Editing Roswell incident (section)

===Role of Glenn Dennis===
{{external media|video1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv590ONs_J4&t=1163 ''Unsolved Mysteries'' segment] September 20, 1989|video2=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2DFl1FJps&t=800s Glenn Dennis's story] as dramatized by ''Unsolved Mysteries'' September 18, 1994
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The initial claims of recovered alien bodies came from the secondhand accounts of "Barney" Barnett and "Pappy" Henderson after their deaths.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|pp=50, 94}}</ref> On August 5, 1989, Stanton Friedman interviewed former mortician Glenn Dennis.<ref name="McAndrew-1997-p75">{{harvnb|McAndrew|1997|p=75}}</ref> Dennis provided an account of extraterrestrial corpses endorsed by prominent Roswell ufologists Don Berliner, Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randle, and Donald Schmitt.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|p=88}}</ref> Dennis claimed to have received "four or five calls" from the Air Base with questions about body preservation and inquiries about small or hermetically sealed caskets; he further claimed that a local nurse told him she had witnessed an "alien autopsy". Glenn Dennis has been called the "star witness" of the Roswell incident.<ref name="McAndrew-1997-p75"/>

[[File:International UFO Museum and Research Center Roswell New Mexico (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|alt=Exterior photograph of building with sign reading UFO Museum and Research Center |In 1991, Glenn Dennis and Walter Haut opened a UFO museum in Roswell.]]

On September 20, 1989, an episode of ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''  included the second-hand stories of alien bodies captured by the Army and transported to Texas. The episode was watched by 28 million people.<ref name="Smith 2000 7">{{harvnb|Smith|2000|p=7}}</ref> In 1994, Dennis's account was portrayed by ''Unsolved Mysteries'' and dramatized in the made-for-TV movie ''Roswell''.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Legend: Roswell Crash and Area 51 |series=Unsolved Mysteries |date=September 18, 1994 |season=6 |number=33 |network=NBC |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2DFl1FJps&t=800s |via=FilmRise True Crime}}</ref><ref name="Rich1994">{{harvnb|Rich|1994}}</ref> Dennis appeared in multiple books and documentaries.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|loc=ch.&nbsp;8}}</ref> In 1991, Dennis co-founded a [[International UFO Museum and Research Center|UFO museum in Roswell]] along with Max Littell and former RAAF public affairs officer Walter Haut.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=146, 150}}</ref>

Dennis provided false names for the nurse who allegedly witnessed the autopsy. Presented with evidence that no such person existed, Dennis admitted to lying about the name.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=191–192}}</ref>  [[Karl T. Pflock|Karl Pflock]] observed that Dennis's story "sounds like a B-grade thriller conceived by [[Oliver Stone]]."<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=127}}</ref>  [[Skeptical movement|Scientific skeptic]] author [[Brian Dunning (author)|Brian Dunning]] said that Dennis cannot be regarded as a reliable witness, considering that he had seemingly waited over 40 years before he started recounting a series of unconnected events. Such events, Dunning argues, were then arbitrarily joined to form what has become the most popular narrative of the alleged alien crash.<ref>{{harvnb|Dunning|2007}}</ref> Prominent UFO researchers, including Pflock and Kevin Randle, have become convinced that no bodies were recovered from the Roswell crash.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997a|p=5}}</ref>