And that's the problem with witness accounts and other evidence; people will listen to a degree, and you can wedge your foot into the doors of their minds, but unless they have experienced it for themselves or have testable proof, nothing really moves forward. And the majority of sightings and contacts are like that. Even when there is some kind of physical evidence (and there has really been none that has been shown to be truly anomalous), there is disagreement about results, etc., as with science generally. Even if there was a government announcement, many wouldn't believe it.
When I started this thread six years ago ( !!! ) I knew the majority of what I have found revisiting it but the thing I never had before was Gersten. Never heard of him. I'd heard bits and pieces but now have a much clearer picture of what happened.
Had those two jokers stayed home we would never had heard of this and the story would have been local and forgotten and would not be about boomerangs or triangles. At the time most of us knew what we were looking at and that includes the air traffic control tower in Danbury, CT as well as the one at the small Dutchess County Airport. In fact, Danbury was pissed. I think if you drill back in this thread the article's there.
If the people in Roswell were saying something like what I am saying would anyone listen? Nobody really was too worried about it until Berlitz and Moore came along and
defined the narrative but that's beside the point. Now they sure won't say that because it's industry, the same way the people of Gettysburg will now tell you it's haunted and rent you an EMF meter. I wonder when the Pine Bush UFO Fair is this year?
The hoaxers and military aircraft were just kindling and Gersten and Imbrogno were the arsonists fanning the flames getting people all worked up. We now know the latter was completely full of shit and the other sounds out for attention. At a minimum during that period they each had an agenda that wasn't exactly figuring out what was going on it was to push their theories.