchalant attitude to the news of a crashed alien spacecraft – he said he went home and mowed the lawn after delivering the news release to local newspapers and radio stations – and his lack of curiosity about the location of the actual crash site, he was happy to be associated with the Roswell episode. In time, he drove a car sporting the number plate “MR UFO”, was co-founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Centre in Roswell, and declared that though he had seen nothing he believed an alien spacecraft had crashed at Roswell.
 His first 10-point affidavit on the subject, made in 1993, declared his conviction that the craft was from outer space. Then, in March 2000, he gave an interview to Wendy Connors and Dennis Balthaser on the understanding that it would not be published until after his death. In this, he referred for the first time to seeing the craft and small bodies in one of the hangars at the Roswell Air Base.
On 26 December 2002, three years before his death at the age of 83, he signed a 20-point affidavit in front of a notary. It was sealed and remained confidential until June this year when it was published for the first time in Tom Carey and Don Schmitt’s book Witness to Roswell. In this, he corroborates many of the statements made by other military officers involved in the Roswell Incident, including Major Jesse Marcel. He states (point 8):
On Tuesday morning, July 8, I would attend the regularly scheduled staff meeting at 7:30 a.m. Besides Blanchard, Marcel; CIC [Counterintelligence Corp] Capt. Sheridan Cavitt; Col. James I. Hopkins, the operations officer; Lt. Col. Ulysses S. Nero, the supply officer; and from Carswell AAF in Fort Worth, Texas, Blanchard's boss, Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and his chief of staff, Col. Thomas J. Dubose were also in attendance. The main topic of discussion was reported by Marcel and Cavitt regarding an extensive debris field in Lincoln County approx. 75 miles NW of Roswell. A preliminary briefing was provided by Blanchard about the second site approx. 40 miles north of town. Samples of wreckage were passed around the table. It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life. Pieces which resembled metal foil, paper thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length were handled from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one was able to identify the crash debris.
He reveals that there were two crash sites at Roswell and that the plan to explain away the physical evidence as a weather balloon was to divert public attention from the second site. After detailing further discussions, his testimony (points 12 and 13) states:
Before leaving the base, Col. Blanchard took me personally to Building 84 [aka Hangar P-3], a B-29 hangar located on the east side of the tarmac. Upon first approaching the building, I observed that it was under heavy guard both outside and inside. Once inside, I was permitted from a safe distance to first observe the object just recovered north of town. It was approx. 12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high, and more of an egg shape. Lighting was poor, but its surface did appear metallic. No windows, portholes, wings, tail section, or landing gear were visible.
Also from a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies under a canvas tarpaulin. Only the heads extended beyond the covering, and I was not able to make out any features. The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the canvas suggested the size of a 10 year old child. At a later date in Blanchard's office, he would extend his arm about 4 feet above the floor to indicate the height.
His affidavit concludes with the statement that he is “convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space” and an assurance that “I have not been paid nor given anything of value to make this statement and it is the truth to the best of my recollection.”
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Posted on Monday, July 02, 2007
Category: UFOs
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