Got foil?

Now for something entirely random.

UFOs. Who doesn't like UFOs?

Of course, when I was conferred the dark rites of corporate-media membership, I swore bloody oaths to counter and undermine all efforts to expose the Shocking Truths about extraterrestrials on Earth.

Yet the immortal rumors, speculation and interest in what happened in Roswell, New Mexico, buzzed across these fine Internets this week with news the public information officer at Roswell left a post-mortem retraction of the entire "cover-up" story:

The public relations officer at the Roswell air base in 1947 has released claims that he saw a crashed spacecraft and the bodies of aliens at the site, despite a lifetime spent denying any such things.

In the affidavit, Lieutenant Walter Haut says the weather balloon was a cover story, and that the real crashed object had been stored by the military. He also claims to have handled the material from which the crashed craft had been constructed.

Haut died last year, but left instructions that his statement should be opened after his death.

In it, Haut described a meeting he attended on the morning of the crash:

Samples of wreckage were passed around the table. It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life. Pieces which resembled metal foil, paper thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length were handled from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one was able to identify the crash debris.

He said that for months after the crash, military personnel would periodically search the wider area for debris.

At the same meeting the decision was taken to put out a press announcement. Locals were already aware that something had crashed, Haut said, and the release was intended to divert attention from a second crash site.

Also seen on the Internet is a site where you can file your own Pasadena UFO sightings.

Such as this one:

2007-01-01 - UFO spotted on spanish tv recording of Rose Parade.