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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 03:46:05 +0200
Fwd Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 06:44:23 -0400
Subject: 'The American Funeral Director' on Glenn Dennis

From the files of Beyond Boundaries, a very well-known UFO research
organization, via Sightings On Radio's homepage. URL:

http://www.sightings.com/ufo/embalm.htm

Stig

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Embalming ET:
A Practitioner's
Close Encounter
From The American Funeral Director
Issue Of November 1994
From Joyce Murphy


In the summer of 1947 Glenn Dennis was a fountain of information about
embalming and embalming fluid, since he had just graduated from San
Francisco Mortuary College. A lifelong Roswell, New Mexico, resident,
Mr. Dennis, today 68 years old, recalls that he began his 35 years in
the funeral business by going to work for the local funeral director as
a car washer, a "go-fer," and eventually an apprentice.

Mr. Dennis served as chairman of the New Mexico State Board of Funeral
Directors and Embalmers for a time. It was during his tenure that New
Mexico first required college study as a requirement for licensing in
that state.

Though just starting out in the business, Mr. Dennis might have been
just the right person to answer the phone just after lunch on Tuesday,
July 8, 1947, because an older practitioner, for whom the textbooks
were a distant memory, would not have been able to answer the questions
about embalming and embalming fluid, and the handling of deceased
remains that the U.S. government asked Glenn Dennis that day.

When the phone at Ballard Funeral Home rang, Mr. Dennis found the
mortuary officer at Roswell Army Air Base on the other end of the line:

"This is just a hypothetical situation," he began. "But do you have any
three-foot or four-foot long hermetically sealed caskets?"

"Yes, we have four feet," Glenn Dennis answered.

"How many do you have?"

"One."

"How soon before you could get more?"

"If we called the warehouse in Amarillo, Texas, before 3 p.m. today,
they can have them here tomorrow morning. Is there some kind of a
problem?" Mr. Dennis asked.

The funeral home where he worked had the government contract with the
base to handle deaths, including air crashes.

"No, this is just for our information."

The call ended. Mr. Dennis went back to work. About an hour later, the
same mortuary officer called back.

"How do you handle bodies that have been exposed out in the desert for
four or five days?" he asked, again assuring Glenn there was no crash.
This was just a "hypothetical" situation.

They were just gathering information for their files. The man also
wanted to know what embalming fluid did to tissue, what embalming fluid
was made of, what to do to close holes in bodies made by predators, how
best to pick up such remains. Glenn anwered all questions, and his
performance was no doubt impressive and a credit to his profession --
right out of embalming school! Nevertheless., Glenn's curiousity was
piqued.

"Just call us for a situation like that!" Mr. Dennis pointed ou to the
officer. "Is there some kind of crash?"

"No, no, just gathering information for our files."

Glenn's firm had handled up to 20 bodies at a times in crashes at the
base. The firm had constructed an addition next to the embalming room
just for those situations. About an hour after that strange call, an
opportunity presented itself for a trip to the base. A young airman had
injured his hand in a motorcycle accident. Now, Glenn was called upon
in the capacity of his firm's ambulance service to transport this man
back to base.

The airman was able to sit in the front seat of the hearse-ambulance
with Glenn. The guards at the gate, familiar with Glenn, readily let
the hearse through. Glenn was a familiar figure at the base -- even
being an honorary member of its Officers Club.

He drove his ambulance to the base hospital and backed up to the
loading area, as was his customary procedure. This time, however, he
noted there were two field ambulances in the spot he preferred, so he
parked next to them. He and the airman got out and started into the
hospital.

As Glenn passed the field ambulances, which were guarded by an MP, he
looked into the open back end. Inside both ambulances was an enormous
amount of a silvery, metalliclike material, which seemed to be as thin
as aluminum foil, but not as flexible. Glenn particularly noticed two
chunks, each of which seemed to be between 3 feet and 2.5 feet high,
and "curved like the bottom of a canoe."

Glenn also noticed odd markings, in some sort of a "hieroglyphic -like"
script that was totally unfamiliar. Mr. Dennis sauntered down the hall
of the hospital, heading to a soda machine -- as was customary after
bringing in a patient. Here Glenn had a nasty encounter with an
unfamiliar officer.

"Looks like you've got an air crash. Should I go back to town and get
my equipment ready?" Glenn casually asked the officer he saw in the
hallway.

"Who the hell are you?" was the response. Glenn introduced himself and
explained his role in handling crash victims. The response to this was
an order to get out of the hospital and off the base.

Glenn gladly complied and turned to head back down the hall. He had not
gone far when he heard someone scream after him. "Bring that (man) back
here!" And two MPs appeared from somewhere, grabbed Glenn, and took him
back to a red-haired officer.

