Roswell Theory Revived By Deathbed Confession

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Hope this hasn't been posted already, did a search and nothing came up.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21994224-2,00.html

EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m.

Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft.

Visibility was good and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the light, he saw a group of nine shiny metallic objects flying information.

He estimated their speed as being around 2600km/h - nearly three times faster than the top speed of any jet aircraft at the time.

Soon, similar reports began to come in from all over America.

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.

The key witness was Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer who had gone to the ranch to recover the wreckage.

He described the metal as being wafer thin but incredibly tough.

It was as light as balsa wood, but couldn't be cut or burned.

These and similar accounts of the incident have largely been dismissed by all except the most dedicated believers.

Astonishing new twist

But last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery.

Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.

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.

UFO pieces handed around

Haut's affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey.

Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.

He says the press release was issued because locals were already aware of the crash site, but in fact there had been a second crash site, where more debris from the craft had fallen.

The plan was that an announcement acknowledging the first site, which had been discovered by a farmer, would divert attention from the second and more important location.

The clean-up operation

Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.

This ties in with claims made by locals that debris collected as souvenirs was seized by the military.

Haut then tells how Colonel Blanchard took him to "Building 84" - one of the hangars at Roswell - and showed him the craft itself.

He describes a metallic egg-shaped object around 3.6m-4.5m in length and around 1.8m wide.

He said he saw no windows, wings, tail, landing gear or any other feature.

Haug 'saw the alien bodies'

He saw two bodies on the floor, partially covered by a tarpaulin.

They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.

Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".

What's particularly interesting about Walter Haut is that in the many interviews he gave before his death, he played down his role and made no such claims.

Had he been seeking publicity, he would surely have spoken about the craft and the bodies.

Did he fear ridicule, or was the affidavit a sort of deathbed confession from someone who had been part of a cover-up, but who had stayed loyal to the end?

The US government came under huge pressure on Roswell in the '90s.

In July 1994, in response to an inquiry from the General Accounting Office, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force published a report, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction In The New Mexico Desert.

Weather balloon 'cover story'

The report concluded that the Roswell incident had been attributable to something called Project Mogul, a top secret project using high-altitude balloons to carry sensor equipment into the upper atmosphere, listening forevidence of Soviet nuclear tests.

The statements concerning a crashed weather balloon had been a cover story, they admitted, but not to hide the truth about extraterrestrials.

A second US Air Force report concluded claims bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.

Sceptics, of course, will dismiss the testimony left by Haut.

After all, fascinating though it is, it's just a story. There's no proof.

But if nothing else, this latest revelation shows that, 60 years on, this mystery endures.
 
:( I was gonna read that but I like short storys not novels...
 
:wow: :wow: :wow: Did I metion sometimes I get lazy when it comes to reading long things :csad: :csad:
 
Awesome read. Odd that it wass egg shaped though maybe the saucer was on its side resembling and oval shape? And what was in the second crash site?
 
Fellas... lets be honest here... it was a practical joke... just because you are an old dying grandpa doesn't mean you can still lose your sense of humor...
 
Roswell happened,the American Government is hiding UFO`s from the US people.

Just for the record... I am not a pessimist... I strongly believe in the possibility of advanced life... but answer one question for me... what do you think is more likely??? An alien craft built by a civilization so vastly beyond our abilities traveling across hundreds of thousands of light years CRASHES??? ON EARTH??? In the 1940's??? When humans first started up the atomic bomb and the space programs? Is that likely? Or is it likely that the air force ****ed up some advanced testing big time... and they needed to answer to some higher people and fabricate some bull **** to cover their necks... you tell me... I understand incredible thngs are possible... but when it comes to **** like this... no man... just no...
 
Eh thought it was a fun read, figured there'd be a few people here who would get a kick out of it. I did.
 
Eh thought it was a fun read, figured there'd be a few people here who would get a kick out of it. I did.

Then again... its only a matter of time before one of these hoaxes or myths is actually proven to be legit...
 
