The Roswell Humanoid — a physical profile drawn from testimony of uneven reliability and an admittedly staged 1995 autopsy film.
THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY
ROSWELL HUMANOID
In the Think About It Alien Database, the “Roswell Humanoid” refers to the entity type associated with the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash — the best-known case in American ufology. The documented record here is a mix of genuinely established history, testimony of sharply varying reliability, and at least one widely publicized and openly admitted hoax. This entry separates those threads rather than presenting them as a single confirmed physical profile.
Name: Roswell Humanoid
AKA: EBE (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity) — a term used broadly across Roswell-derived ufology literature, not specific to this case alone.
Location – Home System: Undocumented in the original 1947 record. A Zeta Reticuli association is a later addition to Roswell lore, drawn from the unrelated 1961 Betty and Barney Hill star-map interpretation rather than from any 1947 source.
Distance from Earth: Zeta Reticuli’s real astronomical distance is approximately 39 light years; this figure is unconnected to any documented claim specific to Roswell.
Attitude: Undocumented in the original 1947 record.
Motives: Undocumented in the original 1947 record.
Physical Appearance: A small humanoid with a large bald head, small eyes, a small nose with two nostrils, and a thin, lipless, toothless mouth, per later witness-derived descriptions (see Detailed Report for source reliability).
- Average Height: Approximately 4 feet, per later witness-derived descriptions.
- Average Weight: Undocumented as a specific figure in reliable source material.
- Body Temperature: Undocumented.
- Pulse/Respiration: Undocumented.
- Blood Pressure: Undocumented.
- Life Expectancy: Undocumented.
- Hair: None, per later witness-derived descriptions.
- Skin: Undocumented beyond general “grey” descriptions in secondary Roswell literature.
- Eyes: Small and sunken, per later witness-derived descriptions.
- Sex: Undocumented as a verified fact. A female specimen is described in the 1995 Ray Santilli “Alien Autopsy” film, which Santilli and his collaborators admitted in 2006 was a staged reconstruction, not an authentic recording.
Other Physical Information: An ear hole with a small lobe on each side of the head; a hand with four long, slender fingers, per later witness-derived descriptions.
Special Traits and Abilities: Undocumented in reliable source material.
Communication Type: Undocumented.
Origin: Undocumented in the original 1947 record.
Life Form Type: Undocumented as a formal classification; described generally in Roswell literature as a Grey-type entity.
Subspecies: Undocumented.
Most Common Species: Undocumented.
Level of Species: Undocumented.
Habits: Undocumented.
Transportation Type: A disc-shaped (“lenticular”) craft, per general Roswell crash narratives; no consistent material description beyond debris characteristics reported by ranch foreman Mac Brazel (see Detailed Report).
Witnesses Reports: Mac Brazel, ranch foreman, who discovered crash debris on the J.B. Foster ranch — a well-documented, core part of the case. Glenn Dennis, a Roswell mortuary employee, whose claim about being contacted regarding child-sized caskets is treated by researchers as more credible, while his separate account of a nurse describing an autopsy has been substantially discredited after Dennis provided a fabricated name for the nurse. W. Curry Holden, an archaeologist whose alleged crash-site account rests on thin, secondhand testimony and has not been independently corroborated.
Special Features/Characteristics: Undocumented beyond the physical description above.
Summary/Description: The Roswell Humanoid refers to the entity type associated with the July 1947 crash of debris on the J.B. Foster Ranch near Roswell, New Mexico — a real, historically documented event whose official explanation (a Project Mogul balloon array) is disputed by ufologists. The physical description commonly attached to this case comes primarily from later witness testimony of uneven reliability, and from the 1995 “Alien Autopsy” film, which its own creators admitted in 2006 was a staged reconstruction rather than authentic footage.
Source: Mac Brazel’s original 1947 debris report; Glenn Dennis interviews (1994 onward) and his appearance in Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up (Carey & Schmitt, 2007); the 1995 “Alien Autopsy” film and its creators’ 2006 admission of fabrication.
Related Cases: The 1947 Roswell incident generally; the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction case, source of the later (and separate) Zeta Reticuli association sometimes attached to Roswell lore.
