(The Epoch Times)—The Pentagon released its seventh batch of newly declassified UFO files including an eyewitness account of the 1947 Roswell suspected UFO crash describing alien bodies and an egg-shaped craft.
The tranche of documents also contains a report on the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah with more than two dozen sightings of dog-like creatures, trolls, and other phenomena.
The files are part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Encounters, called PURSUE.
“These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation—and it’s time the American people see it for themselves,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a statement.
Among the documents was an affidavit from 2002 believed to be provided by former Roswell Air Base Public Information Officer Walter Haut. In it, Haut describes a staff meeting on July 8, 1947, where officials discussed wreckage collected from a ranch 40 miles from Roswell.
“I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space,” Haut said in the affidavit.
Haut describes two debris fields in Lincoln County where he said the crash debris was collected. He also said he and others held samples of wreckage debris and passed it around while sitting at a table.
“It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life,” Haut said. “Pieces which resembled metal foil, paper thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length were handled from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one was able to identify the crash debris.”
The group discussed whether to go public with the discovery, he said. Famously, the first account of the crash made it into the local Roswell Daily Record, which ran the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” The military later changed the explanation, saying it was a weather balloon.
Names of Haut’s supervisors in the affidavit were redacted in Friday’s release.
Haut said before he left the base, someone, whose name has been withheld by the Pentagon, took him to Building 84, a hangar on the east side of the tarmac at the Roswell Army Airfield, now known as the Roswell Air Center. Building 84 is now used at the air center for commercial aircraft maintenance.
The building was under heavy guard, he said. Once inside, he was allowed to observe an object just recovered north of town, he said. The object was about 12 to 15 feet long, not quite as wide, and about 6 feet high, with an “egg shape,” he described. Haut also said the surface of the object was metallic-looking with no windows, portholes, wings, tail section, or landing gear.
“Also from a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies under a canvas tarpaulin,” Haut stated. “Only the heads extended beyond the covering, and I was not able to make out any features. The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the canvas suggested the size of a 10-year-old child.”
Haut said he was told a temporary morgue had been set up to accommodate the bodies.
Roswell UFO Tour operator and researcher Paul Semones said he wasn’t surprised by the information released Friday.
“That’s not new,” Semones told The Epoch Times. “This is stuff that we’ve been arguing about literally for decades.”
The affidavit was first published in 2007 and was intended to be released after Haut’s death in 2005, according to Semones. The document has been published in at least three books on Roswell’s UFO incident.
The Pentagon’s version released Friday redacted several names, but the originally released copy included the names, Semones said.
“The lesson to be learned here is that we have a whole bunch of news media who are encountering it for the first time because the news media isn’t paying attention to what’s going on in the UFO research community,” Semones said. “The world has ignored it but it’s been there.”
The government’s latest release also included reports describing “dog-like bipedal creatures” and “little people” at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.
The Skinwalker Ranch investigation, conducted in the spring of 2010 by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a government contractor, documents interviews with over 25 local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, the tribe, and a shaman about strange events in the area.
“All of the people interviewed have had firsthand encounters,” the company said in its report.
Ages of the witnesses ranged from 15 to 77.
Investigators used handheld sensors to collect measurements from the environment. They also sampled the soil and plants, and took photos and other measurements, according to the report.
“Witnesses have reported unidentified balls of light at close range, daytime sightings of ‘dog-like’ creatures running on two legs, unnatural animalistic howling/screaming, ‘little people,’ prehistoric-like birds and a maggot which measured about 8-feet long and 2 to 3 feet in diameter,” the company reported.
Eleven witnesses reported seeing the dog-like creature and orbs of light at different times and locations near the ranch property, BAASS reported.
Several witnesses who described the large “dog” or “wolf” creature told investigators it could walk and run on two legs and was 6 to 7 feet tall when standing on two legs.
“From these interviews, there may be at least three separate types of creatures,” investigators reported.
Four independent eyewitnesses also described seeing a small, hairy, 3-foot-tall “troll” creature with long arms that appeared to run like a chimpanzee or orangutan, according to the report.
Several people also reported seeing large “worm” creatures, a prehistoric “pterodactyl”-like creatures, “little people,” and other anomalies, investigators reported.
Samples were taken of fur found around the ranch, which matched fur from domestic dogs, according to the report.
