From the latest missive from Popbitch:

Lieutenant Walter Haut was the PR officer at Roswell airbase in 1947, and was the man who supervised the publicity campaign to show people there was no extra-terrestrial encounter but that a weather balloon had crashed. Haut has just died and left an affidavit to be opened on his death. It said that this had just been a cover story, that there had been a UFO and that he had seen small humanoid alien bodies. What a brilliant joke to go out on…?

An interesting quirk to a long-running story. I’m not sure if I’d consider Popbitch a reliable news source, but Haut’s  “deathbed confession” was picked up on by various websites during the week, so have a look if you feel inclined.

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