Thoroughly and skillfully debunked, but not proven false. The debunking is just as much hearsay as the claims themselves, and the article you referenced is hardly unbiased - the number of third-party straw-men arguments, implicatory conclusions and yes, hearsay "facts" pads the hell out of the thing.
I believe, though he was 10 years old, Jesse reported what he actually experienced, and his dad was silenced by the cover-up. The military blew it - they admitted it before they denied it, and the absurdity of the weather balloon story just doesn't even remotely pass the smell test.
But what I have never believed is that a ship just "crashed" because of an electrical storm, after travelling from who knows where. We either figured out how to shoot it down, or "they" arranged it as a sacrifice to try to get us to admit it was real, or to transfer technology to us, or both.
But no matter what, I really hope they aren't galactic proctologists.
Unless, of course, they set the whole thing up as a pretend mistake, in order to create the belief that they were hiding the UFO truth, because that was the way they wanted people to start getting used to the idea of UFOs (or they were playing both sides of the fence on the release of the information).
Wheels within wheels...
“Thoroughly and skillfully debunked, but not proven false.”
Just as with global warming, there are many people who will not accept any contrary evidence, no matter how convincing.
Jesse was 11 years old.
According to him. I figure he knew how old he was.
Even former nuclear weapon 'watch officers' will joke about their jobs on occasion, but there isn't a similar wherewithal regarding those associated with reverse engineering hi-tech UFO related topics.
If one can't verify the principal argument, consider the dual.