I stayed up until 7 a.m. looking into Roswell the other night. And reading through sections of interest from these two books, which I recommend (although the Roswell one requires prior knowledge of the incident) I have to admit that the evidence for crash retrievals isn't as good as I thought. Roswell might be one of the best cases, but the evidence for anything non-human is still nothing definitive. In fact, the evidence is worse now than it was 30 years ago. Kevin Randle was one of the big Roswell researchers back in the '90s (you may have seen him on the History Channel decades ago), but even he's not so sure about Roswell these days given problems that have been exposed with some of the sources of information. I read through the Crash section on the 1965 Kecksburg incident, which I'd thought was a pretty solid one, but even that entails going through a lot of conflicting information. I'm no expert, but Randle is probably the most grounded UFO researcher I know who comes at the topic from a pro-ET-hypothesis viewpoint.
Up until David Grusch going public and seeing the video from The Why Files video about Mark McCandlish, I'd previously never bothered looking into any of the stories about recovered alien technology. Jacques Vallee seemed to think Roswell was a distraction, so that might have kept me away. I'd always been interested in UFOs in a kind of passive way growing up, but reading Dimensions by Jacques Vallee was what got me looking deeper into UFOs in the first p