Fri, Dec 23, 2005
Issued Infamous 1947 Roswell Release, Founded UFO Museum
Aero-News has learned
Walter Haut, the US Army Lieutenant who issued a press release that
forever cast doubt that mankind is all alone in the universe, died
in Roswell, NM on December 15. He was 83.
Haut, a former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air Field, was
only doing his job when he took dictation from base commander Col.
William Blanchard on a warm July day in 1947. What was the message
Blanchard gave to him? That the Army had recovered a flying saucer
outside of town.
Haut issued the release, according to the AP, which was picked
up the next day by the Roswell Daily Record and ran under the
striking headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell
Region."
The date was July 9, 1947, and it forever put Roswell --
then a tiny southeastern-New Mexico town best known for its
artesian wells -- on the map.
The Army quickly retracted its earlier statement about the
flying saucer, issuing a follow-up stating the object recovered on
W.W. "Mack" Brazel's ranch was actually a weather balloon -- and
thus an entire movement -- some would say a mythology -- was
created.
For his part, Haut later founded Roswell's International UFO
Museum with Max Littell and Glenn Dennis.
Aero-News isn't entirely sure the sentiment "Gone West" is
appropriate here -- not out of any disrespect, but rather since
compass directions serve no purpose in space. We can only assume,
though, that Walter Haut now knows the truth that's... out
there.
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