The “story” behind Roswell, is that the UFO crashed because of a then-new powerful pulsed Raytheon radar system out of the nearby Holloman AFB. There were no flight controls on the craft that we would recognize as such, it was done telepathically.
Please don’t take it to mean my recounting of the tale indicates I believe it, just that is the story.
If you read the analysis reports on the Roswell and Socorro crashes, you will also see that they could be describing touch screens. Unknown in those days, those would not have been recognized. One comment in the analysis did propose some sort of tactile touch was used.
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