It's been, like, 15 years since I watched the documentary on it.

All I remember for sure was the guy's friends telling them that someone from the military had actually contacted him directly and flown him out to a crash site. Saying that some UFO's weren't aliens, but were in fact, government research and that they wanted to work with him to try and understand why some of their equipment had failed because of the vast array of pictures and work he'd actually been gathering.

He apparently did have a genuine relationship with someone who kept calling him over the phone every few weeks. He apparently did go places, meet people, and come back with pictures. After several years of this, though, the rate at which he was being called upon started to get really ridiculous. Phone calls be came weekly, then several times a week. The UFO work became completely overwhelming and his wife left him. Friends said that apparently the phone calls, became daily and then multiple times a day. The guy was apparently being harassed by the government until he shot himself. It seems like they drove him to insanity.