Walter Haut Issued UFO Crash Report

ROSWELL — I met and talked with Walter Haut several times during my speaking engagement at the museum. He was always friendly, an officer and a gentleman who had inside knowledge of the Roswell UFO crash. He was a U.S. Army lieutenant who was the Base Public Relations Officer at Roswell Army Air Field that issued the famous news release about the crash of a flying saucer, in New Mexico in 1947.


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Walter has died at 83, but the speculation he started about the UFO crash will live on.

He would invite me in and close his office door at the Roswell Museum to explain details of what he knew about the crash. He always told me there was a lot more information that he had sworn not to tell, but it would be released after his death.

He told me, that on July 8, 1947, Col. William Blanchard, the base commander dictated information about a recovered flying saucer and ordered Haut to issue it. He implied the story was designed to take the heat off the recovery of a UFO. That a weather balloon cover story would follow his release. Walter was convinced an alien craft had crashed but too many people knew about it.


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The Roswell Daily Record ran a bold headline July 9, 1947: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” Later the Army claimed it was the recovered wreckage of a weather balloon. In 1991, Haut and two other men founded The International UFO Museum where he was president until 1996. More than 2 1 /2 million people have visited the museum since it opened in 1992. Walter was born June 3, 1922, in Chicago, and is survived by his two daughters. A funeral service was held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Roswell. He will be greatly missed.

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RESOURCES: 

Filer's Files #52, 2005 Major George Filer http://www.nationalufocenter.com National UFO Center</a>