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1st Lt. Walter Haut (June 3, 1922 – December 15, 2005) was the public information officer (PIO) at the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico during 1947. Early on July 8, 1947 he was ordered by the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, to draft a press release to the public, announcing that the United States Army Air Forces had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a nearby ranch. The press release garnered widespread national and even international media attention. The U.S. Army Air Force retracted the claim later the same day, saying instead that a weather balloon had been recovered. Haut also received some criticism and ridicule in the nation's press for putting out the original press release. The series of events eventually became known as the Roswell UFO Incident.
When interviewed about the incident decades later, he claimed only a minor role, but he expressed his belief that there was "no chance" senior officers who handled the recovered material, including base commander Blanchard, mistook a weather balloon for a flying saucer.
He later claimed greater involvement, including seeing alien corpses and a craft at a base hangar and handling the strange crash debris.
When interviewed about the incident decades later, he claimed only a minor role, but he expressed his belief that there was "no chance" senior officers who handled the recovered material, including base commander Blanchard, mistook a weather balloon for a flying saucer.
He later claimed greater involvement, including seeing alien corpses and a craft at a base hangar and handling the strange crash debris.
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This silent footage of a weather balloon gives some idea about the Roswell UFO incident. That incident took place in the U.S. in June or July 1947, when an a...
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that June 3 is the anniversary of the birth of public information officer (PIO) at the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico during 1947 1st Lt. Walter G. Haut who inadvertently would be drawn into UFO conspiracy theory as what would become known as the Roswell UFO Incident.
1st the "spy balloon" that crashed was covered up to make it seem that it was an alien crash:-) details at bottom
2nd biography from biography.com/people/walter-haut-17183734
"Walter Haut Biography [I have to chuckle that a PAO 1LT is considered a "Military Leader" ]
Military Leader (1922–2005)
Walter Haut is best known for drafting a 1947 press release for the U.S. Army that claimed a "flying disc" had landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
Synopsis
Born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, Walter Haut worked as the public information officer for the U.S. Army's 509th Bomb Group in Roswell, New Mexico. In 1947, he was instructed to issue a press release stating that a "flying disc" had landed near the base. The Army quickly retracted the statement, saying the object was a weather balloon. Haut later claimed to have seen such a spacecraft. He died in 2005. Speculation about UFOs and aliens at Roswell has persisted.
Background
Born on June 3, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois, Lieutenant Walter G. Haut became famous after reporting that an alien spaceship had crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. Serving as public relations officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, Haut released a press release acknowledging that a flying disc had been recovered in the desert. Shortly after the incident was reported, the military retracted the story. What exactly happened in the New Mexico desert all those years ago remains a source of fascination for many to this day.
Before working at the Roswell Army Air Field, Walter Haut had served during World War II. He acted as a bombardier in missions over Japan and worked on the atomic tests in the South Pacific. His job putting out press releases seemed much less adventurous until that fateful time in July 1947. A rancher discovered some type of wreckage on his property and members of the U.S. Army Air Corps went out to the site to investigate. It is believed that the crash occurred on or around July 2. Stories regarding the crash of an unidentified flying disc soon spread among the residents of the small Southwestern town.
Haut's Report of Flying Disc and Controversy
On July 8, Walter Haut wrote the now-infamous message to the press on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard. It read, in part: "The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 508th Bomb Group ... was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc." That day, the news made the headline of the local paper: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." Haut later told a Denver Post reporter, "When that hit the news wires, the world came to an end, as far as I was concerned. My phone rang and rang and rang."
But no sooner had Haut released the information about the flying disc than he was asked to report a completely different story. The military now claimed that the wreckage was only a high-altitude weather balloon, not a UFO. At this time, Haut never claimed to have seen the alleged alien craft and the alien bodies recovered at the crash site.
Later Years and Death
Haut left the military in 1948 and spent the rest of his life in Roswell, where he and his wife, Lorraine, raised two daughters, Marabeth and Julie. Haut worked as an insurance agent for many years in his later life, but the mystery of the so-called Roswell incident continued to fascinate him. With Max Littell and Glenn Dennis, Haut founded the International UFO Museum and Research Center in 1991.
Over the years, Haut became more public with what he believed happened in 1947. "I think it was an extremely well-planned cover-up," he told the press in 1997.
Walter Haut died on December 15, 2005, at the age of 83, in Roswell, New Mexico."
Ref point 1. Background from moonflake.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/walter-hauts-deathbed-confession-isnt-as-exciting-as-you-think/
"Walter Haut’s ‘deathbed confession’ isn’t as exciting as you think
All the world’s astir lately over the ‘deathbed confession‘ of Walter Haut, formerly Lt Walter Haut, Public Information Officer for the 509th (atomic) bomb group of the 8th airforce, stationed at Rosswell AFB in 1947. Haut’s statement is being treated as the last nail in the coffin of Ufology skepticism, and final proof that a UFO did crash in Roswell, NM, on that fateful day in 1947, that there were aliens recovered from the wreck, and that the air force covered it up.
