You were doing so well until you stated these things. One of the biggest myths about Roswell is that the AF keeps changing their story. This is not true but UFO groups want everyone to believe it. You have just joined the club of many people who have fallen for this line. I will, once again, recount this myth.

1. The Roswell AF base originally stated they had found the remains of a crashed disc. Not a spaceship, not a ufo, not an unknown aircraft but a crashed disc. If you look at what a flying disc was being reported as in July 1947, you will discover that it had to be shiny so people can see it when it was airborne and that it was in the sky. During the first half of July, many people reported finding crashed discs. Many of them turned out to be......

2. The "crashed disc" was sent to Wright field via HQ at Fort Worth. There, the commanding general took one look at it and saw it for what it was. A radar reflector and weather balloon materials. He verified this by calling in a weather officer to identify the materials. Photographs were taken, the debris disposed of and the story died away. In July 1947, the only thing that had "flip-flopped" was the fact that RAAF had misidentified what the debris was. Considering the fact they did not posess such reflectors on their base and they were somewhat new to the military inventory (as was radar), it is not unexpected for this to have happened.

3. Thanks to UFO groups congress brought pressure onto the USAF to investigate the matter in the early 1990s. As a result, the actual source of the weather balloons and reflectors was identified as coming from project MOGUL. They did not change the story, they just clarified where the materials came from.

4. In 1997, the USAF issued a second report in response to further complaints by UFO groups claiming that they did not address the reports of alien bodies in the 1994 report. The 1997 report is an addendum that only talks about the alien body side of the legend. It did not change any findings from the 1994 report. All they did was say a lot of the stories sounded like recovery operations that had occured in the area in the 1950s involving parachute testing at high altitudes. They could have called some of the individuals liars (which it turns out some of them were - i.e. Anderson and Dennis) but they gave them an "out" by saying they confused the events.

I am not sure what flip-flopping has been done by the government on the Zamora case. They could not identify the source and that is where it has stood as far as the USAF is concerned.

Area 51 is what it is because of legal reasons and security. It is not because of secret alien bases. However, I can see why people don't trust the government because of the base's checkered past.