Glenn Dennis
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Glenn Dennis (24 March 1925 – 28 April 2015) was a funeral director in Roswell, New Mexico, who claimed that in July 1947 he was asked about small coffins by the Roswell air base and that a nurse there told him about alien bodies. He helped found the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. His story was later found to contain false information.[1][2]
His account
Dennis worked for the Ballard Funeral Home, which held the contract for the Roswell Army Air Field. He said the base telephoned him asking about child-sized caskets, and that a nurse friend at the base hospital told him she had helped examine the bodies of strange creatures and gave him sketches. He said she was soon transferred to England and that he later heard she had died.[1][2] He first told his story in an August 1989 interview with researcher Stanton Friedman, and it appeared in Roswell books from 1991 onward.[2]
The missing nurse
Dennis eventually named the nurse as Naomi Maria Selff. Researchers found from the base's records that only five nurses served there in July 1947, none with that name or anything like it, and none transferred to England. When this was shown, Dennis said he had given a false name to protect her.[1][2] Researcher Karl Pflock concluded that the nurse "simply did not exist", and Kevin Randle, who had used Dennis's account in his books, later named him among the least credible Roswell witnesses.[2] Authors Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt wrote that Dennis had knowingly given investigators false information, though they noted that others said he had spoken of the caskets long before Roswell became famous.[1]
The museum
Dennis was a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. He died there in 2015.[1]
References
- Glenn Dennis — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Glenn Dennis", The Roswell Files · roswellfiles.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 31 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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