SIGHTINGS
Roswell Visitors Reportedly Perished Refusing Food and Contact, Says Former Pentagon Investigator
Jay Stratton's memoir relays an unnamed informant's account of survivors at the 1947 crash site, while official reports maintain the wreckage was a balloon.
ROSWELL, N.M. — A former Pentagon UFO investigator has revived one of America's most durable mysteries, claiming in a memoir that beings recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash were briefly alive in military hands before dying, according to the Daily Star.
Jay Stratton, who the report says served as chief of air and space warfare for the Defense Intelligence Agency and as first director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, writes in Out of the Shadows that an unnamed source told him a craft broke in two near Roswell. The military, the informant said, retrieved the wreckage and non-human bodies, and several occupants were still living.
Stratton's book states that some were dead on arrival, while others were allegedly alive but later perished, refusing food or contact. The newspaper, in a spirit of its own, suggests the visitors might have fared better had they landed in Britain and encountered fish and chips. Stratton himself makes no such claim.
Official accounts differ. The government once said the debris came from a military balloon, and in 1994 the US Air Force tied it to Project Mogul, a classified program meant to detect Soviet nuclear tests. Officials said reported alien bodies were crash test dummies. In 2022, the report notes, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office sent a wreckage sample to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and assessed it as likely a test object, a manufacturing product or byproduct, or an aerospace alloy study component.
Stratton disputes those conclusions. He claims military contractors hold at least a dozen crashed craft and non-human remains, and told People magazine that the world has a right to know. He also writes that some people involved with such encounters resigned or suffered breakdowns. The article lists other figures who have made similar claims, including Luis Elizondo, David Grusch, Dr Eric Davis and Dr Hal Puthoff. None of the claims in the report was accompanied by public evidence.