A former Army press officer revealed he saw the body of a "beat-up alien" the "size of a 10-year-old child" after the Roswell UFO crash in a bombshell video he made before his death.

In the footage, released for the first time, the press officer for Roswell Army Air Field 1st Lt. Walter Haut recalls his encounter with the UFO and an alien body that had been found lifeless at the crash site in Roswell, New Mexico.

Haut drafted the military's original press release on the 1947 UFO crash, which made international news, but the Army Air Force quickly changed their story and said it was just a weather balloon.

In the video, shared with The Sun, Haut says: "To the best of my remembrance there was one body ... it was a relatively small body comparable to maybe a 10 or 11-year-old child. It was pretty well beat up."

He said he could not remember the color as it was so many years ago.

In a signed affidavit Haut made before his 2005 death, also shared with The Sun, he said: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space."

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