Why did nobody remember or talk about Roswell for thirty years, until Friedman decided there was ‘something there’?
I have read a bunch of UFO books, attended UFO conventions, studied the subject for many years, and I am now convinced it is 99% fakery and/or disinformation.
The 1% is interesting, but good luck separating the wheat from the chaff.
Probably because the neuralizer effect wears off after 30 years.
I read a book titled The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal Korff mainly because I thought it was another hokey "expose" of the incident cover-up.
It turned out to be a riot, for the author peeled away each witness like an onion and revealed that most of the witnesses were B/S artists, with the most egregious being the undertaker and his "child size coffins". The most unusual part of that whole thing was how memories grew sharper over the years, with new "remembered" items/events being added with each retelling.
I agree with this author that what was found was a radar reflector from a spy balloon, one of many, which the govt wanted to keep secret (spying in Russian air space to see if they had developed the A-Bomb).
The interesting sidebars were all those authors who climbed on the bandwagon, jumping to conclusions (of Olympic magnitude) or outright making things up, with Berlitz being an outright fraud.
IMO, the museum in Rosewell did a good job of being even-handed, which was a surprise to me as the city played it up for the tourists.
Rosewell is a good example of how a mystery can be created out of thin air and gullible people - much like the Bermuda Triangle nonsense.
Frank Edwards wrote about it long before Friedman.