Roswell

we are going to see more and more...

Of these visitors from space.

And that before too long,

The evidence will be incontroversial--

That you will have on your tv screens and on your movie screens...

Concrete evidence that the ships are here and that they are real...

And they're not fantastic things which have been cooked up to make a movie.

we can say that the recent sightings...

Are in no way connected with any secret development...

By any agency of the united states.

There's nothing to hide at all.

The expression ''flying saucers'' is a catchall term...

For unusual lights appearing in the sky.

we've been able to explain them as hoaxes;

As erroneously identified friendly aircraft;

As meteorological or electronic phenomena;

Or as light aberrations.

None of the evidence that l have examined...

would indicate any proof at all...

That we are being visited by extraterrestrials.

There is absolutely no evidence.

we have not been hiding anything.

Personally, i'm convinced that...

There must be many, many higher civilizations...

ln this enormous and incredibly ancient universe of ours.

Doesn't feel like 30 years, does it?

Does to me.

we had some good times under these skies.

Come on, mom.

Jan! Oh!

Are you gonna be here with-- we'll see each other later.

where have you been living?

oh, we're in a small town in louisiana.

No, he's retired now.

hey, look, they got us on television!

Turn that thing up, will ya?

former military men have gathered in roswell today...

For the 30th reunion of the army's renowned 509.

- the 509! -dropping the a-bomb is not all the 509 is famous for.

For more than six hours in july of 1947,

The town of roswell was known as the flying saucer capital of the world.

debris recovered from a crash site in the desert...

was originally identified by army intelligence officer majorjesse marcel...

As being from a flying saucer.

But the party didn't last too long,

Much to the embarrassment of the army and in particular major marcel,

Shown here holding what turned out to be...

A piece of aluminum foil from a weather balloon.

l told you this may happen.

l can handle it.we heard enough. Turn that thing off.

Lewis?

Jesse. My god! l didn't know you'd be here. l heard you weren't doing well.

Oh, yeah. Just a little something about my chest.

l'm sorry. well, you're here now.

what the hell else counts, huh? how's, uh, vy? yeah.

Oh, she's fine. She's with me. Yeah.

So is my son. He drove us down.

He's a doctor now in montana.

Not bad for an army brat. No.

Lewis, could l talk to you a little bit later?

Yeah. You're gonna be here at the barbecue, right? no, l mean alone.

Let it go, jesse,

For your own sake.

welcome back to kjfl, the voice of roswell.

General, you and i were both here in 1947.

Oh, yeah. Let's talk a little bit about U.F.O.S.

Now, the 509th ought to be remembered for all the good things it did,

Not for one dumb, stupid screwup.

Major marcel made a mistake. Big deal. So what?

Shit happens. Satisfied?

-jesse marcel. -when it comes to U.F.O.S,

As far as i'm concerned, it's a big bag of bullshit.

Out of the way! Here l come! The man from outer space! End of story.

take me to your leader, 509th!

Remember, you said you weren't gonna get back into this.

Seems to me that i never got out of it.

Oh, jesse, you promised.

Vy, l said i'd think about it. That's all l said.

Dad, don't do this. You made a deal.

Did i?

Hey, major, not gonna make too good a night for flying, is it?

what are you talking about? i love this kind of weather!

Little more wind, i'll be airborne!

Hey, joe. Looks like a big one coming up.

l wouldn't worry too much. l got all the a-bombs battened down.

hi, dad.

what happened to the rabbit hut? l brought them in so they wouldn't get all wet.

Uh-huh. why don't we put them in a box? i did. They jumped out.

l mean a big box. we couldn't find a big box.

Mm-hmm.

Sounds like something's come loose up on the roof.

Yeah. what do you say we take a peek, huh? yeah.

Come on.

Hey, dad, do soldiers fly in weather like this?

- not if they don't have to. - what if they have to?

