Garnet R. Chaney Blog from July, 2007

Last night, (June 30, 2007), Art Bell announced on his radio show that Walter G. Haut, the Air Force public information officer who handled the Roswell UFO crash incident, had left an affidavit in 2002 to be opened after his death, that would set the whole Roswell issue straight. Art Bell was interviewing the author of the a book [Witness to Roswell], by Thom Carey, who printed the affidavit in his book. Art Bell drammatically announced he was going to read the affidavit, (without announcing how he got it, after "the break"), after asking Thom if he knew Walter Haut well enough to verify the authenticity of what Art was going to read. Thom said he could.

It turns out the alleged affidavit has been on the internet, as well as in Thom's book. I annotated a copy of Walter Haut's 2002 affidavit with some additional notes. I discovered that this is not Walter's first affidavit. Walter Haut also made an Affidavit in 1993 which was published in 1994 book Roswell In Perspective.

I put together a comparision of the affidavits, and discovered they were contradictory. I invited Art by Fast Blast to challenge Thom with it, but Art didn't chose to do so. Art's mind was already made up that this was the "proof" he had been looking for. Art said the story was finally breaking all around the world, eventhough Haut had died in 2005, and the 2002 affidavit had been released months ago. Art continued to muse about the slowness of the media throughout his show last night.