Counterintelligence

After seventy-five years, one thorny question still haunts us: What - exactly - crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947?

The U.S. Air Force makes it easy to learn its truth about the discovery. It was top-secret Project Mogul - a high-altitude, data-gathering balloon. You can trust these findings and move on.

But if you struggle with the mixed messages - the flying saucer press release of July 8, the weather balloon correction of July 9, and the re-explanation in a 1994 report - then, like Richard Kestner, you might still ponder this sticky question.

A lifelong military person, Counterintelligence author Richard Kestner struggled to believe that the highly-trained military personnel of Roswell Army Airfield - the first-ever nuclear-capable combat unit - could not tell the difference between a weather balloon and an aircraft or spacecraft.

Driven by curiosity and backed by years of in-depth research, Richard brings a fresh look, solid reasoning, and compelling facts to investigate this enduring question to shed light on the truth.

During more than 8 years in Roswell and an additional 10 years of research at the National Archives and the United States Air Force Historical Agency in Montgomery, Alabama It became abundantly apparent that when Colonel Butch Blanchard issued that press release on 8 July 1947, he wasn't kidding about a flying disc or saucer. U S Army Colonel, combat pilot, and Flight Surgeon Jesse Marcel, Jr. wasn't kidding either when he described the material his father showed him as not of this earth. The only Colonel who appeared to have a problem with the Roswell Incident was Colonel Richard Weaver, chief counterintelligence for the U S Air Force in 1994 who somehow commandeered the Government Accounting Office's investigation of the Roswell Incident and wrote an official report that admitted U S Air Force had lied about the weather balloon in 1947-it was a Top Secret balloon. These three Colonels are keys to understanding what really happened in 1947, 1994, and continues today.

This book is about Extraterrestrial life not aliens, Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) not UFOs, and Counterintelligence not Coverup. It is current for 2022 with historical overview of Intelligence/Counterintelligence that should assist in understanding the current, more open discussion of UAP.