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SUBJECT: Roswell Testimony FILE: UFO114
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PART 10
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5.3 Walter Haut
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[Second Lieutenant Walter Haut was a public information
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officer at Roswell AAF in 1947. Colonel Blanchard ordered
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Haut to issue a press release telling the country that the
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Army had found a flying saucer. Here is the text of Haut's
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press release.]
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The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality
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yesterday when the Intelligence office of the 509th Bomb
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Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was
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fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the
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cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's
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office of Chaves County.
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The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime
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last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored
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the disc until such time as he was able to contact the
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sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel
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of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office.
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Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at
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the rancher's home. It was inspected at Roswell Army Air
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Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher
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headquarters.
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[Here is what Haut said on the American television program
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"Unsolved Mysteries".]
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I took the release into town. And that was one of the
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things that Colonel Blanchard told me to do, take it into
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town, because if there was any validity to this, he didn't
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want the news media to feel that we had jumped over their
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heads and were not cooperating with them.
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[Here is what Haut said in an interview for an article in
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"Air and Space/Smithsonian" magazine, Sep-Oct 1992, when
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asked what he thought really happened back in 1947.]
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I feel there was a crash of an extra-terrestrial vehicle
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near Corona.
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5.4 Bill Rickett
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[Bill Rickett was a Counter Intelligence Corps officer based
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in Roswell. He had an opportunity to examine some of the
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wreckage recovered from the Foster Ranch. He escorted Dr
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Lincoln LaPaz, a meteor expert from the New Mexico Institute
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of Meteoritics, on a tour of the crash site and the
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surrounding area.]
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[The material] was very strong and very light. You could
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bend it but couldn't crease it. As far as I know, no one
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ever figured out what it was made of....
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It was LaPaz's job to try to find out what the speed and
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trajectory of the thing was. LaPaz was a world-renowned
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expert on trajectories of objects in the sky, especially
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meteors, and I was told to give him all the help I could.
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At one point LaPaz interviewed the farmer [Mac Brazel]. I
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remember something coming up during their conversation about
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this fellow thinking that some of his animals had acted
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strangely after this thing happened. Dr LaPaz seemed very
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interested in this for some reason.
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LaPaz wanted to fly over the area, and this was arranged.
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He found one other spot where he felt this thing had touched
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down and then taken off again. The sand at this spot had
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been turned into a glass-like substance. We collected a
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boxful of samples of this material. As I recall, there were
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some metal samples here, too, of that same sort of thin foil
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stuff. LaPaz sent this box off somewhere for study; I don't
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know or recall where, but I never saw it again. This place
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was some miles from the other one.
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LaPaz was very good at talking to people, especially some of
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the local ranch hands who didn't speak a lot of English.
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LaPaz spoke Spanish. I remember he found a couple of people
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who had seen two -- I don't know what to call them, UFOs I
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suppose -- anyway, had seen two of these things fly over
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very slowly at a very low altitude on a date, in the
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evening, that he determined had been a day or two after the
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other one had blown up. These people said something about
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animals being affected, too....
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Before he went back to Albuquerque, he told me that he was
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certain that this thing had gotten into trouble, that it had
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touched down for repairs, taken off again, and then
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exploded. He also felt certain there were more than one of
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these devices, and that the others had been looking for it.
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At least that's what he said. He was positive the thing had
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malfunctioned.
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The Air Force's explanation that it was a balloon was
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totally untrue. It was not a balloon. I never did know for
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sure what its purpose was, but it wasn't ours. I remember
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speculating with LaPaz that it might have been some higher
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civilization checking on us. LaPaz wasn't against the idea,
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but he was going to leave speculations out of his report.
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End of part 10
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