His name was Glenn Dennis and he was a good man..A salt of the earth type I had met a million times before in Alberta and in the US southwest..Hardworking people of that amazing generation who fought wars and then built North America into the industrial and economic powerhouse in which we now live..I quietly sipped a Coke while I looked over this man as we sat in a small office in Roswell New Mexico, where he lived and was now retired..Back then I was working for the Calgary Sun and doing fluffy travel pieces on my holidays, but this one was different — way different..When I met him he was quite old, possibly in his 80s, I don’t recall.. Maj-1Makichuk and Glenn Dennis .He said he was born in Abilene, Texas, in the mid-1920s and got his apprenticeship as an embalmer at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science on December 22, 1946..As fate would have it, he would be put into the middle of an amazing story — perhaps the greatest news story of all time..Glenn managed to snag a job at the Ballard Funeral Home in Roswell and was promptly put in charge of a military contract with the nearby Roswell Army Airfield, which included ambulance and mortuary services..That was when he got the phone call on a hot July afternoon in 1947..As Glenn tells it, it was the military base and they wanted information. Such as how to preserve a body and did he have any children’s sized caskets..Glenn answered to the best of his knowledge, the convo ended and he didn’t think anything more of it..A day or two later he had to drive an injured airman to the base, a place where he’d been many times..He was also pretty sweet on one of the cute young nurses there, so it was sort of killing two birds with one stone..As Glenn pulled up he noticed an ambulance which was filled with weird debris, pieces of something, he wasn’t sure what. But it had strange writing embedded onto it..He described it as a kind of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Nothing he had ever seen before..After delivering the airman he went up to the Coke machine and promptly put in some coins and waited for the bottle to come out..It was at that time, a colonel came up to him — someone he had never seen before..This guy was in his face, big-time. I don’t remember the exact conversation, but it went kind of like, “What the hell are you doing here, pal?”.Glenn said, more or less, “I have business here … who the hell are you?”.That’s when the mysterious colonel laid into him. “Pal, if you don’t get out of here now, and I mean now, they’re going to find your bones in the desert.”.The hieroglyphics, the colonel, the increased security — what the hell was going on?.It was then, he saw the nurse. She rushed up to him and said, “Glenn, get out of here … now … just get out.”.Being a healthy young American who didn’t like being talked down to, Glenn was ready to take on the colonel but decided to heed the advice..She quietly whispered to meet her at a restaurant in Roswell the next day, but not to tell anyone..And so they did meet and what a story she told. She said there was a crash of an alien flying saucer and she assisted with an autopsy with military coroners flown in from Washington, D.C..While Glenn pulled out a cigarette box and a pen, he listened intently and wrote down important points, such as: they were human-like, but small, had big heads and eyes, small mouths and no alimentary tract..These were creatures who seemed to be genetically produced for interstellar space flight..Today, we would call them alien Greys, but at that period of time, nobody had ever come across such extraterrestrials..In fact, in his well-researched book, Crash at Corona, by physicist Stanton T. Friedman, there were several crash sites — three in fact, including a debris field and one alien that was taken alive and brought to a secret facility in Los Alamos..Glenn was astonished, of course, as anyone would be. His attention then changed focus to the nurse, who seemed quite frightened and worried about what she had seen.. UFOUFO .They parted that day, never to see each other again. When he inquired at the base, they said she had been “flown out the next day.”.Nothing more..Speculation is that she lived out her days in the strict privacy of the Vatican City. Whether this was just a story to put UFO investigators off the trail or whether she met a more sinister demise, we shall never know..All I can tell you is that Glenn stood by his story, and he didn’t seem like the kind of man who would make stuff up..Decades later, I could tell he was still soft on that lady. We never forget past loves, do we?.Oh, and the cigarette box? A mysterious break-in at his office in Roswell took care of that. It was the only thing they took from his files, said Glenn..But it was too late, anyway. Thanks to Glenn Dennis and many others who witnessed different aspects of what’s now called The Roswell Incident, the truth came out and the rest is history, as they say..I later inquired about Glenn and found out he ended up in an old folk’s home and passed away gently in April of 2015..But I will always cherish that amazing interview, which chilled me to the bone..My brother Jim and I also visited the infamous Hangar 84, where the alien bodies and pieces of wreckage were temporarily stored before they were flown out, in a hurry..The workers there showed us a strange wall that had been bricked up quickly and also a tunnel that led to somewhere but had been blocked off..Roswell was home to the 509th Bombardment Group, which was assigned to Air Force General Curtis LeMay’s Strategic Air Command (SAC), receiving the upgraded version of the B-29 known as the Boeing B-50A Superfortress..So none of that is really unusual. It’s now part of history..So as you celebrate the New Year, just remember one thing. We are not alone. Not in the past, not now and not in the future..They are here..Dave Makichuk is a Western Standard contributor. .He has worked in the media for decades, including as an editor for the Calgary Herald. He is also the Calgary correspondent for ChinaFactor.news.makichukd@gmail.com
