Just for the record, below is my transcript of the relevant portions of the 2000 oral interview concerning Ramey at Roswell and Haut seeing a body and craft in a hangar. Afterwards, I'll compare it with the 2002 affidavit.

As can be seen in the transcript, Wendy Connors (abbreviated as WC) is asking questions based on her understanding of previous comments by Haut. So Wendy does most of the talking and Haut comes off as a somewhat taciturn, reluctant respondent to these particular probes by Wendy. I got the impression that he deliberately did not want to respond in detail, but he did confirm what Wendy was asking him and certainly did not deny it.

There are some differences with the 2002 affidavit, which also went into more detail, but nonetheless in 2000 Haut did verbally confirm key points about seeing a small body next to the craft and Ramey and chief of staff Dubose being at Roswell discussing the cover-up.

Key differences were the affidavit having Haut seeing "a couple of bodies" instead of one and giving different dimensions for the craft. In 2000 he guesses it may have been 25 feet in diameter, but the affidavit has it as "12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high, and more of an egg shape." Haut doesn't provide a shape in his interview, though Wendy Connors kept referring to it as a disc. It was unclear whether the craft was intact or broken into pieces.

Carey and Schmitt have several other witnesses describing a smaller, egg- or oval-shaped craft, including a number of civilians seeing the covered object being driven on a flat-bed truck through the center of Roswell on the afternoon of July 8. Since Don Schmitt apparently drafted the affidavit based on what he says were Haut's various comments to him over the years (with Haut carefully reviewing and then signing it with Schmitt not present), an important question in my mind is whether Haut actually gave this description to Schmitt or whether Schmitt based it on the other witnesses. Alternatively, maybe Haut in 2000 was deliberately not being fully candid about what the craft looked like. Nonetheless, in both interview and affidavit, Haut confirms a craft being recovered and seeing it, regardless of shape or dimensions.

Then there is the discrepancy between one body and several. Haut told Connors that it was his understanding that there were several bodies, but when Wendy pressed him about the actual number that he personally saw, Haut confirms that he only saw one. However, again, regardless of the number he personally saw, Haut is saying in both interview and affidavit that he was a body eyewitness. In both he describes the size as about that of a 10-year-old child.

Thus the main point remains that Haut was claiming to be a body/craft and cover-up eyewitness (with Ramey at the base at a meeting with Haut present) going back to at least 2 years before the 2002 affidavit.