Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
This section examines the remaining portion of the Roswell Incident
claims--the reports of “bodies” at the Roswell AAF hospital.
Examinations of the various “crashed saucer” scenarios revealed
references to the Roswell AAF hospital appeared in virtually all of
them. Most of these were based on the account of one individual, W.
Glenn Dennis. His undocumented and uncorroborated recollections,
reportedly first related in 1989, over 42 years after the alleged
Roswell Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as
a mortician providing contract services to the Roswell AAF hospital.
Dennis’ recollections have, in turn, been interpreted by UFO theorists
as evidence that the U.S. Army Air Forces recovered “alien” bodies and
autopsied them at the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947.
Dennis has been described as the “star witness” and his claims as the
most credible of the Roswell Incident.[1] This, even though his most
sensational assertions were not based on his own experiences but on
information allegedly related to him by unidentified mystery witnesses.
[Illustration: Fig. 1. The International UFO Museum and Research
Center in Roswell, N.M. ]
The mystery witnesses were allegedly an Army Air Forces nurse and a
pediatrician both assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital in 1947.[2] To
casual observers, this account, which contains references to actual
U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force personnel and activities,
appears to have a ring of authenticity. However, when examined closely
by Air Force researchers, the dates of events, the events themselves,
and the people described as having participated in them, were found to
be grossly inaccurate and totally unrelated to activities of July 1947.
The Account
The following is a summary of information provided by W. Glenn Dennis,
who claimed he was a 22-year-old mortician at the Ballard Funeral Home
in Roswell in July 1947, when he alleged these events occurred.[*]
[*] Excerpts of interviews contained in this summary were taken
from audio or video recordings made by persons referenced in the
appropriate endnote. The sole exception is the interview conducted
by Stanton T. Friedman on August 5, 1989. Quotations from this
interview were taken from a transcript which is reportedly an
accurate representation of the interview. Friedman has not honored
repeated requests for an audio recording.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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