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Glenn Dennis

Born	1925

Glenn Dennis (born circa 1925) was an alleged witness to the Roswell UFO incident of 1947. He is a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, which opened in September, 1991.

Dennis began working as a part time assistant in the Ballard Funeral Home in 1940 while still attending Roswell High School. After graduation, Dennis was excused from wartime military service because of poor hearing, and commenced an apprenticeship as an embalmer at Ballard. He graduated from the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science on 22 December, 1946 and was put in charge of Ballard's military contract, which included ambulance and mortuary services for the nearby Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF).[1]

According to an affidavit of 7 August, 1991, Dennis received two telephone calls on one afternoon from the RAAF mortuary officer in July, 1947 the first asking about small hermetically sealed caskets and the second inquiring about the preparation for bodies that had been lying out on the desert for a period of time - specifically the effect that preparation procedures would have on the body's chemical compounds, blood and tissues. Later that same afternoon, Dennis was required to transport an injured serviceman to the Base. On his way into the Base hospital, Dennis claims to have seen metallic wreckage in the back of an ambulance with writing that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics. Looking for a young nurse he knew, he said he saw her coming out of an examining room. She warned him to get out or he would be in a lot of trouble. But before he could leave, Dennis says he was threatened by a Captain and then escorted out of the infirmary by two military police.

The next day, Dennis met with the nurse who told him that he had in fact unwittingly stumbled into a top-secret military operation in which Air Force doctors were examining three small humanoids. The smell was so bad, they moved the operation out to one of the base hangars. The nurse described and drew pictures of the alien creatures and requested that Dennis not reveal her identity. According to the Dennis's affidavit, the unnamed nurse then promptly disappeared.[2] Dennis later identified the nurse as Naomi Maria Selff (and later as Naomi Sipes). There is no record of anyone with that name having worked at RAAF.

The US Air Force held an inquiry into the Roswell incident. They published their findings in 1997 in The Roswell Report: Case Closed. The report largely discredited Dennis's account of events. Many leading ufologists agree that Dennis's affidavit and subsequent statements contain significant inconsistencies and are unreliable^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Corroboration

Despite the inconsistencies, there is some corroboration for Dennis' story. Former Roswell police chief L. M. Hall in a 1993 affidavit said that maybe a few days after the newspaper stories of a crashed flying saucer, he was talking to Dennis. Hall recalled Dennis said something to the effect, "I had a funny call from the base. They wanted to know if we had several baby caskets. I asked what for, and they said they wanted to bury [or ship] those aliens." Hall said he thought Dennis was joking and they never discussed it again.affidavit

In another affidavit from 1993, David Wagnon, then a lab technician at the hospital, said he recalled the nurse fitting Dennis' description and also gave the name Naomi Self.affidavit

A few other mostly second-hand witnesses have also told of aliens recovered at Roswell using similar descriptions as Dennis. Many of these stories also involve the bodies being taken out to a hangar for processing and shipment. [3] Perhaps the most convincing of these came from Cpt. Oliver Henderson, a senior pilot at the base, who told friends and family members about seeing the small alien bodies. [4]

One recent first-hand account came from Walter Haut, the Base public information officer who issued the base press release saying they had recovered a flying saucer. In a recorded interview from 2000, Haut said he saw one of the bodies lying on the tarmac outside a hangar. The interview was released in 2006 following Haut's death in 2005.