The first description telephoned to the FBI on the day of the Roswell crash…a nice closure. A disc suspended by a balloon

That settles that.

If true and given they kept it a secret, is there any chances it could have been a spy balloon? instead of weather balloon? i mean recent incursion into US airspace by a chinese spy balloon, it could be a potental right? or nah

Edit

I did some generic research of the era, and found two interesting things :

The US military launched 448 spy balloons in the 1960’s or something towards the USSR from turkey and some other place, and below

in 1948, a specially-built balloon carrying meteorological instruments and flown by Fort Monmouth’s Evans Signal Laboratory in Wall Township set a balloon altitude record when it reached 140,000 feet – 27,200 feet higher than the previous maximum.

I personly think it was either an enemy of the US or infact just a US spy balloon, rather than a weather balloon, idk, seems most weather balloons gained traction in 1957, and this happened 10 years before.

Edit upon looking even further into the rabbit hole i discovered :

The Fu-Go Balloon bomb. Between November 1944 and April 1945, the [Imperial Japanese Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army) launched about 9,300 balloons from sites on coastal [Honshu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu), of which about 300 were found or observed in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The bombs were ineffective as fire starters due to damp seasonal conditions, with no forest fires being attributed to the offensive. A U.S. media censorship campaign prevented the Imperial Army from learning of the offensive’s results. On May 5, 1945, six civilians were killed by one of the bombs near [Bly, Oregon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bly,_Oregon), becoming the war’s only deaths by enemy action in the contiguous United States. The Fu-Go balloon bomb was the first weapon system with intercontinental range.

It has all the things in the discription as well, it has metal peice below, with alot of different materials, rubber, rope, and the balloon, while it does resemble a weather balloon, its quite clearly not

jibes with the theory that al o’donnel told Annie Jacobsen for her Area 51 book. Stalin wanted to create a war of the world’s hoax to mess with the usa and with old nazi scientists managed to fly a craft from the Soviet Union. frighteningly, it also involved genetic mutations of the purported pilots to appear child like and malformed like what an alien might look like.

lots of people don’t believe that deathbed confession from o’donnel but i think that’s more people wanting the truth to be more sensational than it already was. perhaps we’ll find out the truth about roswell with further ufo file releases but i kind of doubt that will satisfy the most hardcore ufologists. even if it’s revealed that it was a soviet hoax, many will likely double down about the conspiracy of it all. and thus, the conflated story worked to muddy the waters and keep the public in the dark and guessing about secret alien coverups when perhaps all it was was an attempt to distract from weapons development during the post ww2/cold war era.

What about the coffins from the local undertaker? And the “Roswell Case Closed” that said the bodies were crash test dummies….execpt those dummies weren’t in use till years later? When a government cover up report has a lie in it, and the USAF representative smirks when questioned about this at the official press conference and states on the televised press announcement at the white House press briefing room “I don’t have an explanation for that”….on the ‘final conclusive here’s all the answers on Roswell so we’ll never have to go over it again or have any unanswered questions’…..yeah I’m gonna need more info!