Editing Roswell incident (section)

===Competing accounts and schism===
A proliferation of competing Roswell accounts led to a schism among ufologists in the early 1990s.<ref name="Saler-p24">{{harvnb|Saler|Ziegler|Moore|1997|p=24}}</ref> The two leading UFO societies disagreed on the scenarios presented by Randle–Schmitt and Friedman–Berliner. One issue was the location of Barnett's account. A 1992 UFO conference attempted to achieve a consensus among the various scenarios portrayed in ''Crash at Corona'' and ''UFO Crash at Roswell''; however, the publication of ''The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell'' "resolved" the Barnett problem by simply ignoring Barnett and citing a new location for the alien craft recovery, including a new group of archaeologists not connected the Barnett story.<ref name="Saler-p24-25">{{harvnb|Saler|Ziegler|Moore|1997|pp=24–25}}</ref>

====''UFO Crash at Roswell''====
[[File:Screenshot_of_Alien_Prop_from_Roswell,_The_UFO_Cover_Up_(1994).jpeg|thumb|right|alt=Grey alien film prop |Still from the 1994 film ''[[Roswell (film)|Roswell: The UFO Cover Up]]'', based on the 1991 book.  After filming, the prop became part of a permanent exhibit at a Roswell tourist attraction.<ref>{{harvnb|Yardley|2019}}</ref>]]
In 1991, Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt published ''UFO Crash at Roswell''.<ref name="Saler 1997 20">{{harvnb|Saler|Ziegler|Moore|1997|pp=20}}</ref> The 1991 book sold 160,000 copies and served as the basis for the 1994 television film ''[[Roswell (film)|Roswell]]''.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p199">{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=199}}</ref> Randle and Schmitt added testimony from 100 new witnesses.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p197" /> Though hundreds of people were interviewed by various researchers, only a few claimed to have seen debris or aliens. According to Pflock, of the 300-plus individuals reportedly interviewed for ''UFO Crash at Roswell'' (1991), only 23 could be "reasonably thought to have seen physical evidence, debris". Of these, only seven asserted anything suggestive of otherworldly origins for the debris.<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|pp=176–177}}</ref>

{{external media|video1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9In3kaqf4&t=2487s Thomas DuBose interview] in ''Recollections of Roswell'' (1992)}}

The book claimed that General [[Arthur Exon]] had been aware of debris and bodies, but Exon disputed his depiction.<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=36}}</ref> Glenn Dennis's claims of an alien autopsy and Grady Barnett's "alien body" accounts appeared in the book.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 27, 1991 |last=Thompson |first=Fritz |title=The Roswell Incident |work=[[Albuquerque Journal]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/156680745/ |page=84 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=34}}</ref> However, the dates and locations of Barnett's account in ''The Roswell Incident'' were changed without explanation. Brazel was described as leading the Army to a second crash site on the ranch, where the Army personnel were supposedly "horrified to find civilians [including Barnett] there already."<ref>{{harvnb|Randle|Schmitt|1991|p=206}}</ref><ref name="Saler 1997 20"/> Also in 1991, retired [[US Air Force]] (USAF) Brigadier General [[Thomas DuBose]], who had posed with debris for press photographs in 1947, acknowledged the "weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press."<ref name="Pflock-2001-p33"/>

====''Crash at Corona''====
In 1992, Stanton Friedman released ''Crash at Corona'', co-authored with Don Berliner.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p199" /> The book introduced new "witnesses" and added to the narrative by doubling the number of flying saucers to two, and the number of aliens to eight{{snd}}two of which were said to have survived and been taken into custody by the government.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p199" /><ref name="Saler-p21">{{harvnb|Saler|Ziegler|Moore|1997|pp=21–22}}</ref> Friedman interviewed Lydia Sleppy the teletype operator who years earlier had said that she was ordered not to transmit a crashed saucer story.<ref name="Goldberg 2001 204">{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=204}}</ref> Friedman attributed Sleppy's account to FBI usage of an alleged nationwide surveillance system that he believed was put in place following "an earlier crash".<ref>{{harvnb|Friedman|Berliner|1997|p=132}}</ref>
<ref name="Goldberg 2001 204"/> However, no evidence was found that the FBI had ever monitored any transmissions from her radio station.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|p=43}}</ref> Friedman's description of her typing as "interrupted" by an FBI message and Moore's claim that "the machine suddenly stopped itself" were found to be impossible for the teletype model that Sleppy operated in 1947.<ref>{{harvnb|Friedman|Berliner|1997|p=12}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=175}}</ref>

====''The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell''====
In 1994, Randle and Schmitt authored another book, ''The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell'' which claimed a cargo plane delivered alien bodies to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref>{{harvnb|Randle|Schmitt|1994}}</ref><ref name="Goldberg-2001-p199" /> The book abandoned the Barnett crash site on the Plains of San Agustin as lacking evidence and contradicting its "framework of the Roswell event".<ref>{{harvnb|Randle|Schmitt|1994|p=155}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Saler|Ziegler|Moore|1997|p=25}}</ref> Randle and Schmitt proposed a new crash site 35 miles north of Roswell, based on statements from Jim Ragsdale and Frank Kaufman.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=97, 109}}</ref> The book hid Kaufman's identity behind the pseudonym "Steve MacKenzie", but Kaufman appeared in the 1995 British television documentary ''The Roswell Incident'' using his real name.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|p=108}}</ref> Kaufman claimed he monitored a UFO's path on radar and recovered debris from a crashed spaceship similar in shape to an [[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk|F-117 stealth fighter]].<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=107–108}}</ref> Kaufmann's statements did not match the personnel at the base, his service record, the radar technology available, or the known topography of the proposed crashed site.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|pp=97–98}}</ref> Jim Ragsdale claimed that while driving home along Highway 285 with his girlfriend Trudy Truelove, they watched a craft that was "narrow with a bat-like wing" crash.<ref>{{harvnb|Randle|Schmitt|1994|p=180}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|p=99}}</ref> A later interview with Ragsdale clarified that his alleged crash site was nowhere near either the purported Barnett or Kaufman sites.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|p=148}}</ref> In further interviews, Ragsdale's story grew to include bizarre details such as Ragsdale and Truelove removing eleven golden helmets from the alien craft to bury in the desert.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|p=100}}</ref>