A deputy sheriff said he saw he saw a crashed flying saucer and aliens who ‘looked like the ones we see on television’ at Roswell, a newly-released interview reveals.

Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus rushed to the scene of a crashed aircraft in New Mexico in an incident that still baffles experts and conspiracy theorists after 70 years.

The case has baffled conspiracy theorists for seven decades, in spite of the US military saying it was a balloon which crashed

Major Jesse Marcel from the Roswell Army Air Field with debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, NM, in June 1947. The debris has been identified as that of a radar target. The Air Force released a report debunking reports of a UFO crash near Roswell

In transcripts from a 1999 interview seen by The Mirror, and used in new book UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, he said: ‘They were hauling a big, a creature.

Reports of a ‘flying saucer’ crash circulated at the time, prompting conspiracy theorists to believe aliens had landed

The incident continues to be popular with UFO enthusiasts seven decades after it happened

The interview features in the book UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up

Asked if he had seen their heads, he said: ‘Yeh….they were covered. They eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.’