"Now don't you go back to Roswell and start shooting off your mouth
about how there's been a crash out here or...." A series of threats
followed. Glenn said, "You can't talk to me like that. I'm a civilian.
You haven't got any say over me."

"Listen, undertaker, somebody's gonna be picking your bones out of the
sand." And the officer ordered the MPs to personally escort Glenn back
to the funeral home, which they did. On the way down the hall, however,
Mr. Dennis had an interesting encounter with a female nurse, he knew. A
door opened to a supply room as Glenn and the MPs went down the
hallway. Out stepped the nurse, whom Glenn had dealt with at the
hospital. She carried a towel over the lower part of her face. Glenn at
first thought she had been crying.

"Glenn, what are you doing here? You're going to get shot!" she
exclaimed.

"Well, I'm leaving." He pointed meaningfully to his armed escort. He
noticed that the nurse was followed out of the supply room by two
unfamiliar men, both of whom also had towels over their noses and
mouths. Farther into the supply room Glenn noticed gurneys.

The next day, that same nurse called Glenn at the funeral home. The two
of them arranged to meet at the Officers Club. It was there that she
unfolded for Glenn an extraordinary tale -- a flying saucer had crashed
out in the desert and the Army had recovered three dead aliens.

Two of the bodies were badly mangled, both by the crash and by
predators. One body was in fairly good condition. All the while, she
kept becoming more and more emotional. Finally, she was openly crying
in the club.

Glenn thought it best to take her back to the nurses' quarters on base.
After he dropped off the nurse, he never saw or heard from her again.
His later inquiries produced the information that she was transferred
to England. He obtained an address in England, wrote to her, and
received back the letters, which were stamped "addressee deceased."

He heard that she was killed in a plane crash. Talking to Glenn that
afternoon in the Officer's Club, the nurse provided anatomical details.
She said that they were little, smaller than an adult human. She said
that the hands were different, too, that they only had four fingers
with the middle two protruding longer than the others. She saw no
opposoable thumb. She also said that the anatomy of the arm was
different.

The bone from the shoulder to the elbow was shorter than the bone from
the elbow to the wrist. The heads were larger than a human's. The eyes
were large and concave shape. She said that all the features, the nose
and the ears and the eyes, were slightly concave.

The nurse went on to draw a small sketch of the alien bodies, using the
back of a prescription paper. It showed that the bodies had four digits
on each hand. The end of each digit consited of a sort of pad. Mr.
Dennis eventually lost this sketch, but has reproduced his own version.
(will be sent a few minutes later than this e-mail)

The nurse also stated that the two men following her out of the storage
room were pathologists from Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C.
The nurse explained the towels over their faces. "Until they got those
bodies frozen, the smell was so bad you couldn't get within 100 feet of
them without gagging." It was when the nurse stepped out of the room
where she had been assisting two doctors on the bodies, to get some
air, that she ran into Mr. Dennis.

She explained that even the doctors were getting sick, and the smell
was so bad they had to turn off the air conditioning to keep it from
spreading throughout the hospital. Soon, they gave up trying to work
under such conditions and completed the preparation of the bodies in a
hangar.

Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist who has written several books
and many articles on UFOs, first brought the UFO crash at Roswell to
the attention of the public.

Since the late 1960s, Mr Friedman, now 59 years old and a resident of
New Brunswick, Canada, has been an active researcher, writer, and
lecturer on UFOs. He has spoken at over 600 colleges in the United
States, Canada, and Europe. He has been a guest on numerous radio and
television shows, such as Sally Jessie Ralphael and Tom Snyder.

He first heard about the Roswell incident while in Louisiana for a
radio interview. Someone at the radio station told him about the late
Jesse Marcel, who then lived in nearby Houma, La.

Marcel told Mr. Friedman that he had been heavily involved in the
initial retrieval fo the wreckage and alien bodies at Roswell. This
information spurred Mr. Friedman to investigate the incident and the
result has been three books, numerous articles and a 1989 NBC TV
feature on "Unsolved Mysteries." It was while he was in New Mexico to
film that 1989 TV episode that Mr. Friedman first met Glenn Dennis.

Mr. Dennis did not seek out Mr. Friedman, but rather Mr. Friedman used
his research skill to track him down. Mr. Friedman reasoned that there
must have been professional mortuary knowledge used by someone if alien
bodies were recovered. Therefore, he asked sources whether military or
private morticians were used on the base in 1947. When told that
private morticians were used, he found out who -- and that led him to
Glenn Dennis.

Mr. Dennis refused to appear on the "Unsolved Mysteries" show, but he
was very willing to speak with Mr. Friedman.

Today, Mr. Dennis is involved with the UFO Museum and Research Center
in Roswell. This facility opened last year and has already been visited
by more than 18.000 people. The center has numerous books, research
materials, and exhibit items. Walter Haut, the 1957 press relations
officer at Roswell Air Base, is also involved in the museum.

