The Pentagon has published another collection of declassified UFO records, featuring a startling eyewitness account that alleges the military recovered a crashed spacecraft and the bodies of its extraterrestrial crew.
The document, released Friday, contains testimony from a military officer whose identity was redacted. He said he was present during the famed 1947 Roswell incident and was later shown the alleged craft inside a hangar identified as “Building 84.”
Roswell remains one of the most debated UFO cases ever reported. On July 8, 1947, the military initially announced that a “flying disc” had been recovered in New Mexico, only to revise the explanation and say the debris belonged to a weather balloon.
The witness is believed to have been Walter Haut, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base. Haut said the US military had recovered an egg-shaped craft and several dead bodies from a crash site in New Mexico earlier that month.
“I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space,” the witness wrote in a statement prepared in 2002 and kept sealed by the Pentagon.
According to the account, the wreckage and bodies were moved to a heavily guarded hangar. The officer said he was permitted to view the craft, which measured approximately 12 to 15 feet in length and six feet in width and had a metallic exterior.
The object reportedly had no windows, wings, tail or landing gear. Its unusual material was described as a foil-like metal that was “paper thin yet extremely strong.”
The bodies were reportedly covered by a canvas tarpaulin. The witness said they had disproportionately large heads and were roughly the size of 10-year-old children, standing about four feet tall.
The Roswell UFO incident on July 8, 1947, initially produced a military announcement that a flying disc had been recovered in New Mexico. Pictured is a military official holding what was initially described as the alien craft
Roswell Army Air Force Base in New Mexico
The extraordinary claims appeared in a sealed affidavit signed by the witness on December 26, 2002—more than five decades after the alleged crash.
Since the Roswell incident, the US government has consistently maintained that no physical evidence proving the existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial life has ever been recovered.
The surviving text in the heavily classified Pentagon file closely matches sworn public statements made by Haut. It also contains distinctive details that he alone is known to have provided about the aftermath of the Roswell crash.
Haut, who died in 2005, repeated the account to the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell shortly before his death. That statement was notarized in front of a museum visitor.
The document released Friday says a staff briefing took place at about 7:30 a.m. local time on July 8. Several senior officials attended, although their names were removed from the Pentagon’s version of the report.
During the meeting, officials reportedly discussed a large debris field discovered in Lincoln County, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell.
A second location, considered more significant, was identified about 40 miles north of the town. The site allegedly contained the remains of the egg-shaped craft and the bodies.
“Samples of wreckage were passed around the table. It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life. No one was able to identify the crash debris,” the witness wrote in the document released Friday.
An unidentified military officer at Roswell said he saw the craft and alien bodies allegedly recovered from the New Mexico crash site
Former Roswell Army Air Force Base Public Information Officer Walter Haut is believed to have provided the statement released by the Pentagon on October 23
According to the declassified file, the group discussed whether the US military to go public with the news of an alien crash landing on Earth.
One suggested plan was to publicize the ranch debris site northwest of Roswell to divert attention from the more important northern site, since civilians and the media were already involved.
Around 9.30am on July 8, the witness was ordered to write down a press release, dictated by the Roswell base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.
In the statement give to the press, the military revealed they had recovered a flying disc from a ranch northwest of Roswell and that Base intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel would fly the material to military headquarters in Texas for further study.
Marcel is the officer famously seen in the iconic photograph holding the metallic material which the military later claimed was just a weather balloon.
The declassified report and Haut’s public statements both revealed that he was then personally taken by Blanchard to see the UFO and alien remains which were being stored in a facility known as Building 84, or Hangar P-3.
‘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,’ Haut stated.
‘The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the canvas suggested the size of a ten year old child.’
A temporary morgue was constructed to store the bodies at Roswell, but the declassified file did not reveal what happened to the alleged alien remains after Haut visited Building 84.
The military officer provided this statement in 2002, 55 years after the alleged UFO encounter
The Roswell incident was reported by local newspapers before the military changed their story
The report also revealed that Marcel claimed pieces of the UFO taken to Carswell Army Air Field in Texas were switched for debris from a weather balloon and radar kite while the intelligence officer was in a different room on the base.
‘I would be allowed to make at least one visit to one of the recovery sites during the military cleanup. I would return to the base with some of the wreckage which I would display in my office,’ the witness claimed.
There is no record of what happened the alleged UFO debris Haut claimed to have collected. The US government has never confirmed that debris was recovered or moved to classified facilities for research.
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