Roswell Public Information Officer’s Affidavit Describes an Egg-Shaped Object and Two Bodies

A document signed by Walter Haut, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947, has resurfaced among records released by the U.S. Department of War. Dated December 26, 2002, the affidavit describes an egg-shaped metallic object and two bodies covered with cloth in a storage building on the base. AOL.com reported the story.

In 1947, the base announced that it had recovered a “flying disc.” The next day, it reversed course, saying the debris came from a weather balloon. That has remained the official explanation, even as the incident spawned numerous books and conspiracy theories.

What the Affidavit Says

Haut wrote that he was taken to a secure storage building at the base, where he saw an object that, he said, was about 13 feet long. It had no windows, wings, tail, or landing gear. Beneath the cloth were two bodies, whose heads “appeared larger than normal.” Judging by the shape of the body beneath the covering, he wrote, it looked like a 10-year-old child.

Haut also wrote that materials collected during the first week of July 1947 at one of two sites in the Roswell area “did not resemble anything I had ever seen in my life.” According to the affidavit, an officer who took fragments to Fort Worth returned to find that the samples had been replaced with weather-balloon debris and a radar-reflector kite. He was “very upset.”

What the Records Include—and What They Don’t

The affidavit’s contents were published in the 2007 book Witness to Roswell. It now appears in an appendix to a research program dated December 2008. The private research company Bigelow Aerospace prepared the program for the Defense Intelligence Agency under a $22 million contract. The program focused on gathering information about advanced aerospace technology, including through interviews with retired personnel. It does not confirm the affidavit’s contents, and the military has issued no official response to the claims about the samples.

Haut wrote that he was certain of what he had seen. “I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space,” he wrote. That was his personal impression. The document itself offers no proof that the object was extraterrestrial, and there is no independent confirmation of the examinations or the bodies.