A fit man could walk back to Macrihanish, where candidates for helping with said kit were based - but they did disappear a few weeks later, didn't they? - back over the pond, wasn't it?
In 1996, I spoke to a landlady in Campbeltown who had had a young American SEAL staying there - for a few nights after the crash, the poor lad had apparently had terrible nightmares, waking the whole guesthouse with his screams, and his mattress was so soaked in sweat that she had to throw it out.
Just circumstantial but a lot more likely person of interest than a green man with a flying saucer.
On what grounds has the theory of a controlled approach to a known HLS marked with a PRC112 been debunked? Please point it out and save me wasting my time.