Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries and moral tales of the Bible is the swift and total destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, when an angry God supposedly rained fire and brimstone on a sinful and degenerate people — and wiped them off the face of the earth.

Another equally credible witness, who followed Army communications information officer Walter Haut’s example by filing an affidavit forever setting the record straight, was the intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel’s son, Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. His involvement in the Roswell incident began that night in July 1947 his father woke the 11-year-old boy up to show him some of the wreckage from the crashed UFO.

When I was a hard news reporter, I never gave much thought to the credence of UFO reports.

At best, I thought a few of the many thousands of eyewitness sightings were actually sightings of secret military aircraft, the result of some yet unknown natural phenomenon, or the work of hoaxers — or the delusions of crackpots.