You mean .... almost as if it were swinging from a parachute?
NO!
As surfing a gravity wave.
Can reportedly be tricky . . . especially in the smaller craft.
No, the witnesses say it weaved an bobbed before finally coming down in the forest, not a parachute, more like faulty flight controls in this bell-shaped craft. Think of a helicopter having similar flight control problems before crashing in a hard landing. Then as a crowd gathered they heard a single shot as the alien was murdered by someone with a badge, think X-FILES and the policy of killing aliens w/o mercy.
Thus murder was committed that day on a hapless alien who lost flight control over his space craft, that’s why nasa wants to cover it up, we call that kind of people co-conspirators....and we put them in prison...