Burn Marks!
There appear to be burn marks on parts of the rocket ship! This rocket had to have been in space, and the heat of reentering the earth’s atmosphere could have burned off everything on its exterior. But that doesn’t explain everything… after all, he’s seen pictures and videos of the space shuttle landing, and it wasn’t nearly this bad. You could still clearly see the insignia and markings on a NASA space shuttle when it came back to Earth…