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Dec. 19th, 2005 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursangnomeFans of the science fiction should observe a moment of silence for the passing of one of the biggest (and least famous) movers and shakers of the genre.
Army Lt. Walter Haut, who issued a news release in 1947 that said a flying saucer landed in Roswell, died Thursday, at the age of 83. Few other people have so altered the face of an entire literary genre as this man, and we should be greatful for, if nothing else, the heights of imagination to which the announcment has driven a generation of authors.
Of course, his passing has made it all the less likely that we'll ever really be able to untangle this particular mess of modern mythology.
Army Lt. Walter Haut, who issued a news release in 1947 that said a flying saucer landed in Roswell, died Thursday, at the age of 83. Few other people have so altered the face of an entire literary genre as this man, and we should be greatful for, if nothing else, the heights of imagination to which the announcment has driven a generation of authors.
Of course, his passing has made it all the less likely that we'll ever really be able to untangle this particular mess of modern mythology.
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Date: 2005-12-21 05:42 am (UTC)