- well, they try and fly around it. - what if they can't?

well, if they can't, they just buckle up and they fly straight through.

Really? wow.

jess?

Yeah. l need a hand.

Oh, hey. Let me get this.

Come on! what the hell's wrong with you?

Come on!

what in the hell--

lntelligence. Marcel.

Uh, yeah, this is deputy pritchard down at the sheriff's office.

Yes, deputy. what can l do for you?

well, sir, the sheriff thinks maybe you should come on down,

'cause, you see, this here local rancherjust brought in a whole lot of--

l don't know what you'd call it,

But he claims it all came down at his place,

And the sheriff thinks it might be something you guys sent up.

Something, you know, top secret.

- like a missile. - uh, right. Like, say, maybe a missile.

Go ahead. Go on, tell him.

But if it ain't,

lt's a flying saucer. That's telling him.

Sir. Major.

You got a second, colonel? what?

ln private?

Listen, the sheriff called. Says a rancher--

Gentlemen.

ls this, uh, sheriff prone to drinking?

Not that l know of.

well, maybe it's, uh, some sort of... Cowboy humor.

Could be. l just figured...

You wanted to, uh, check it out, sir, just in case.

Absolutely. Better safe than sorry.

Yes, sir.

Sherman, it seems something odd crashed nearby.

well, it couldn't have been anything of ours.

l'd have heard about it from the pentagon.

we know that, sherman. You're our pipeline to knowledge.

Come with us.

You and marsha up for some bridge this weekend?

well, l don't know. l'll have to check on it.

lf you know what's good for you.

And now, frank joyce with the local news.

well, it's been kind of an interesting day here in roswell.

we have in our studio mac brazel.

Mac, could you tell us exactly what it is you found up there on your ranch.

Yeah, well, i'd say most likely...

lt's something that come from another planet.

Everything out there was real strange,

Like from one of them flyin' saucers.

well, we have been hearing all last month...

About people seeing strange things in the air.

But if you are right, we may have one on the ground.

where'd you say this stuff came down?

A ranch about 60 miles west of here,

Run by a fellow name of brazel.

Any ideas? hey, how'd your interview go?

- went pretty good, l guess. - you the fellow, that brought this in?

lt might not be a bad idea if y'all got somebody out there to clean that mess up.

'cause whatever in the hell that is, it's scattered all up and down my place,

Any my damn sheep won't cross through it.

when exactly did you find this stuff?

About three days ago, right after that last storm.

what made you bring it in here?

well, a neighbor of mine said that, uh,

lt might be part of one of them, you know, flyin' saucers we've been hearin' about.

She said there's some newspaper offerin' a $3,000 reward for a piece of it.

And to be honest with you, i could use the money.

Hey, look at this.

whoa.

Yeah, l really like that one.

- mind if we keep some of this stuff? - l reckon not.

l can always get more. You ought to see the damn place.

l'll meet you back at the base. Yes, sir.

l gotta warn you, it's quite a ways out there.

Turning out to be a rather interesting day.

Now, where this thing landed or crashed or whatever...

ls about ten miles south.

l reckon we'll stay here tonight. Come on.

we're staying in here?

what? well, hell no! That's the barn, man.

we're gonna stay at the main house.

Come on.

This here's the biggest piece of it i've found so far.

Hauled it out with my truck.

it's as light as a feather.

Oh, my god.

This thing was big.

Anything? uh-uh.

You know those japanese balloon bombs?

Yeah. Made of rice paper.

About 30 feet in diameter.

They don't come apart when they land unless the bomb goes off.

Then you'd see char marks everywhere.

Right.

was this gouge here before?

Nope.

All right.

Let's just suppose los alamos or white sands...

Launched some ultra-experimental plane, rocket or whatever.

They'd be out looking for it. Maybe they are.

Maybe they can't find it. That's happened.

Sherman, look around you. what do you see?

l mean, what do you see geographically?

This place may be remote by car, but not by plane.