But there are a few things that should be pointed out about the whole affair.
Firstly, it wasn’t a deathbed confession. It was an affidavit signed by Haut three years before his death. And it was only published nearly two years after his death, in a book that came out just in time for the 60th anniversary of the Roswell Incident. Make of that what you will.
Secondly, it wasn’t the first pass that Haut made at an affidavit explaining the events. It’s very interesting to read his 1993 affidavit and spot the differences.
Finally, as people have already pointed out, there are a lot of other reasons for someone to keep quiet about something of this magnitude of importance for 60 years, and then suddenly appear to come out with a fantastic revelation about it, senility being the least among them. One possibility is that an affidavit supposedly supporting the Roswell Incident from a supposedly reliable source was the most valuable inheritance he could have given his daughter, who runs the UFO museum he started. Or, frankly, the entire thing may have been made up by the authors of the book in which it was published. There are plenty of explanations that do not require otherworldly interference. It’s not as if Lt. Haut is around to defend himself against lies told in his name, or explain why he would suddenly change his story after so very long.
Remember, this isn’t someone who denied UFOs for all this time then suddenly said it was all true as he prepared to face eternal judgement – Haut has been an active participant in the UFO story since that day, and has told his story time and again (and asked for money for the privilege). Just not exactly the same story he apparently told in this statement. If he really saw bodies, why did he leave that little fact out for so long? If you’re sworn to secrecy, and then tell half the story, is there a point in leaving out the other half? If the MIBs were going to come for him, might as well go the whole hog from day one.
If you read the story of the Roswell crash and the subsequent cover up, it’s fairly obvious that a real-world explanation is much more likely. This was the cold war. The air force was engaged in Project Mogul at the time, testing out high tech spy balloons. One crashed, and before the powers that be could intercept, locals were all over the crash site. The air force now had the potential that Ruski spies might get hold of parts of their top secret spy equipment. What to do? Naturally, the answer was to round up all the debris, and pretend it was something it wasn’t – a weather balloon, not a high altitude spy balloon using top secret, light weight materials and advanced recording equipment.
Today, with 20/20 hindsight, we realise that the smart lie would have been to pay attention to the emerging rumour that it was a UFO, and let it run without any fuel. Eventually it would have died out and people would have assumed it was just another hoax. Instead, they made a shocking fumble of trying to swap out the debris from the spy balloon with a broken weather balloon, and then tell the officer who brought it in that it was the same wreckage, and surely he could see now it was a weather balloon. Stupid. What they thought was a smart move instead added fuel to the UFO mystery, and kept the rumour alive for 60 years!
Which only goes to show that government and military are actually freaking terrible at covering anything up."
This silent footage of a weather balloon gives some idea about the Roswell UFO incident. That incident took place in the U.S. in June or July 1947, when an airborne object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what took place are based on both official and unofficial communications. Although the crash is attributed to a secret U.S. military Air Force surveillance balloon by the U.S. government, the most famous explanation of what occurred is that the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U23ylt1sqw
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1st the "spy balloon" that crashed was covered up to make it seem that it was an alien crash:-) details at bottom
2nd biography from biography.com/people/walter-haut-17183734
"Walter Haut Biography [I have to chuckle that a PAO 1LT is considered a "Military Leader" ]
Military Leader (1922–2005)
Walter Haut is best known for drafting a 1947 press release for the U.S. Army that claimed a "flying disc" had landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
Synopsis
Born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, Walter Haut worked as the public information officer for the U.S. Army's 509th Bomb Group in Roswell, New Mexico. In 1947, he was instructed to issue a press release stating that a "flying disc" had landed near the base. The Army quickly retracted the statement, saying the object was a weather balloon. Haut later claimed to have seen such a spacecraft. He died in 2005. Speculation about UFOs and aliens at Roswell has persisted.
Background
Born on June 3, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois, Lieutenant Walter G. Haut became famous after reporting that an alien spaceship had crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. Serving as public relations officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, Haut released a press release acknowledging that a flying disc had been recovered in the desert. Shortly after the incident was reported, the military retracted the story. What exactly happened in the New Mexico desert all those years ago remains a source of fascination for many to this day.
Before working at the Roswell Army Air Field, Walter Haut had served during World War II. He acted as a bombardier in missions over Japan and worked on the atomic tests in the South Pacific. His job putting out press releases seemed much less adventurous until that fateful time in July 1947. A rancher discovered some type of wreckage on his property and members of the U.S. Army Air Corps went out to the site to investigate. It is believed that the crash occurred on or around July 2. Stories regarding the crash of an unidentified flying disc soon spread among the residents of the small Southwestern town.
