Yeah, he told me about it only a few years back. It changed him for life. It ruined his military career.
That’s terrible.
What happened to “the truth shall set ye free?” We pay a price for being truthtellers.
The Area 51 Roswell crash story began with the truth then the second day changed over to the silly “weather balloon” lie (that type of balloon was put into service for the first time over a year later).
A documentary I saw had the now grown and older little daughter of the man who is pictured holding the metal sheeting in the false news stories of the crash. She said as a little girl she clearly remembers how it was so disturbing to her to see her father crying, telling her mother he was going to have to lie or they warned him they would falsify psychiatric problems on his record and discharge him without a pension unless he lied for them. They said to find aluminum foil, even from his aunt’s freezer if need be, and bring it to say that was found at the crash site. He complied.