Reddit Thread Touts 'Sealed Roswell Affidavit' Said to Describe Craft and Bodies

ROSWELL, N.M. — A post on the r/UFOs forum announced on Monday that a sealed affidavit concerning the Roswell incident of 1947 has been released by what the post's title calls the Department of War. The title further asserts that the document describes an alien craft and alien bodies. Beyond that title, the submission offers very little.

The post, made by a Reddit user posting to r/UFOs, is what the forum terms a link post. It contains no body text, no summary, no excerpt from the alleged affidavit, and no explanation of how the document came to light. The reader is given a headline and a hyperlink, and is left to supply the rest.

This newspaper must therefore report the matter strictly as a claim. The source material does not name the affidavit's author, give its date, identify the office said to have released it, or reproduce a single line of its contents. Nor does it say whether the document has been authenticated by anyone, inside the government or out. The assertion that it describes craft and bodies of extraterrestrial origin rests entirely on the wording of the post's title.

Roswell has long occupied a singular place in the folklore of the flying saucer. The name attaches to events in New Mexico in 1947, and has been the subject of testimony, books, and argument for decades. Claims of newly revealed documents are a familiar feature of that argument, and they have arrived many times before, with varying degrees of corroboration. The post in question gives no indication that this one differs.

Readers inclined to caution may note several things the source does not supply: an official statement, a document number, a named witness, or any independent reporting. The title's use of the phrase Department of War is also unexplained in the material at hand, and this newspaper is unable to say what authority, if any, stands behind the release.

Whether the linked document exists as described, whether it is genuine, and whether it says what the headline suggests are all questions the post leaves open. Paranormal Daily has not seen the affidavit and cannot vouch for it. The editors will report further should the contents, or the claimed release, be confirmed or contradicted by anyone with a name and an address.

For the present, the community on r/UFOs has been handed a title of considerable ambition and a link of unknown contents. The matter stands, as Roswell matters so often do, somewhere between a revelation and a rumor.