By: Ben Preiss - Published: Jul 2, 2007 ??? References: news.au & thisislondon After 60 years of sticking with the weather balloon story Lieutenant Walter Haut, who was the public relations officer at the Roswell base, issues a postmortem sworn affidavit testifying that the that balloon story he issued was a cover up on the orders of the base commander, Col. William Blanchard.