Roswell #9: After The Standoff

The first 8 Roswell posts this month tell me:
      a) No conclusive proof has come out.  Time after time claims of possessing "unearthly material" evaporate when nobody can produce the goods.   That leaves us with the "fallback position" as the government's explanation
      b) The gov didn't offer good evidence to support the conclusion that what fell in the field was a Project Mogul balloon.  The evidence was 40 years old or more when Mogul was announced as the answer, so it may not have been very available.  Yet some records exist of Mogul from July, 1947.  It would be nice to have come forth with a letter or such saying, Well, we told them it was a weather balloon to cover up Mogul. 
     c) Instead it made a conclusory statement and seems to just expect people to believe it.  Despite my great interest in journalistic objectivity, in the facts,  I'll say that I don't believe it.  I think the Mogul story is full of shit.  It rings slightly more true than does Pres. Trump's promise that Mexico will pay for the border wall.
     d) The conclusion fails to make sense of something like 100 pieces of circumstantial evidence.  Instead it has to brush them aside.  Some of these are testimony from real "pillar of the community" types.
     e) One of these was a commanding field officer, Jesse Marcel, who, three decades later, went public with detailed claims that it was an alien crash and was covered up.  Those who don't agree with his allegations have found numerous issues with his testimony, including that he was old when he gave it so his memory was likely to be faulty. 
      To that I would ask:  Can you tell me where you were when you heard the Twin Towers had been hit?  When Pres. Kennedy was shot?  I know exactly where I was.  Of course you can if you were old enough to remember it.  That sort of thing isn't stored in the brain's "ordinary memory" section.   It makes sense that Jesse Marcel recalled vividly and accurately much of what he experienced in what he claimed was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, even decades later.  My dad could tell you the precise details of combat experiences he had in the 1940s, decades later.  They were extraordinary memories.
      f) We do know there was a coverup at Roswell that involved 20-100 instances of press censorship, shakedowns of civilians, and at least two cases of false imprisonment by Roswell military personnel
     f) The cover-up seems very disproportionate--about 50 times overdone-- if it truly was just to hide a nuclear monitoring program that, had it been found out by a few people in New Mexico, doesn't seem likely to have leaked to the Russians.  Civilians seeing Mogul balloon and equipment would hardly have been able to put two and two together and figure what the program was doing, anyway.  Yes, they wanted to keep Mogul under wraps, but having one set of equipment go down in a field just doesn't seem to spill the beans on the whole program.  Why do, then,  many voices tell us the Roswell Army base went into emergency mode for the next week or so?  Doesn't add up.
    g) It appears that at least a dozen locals, and maybe 3 or 4 dozen, did see either what lay in the desert or was gathered up from it.  There's no record of even one of them wondering out loud if what they stumbled across involving spying on the Russians, even when it would be safe to admit that 40 years later.   Why doesn't at least one of them say, "Well, yes, I could tell it was equipment for tracking nuclear explosions?
    h) Instead, at least 15 of these assert they saw something--or someone--clearly not originating on Earth.
    To wind up, I note that the US federal government lies to the people all the time about anything and everything.  Sometimes this is done in prudence and sometimes it is done with the most craven and awful of intentions--and results.
     So maybe, if the new feds of the Trump administration were to tell us there really were aliens at Roswell, it would have to also announce that we've been on the edge of interstellar war all this time, and now it's finally breaking out and Earth will be overrun in a couple of years.  Better to let us be happy eating our beer nuts in ignorance for a while more.