Former CIA officer and Defense Department official who became one of the most careful researchers of the Roswell Incident 1947, and whose Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe (2001) argued from inside the pro-Roswell community that the debris was Project Mogul.
Why the position is unusual
He was not a debunker arriving from outside. He interviewed the witnesses, took the testimony seriously, and concluded that the balloon explanation fit the physical evidence while the crash-and-bodies narrative had grown by accretion, which cost him standing with people who had been his allies. That trajectory, a believer who followed his own evidence out of the position, is rarer in this literature than either of the two camps.
He is also the source of one of the sharper dating objections to The Day After Roswell: Project Corona’s first launches predate Philip J. Corso’s Pentagon posting by two years, which bears on the book’s account of shaping that programme.
Connections
Roswell Incident 1947 · Project Mogul · The Day After Roswell · Philip J. Corso · Project Corona · Kevin Randle · Mac Brazel · Jesse Marcel