At first I skimmed through it as I thought is was another conspiracy theory. It turned out to be quite the opposite, and convinced me it wasn't a UFO crash.
The author points out some interesting items:
While the event happened in 1947, it didn't catch fire until Stanton Friedman gave a UFO talk in the '70s and someone told him to "talk to Jesse Martell's kid.".
The "spaceship" was a balloon with a monitoring device. The Army had trouble tracking it so they added diamond-shaped reflectors made out of balsa sticks and aluminum foil and Kraft paper.
The manufacturer of said reflectors made toys and used some of its old wrapping tape to tape the aluminum paper to the sticks - the tape had little kiddie symbols like half moons, stars, etc. which was later interpreted as "hieroglyphics". The scientists involved in the project joked on how a super secret device used parts made by a toy manufacturer.
The mortician who said the USAAF ordered "child-size" coffins was proved a liar. The Nurse he said told him about the bodies conveniently was "killed in an air crash" - only no nurses were killed that way during that time period. Then the guy said she "might have joined a convent and took an oath of silence". (I kid you not.)
The napkin that had her drawing of the "alien" was "accidentally" tossed out a few days before the interview.
Instead of fading, memories of those involved sharpened over the years.
Researchers used books by other "investigators" for reference instead of going back to the basic reports/documents, much like the Bermuda Triangle industry does.
Bottom line: The govt had a secret spy balloon go down in the NM desert and tromped on its own crank trying to cover it up.
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.
Unmitigated nonsense.