The International UFO Museum and Research Center (roswellufomuseum.com, 114 N Main St, Roswell NM) was co-founded in 1991 by Walter Haut — the RAAF Public Information Officer who issued the original July 8, 1947 press release announcing recovery of a “flying disc.” In December 2002, Haut signed a sealed affidavit (witnessed by his daughter Julie Shuster and a notary) to be released only after his death. Haut died December 15, 2005. The affidavit was first published in “Witness to Roswell” (2007). Key contents: (1) In Hangar 84/P-3, Haut personally saw “a metallic egg-shaped object, about 12 to 15 feet long and 6 feet across, that had no windows.” (2) He saw canvas-covered bodies — about the size of a 10-year-old child, with unusually large heads. (3) TWO crash sites: the first press release deliberately diverted attention from the second site, approximately 40 miles north of Roswell, which was found by civilians on July 7. (4) General Roger Ramey (who later issued the weather balloon cover story) flew in for the July 8 staff morning meeting and helped plan the cover-up. (5) Haut personally handled the debris — “unlike anything he or anyone else had ever seen.” (6) Haut’s conclusion: “I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space.” He stayed silent for 58 years because he had promised Colonel Blanchard, his close friend and superior. CRITICAL ORIGINAL INTELLIGENCE THREAD: Haut’s affidavit describes a “metallic egg-shaped craft, 12-15 feet long, no windows.” Jake Barber’s 2024 American Alchemy testimony describes retrieving “an egg-shaped craft, SUV-sized, metallic pearly white, no engine, no thermal signature.” These are IDENTICAL craft morphologies across 77 years — and Roswell occurred AT the 509th Atomic Bomb Group — the only nuclear bomb unit in the US, establishing the nuclear-UAP proximity connection at the very origin of the modern UAP era.
