Monday, December 19, 2005

Lt. Walter Haut, spokesman who announced wreckage of flying saucer in Roswell, died at 83





Army Lt. Walter Haut, a former spokesman for the Roswell Army Air Field, died Thursday in Roswell, his daughter, Julie Shuster, said. He was 83.

Haut listened closely on July 8, 1947 as base commander Col. William Blanchard dictated a news release about a recovered flying saucer and ordered Haut to issue it.

The Roswell Daily Record newspaper ran a bold headline July 9, 1947: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region."

2 comments:

Gerald T said...

This is kind of cool that you post as I am reading you Blog Mac, this gives me an idea, are there any plug-ins for blogger for a live chat window embedded in your blog?
It would be really neat if this feature was available, and if your blog could then have a subsection of records of the live chats.

This feature would of course be a huge time sink, but as you weren’t panning on doing anything but wander down to the coffee house anyway…

As for the Flying Saucer announcement, the higher ups were all so much more innocent of the threat to the Matrix posed by the paranormal back then, the two repeating cats reality framework glitches, do you think if it was 47 now, and some of the Mars Spirit Rover photos posted on the Mars Relay Station alien artifact blog came into NASA, that the project leader would order a spokesman to issue a press release announcing the discovery of ancient relics of a lost Mars civilization?

But now?

What will it take to get this announcement made now? A 500 yard half buried in the sand wrecked spaceship? Even then would they?

The truth is out there!
http://marsrelaystation.blogspot.com/

Mac said...

Gerald,

The closest thing I have to a chat-room at the moment is the li'l "shoutbox" at the bottom of the sidebar. I used to have a PB BBS, but I ditched it when I discovered commenting.

I like the idea of logging live chats, but for live chats to work you have to have someone interesting scheduled so people tune in...