Personally, I find the scenario of surgically altered children remotely flown to the United States all the way from Russia to be far more unlikely than the idea that aliens crashed.
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
When it comes to the story as told to Annie Jacobsen by Alfred O’Donnell, only two possibilities exist: the story of the Russian/Nazi saucers, the terribly altered children, and the plan to destabilize the United States by creating a faked alien intrusion is either true or it is disinformation. Many UFO researchers who have studied the Roswell affair deeply—such as Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, who have done a huge amount of research into the case and who have written books on the subject, including Witness to Roswell and The Children of Roswell —dismiss the O’Donnell story, concluding that the extraterrestrial angle is as solid as a rock.
Admittedly, though, and as we saw above, the key threads of Nazi saucers, the Horten brothers, and the U.S. intelligence community’s interest in the pair in relation to the rumor that they may have constructed UFO-like craft do admittedly weave their way through the history of ufology.
If the story of a Russian plot designed to deceive the U.S. government into thinking that aliens were invading is true, then entire swathes of UFO lore and research will have to be rewritten, maybe even completely thrown in the garbage. Certainly, O’Donnell’s account was not brief or vague. It was extremely well constructed and highly detailed, but if further research and time reveal that the Stalin angle itself was a piece of American disinformation to hide a crashed alien spacecraft, then the field of ufology will likely unite in congratulatory fashion.
Personally, I find the scenario of surgically altered children remotely flown to the United States all the way from Russia to be far more unlikely than the idea that aliens crashed. Also, with regard to my skepticism, the two most important questions of all are as follows. The first goes like this: if the Russians had indeed gotten their hands on a Horten-built—or a Horteninspired—aircraft that could perform all kinds of aerial feats and outperform anything that the United States was flying at the time, then why on earth would they allow such a technologically advanced craft to fall into the hands of the U.S. military?
That angle makes no sense at all. It would be akin to the United States, in the Second World War, handing over the secrets of the atomic bomb to Adolf Hitler. When those poor children exited the craft and stood before shocked government officials—which was surely a part of the Soviet plan—U.S. authorities would surely have grabbed the craft immediately, and the Russians must have known that the American military would do exactly that.
That latter point leads to the second question: if the Soviets were so intent on having the U.S. government believe that the object that came down at Roswell was extraterrestrial, what would have prompted them to have on display, inside the craft, what Jacobsen described as “Russian writing” and as “letters from the Cyrillic alphabet”? Such an instant giveaway would have completely and quickly ruined Stalin’s plans to deceive America. Unless, of course, you believe that the aliens speak and write in Russian, which is an even more absurd scenario.
Something very weird did indeed happen in early July 1947 in the wilds of New Mexico. It has been the subject of numerous theories and several U.S. government-driven disinformation programs. Apart from intriguing statements suggesting that the bodies and wreckage of the craft are stored somewhere on Area 51, we still don’t know for sure what it all amounted to or where it came from. One day, maybe, we’ll finally learn which one of the stories is the real one. If, that is, the higher-ups at a certain secure base in Nevada deem us worthy of knowing, which, given their history, unfortunately, is most unlikely. The enigma that is Roswell remains, and it remains steadfastly behind closed doors.