[jonrick46]

Perhaps the UFOs that crashed were two of Nazi Germany's Horton 229 stealth fighters:

Without the aid of computer flight stabilization technology, they were hard to fly.

The funny space alien stories were a hoax to keep the Soviets diverted from the true nature of the technology we snuck out of Germany after the war.

Today's stealth aircraft are a direct beneficiary to that German technology.

[rxsid]

Yup.

It is this aircraft that the Smithsonian is restoring.

When completed, the Ho-229 will look something like this: