So the senator still doesn’t know what was shot down over his state. Spy balloons have always been the go to. Even after Roswell they first admitted it was a UFO the next couple of days it became a weather ballon. And every sense people who have come forward are generally always slandered or criticized.
The only person who thought it was a UFO was the one goofy air force officer who came to investigate it. He picked up all the foil and metal pieces and sticks (yes, this supposed UFO in 1947 was built partially with fukking balsa wood sticks), took them back to the base, and told his friend to put out a press release stating they've found wreckage from one of the flying saucers that everyone was talking about. Then he drove the shyt to a superior officer and the guy laughed at him and told him it was a fukking balloon. The pictures are all public.
There WAS a coverup with Roswell, but it wasn't a UFO coverup. That shyt isn't a weather balloon, in reality it was a balloon from top-secret Project Mogul, which had gone missing three weeks earlier. Project Mogul was a project to put audio antennae arrays in the upper atmosphere in order to detect long-distance sound waves from Soviet nuclear tests. That's why there were very thin, strong, lightweight metal pieces in the array in addition to the balloon foil. The military didn't want to disclose that they were launching high-altitude balloons with sonic arrays, so they used the weather balloon cover story.
And that's the whole story. The officer never claimed he saw a craft, never claimed he saw bodies, there was no other story there. All he found were some pieces of wreckage of a time he had never seen before, that he misidentified because flying saucer hysteria had been at an all-time high.
Some 30 years later, the officer came out and said, "I'm sure they're hiding something, that wasn't no weather balloon." But he still kept the rest of the story the same, still said it was just wreckage with no bodies or anything, and still said the photos of him with the wreckage were legitimate. Later in the 1980s, some 40 years afterwards, random grifters made up stories about alien bodies and an intact spacecraft and blah blah blah. But that shyt had NOTHING to do with the original story. And the air force officer (who had a history of lying about his credentials, like claiming he was an Air Force pilot who had shot down enemy aircraft when he'd never been trained to fly at all), started altering his story long after the fact once people pointed out the wreckage was perfectly combatable with a balloon.
Roswell is one of the silliest ones out there. Nothing in the original story makes it sound like a UFO at all, nothing in the pictures looks like a UFO at all. If it wasn't for that one press release that got sent out and all the new stories made up about it in the 1980s, it would have been a complete non-event.