Hi recoverer
I just came across this independently at another site, but the link you posted is to a beter article.
Of course we've heard this before so it isn't big news except to the people involved. the part about probably ending up in Leavenworth if you told the truth back then is disconcerting.
The article I came across
/Technology/airmen-govt-clean-ufos/story?id=11738715&page=1has an interesting twist; in it is the suggestion that it would be fruitful to just look at the phenomena as a physical thing (ie drop the alien source idea at least for the moment) and investigate it as unexplained physical phenomena. Just look at the raw data. At least that way we could talk about the sightings and avoid the total denial. Of course sometimes that is done when someone can offer a known physical explanation as an alternative to "aliens."