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- Walter Haut was born on June 2, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on December 15, 2005 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
- As a lieutenant with the US Army Air Forces, he issued a press release on 8 July 1947 stating that a flying saucer had been recovered in the area of Roswell, New Mexico.
- A former spokesman for the now-defunct Roswell Army Air Field, Haut was ordered by his commander Col. William Blanchard on 8 July 1947 to issue a news release about a recovered flying saucer. He said he never was told where the flying disc was found, but he always believed it was a UFO. The Army later released a statement that the recovered wreckage was only a weather balloon.
- Father of Julie Shuster.
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