Posted on 12/18/2005 2:13:27 PM PST by lunarbicep
ALBUQUERQUE - The man made famous for issuing a news release that said a flying saucer landed in Roswell has died.
Army Lt. Walter Haut, a former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air Field, died Thursday in Roswell, his daughter, Julie Shuster, said. He was 83.
Haut listened closely on July 8, 1947 as base commander Col. William Blanchard dictated a news release about a recovered flying saucer and ordered Haut to issue it.
The Roswell Daily Record newspaper ran a bold headline July 9, 1947: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region."
The same day, a statement was released saying it was only a weather balloon.
"I guess they changed their mind," Haut told The Associated Press in 1997.
Haut said he never was told exactly where the flying disc reported in his news release was found nor did he, himself, ever see a UFO.
But he remained a believer.
"There must have been something in the skies at that time," he said. "There's just too much evidence."
Haut and two other men founded The International UFO Museum in 1991 where he was president until 1996. More than 2 1/2 million people have visited the museum since it opened in 1992, Shuster said.
It wasn't until the late 1980s that Shuster said she and her sister learned about the flying saucer incident, not from their father but from a book.
"It was not a topic of conversation at the dinner table for anybody involved," she said.
Haut, born June 3, 1922, in Chicago is survived by his two daughters, Shuster and Marabeth Fields of Roswell, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren..
A viewing is scheduled Monday in Roswell at the LaGrone Funeral Home. Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist.
Hmmmm. Pretty convenient.
I was thinking along those lines myself.
He was only 83 years old.
I wonder what really happened to him? - tom
Where the heck IS Dennis these days???
It only seems that way, until you consider the Einsteinian implications involved in FTL travel, and how that might cause fluctuations in the time continuum, resulting in the suicide of Hitler two years before the big Roswell coverup. In fact, Forrestal's suicide was probably due to the crushing foreknowledge that a large aircraft carrier would one day be named for him. The strain of knowing his own fate snapped his sanity.
What's your excuse?
There are 25 posts here. Would someone PLEASE post the "Aw, not this S**T again" poster?
Silly me, I always thought his conflict with the Air Force led to his mental breakdown and suicide. Glad to know that little green men were responsible.
I think there is two significant stories to this Roswell Crash Story:
1) What Jesse Marcel said.
2) The decoding of that paper held in General Roger Ramey's hand during the news conference with that kite.
You got it. I'm not laughing either. This is similar to the "Big Foot" article the other day. It reminds me of the saying that we mock what we do not understand.
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1) What Jesse Marcel said.
2) The decoding of that paper held in General Roger Ramey's hand during the news conference with that kite.
3) Jesse Marcel Jr. MD, has been on some of the uo TV shows and said he saw and held the small purple-ish beam like object with the hieroglyphics on it that his Father had.
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Prayer for the family. RIP
LOL! ...and remember, "Never let your aliens, fly drunk. :D
That's pretty cool.
Are there alien wise men? Angels?
Two points that register with me. 1)If Haut and Marcel were so incompetent in what they did, why were they not sanctioned in some manner for their incompetence? 2)Why has no one explained the telex or telegram held by General Ramey?
Not to say that this proves the existence of a "flying saucer", but some explanation better than what has been given would seem to apply!!
Try this link:
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicroswell.htm
Leave those who are comfortable in peace.
There are also audio reports of our Lunar Missions with the crew seeing UFOs around the moon.
Thanks for the pings.
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