Dodgson
De mon côté, je penche plutôt pour une solution à la Nick Redfern :
"IT WAS A CONSPIRACY TO HIDE A SECRET EXPERIMENT ""RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region."" Ever since this provocative headline appeared on July 8, 1947, conspiracy theorists have sincerely believed that the U.S. government has maintained an extensive operation of cover-up-and-denial regarding its knowledge of alien life. But there was, in fact, no UFO crash with dead alien bodies. What really happened on that fateful day is much more sinister. The persistent rumors surrounding the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, are part of a bigger conspiracy -- one orchestrated and fostered by the government itself as a smokescreen to bury a truth that is much darker, and disturbingly, far more believable. Now, through never-before-revealed testimony from military whistleblowers, eyewitness intelligence reports, and an astonishing body of corroborative evidence, Nick Redfern lays out a shockingly plausible new theory on the Roswell incident: that the crash-site discovery of prototype military aircraft would expose a damning secret -- a highly confidential, U.S. government-sanctioned program to conduct medical experiments on deformed, handicapped, disfigured, and diseased Japanese POWs, exploited as ""expendable"" victims by their captors. An important account that forces us to take a closer look at both the Roswell story and post-war American history, BODY SNATCHERS IN THE DESERT casts a startling, new light on a shocking conspiracy more than half a century in the making. "
J' avais pensé à une hypothèse analogue bien avant Redfern, dès le début des années 90. J'avais supposé que les militaires US balançaient dans la haute atmosphère, dans des ballons ou peut-être même des dérivés de V-2, des Japonais qu'ils avaient fait prisonniers pendant la 2ème guerre mondiale, pour voir. Il devait y avoir possibilité de récupération, mais l'accident était loin d'être exclu, d'où Roswell (et peut-être d'autres cas qui se sont passés dans la discrétion). J'ai été assez impressionné par le témoignage du sergent Melvin Brown, tel que rapporté pas sa fille :
"He told us that they were nothing to be scared of. They were friendly-looking and had nice faces. They looked Asian, he said, but had larger heads and no hair. They looked a yellowy colour [remarque : "yellowy", pas "grey" !]. He was frightened a bit, because he knew he shouldn't be doing it, so he only had a quick glimpse. But he said thet could have passed for Chinese - they had slanted eyes" (Timothy Good, Alien Liaison).
Cette hypothèse a un certain succès en Grande-Bretagne (Stuart Miller, et je crois aussi Mark Pilkington), mais aucun aux USA (j'ai pourtant essayé...). Normal : les "tenants" ne veulent pas que l'on casse leurs rêves, et les "sceptiques" sont, aux Etats-Unis, très "droite patriotique" (Klass, Sheaffer, Oberg).
Dodgson