Roswell Nurse Photographs the Bodies - I Don't Think So
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- Author
- KRandle
- Published
- July 25, 2026
- Event date
- 1947-01-01
- Location
- Roswell
- Object type
- alleged alien bodies
Original excerpt
By happenstance, I came across a YouTube video that claimed an interview with a woman who had been a surgical nurse in Roswell in 1947. The claim was that Margaret Ellen Dodd had been tasked with taking pictures of the alien bodies recovered. She said that she had been told to do this because, as a surgical nurse, she wouldn’t be upset by the circumstances. It was in 1985 that she told the
Key claims
- →A YouTube video claims an interview with Margaret Ellen Dodd
- →Dodd is said to have been a surgical nurse in Roswell in 1947
- →Dodd reportedly said in 1985 she was tasked with photographing alien bodies
Kevin Randle evaluates a YouTube video in which a woman identified as Margaret Ellen Dodd claims she was a surgical nurse in Roswell in 1947 and photographed alien bodies. Randle's headline indicates he finds the claim unconvincing. The excerpt does not give his full reasoning.
Alternative explanation
Randle rejects the account, and the claim rests on a single later interview rather than contemporaneous records.
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