Inquiring minds WANT to know............Then read about what realy happened, he touched it while it was on the ground and yes he is as legitamate as ever.
Now I’m thinking, it landed on a base and only 80 people saw it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rCdpmLq_o
Well, I watched this Discovery video. James Penniston is a retired police (MP?) sergeant not a pilot. In the video he describes the object as pyramidal, not triangular (small quibble) and does not mention touching it (big quibble). And there were not 80 witnesses to that particular incident, although perhaps in total over three days that many reported strange lights, etc. Also gouged trees and ground.
There is also a James Halt, an officer, who reports witnessing it a few days later, not that an officer is necessarily more reliable. But apparently the MPs had kept it to themselves the first time, because it was new to him. Sounds like a thing to report, IMO.
I guess you could have something hidden on a base and not seen by many, because large parts were forested. I was just thinking of the airfields and buildings. But the things were supposedly zipping around in the sky.
And of course the things were radar-invisible, but why bother with that when you are visible to light, and can disappear in the blink of an eye? And the officer had a Geiger counter with him, but not a camera.