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Who was Glen Dennis? Undertaker claimed he made CHILD-SIZE COFFINS for aliens after Roswell UFO crash

Glen Dennis recalled how Walker Army Airfield sought his advice on how to preserve dead bodies after the Roswell UFO crash
UPDATED JUL 4, 2022
Ballard Funeral Home (R) where Glen Dennis (L) worked (US National Archives/YouTube screenshot, Ballard Funeral Home)
Ballard Funeral Home (R) where Glen Dennis (L) worked (US National Archives/YouTube screenshot, Ballard Funeral Home)

It has been revealed that the military asked a local undertaker to make child-size coffins for alien bodies after Roswell UFO crash that took place in July 1947. Glen Dennis, who worked at a funeral home in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, clamied that Walker Army Airfield had called him and asked for child-sized coffins, and also sought his advice on how to preserve dead bodies. Dennis also said that a nurse told him she had to oversee an alien autopsy at the airfield.

The Roswell incident, which took place on July 7, 1947, involved the recovery of balloon debris from a ranch near Corona, New Mexico, by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Air Field. Conspiracy theories later claimed that the debris involved a flying saucer, and that the US government had covered up the truth. Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release on July 8, 1947, claiming they had recovered a "flying disc". However, the Army quickly retracted their statement and said that the object that crashed was a conventional weather balloon.

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Former detective and military police officer James Clarkson, who interviewed Dennis before his death, said that he believes Dennis was a reliable witness. "A long time ago, Glen worked at the Ballard funeral home here in Roswell when he was a young man and in 1947, he got a phone call from the base, the Walker army airfield which said, 'How many child-sized coffins do you have in stock?'" James said at at a festival to mark the incident's anniversary, as reported by The Sun. "And he said, 'I only have one.' They said, 'How soon can you get more?' And he replied, 'It'll take a couple days.' And they said that's not quick enough."

They apparently called Dennis shortly after that with another bizarre question. "Then they called him up again. And they wanted to know how to preserve a body to keep it intact but they didn't want to treat it with chemicals," James said. "They asked him 'What would you use?' He said, 'Dry ice, I'd pack it with all the dry ice I could get.' Which was good advice."

James Clarkson investigates UFOs (Amazon.com)

"Glen gave me the whole story, I sat down with him and I would say that in about 30 or 40 minutes, any doubts that I had about the reality of Roswell were gone," James added. "You just know, when somebody is telling you the truth, I have some intuition of when people are giving their heart when they're telling you what they really believe." He further said, "And the man was solid. You'll hear people say he wasn't, but that was, he was your classic Southwestern gentleman. He wasn't lying." James' revelations came soon after World UFO Day, July 2. 

Who was Glen Dennis?

Dennis began working as a part-time assistant in the Ballard Funeral Home in 1940. At the time, he was still attending Roswell High School. Dennis was excused from wartime military service after his graduation, because of poor hearing. He then commenced an apprenticeship as an embalmer at Ballard.

Dennis graduated from the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science in 1946. He was put in charge of Ballard's military contract, including ambulance and mortuary services for the nearby Roswell Army Air Field, which was renamed to Walker Air Force Base in 1948. Dennis went on to become the founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, which opened in September 1991. 

Glen Dennis began working as a part-time assistant in the Ballard Funeral Home in 1940 (US National Archives/YouTube screenshot)

James said that Glen confided in him about a nurse who told him she was traumatized after being asked to assist on an alien autopsy. "In small Western towns back then they didn't have paramedics or ambulances," James said. James investigates UFOs with his wife, Joanne, a psychic. "If they needed to transport a sicker injured person, sadly, the best vehicle to do that in was a hearse," he added. "So many times in small towns, the funeral home, the funeral directors would do double duty." 



 

"So Glen was taking an injured airman back to the base and he pulled in there and he saw all these vehicles and people that he'd never seen before...," he continued. "Then a nurse he knew came out of a back room and, and said, 'Glen, what are you doing here?' "And she was horrified. She was so horrified that she resigned her commission in the military. And there'd been a lot of speculation about where she went."

"He promised her that he would never reveal her name. And when they finally started investigating Roswell, which wasn't until the eighties, when they heard about Glen Dennis, you know, when they heard about him working in the funeral home and being called, people were all over him," James said. "And he kept saying, I don't want to tell you. I promised I wouldn't, I'm not gonna tell you who the nurse was.Well, finally he got so tired of that. He made up a name. And he told me, he said, 'I wished I would've never lied, but I just got so tired of them wanting to know who she was.'" Dennis died in 2015.

The Roswell incident surfaced in the late 1970s, years after the crash took place. The incident came to light after retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marce told ufologist Stanton Friedman in an interview that he believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial. Conspiracy theories soon began surfacing, and people claimed that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed. Many suggested the possibility that the militarty recovered the extraterrestrial occupants, and subsequently engaged in a cover-up.

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