{"id":166,"date":"2007-07-07T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-07-07T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T12:17:21","slug":"roswell-the-story-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Roswell: the story that keeps on giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the latest missive from <strong>Popbitch<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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&#8230;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting quirk to a long-running story. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;d consider Popbitch a reliable news source, but Haut&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;deathbed confession&#8221; was picked up on by various websites during the week, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,21994224-2,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">have a look<\/a> if you feel inclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,57,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}