Walter Haut in 1947
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Walter Haut, the Air Force press officer who originally
released a statement from the Roswell Army Air Field stating
that the army had captured a flying disk, has died. Haut was
83. In 1989, he met with Whitley Strieber in Roswell, took
Mr. Strieber to the old base and to the site of the original
crash, and stated that the object that had crashed there
had, without question, been something from another world.
In a surprise phone call, Haut verified Whitley?s story of the
Roswell crash when Strieber was on the Larry King Live TV
show to promote his 1989 novel Majestic, which is about
Roswell.
Haut's daugher Julie Shuster says that her father never
doubted that the crash really happened and that
extraterrestrials had visited the area. In 1991, he helped
found the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico,
where the UFO crash occurred in July of 1947.
At that time, Haut was the press officer at the US Army Air
Force Base in Roswell. On July 8, 1947, Haut, on
instructions from base commander William Blanchard, put out
a press release about the discovery of the remains of a
crashed UFO on the Brazel ranch near the base. The Army
immediately issued a press release contradicting this story,
saying that the remains were from a crashed weather balloon.
The Roswell base was home to the 509th bomb wing, which
was
the only atomic bomb group in existence at the time.
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