Declassified Pentagon documents on unidentified flying objects include an official report describing alien remains recovered from a suspected spacecraft crash in 1947, according to NewsNation.
The account was discovered within the seventh batch of previously secret records released by the United States Department of Defense. It details testimony from Walter Haut, a former public relations officer stationed at the Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, who served at the installation when the incident occurred.
Haut witnessed the fallout of the 1947 Roswell event, in which an alleged alien flying disc crashed near the desert outpost before military officials stated that the object was simply a weather balloon. Haut personally distributed the base command's initial official announcement declaring that soldiers had retrieved a flying disc, a release that was swiftly retracted but became the foundation for hundreds of conspiracy theories regarding extraterrestrial visitors.
The Pentagon, situated in Arlington, Virginia, acts as the headquarters for the American military establishment. Roswell, located in southeastern New Mexico, became synonymous with UFO research after the conflicting public explanations issued by local commanders in July 1947 triggered decades of intense international scrutiny.
Sworn statement on recovered alien bodies
According to the declassified files published on 23 October, Haut provided a sworn affidavit in 2002 describing what he saw stored at the Roswell base. The former military officer stated that he observed an egg-shaped craft kept under a protective canvas tarp, alongside the physical remains of two extraterrestrial beings.
Haut stated that the two deceased beings were roughly the size of a human child, although both had disproportionately large heads. He added that he was entirely convinced that the wreckage he viewed was a spacecraft from outer space and that the two bodies represented its flight crew.
Sworn affidavits are formal statements made under penalty of perjury, often preserved by researchers documenting historical military operations. Haut served as the public information officer responsible for issuing press communications for the base leadership, making his personal testimony one of the most prominent first-hand claims to emerge from personnel stationed at the installation.
Redacted records and published crash investigations
Haut's name was redacted in the released Department of Defense file, concealing his identity on the public document. However, the details of the testimony correspond exactly with the account the former officer gave for a 2007 book titled Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-Up, written by Donald Schmitt and Tom Carey.
Schmitt and Carey are American investigative authors who have spent decades interviewing former military personnel and local residents to document accounts of the New Mexico crash. While portions of Haut's recollection had been cited by researchers following the publication of the book, the recent release marks the first time his testimony has appeared in an official Pentagon document.
Federal declassification procedures frequently remove individual names, ranks, and operational markers from historical records to protect privacy or adhere to archival guidelines. Despite the blacked-out name, the identical wording confirmed that the document in the Pentagon's seventh release contains the deposition Haut provided regarding the 1947 events.
Pentagon study claims and personnel health effects
The disclosure follows earlier statements by Jay Stratton, the former director of the Pentagon's official study program into unidentified flying objects. Stratton previously confirmed that alien remains were indeed recovered in the United States in 1947, supporting claims of physical materials being retrieved from crash sites.
Stratton also stated that encounters with non-human beings and their associated technology caused mental health disorders among several staff members who took part in the research initiative. The former program leader indicated that exposure to the anomalous objects produced psychological disturbances for personnel assigned to examine the materials.
