Let me comment on the Einstein in Roswell story

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Most of you know, as does Tony Bragalia, that I’m not a fan of the crashed disk and alien bodies scenarios attributed to Roswell in 1947.
 
First off, I don’t think UFOs or flying saucers have crashed or are crashing all over the place, The idea is ludicrous, if UFOs are, indeed, interplanetary aircraft.
 
Something happened in Roswell but it wasn’t a flying disk accident.
 
That little alien bodies were allegedly spotted by Roswell area residents – and only related after 1978,  not in the 1947 time-frame –  bodes ill for the authenticity of such observations, but that so many claimed to see such bodies is either a massive sociopathic malfeasance or a delayed delusion that requires psychiatric or sociologic study.
 
I’ve written, professionally about Einstein for a very long time, and I fund a group that studies his life and work [The Einstein Fellowship]. Nowhere do I recall any vibrant interest in UFOs or flying saucers by the great scientist, but I can imagine that he’d have caught wind of the topic and took some slight interest in it.
 
For me, the “interview” with his assistant Shirley Wright, provided in Tony Bragalia’s article, is an authentic occasion of truth-telling by Ms. Wright.
 
Her responses are forthright and without hesitancy or guile as best as I can tell. If she is lying or concocting her account, she’s a damn good hoaxer, something that goes against everything known about her.
 
That Einstein was in Roswell, seeing alien bodies or trying to communicate with a supposed living entity, goes against everything I know about him or Roswell, but there it is.
 
The story is big, no matter which way one comes down on it: the interview, the gist of the interview, and the character of the woman telling about the episode.
 
To discount it out of hand is ignorant. To accept it as a truthful account, on the basis of the interview alone, is just as flawed.
 
That the story needs more confirmation goes without saying, but the matter deserves confirmation, that’s certain.
 
So, let’s have at it, you naysayers and believers too. That’s what “ufology” should be.

N.B. See my important comment below.
 
RR