I would be very interested in this book. Thanks for mentioning it.
Roswell AFB had two important historical characteristics. First, it was the site where the WWII nuclear bombers and crews trained to drop atomic bombs. Second, it was a site that supported the use of balloons as means of aerial photo-reconnaissance. It was the evidence of a failed balloon that Jesse Marcel presented as alien material, as a cover story to conceal the secret spying project. After that, the spying was conducted by the CORONA photo-reconnaissance satellites as a secret program, under the cover name of the "Discoverer" satellites. So, if you want to say that the Roswell balloon spying program was "the start" of a satellite spying program, you could call that a "secret space program" and it would be true enough. But it would only be spy satellite program, not an alien technology program, or a separate manned space program. And not exactly secret over the past recent decades.
I would be very interested in this book. Thanks for mentioning it.
Roswell AFB had two important historical characteristics. First, it was the site where the WWII nuclear bombers and crews trained to drop atomic bombs. Second, it was a site that supported the use of balloons as means of aerial photo-reconnaissance. It was the evidence of a failed balloon that Jesse Marcel presented as alien material, as a cover story to conceal the secret spying project. After that, the spying was conducted by the CORONA photo-reconnaissance satellites as a secret program, under the cover name of the "Discoverer" satellites. So, if you want to say that the Roswell balloon spying program was "the start" of a satellite spying program, you could call that a "secret space program" and it would be true enough. But it would only be spy satellite program, not an alien technology program, or a separate manned space program. And not exactly secret over the past recent decades.