I think the whole Roswell thing is a scam and I’ll explain why. First, like I said a technologically advanced race is not going to come here. And if they do come here, they are not going to smash into the desert. It defies logic.
Now it’s 1947. World War II has just ended and the cold war is just getting started. I’m seeing communists everywhere and the Russians already have my nuke secrets. The Rosenbergs taught me a hard lesson. Now I’m out in the desert playing with high tech stuff and it works. (or fails miserably) And people see stuff. The media gets wind of it. However you look at it, the secret is out and it wont be contained for long. So, my options are to misdirect and confuse. I plant evidence of a coverup. I plant false stories and fake evidence and then deny that evidence. It works because I know the people have an inherent mistrust of the government and the more I deny, the more you believe. In the end, I’ve got you so confused you don’t know what to believe. You will believe the alien story because its far more exciting than the mundane truth. You are looking for aliens and while I’m off quietly working on deep black projects. It works because people so desperately want to believe they are not alone.
First, like I said a technologically advanced race is not going to come here. And if they do come here, they are not going to smash into the desert. It defies logic.
The Roswell incident isn't the "be all - end all" of the UFO phenomenon, but it is the most famous. There have been hundreds of thousands of other incidents and reported sightings of these craft, many of them by reliable and competent witnesses. Lots of them are military pilots and aviation professionals. Over the last 60-odd years, too many of these credible reports have been compiled to easily dismiss.
The Roswell incident isn't even the best of the lot. There are lots more interesting, and better documented stories than Roswell. You don't hear about most of them, only because the Roswell thing exploded into the press, and grabbed the attention of the whole country before the military could put the brakes on it.
They learned a big lesson from that one incident, and subsequent military interaction with UFOs was done under much tighter control.
As to your opinion that "a technologically advanced race is not going to come here", well, that's just an assertion - an opinion. Who knows what reasons an advanced race would have for coming here? There are lots that I can think of, off the top of my head. An advanced extraterrestrial race could well have very good reasons for coming here.
You could say the same thing about explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries. They traveled long distances to places that they had zero knowledge of, and made contact with civilizations that were much less advanced than they were. We know what their motivations were. Perhaps an advanced race of aliens might have a similar motivation. Perhaps they're simply cataloging alien civilizations. A scientific mission. Who knows?
The point is, an advanced race might be compelled to visit this planet for their reasons of their own.
And, like I said in an earlier post, the craft that crashed in the desert outside Roswell could have been a surveillance craft that experienced a mechanical malfunction. Could have happened. It happens to all technical systems.
Anyway, it's stimulating conversation. I know that you feel strongly that logic defies the whole concept of alien visitation, but that's cool. I'm enjoying the conversation.
I'm not sure that was the case in 1947. I think attitudes were a whole lot different. I suspect that had FDR survived, he'd have had a good shot at winning in '48, and the whole nation had just rallied around the US Government for WWII. I don't think that an inherent "mistrust of government" would be a given, or even a reliable variable for the basis of a PSYOP campaign at that time.