It was Mr. Haut who released a press statement at about 11 a.m. on July
8, 1947.

"The many rumors regarding the flying discs became a reality yesterday
when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air
Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession
of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the
sheriff's office of Chaves County.

"The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week.
Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such
time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn
notified Major Jesse A. Marcell of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence
Office.

"Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the
rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and
subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters."

Mr. Haut today maintains that he issued this statement at the request
of the base commander, Col. William H. Blanchard. Blanchard, according
to Mr. Haut, was very interested in maintaining good relations between
the base and the Roswell community. "If anything unusual happened, or
anything he felt the community should know about, he would call me and
say, 'Get this thing out.' He did that with many, many things."

There is no doubt in Mr. Haut's mind that Blandhard and Marcel were
convinced the debris found by the rancher came from another planet.

There is also no doubt in Mr. Haut's mind today that Blanchard did not
originate the idea of contacting the press: "Do you think somebody was
ordering Blanchard to order you to issue the press release?"

"Yes, I do," said Mr. Haut in a telephone interview on January 28,
1994. He took the press release to radio station KGFL and the Roswell
Morning Dispatch, which in turn communicated the story to the wire
services. Within an hour, telephone lines into Roswell and the base
were jammed with calls from all over the world.

Art McQuiddy, then editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch, reports that
the reaction was almost immediate. "By the time Haut had gotten to me
it hadn't been 10 minutes and the phones starting ringing.

I didn't get off the phone until late that afternoon. I had calls from
London and Paris and Rome and Hong Kong that I can remember," he said.

Within hours, an official retraction was released by the government.
Jesse Marcel was brought in to prop up the official "cover story" that
what was found was a weather balloon. Marcel, in his later years,
however, was very willing to admit that he was ordered by military
superiors to make untrue statements.

The Roswell base was then key in the nuclear bomb strategy of the U.S.
government. The Cold War was jsut starting, and World War II had jsut
ended. In those days, when Uncle Sam said shut up few people asked why.
This was particularly the case in New Mexico, where such sensitve
military installations as Los Alamos and White Sands were located.

The next morning at 6 o'clock, the sheriff went to Glenn's parents'
home and spoke to his father, saying that Glenn "might" be in trouble.
Glenn's parents related that the Chavez County sheriff reported that
the military had interviewed him. They became worried their son was in
trouble.

The Roswell Daily Record of Tuesday, July 8, and Wednesday, July 9,
1947, spans the course of the initial press flurry turning to a cover
story. "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region,"
trumpeted the Tuesday headline. The story stated that Marcel's recovery
of a disc retrieved "on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after an
unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff George Wilcox, here, that he
had found the insturment on his premises."

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot of Roswell are also included in the same story,
recounting their sightings of an oval object that was about 15 to 20
feet in diameter and about five feet thick, traveling at 400 to 500
miles per hour in a northwesterly direction. "In appearance it looked
oval in shape like two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth, or like
two old type wash bowls placed together in the same fashion.

The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from
inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath,"
they said.

Roswellians were surveyed by the paper as to their opinions of the
story and most thought it was some sort of secret government craft.

The next issue of the Daily Record gives insight into the excitement
stirred up worldwide by Tuesday's story. Sheriff Wilcox is photographed
talking on the phone to "a high English official." However, the story
describes the incident as "the world comedy, which developed over the
purported finding of a flying saucer.

"The numerous calls from reporters around the world are mentioned.
Wednesday's headline sets the overall tone: "Gen Ramey Empties Roswell
Saucer." Brig Gen. Roger M. Ramey, head of the Eighth Air Force, called
the remains a weather balloon, the paper reported.

Weather experts were quoted to the effect that this was the most likely
explanation. A bizarrely written UFO sighting from Iran is placed above
Ramey's explanation, as if to ridicule the flying saucer story. The
rancher who found the object, W.W. "Mac" Brazel, is quoted saying, "If
I find anything else besides a bomb they are going to have a hard time
getting me to say anything about it."

The object is described throughout the article as "a balloon." This, on
the surface of it, seemed to put the matter to rest.

It is interesting to note a tiny item just above the Brazel story,
which mentions a meeting between U.S. Senator Carl A. Hatch, of New
Mexico, and President Truman on July 9. While it was described as being
"just a personal visit," a former employee of the Roswell radio station
who interviewed Mac Brazel said that the station owner received a call
from the office of New Mexico's other U.S. Senator, Dennis Chavez,
warning him not to broadcast the interview if he wanted his license
renewed.