Haut's Report of Flying Disc and Controversy
On July 8, Walter Haut wrote the now-infamous message to the press on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard. It read, in part: "The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 508th Bomb Group ... was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc." That day, the news made the headline of the local paper: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." Haut later told a Denver Post reporter, "When that hit the news wires, the world came to an end, as far as I was concerned. My phone rang and rang and rang."
But no sooner had Haut released the information about the flying disc than he was asked to report a completely different story. The military now claimed that the wreckage was only a high-altitude weather balloon, not a UFO. At this time, Haut never claimed to have seen the alleged alien craft and the alien bodies recovered at the crash site.
Later Years and Death
Haut left the military in 1948 and spent the rest of his life in Roswell, where he and his wife, Lorraine, raised two daughters, Marabeth and Julie. Haut worked as an insurance agent for many years in his later life, but the mystery of the so-called Roswell incident continued to fascinate him. With Max Littell and Glenn Dennis, Haut founded the International UFO Museum and Research Center in 1991.
Over the years, Haut became more public with what he believed happened in 1947. "I think it was an extremely well-planned cover-up," he told the press in 1997.
Walter Haut died on December 15, 2005, at the age of 83, in Roswell, New Mexico."
Ref point 1. Background from moonflake.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/walter-hauts-deathbed-confession-isnt-as-exciting-as-you-think/
"Walter Haut’s ‘deathbed confession’ isn’t as exciting as you think
All the world’s astir lately over the ‘deathbed confession‘ of Walter Haut, formerly Lt Walter Haut, Public Information Officer for the 509th (atomic) bomb group of the 8th airforce, stationed at Rosswell AFB in 1947. Haut’s statement is being treated as the last nail in the coffin of Ufology skepticism, and final proof that a UFO did crash in Roswell, NM, on that fateful day in 1947, that there were aliens recovered from the wreck, and that the air force covered it up.
But there are a few things that should be pointed out about the whole affair.
Firstly, it wasn’t a deathbed confession. It was an affidavit signed by Haut three years before his death. And it was only published nearly two years after his death, in a book that came out just in time for the 60th anniversary of the Roswell Incident. Make of that what you will.
Secondly, it wasn’t the first pass that Haut made at an affidavit explaining the events. It’s very interesting to read his 1993 affidavit and spot the differences.
Finally, as people have already pointed out, there are a lot of other reasons for someone to keep quiet about something of this magnitude of importance for 60 years, and then suddenly appear to come out with a fantastic revelation about it, senility being the least among them. One possibility is that an affidavit supposedly supporting the Roswell Incident from a supposedly reliable source was the most valuable inheritance he could have given his daughter, who runs the UFO museum he started. Or, frankly, the entire thing may have been made up by the authors of the book in which it was published. There are plenty of explanations that do not require otherworldly interference. It’s not as if Lt. Haut is around to defend himself against lies told in his name, or explain why he would suddenly change his story after so very long.
Remember, this isn’t someone who denied UFOs for all this time then suddenly said it was all true as he prepared to face eternal judgement – Haut has been an active participant in the UFO story since that day, and has told his story time and again (and asked for money for the privilege). Just not exactly the same story he apparently told in this statement. If he really saw bodies, why did he leave that little fact out for so long? If you’re sworn to secrecy, and then tell half the story, is there a point in leaving out the other half? If the MIBs were going to come for him, might as well go the whole hog from day one.
If you read the story of the Roswell crash and the subsequent cover up, it’s fairly obvious that a real-world explanation is much more likely. This was the cold war. The air force was engaged in Project Mogul at the time, testing out high tech spy balloons. One crashed, and before the powers that be could intercept, locals were all over the crash site. The air force now had the potential that Ruski spies might get hold of parts of their top secret spy equipment. What to do? Naturally, the answer was to round up all the debris, and pretend it was something it wasn’t – a weather balloon, not a high altitude spy balloon using top secret, light weight materials and advanced recording equipment.
Today, with 20/20 hindsight, we realise that the smart lie would have been to pay attention to the emerging rumour that it was a UFO, and let it run without any fuel. Eventually it would have died out and people would have assumed it was just another hoax. Instead, they made a shocking fumble of trying to swap out the debris from the spy balloon with a broken weather balloon, and then tell the officer who brought it in that it was the same wreckage, and surely he could see now it was a weather balloon. Stupid. What they thought was a smart move instead added fuel to the UFO mystery, and kept the rumour alive for 60 years!
Which only goes to show that government and military are actually freaking terrible at covering anything up."
This silent footage of a weather balloon gives some idea about the Roswell UFO incident. That incident took place in the U.S. in June or July 1947, when an airborne object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what took place are based on both official and unofficial communications. Although the crash is attributed to a secret U.S. military Air Force surveillance balloon by the U.S. government, the most famous explanation of what occurred is that the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U23ylt1sqw
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Since I spent over 10 years with the 509th Bomb Wing (which the Group became) I'd heard his name but didn't know much about him. Thanks for the information.
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