Case file · Retrieval claim
Glenn Dennis, the Roswell mortician
On 5 August 1989 Stanton Friedman interviewed former Roswell mortician Glenn Dennis, who said that in July 1947 the air base had asked him about small sealed caskets and that a base nurse had described an autopsy on small bodies.
1989 CE · 33.39, -104.52 · status: claim
The account
Dennis became the 'star witness' of the Roswell story; his account was dramatised on 'Unsolved Mysteries' in 1989 and he co-founded the International UFO Museum in 1991.
The sceptical view
The nurse he named could never be found in military records, and Dennis later changed her name and details. The Air Force's 1997 report argued he had conflated events of later years.
Connections in the atlas
- International UFO Museum opens in Roswell
- Glenn Dennis’s alien-autopsy story
- Air Force Roswell reports (1994, 1997)
- Roswell incident