Kal Korff’s book is as you say very good.
I read it and Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.’s book, to get two sides of the story.
Korff’s book, and Kent Jeffrey’s web article ( http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/KentJeffrey1.htm )
present overwhelming evidence that what crashed near Roswell was a Mogul balloon.
Dr Marcel is a sincere man, and a patriot who has served this nation long and well. But I believe that his perceptions as a ten year ten month old boy in July 1947 were mistaken. The phenomenon of subjective perception is sometimes called “The Rashomon effect”, after the famous Japanese film.
They are clueless.
And it’s mystifying how they could supposedly research such a book and still end up so clueless.
1953 is WELL after 1947 . . . even for clueless folks.