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Roswell, New Mexico, Residents report Jackalope Sighting

Air Force Denies Cover-Up

Roswell, N.M.

Athough military officials summoned to this quiet town are calling it an example of mass hallucination, several Roswell residents have recently reported seeing large, antlered jackrabbits in their area.
While these sightings of "jackalopes" have not yet been confirmed by photographic evidence, all witnesses' accounts describe the animal as a mysterious half-jackrabbit, half-antelope hybrid.
"I was out grazing my sheep," Roswell-area farmer Gus Myerson told The New York Times, "when I saw it, big as life, watching me from a rise about a hundred yards off. At first I thought it was a rabbit, but no normal rabbit has a set of antlers like that. It was a jackalope. I'd stake my reputation on it."
Myerson also said that he felt "very peaceful" in the jackalope's presence, and that he was sure it mean human beings no harm.
Grant Redland, an insurance salesman from Roswell, has no conscious memory of a jackalope sighting. Under hypnosis, however, he was found to have been visited in his sleep by several jackalopes who took him into their mysterious jackalope warren and probed his anus with their long antlers.
"Preposterous", said Major John Stebbins, an Army Intelligence officer stationed at nearby Roswell Air Force Base, whose investigation has "decisively ruled out" any possibility of the jackalope's existence.
"This could be anything-luminous desert gas, a weather balloon being blown along the ground, anything."
But, despite official dismissals, some residents remained convinced.
"It would make sense that jackalopes would visit humanity at this crucial junction in our evolution." said local mystic and jackalope believer Thomas Dwyer. "We are an infant race, and they are emerging from their ancient terrestial herds to monitor us as we experiment with the dangerous atom."
Some observers say government scientists have procured a jackalope corpse, and are examining it in the top-secret Hutch 51.
Army officials denied the charge.