Project MOGUL. Weather balloons trying to listen for Soviet nuke testing, and we didn’t want the commies to know that we were trying to listen. That’s what Roswell 1947 was.
Plenty of other strange incidents that weren’t explained, this one was.
MOGUL was the cover up. Generals Jesse Marcel Jr & Sr. both explained on their deathbeds that the incident was indeed an ET craft that was covered up. General Haut did the same on his deathbed. So did about four other officers and one senior NCO.
The only part you remember about the Air Force “Case Closed” report in 1994? Why don’t you try reconciling that decades after the fact report, with the actual eyewitness testimony? Too big a lift for you? Spoiler alert- The intelligence officer at the only nuclear qualified bombing squadron in the world at the time, could tell the difference between a balloon crash, and a saucer crash. Just like you can tell the difference between a Camaro, and a 727.