Pentagon Archive Release Revives Roswell Affidavit Describing Egg-Shaped Craft and Small Bodies

ROSWELL, N.M. — The Pentagon's most recent release of documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena, issued on Oct. 23, 2026, has returned the 1947 Roswell incident to public discussion. According to a report by Zakiya Lathan, news editor at Unknown Country, the records include a sworn statement attributed to Walter Haut, the former public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico.

Haut, the report notes, was responsible for preparing the military's original announcement of July 8, 1947, which stated that personnel had recovered a "flying disc." That statement was later replaced by an explanation involving weather balloon debris.

In the affidavit, signed on Dec. 26, 2002, Haut reportedly described a metallic, egg-shaped object roughly 12 to 15 feet long and 6 feet wide. According to the account, it had no visible wings, windows, tail or landing gear, and its exterior was unusually thin yet exceptionally strong. He also claimed to have seen bodies beneath a canvas covering inside a guarded hangar, the figures reportedly about 4 feet tall with disproportionately large heads.

The documents also reportedly describe a meeting of senior Roswell military personnel on July 8, 1947. Officials there allegedly discussed steering public attention toward a secondary debris field while the principal recovery site stayed concealed. Intelligence officer Jesse Marcel is said to have carried recovered material to Texas for examination, and some accounts hold that the debris later shown to the public was swapped for weather balloon material.

Unknown Country is careful to stress the limits of all this. The descriptions, it says, remain witness allegations, and neither the craft nor the purported remains have been independently verified as extraterrestrial. The alleged substitution of debris and deliberate diversion of attention have likewise not been independently established.

Nor, the report adds, does the release amount to official confirmation of extraterrestrial life. In its 2024 historical review, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office concluded that the Roswell debris was consistent with equipment from Project Mogul, a classified balloon surveillance program, and said it found no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government had recovered extraterrestrial technology or biological remains.

The report further observes that Haut's affidavit dates to 2002 and its contents have circulated publicly for years, so its appearance in the new release does not make the testimony itself new. Its significance, the article argues, lies in its inclusion in an official public archive, which allows renewed scrutiny of claims never conclusively substantiated.

Nearly eight decades on, the publication closes on a question: what further evidence, if any, exists that could independently establish what military personnel recovered in the New Mexico desert in July 1947? The archive, for the moment, offers no answer.