Cpt. Oliver W. 'Pappy' Henderson

This document compiles testimonies and affidavits regarding the claims of Cpt. Oliver W. 'Pappy' Henderson, a senior pilot at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. Henderson, who held a Top Secret clearance, reportedly told family members and associates that he had transported wreckage from a crashed UFO and the bodies of alien beings from Roswell to Wright Air Field (later Wright-Patterson) in Ohio. The document includes affidavits from his wife, Sappho Henderson; his daughter, Mary Kathryn Groode; and his business associate, John Kromschroeder. These accounts consistently describe Henderson's assertion that he saw small, humanoid bodies with large heads and slanted eyes, which he believed were recovered from a crash site. Sappho Henderson and Mary Groode recount that Henderson only felt comfortable discussing these events after seeing them reported in the media in the early 1980s. Additionally, the document references accounts from Lt. Vere McCarthy, a member of Henderson's WWII flight crew, who recalled Henderson mentioning the transport of wreckage and the deteriorated state of the bodies. The document also addresses and dismisses counter-claims by researcher Karl Pflock, who suggested Henderson was a 'practical joker.' The testimonies provide a consistent narrative of Henderson's claims, supported by the physical observation of a metal fragment by Kromschroeder, which he described as an unfamiliar, lightweight, and stiff alloy.