But last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery - which casts new light on the incident and raises the possibility that we have, indeed, been visited by aliens.
Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947, and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.
Haut died last year, but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.
Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story, and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar. He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.
He wasn't the first Roswell witness to talk about bodies. Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins.
The rest of the leak springs forth here....
Alright, you'll have to read about eleven paragraghs before getting to the part of the story that has the new info. Not a lot here really but, it is another leak that has sprung on the old Roswell 1947 story. I don't really know what to make of the UFO stories myself. I'm pretty certain that theyre has to be life out there and be extentin, life far more advanced than us. Now, rather they are coming down here for a little look see or are that advanced but, can't keep their craft from hitting the Earth>>>Ehh, I really don't know.
I do have to admit though, there seems to be more and more tio THIS story every time one turns around. I don't think that anyone can truly close the books on at least this one yet.