Ex-US Army officer 'saw alien size of a 10-year-old kid' after Roswell New Mexico crash

The term "Unidentified Flying Objects" (UFO) which came into widespread usage through initial military efforts to make the study of flying saucers more scientific, was in fact part of the deception ordered by senior national security officials. National Security officials already knew that flying saucers were extraterrestrial in origin, but encouraged a public campaign to emphasize the unidentified nature of the phenomenon, which the UFO term implies, and the need to identify UFOs by scientific means. At the same time, national security officials would use all their resources to undermine scientific studies and debunk evidence concerning the reality of UFO's as extraterrestrial vehicles.