SECTION TWO
Reports of Bodies at the Roswell AAF Hospital
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.
Fig. 1. The International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.
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