Not as intelligence-insulting as most of this fare even though 75% is just rehashing the pro's and con's of the Roswell myth, of which I was an ardent believer in at one time. The other 25% of the episode attempts to "re-create" the crash of what they refer to as a "scaled down" facsimile of a Project Mogul surveillance balloon train. Quite telling that the producers utilized the services of a Hollywood special effects designer to fabricate the assorted accouterments of such an undertaking rather then anyone with a background in constant level ballooning. He and his team of assistants give it the old college try and appear to be sincere about the effort.
But like SciFi Channel's Roswell archaeology dig fiasco the results are less than impressive - A meager pile of tinfoil trash which isn't big enough to convince the believers and leaves the skeptics at a loss to explain why it looks so paltry. We the viewer understand why Discovery couldn't just whip up a 650 foot long 26 balloon train with all the fixins, but the end result is a null-sum gain. Insult is added to injury by giving David Rudiak and his chocolate bars screentime to mockingly dismiss the Mogul explanation as a farce after more or less showing us exactly what his ET explanation seems to refute. Couldn't book Kevin Randle, I guess.
What the episode does manage to do effectively is demonstrate how human exaggeration, misinterpretation and outright prevarication has resulted in myth which circumvents the scientific method's ability to explain it. You either believe it or you don't, see, and which way one leans is likely more related to their inner character than whatever verifiable facts there are to draw a conclusion on. Or, all that the guy found on his ranch was an equally unimpressive pile of trash which ignorance, enthusiasm and chicanery morphed into flying saucer debris. Just look at how quickly COVID rumor misinformation took hold for a modern day example of a similar cultural dumbing down.
That people can be so eager to believe such things in the face of overwhelming evidence against is usually an indication that you are onto something and the Roswell industry is still big business. Those pro-ET crash landing books will never go away and reasons to write new ones are being concocted right now by those who surely know better. Look at it all as situationist science fiction, the books/programs as entertainment, this one less noxious than most, and as long keep your wallet in your pocket no harm done.
A few bonus points by giving some airtime to Roswell skeptics Dave Thomas and Joe Nickell rouding out the horse and pony approach, always enjoyable to hear them shred the ET explanation to the fore winds. And the late Stanton Friedman keeps in character by dismissing their balloon experiment as an act of futility which will only further the divide. In the end the program is neither here nor there, just sort of existing as a diverting way to toke away 45 minutes of being stuck inside on a cold winter's night.