Chase Brandon, a career CIA officer, claimed in 2012 that he had seen a “Roswell” box inside Langley, then published a novel that turns Roswell into a cosmology. Three questions need separating: what Brandon said, what the box could have contained, and what his fiction reveals. AI assistance disclosure: I take notes while watching interviews, then revisit transcripts to extract relevant passages. I use AI to help research and draft, read the sources it turns up, and revise the post through fu...