“My theory is the UFO crash was the cover story.”
The problem with that is that the crashes were all hidden from the public except for the brief newspaper story in Roswell in 1947.
Read the manual—these are standard metrics followed by governments all over the world:
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/wars_and_weapons/Majestic_12-UFO_Official_Manual.pdf
“The problem with that is that the crashes were all hidden from the public except for the brief newspaper story in Roswell in 1947.”
Yes, and it worked. They let the UFO enthusiasts run with and do their work for them. Everyone was looking for aliens while the truth was right in front of them.