I'm skeptical. Not only of the the Roswell Crash (Fat Tonie summed up my skeptisism fairly well) but also of why aliens would evolve in virtually the same exact way as humanoids. Chances are their eco system and conditions are not similar to ours in the least so why would they evolve like us?
 
I'm skeptical. Not only of the the Roswell Crash (Fat Tonie summed up my skeptisism fairly well) but also of why aliens would evolve in virtually the same exact way as humanoids. Chances are their eco system and conditions are not similar to ours in the least so why would they evolve like us?
They're humanoid because God molded them (as he did us) in his image. Duh. :oldrazz:
 
Awesome read. Odd that it wass egg shaped though maybe the saucer was on its side resembling and oval shape? And what was in the second crash site?

If greys are real they'd have ships that serve different purposes. Our airplanes don't all look a like.
 
I'm skeptical. Not only of the the Roswell Crash (Fat Tonie summed up my skeptisism fairly well) but also of why aliens would evolve in virtually the same exact way as humanoids. Chances are their eco system and conditions are not similar to ours in the least so why would they evolve like us?

I believe in aliens because I think it's outrageously egocentric to think that we're the only life in a universe that's almost infinite. Almost all life wouldn't be humanoid. But why couldn't a couple take a form that obviously works?
 
They're humanoid because God molded them (as he did us) in his image. Duh. :oldrazz:

It cracks me up when people try to mix philosophy with science... not only you really, I mean we are all guilty of it at some point (especially with topics like this)... but some posters in the other thread about the stars debate... making up their own scientific theories... one of the posters said something like:

well theory is bull imo... because what do you think is at the end of the universe? a clear black barrier that you'd just smack into? the most logical theory of nature i would accept would be something simple.. theres more universes... and like our solar system being part of a galaxy and a galaxy being part of a universe, the universe would be part of something greater...

I am just glad Elijya pwned that poster hard with his reply to that... lets just keep philosphy and scientific postulations separate
 
I believe in aliens because I think it's outrageously egocentric to think that we're the only life in a universe that's almost infinite. Almost all life wouldn't be humanoid. But why couldn't a couple take a form that obviously works?

I agree with your logic, that it is a statistical impossibility for there not to be other life...but at the same time, you acknowledge that the universe is infinite...so isn't it just as ridiculous to imagine that in this infinite universe, that aliens would finc Earth which is pretty much a needle in 500 different haystacks.
 
Whoever they are, their technology certainly advanced quicker than ours. Maybe not everyone had dinosaurs and such, I guess. But all in all, I believe.
 
Until I see it...I probably won't believe it.:o



































I hope I don't get probed for saying that.:o:(
 
I agree with your logic, that it is a statistical impossibility for there not to be other life...but at the same time, you acknowledge that the universe is infinite...so isn't it just as ridiculous to imagine that in this infinite universe, that aliens would finc Earth which is pretty much a needle in 500 different haystacks.

Haven't you ever heard of wormholes? They could have ships that can space time. If you asked a caveman he'd claim that it's ridiculous to think that people could cross the world in a day.
 
It cracks me up when people try to mix philosophy with science... not only you really, I mean we are all guilty of it at some point (especially with topics like this)... but some posters in the other thread about the stars debate... making up their own scientific theories... one of the posters said something like:

well theory is bull imo... because what do you think is at the end of the universe? a clear black barrier that you'd just smack into? the most logical theory of nature i would accept would be something simple.. theres more universes... and like our solar system being part of a galaxy and a galaxy being part of a universe, the universe would be part of something greater...

I am just glad Elijya pwned that poster hard with his reply to that... lets just keep philosphy and scientific postulations separate
..I was there. The guy was responding to me, actually.

...and I was being facetious right there. :o
 
I agree with your logic, that it is a statistical impossibility for there not to be other life...but at the same time, you acknowledge that the universe is infinite...so isn't it just as ridiculous to imagine that in this infinite universe, that aliens would finc Earth which is pretty much a needle in 500 different haystacks.
It's really not infinite...besides, he said almost. :o
 

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