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Let me make sure I understand what I'm being asked to comment on:
1. There was a Baptist chaplain at Roswell.
2. He was replaced by a Catholic chaplain.
3. We have no actual first hand comments by that Catholic chaplain.
4. The Catholic chaplain was reassigned... apparently out of the military archdiocese to a podunk parish in Louisiana.
5. His successor at that parish says he is unaware that his predecessor was at Roswell.
6. A now dead parishioner asked the successor what the Church teaches about possible life on other planets.
7. The successor suggests a possible reason for assigning the Catholic chaplain to Roswell is that Catholic priests "take confessions".

Am I understanding this correctly?

The only light I can shed on this is as follows:
1. The parish in Louisiana exists.
2. The name of the current parish priest is correctly identified in the article.
3. I have never heard the term "take confessions" used in reference to the Sacrament until that article.

On an unrelated note. Well over a decade ago Art Bell hyped some letters from a "Vatican priest" for several nights, I think it may have even lasted for more than a year. It was full of cloak and dagger type stuff, it was quite the wild ride. Except whoever wrote the letters was about as Catholic as you are. lol. Catholics, especially priests, speak a whole different language when talking about the Church... and I don't mean Latin. Usually we don't even know we're doing it. So maybe it is a related note because seeing the term "take confessions" makes me wonder... cops take confessions, Catholic priests hear them.

As I've written before, and will continue to write whenever I'm asked: We have no reason to believe that hypothetical creatures who are actually from another planet are fallen. For us, the fall came through Adam, unless these hypothetical space aliens are transplanted from earth they didn't fall through Adam.

If these supposed space aliens are angels and/or demons it's a whole different thing.

I suppose if one really wants to go nuts we could theorize that prior to the flood there was a highly advanced human civilization on earth and whoever might be out there zipping around in space left before the deluge. Maybe they're descendants of the heroes of old, those men of renown... the Nephilim. If we want to take our flights of fancy off in that direction I'll tell you right now that I'm done sleeping forever and henceforth I will be sitting in a vat of holy water with a relic encrusted baseball bat in one hand and a jet fuel powered sanctuary lamp in the other. So we're not going off in that direction, because frankly the very idea gives my heebies all kinds of jeebies.