I am a big skeptic on Roswell. I think something beyond a balloon came down there, but beyond that, who knows. I have seen little credible evidence beyond "stories" that suggest it could be anything "alien." With that out of the way, I never really liked Kevin' personality (he might be a great guy). He has always come across as an "one-upper" in conversations and tries to be the smartest guy at the table. I can see now why he has clashed with just about everyone in the UFO scene, even his co-authors who he has broken from, both professionally and narratively.
Kevin loves to knock people on their "embellished military record" or "inaccuracies in their history," but let's not forget it was Randle who once peddled a Ph.D. at the end of the name, a "degree" he earned from a now-defunct bible college/diploma mill. He will tell you they were "legit" when he, "wrote his thesis" but the fact he no longer uses the fake Ph.D. title is very telling (he doesn't even value it). Randle probably just, again, wanted to one-up the field. "Oh, Stanton only has a Masters, as does Dolan, wait until I put Ph.D. at the end of my name, that will show them."
I remember several years ago when Randle mentioned how the "dream team" of Roswell investigators got back together and were working on something of a grand finale book. The final chapter in the Roswell case, written by the original gang. I remember Kevin appearing on Dark Matters Radio around 2014 or 2015 and totally 100% defending the Roswell narrative, right down to the aliens. I remember arguing with him and begging him to fall back on his military training and common sense because I didn't think there would be anyway the "aliens" would let us "keep" their craft. Just like our military will purposely destroy their hardware in the field to prevent the enemy from gaining access to it. I told him I found it funny that he thinks a little chain-linked fence and an armed 19-year-old armed with a (relative) pea shooter was going to "secure" the flying disc. I argued the aliens if they are "self-concealing," would simply take their UFO back or make it disappear. I didn't find it believable we would have the means to even "keep" such a craft from such an advanced race of beings. He didn't like that, he doubled down on the whole classic UFO Roswell Crash story...
This all changed when the infamous Roswell Mummy came to the forefront. If you remember, the researchers pushing that were members of the so-called dream team, however, one guy was missing, Randle. I again remember Randle talking about how he was essentially left out of the loop on the whole mummy fiasco despite supposedly being part of the team. I think this left a bad taste in his mouth. It was clear he was being shunned by the group, regardless of the merit of the mummy. Eventually, the mummy fiasco exploded in everyone's face and it was rather embarrassing, but I could not help but notice Randle's contempt for slight. His colleagues went out of their way to exclude him from the meat of that research and it upset him. Since that time Kevin has done a total 180 on Roswell, now he views it skeptically, is far less bullish on the "alien" aspects of the case, and totally contradicts his previous views. Now, he will tell you changed his mind after years of research and a "cold case review of the data." I would argue his feelings are just hurt. He once again had a falling out with people in the field and that falling out would mean he would no longer be part of the Grand Finale book, the final chapter so to speak. So rather than just accept that, keep his integrity and move on, he is essentially crapping on everything Roswell. "Oh, you want to exclude me from the Dream Team book, then I am going to write my own book that basically calls Roswell a bunch of unsubstantiated stores." That move was meant to delegitimize the case and suck any potential profits out of any pro-alien Roswell books that might come out from his former buddies.
I fully admit I am speculating and reading between the lines to form my opinion of the situation. I could be wrong. Also, when I say, I remember Randle talking, this would be from his numerous radio interviews over the years, where he spoke about some of the issues in my post.
He lost some education between these two book!!!
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