Claim · E-027
Luis Elizondo: Claims that four non-human bodies were actually recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash.
Luis Elizondo · Aug 20, 2024 · Book “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs” (HarperCollins, August 20, 2024), according to press summaries (Book)
Hearsay Historical cases
Contradicted
It conflicts with the official explanation of the episode (Project Mogul balloon, taken up by AARO in 2024); the sentence is reported by GB News and, via Wikipedia, by the Times, but has not been verified against the text of the book.
- In support
- Jay Stratton, a former AATIP colleague, argues in the book Out of the Shadows (October 2026) that the occupants at Roswell were captured; neither claim is accompanied by public evidence.
- Against or denials
- The U.S. military attributed the Roswell debris to a Project Mogul spy balloon (Kloor's summary, 2019), and AARO's historical report (March 2024) points to Project Mogul as responsible for the crash; AARO states that it found no evidence of extraterrestrial craft or bodies. A letter from General Nathan Twining dated September 23, 1947, written two and a half months after the episode and released in 2026 among the PURSUE files, lists among the points to consider the lack of physical evidence in the form of items recovered from crashes; it cannot rule out more secret programs of which the author was not informed.
Sources
- The Times, August 20, 2024 (not consulted directly; cited by Wikipedia) (press)
- GB News, August 22, 2024 (press)
- Wikipedia – “Luis Elizondo” (used as a cross-reference to the sources cited) (other)
- Space.com – AARO historical report: no empirical evidence of alien technology, March 8, 2024 (press)
- Letter from Gen. Nathan F. Twining of September 23, 1947, file “General 1946-7, Vol. 2,” PURSUE series 1 (PDF) (primary source)
On this site
People 1
Claims 2
- Luis Elizondo: Maintains that Roswell may not have been the first event and that he has seen very convincing documentation… Unverifiable
- Luis Elizondo: Asked whether there had been talk of possessing bodies, he answers “yes” under oath, but specifies that he… Unverifiable
Documents 3
- The 1947 Twining letter: the phenomenon is “real,” but there are no crash-recovered exhibits Original available
- The Air Force's 1995 report on Roswell (Project Mogul) Original available
- “Case Closed”: the Air Force's 1997 report on the alleged Roswell bodies Original available
Cases 1
- Roswell: the ranch debris and the “disc” announced by the base Disputed explanation
Where the claims come from 1
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