It is now known that Lt. Gen Nathan F. Twining, the commander of Air
Materiel Command, headquartered at Wright Field in Ohio, made a sudden
visit to Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico on July 7, 1947. This
was a short drive from Roswell. On the next day, Glenn Dennis received
his mysterious phone calls and made his visit to the base. Twining
later on became the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Neight Mr. Haut nor Col Blanchard suffered any career repercussions.
Mr. Haut, prior to the incident, had already decided to retire from the
military and settle in Roswell, which he did in 1948. Col. Blanchard
went on to become a general. Marcel went on to do research on the
Soviet nuclear program. When President Truman announced that the Soviet
Union had exploded a nuclear bomb, the report he read to the public was
written by Jesse Marcel. As to where the bodies of the aliens are
today, Stanton Friedman says: "It is anybody's guess."

The nurse who spoke with Glenn in the Officer's Club said she believed
the bodies ended up in Ohio. Numerous rumors have circulated for years
concerning the alleged presence of alien bodies at Wright Patterson Air
Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Stanton Friedman believes the bodies may
have been studied for a time at a private clinic in Albuquerque, N.M.

It was also reported that the Fort Worth, Texas, headquarters of the
Eighth Air Force and Gen. Ramey, was the first destination of the crate
containing the bodies after it left Roswell. The bombardier of the
plane that transported the crate reported the flight was met in Fort
Worth by, among others, a man the bombardier personally knew to be a
mortician. The identity of this mortician is unknown.

INSERT: The mortician is known as his wife is still alive and well in
Ft. Worth, Texas, and remembers her husband being called out to Ft.
Worth Army Air Field that night because their funeral home had the
contract for any casualties involving needs of a mortician.
Accompanying her husband that evening was a family friend, who was the
dentist with the base contract for bodies with teeth. And, when
recently a building was about to be torn down on that base most
recently known as Carswell Air Force Base and now the Joint Reserve
Base Naval Air Station Ft. Worth, the Texas State historical commission
represented by 3 persons showed up at the base saying "No, you cannot
tear this building down as it has historical signficance and value. It
was the building which the alien bodies were unloaded on the west dock
the night there were brought in from Roswell after the UFO crash there.
And, since the bodies were stored for a time in this building before
being shipped elsewhere this building has historical importance to
Texas. The historical commission was ignored and the building was torn
down in April of 1998. Pieces of the original floor of this building
have been saved from the bulldozers and while supplies of these chips
last they are available from Beyond Boundaries free of charge to
members who would like a chunk of this bizarre history. For more
information see http://www.beyondboundaries.org.

Back to article: However, the identity of the other mortician who
played a role in this event is well-known. Glenn Dennis has neither
sought notoriety nor tried to hide from researchers. He has an
interesting story to tell, as do others involved in the same event now
willing to talk about it in their sunset years.

Would arterial embalming work on an extraterrestrial? Embalming fluid
uses formalin, which changes the chemical composition of protein by
acting on nitrogen. All life forms on earth are protein-based
organisms. If alien bodies were recovered, and if they were
protein-based organisms, then preservation could have been achieved.

No funeral was held for the remains of these stranded travelers.
However, the book, "The Roswell Incident", by Charles Berlitz and
William L. Moore, contains an account of the government's providing a
private viewing for a member of the clergy. This book includes a letter
allegedly written on April 19, 1954, which describes a February 20,
1954, visit to Edwards Air Force Base in California by President
Eisenhower to view the bodies of alien pilots of a crashed UFO. Bishop
(later Cardinal) James F.A. McIntyre of Los Angeles, Edward Nourse of
the Brookings Institute, and journalist Franklin Allen were also
permitted to view the bodies. The letter goes on to say that Eisenhower
was about to "go directly to the people via radio and television" to
spill the beans on UFOs. Evidently, he changed his mind, or else the
letter is a fraud.

It should be mentioned that there is a point of controversy within the
community of UFO researchers as to whether there were two or just one
UFO crash in New Mexico in July 1947. Stanton Friedman believes that
another UFO (with more alien bodies) was recovered on the plains of San
Agustin -- about 150 miles to the west of Roswell, New Mexico.

It is thought that these two vehicles may have collided. Other UFO
researchers -- specifically Donald Schmidt -- believe that the Roswell
crash was the only such incident to occur in New Mexico, at that time.

Some also believe that after the Roswell crash, a supersecret
government group called Majestic 12 was established to oversee all
UFO-related events. Mr. Friedman has done extensive research into the
subject, the results of which are found in his book "Crash at Corona."
He has studied documents allegedly generated by this secret group, and
believes them genuine.

A made-for-TV movie, "Roswell," was broadcast last July. Mr. Haut was
an advisor for the movie.

Article submitted from the files of Beyond Boundaries, UFO Research
Organization. PO Box 250, Rainbow, TX 76077. To discuss this article
contact jmurphy@beyondboundaries.org