Robert Sheaffer, a veteran UFO critic and author of the “Bad UFOs” blog, told Discovery News that “If the slide promoters were seeking credibility (as opposed to a quick buck), they could not have made a worse choice than Maussan… He has made a lucrative career peddling dodgy photos and videos of UFOs, alien beings, and the like. He previously promoted a skinned dead squirrel monkey as an alien creature…. While the fiasco of the Roswell Slides was a huge embarrassment to ‘Roswell research,’ and to UFOlogy in general, there were nonetheless some hopeful aspects of it. Many well-known UFO researchers were skeptical of claimed ‘smoking gun’ photos of unknown origin and content, and there was excellent cooperation between skeptics and UFO proponents to solve the riddle of the Roswell Slides.”
Despite the fact that the crash of a weather balloon in Roswell, New Mexico, happened nearly 70 years ago, dubious “newly found” eyewitnesses and photos seem to surface every few years. As long as there’s another dollar to be wrung out the mystery, they will likely continue to surface—shortly before being debunked.