Glenn Dennis

Glenn Dennis (March 24, 1925 – April 28, 2015) was a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, which opened in September 1991, and self-professed witness to the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.[1][2]

Glenn Dennis
Born(1925-03-24)March 24, 1925
Abilene, Texas
DiedApril 28, 2015(2015-04-28) (aged 90)
Roswell, New Mexico
NationalityUS

Early life

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), renamed Walker Air Force Base in 1948.[3]

Roswell incident

Dennis came to the attention of UFO researchers in 1989 when he called the hotline after an episode of Unsolved Mysteries featured the Roswell UFO incident. He was the first witness to confirm claims of alien bodies at the Roswell base itself.

Analysis of testimony

Dennis’ accounts featured prominently in Crash at Corona published in 1992 and The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, published in 1994, as well other pro-UFO books, but serious doubts about his story were soon raised. For some, like Karl Pflock and Kevin Randle, these inconsistencies were great enough to discount Dennis’ credibility entirely.

Several researchers, including Karl Pflock, investigated Dennis’s claims and found a number of inconsistencies, including the identity of a nurse who Dennis claimed was a witness to the alleged alien autopsies and the need for Dennis's own involvement in any embalming process when qualified pathologists were said to have performed the autopsies. Pflock also questioned the validity of sketches of aliens provided by Dennis.[4]

Dennis's account is repeated in Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up by Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt, published in 2007. Regarding Dennis providing researchers with a false name, they write, "His surprising and disappointing response was,... 'I gave you a phony name, because I promised her that I would never reveal it to anyone'." The authors then comment that "Dennis was found to have knowingly provided false information to investigators, and must technically stand impeached as a witness." However, the book also notes that other witnesses "have told us that Dennis had told them about the phone calls for child-sized caskets way back when it happened" and that "Dennis had told them about his run-in at the base hospital long before Roswell became a household word." [5]

References
  1. "Roswell Files: Glenn Dennis". Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  2. "Glenn Dennis, Roswell Undertaker, Obituary, Roswell Daily Record, May 5, 2015". The Blackvault. Roswell Daily Record. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  3. Karl T. Pflock. "Star witness: the mortician of Roswell breaks his code of silence - Glenn Dennis, a key witness in the alleged 1947 crash of a UFO near Roswell, NM". Omni (Interview) (Fall, 1995). pp. 100–105. Archived from the original on 9 December 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2018 – via www.findarticles.com.
  4. Pflock, Karl T. (2001). Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York. ISBN 1-57392-894-1.
  5. Carey & Schmitt, 135

Further reading
  • Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell, 2007, New Page Books, ISBN 978-1-56414-943-5
  • Stanton T. Friedman and Don Berliner, ‘’Crash at Corona’’, 1992, Marlowe and Co., ISBN 1-56924-863-X
  • Kevin Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, ‘’The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell’’, 1994, Avon Books, ISBN 0-380-77803-3
  • Tim Shawcross, The Roswell Files, 1997, Motorbook International, ISBN 0-7603-0471-8
  • Alan Baker, "The Encyclopedia of Alien Encounters", 2000, Facts on File, Inc ISBN 0-8160-4226-8
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