Declassified Pentagon UFO File Reveals Government Seized ‘Non-Human Bodies’ at Roswell

The Pentagon released a new batch of declassified UFO files on Friday — and buried inside is a sworn witness statement that puts the government on record, for the first time, describing what happened at Roswell in 1947: not just wreckage, but “non-human bodies.”

The document, part of the seventh tranche of files released under the Trump administration’s transparency directive, contains testimony from an unnamed military officer who witnessed an “egg-shaped” craft and multiple bodies stored in a guarded hangar at Roswell Army Air Field in July 1947.

While the witness’s name is redacted in the released file, media reports and the document’s unique details strongly suggest the testimony belongs to Walter G. Haut, the base’s public information officer at the time, who died in 2005.

What the Witness Described

According to the declassified affidavit — signed on December 26, 2002, more than five decades after the events — the officer was brought by base commander Col. William Blanchard to a facility known as Building 84, or Hangar P-3, where the recovered material was being held.

“I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space,” the witness stated in the document.

The craft was described as approximately 12 to 15 feet long and six feet wide, metallic in surface, with no windows, wings, tail, or landing gear. The material was characterized as “paper thin yet extremely strong” — a description that has circulated in Roswell lore for decades.

More significantly, the witness claimed to have seen bodies under a canvas tarpaulin.

“From a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies under a canvas tarpaulin,” the statement reads. “Only the heads extended beyond the covering, and I was not able to make out any features. The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the canvas suggested the size of a ten year old child”.

The bodies were reportedly about four feet tall with disproportionately large heads. A temporary morgue was allegedly constructed at the base to hold the remains, though the released file does not disclose what happened to them afterward.

The Cover Story, According to the File

The document also provides an account of how the famous “weather balloon” explanation came to be. According to the testimony, a staff meeting was held at 7:30 a.m. on July 8, 1947, where officials discussed two crash sites: a debris field about 75 miles northwest of Roswell, and a more significant site roughly 40 miles north that contained the craft and bodies.

The group reportedly discussed whether to go public with the discovery of an alien craft. One proposed plan was to publicize the less important ranch debris site to divert attention from the northern site, since civilians and media were already involved.

At approximately 9:30 a.m., the witness was ordered to write a press release dictated by Blanchard, announcing the recovery of a “flying disc.” Maj. Jesse Marcel was tasked with flying material to Carswell Army Air Field in Texas — material that, according to the testimony, was later switched with weather balloon debris.

A Separate Claim from a Former Insider

The file release comes just days after Jay Stratton, the first director of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, published a memoir claiming that non-human bodies were recovered from Roswell. In Out of the Shadows, Stratton cites an unnamed source who told him that some of the beings were “dead on arrival,” while others were allegedly alive but later perished after refusing food or contact.

Stratton’s claims, like the testimony in the newly released file, have not been independently verified. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office concluded in a 2024 report that it found no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government had recovered extraterrestrial technology or operated reverse-engineering programs.

For now, the Roswell question remains where it has stood for 78 years: explosive testimony on one side, official denial and a weather balloon on the other. What is new is that the testimony is now coming from inside a government release — redacted, unverified, but officially declassified.

The fate of the alleged remains, the location of Building 84’s contents, and the identity of the witness are all questions the file leaves unanswered. Whether that constitutes disclosure or another layer of the same story depends on what, if anything, comes next.