DETAILED REPORT
The 1947 Roswell crash itself is real and extensively documented: rancher Mac Brazel discovered unusual debris on the J.B. Foster Ranch, the Roswell Army Air Field briefly issued a press release describing a “flying disc,” and the story was quickly revised to describe a weather balloon. Decades later, researchers identified the debris as most likely originating from Project Mogul, a classified high-altitude balloon program intended to monitor Soviet nuclear tests — an explanation ufologists dispute but which remains the mainstream account.
The witness testimony describing recovered bodies is considerably less solid than the crash event itself. Glenn Dennis, a Roswell mortuary employee, is a central figure in this testimony. His account of receiving inquiries about child-sized, hermetically sealed caskets is treated by researchers, including skeptical ones, as the more credible core of his story. His separate and more dramatic claim — that a hysterical Army nurse described assisting with an autopsy on small, strange bodies — has been substantially discredited: Dennis gave researchers a name for this nurse that could not be verified, then changed the name multiple times when confronted, and no nurse matching his description has ever been independently confirmed to have existed. A different woman, Mary Lowe, was later located through an unrelated witness and reportedly made a similar claim in private, but this does not corroborate Dennis’s specific account. W. Curry Holden, an archaeologist sometimes cited in Roswell literature as having witnessed the crash site directly, is supported only by thin, secondhand testimony relayed years after the fact and has not been independently corroborated.
The physical description most associated with “Roswell Humanoids” today — large bald head, small sunken eyes, four-fingered hands — owes a great deal to the 1995 “Alien Autopsy” film produced by Ray Santilli. That film was thoroughly debunked: its “alien” bodies were later revealed to be dummies filled with animal organs and sheep brains, built and filmed in a London flat, with a homeless man hired to play the role of the original military cameraman. In 2006, Santilli and his collaborator admitted the film was staged, while continuing to claim — without ever producing supporting evidence — that it was a “reconstruction” of genuine footage he had once seen. This claim has never been substantiated. The film should be treated as an admitted hoax, not as contested but potentially genuine evidence.
Nothing in any of this — the original 1947 debris report, the Dennis testimony, the Holden account, or the Santilli film — describes a Zeta Reticuli origin, an Orion Sector hybrid program, “memory metal” resonant to pilot biology, or any 2026-specific reanalysis, whistleblower confirmation, or “Contact Milestone” reassessment. These do not appear in any documented source and have no independent support.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
One Real Crash, Uneven Testimony — Roswell and the Admitted Hoax
- The crash event itself is genuinely documented; the entity descriptions are not equally solid: Mac Brazel’s debris discovery is well established, but the physical profile commonly attached to “Roswell Humanoids” rests heavily on testimony and a film of markedly lower reliability.
- Glenn Dennis’s testimony should be split into its two separate claims: the caskets inquiry is treated as more credible; the nurse-autopsy story has been substantially discredited due to a fabricated, repeatedly changed name for the nurse in question.
- The “Alien Autopsy” film is an admitted hoax, not an open question: its creators confirmed in 2006 that it was staged with dummy bodies, and no evidence has ever been produced for the “genuine footage” Santilli claims inspired it. Presenting it as authentic or newly “confirmed” material misstates settled facts about its own creators’ admissions.
- The Zeta Reticuli connection is a later graft, not part of the original case: it derives from the unrelated 1961 Hill abduction star map, not from any 1947 Roswell source.
- The entire 2026 “Disclosure” layer is invented: AI reanalysis of the autopsy film, whistleblower confirmation, radar-disrupted flight stabilization, and a “Contact Milestone” reassessment appear nowhere in the documented case history.
The honest state of this entry is that the 1947 Roswell crash is a real, significant historical event with a disputed official explanation, surrounded by decades of testimony that ranges from reasonably credible (Brazel’s debris report, the more basic part of Dennis’s account) to substantially discredited (Dennis’s nurse story) to openly admitted fabrication (the Santilli autopsy film). All three tiers are preserved above with their reliability distinguished, rather than blended into a single confirmed physical type.
No verified period-accurate quote from a reliable, well-sourced witness exists for this entry. Dennis’s and Holden’s accounts carry the reliability concerns noted above, and the Santilli film is an admitted hoax; none is presented here as a trustworthy attributed quote.



