I think it was an experimental aircraft piloted by Mexican midgets. Naturally, word couldn't get out to the Soviets about the use of illegal pilots so they made up the baloon cover story.
"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."
1993 AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER HAUT
(1) My name is Walter Haut
(2) My address is: XXXXXXXXXX
(3) I am retired.
(4) In July 1947, I was stationed at the Roswell Army Air base serving as the base Public Information Officer. At approximately 9:30 AM on July 8, I received a call from Col. William Blanchard, the base commander, who said he had in his possession a flying saucer or parts thereof. He said it came from a ranch northwest of Roswell, and that the base Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel, was going to fly the material to Fort Worth.
(5) Col. Blanchard told me to write a news release about the operation and to deliver it to both newspapers and the two radio stations in Roswell. He felt that he wanted the local media to have the first opportunity at the story. I went first to KGFL, then to KSWS, then to the Daily Record and finally to theMorning Dispatch.
(6) The next day, I read in the newspaper that General Roger Ramey in Fort Worth had said the object was a weather balloon.
(7) I believe Col. Blanchard saw the material, because he sounded positive about what the material was. There is no chance that he would have mistaken it for a weather balloon. Neither is their any chance that Major Marcel would have been mistaken.
(8) In 1980, Jesse Marcel told me that the material photographed in Gen. Ramey's office was not the material he had recovered.
(9) I am convinced that the material recovered was some type of craft from outer space.
(10) I have not been paid nor given anything of value to make this statement, and it is the truth to the best of my recollection.
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