Document Release and Central Claim
A report published by SMBtech on October 26, 2026, says a previously sealed affidavit describing the alleged recovery of an extraterrestrial craft and bodies near Roswell, New Mexico, has been released through a U.S. government records initiative. The document is identified as Appendix 2 of DOW-UAP-D168, a 2008 BAASS Project Management Plan produced for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under contract HHM402-08-C-0072.
According to the report, the affidavit was included in the seventh tranche of records released under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The supplied material does not provide independent confirmation from the Department of War, the DIA, the National Archives or another government agency, nor does it explain the legal or administrative basis for the reported release. The article also does not reproduce a complete copy of the underlying record.
What the Affidavit Allegedly Describes
The affidavit is dated December 26, 2002, and was signed before a notary and witness, whose identities are reportedly redacted. Its signatory is identified only by the title “Roswell Army Air Force Base Public Information Officer, 1947.” The report argues that this description points to Walter Haut, the base’s public information officer during the Roswell incident.
The 20-paragraph statement allegedly recounts events during the first week of July 1947. It describes reports of a debris field in Lincoln County, roughly 75 miles northwest of Roswell, as well as a second location north of the town. At a July 8 staff meeting, the affiant purportedly examined pieces of wreckage and wrote: “It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life.” The account characterizes some fragments as paper-thin but exceptionally strong, with unusual markings.
The report further claims that the affidavit describes an egg-shaped vehicle approximately 12 to 15 feet long and bodies recovered from a site north of Roswell. However, the supplied source content ends while discussing the meeting’s alleged decision to publicly characterize or divert attention from the more significant recovery site. It therefore does not provide the full account or additional details about the alleged bodies.
Connection to Walter Haut
Haut was the official who issued a July 8, 1947, press release stating that personnel at Roswell Army Air Field had recovered a “flying disc” from a nearby ranch. The announcement was withdrawn later that day after Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey in Fort Worth identified the material as debris from a weather balloon.
The SMBtech report says the released document matches a sealed affidavit attributed to Haut that appeared in the 2007 book Witness to Roswell, by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt. Haut died in 2005, and the earlier affidavit was reportedly intended to remain sealed until after his death. The alleged similarities include the date, the signatory’s position and the narrative’s general content.
Evidence and Unresolved Questions
The reported release is significant primarily because it would place a long-circulating Roswell testimony within a document associated with a DIA-funded UAP research project. It does not, by itself, establish that an extraterrestrial craft or nonhuman bodies were recovered. The affidavit is a retrospective statement signed more than five decades after the events, and the source provides no information about how its claims were independently verified.
Roswell remains disputed. U.S. government investigations have attributed the 1947 debris to conventional military or classified surveillance activities, while witnesses and researchers have continued to argue for an extraterrestrial explanation. Until the underlying record, chain of custody and official release are independently authenticated, the allegations should be treated as unverified historical testimony rather than confirmed evidence of alien visitation.
