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...executive producer and co-writer of the 1994 Showtime film Roswell, I believe you are wrong to be dismissive of Philip J. Corso's book The Day After Roswell. It is the most important breakthrough on UFOs in a half-century. Here is an author who served as part of President Eisenhower's National Security Council, has 19 medals and has let the genie out of the bottle on the UFO cover-up. Corso gives the best justification for secrecy about the Roswell Incident ever offered...
...report that said the "flying saucer" found in 1947 was actually an Air Force balloon used to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests, the Air Force now insists that it has refuted all charges that the government actually recovered several extraterrestrial bodies and a UFO when a mysterious aircraft crashed at Roswell. But UFO researchers point out that the two stories have been rather awkwardly cobbled together. According to "The Roswell Report, Case Closed," life-sized latex and aluminum test dummies were used in high-altitude parachute drops between 1954 and 1959 over the New Mexico desert...
...pressed as to his personal feelings on the subject, Roth is willing to admit only that "there's something in the cosmos that suggests there may be a presence elsewhere." Dean Devlin, co-writer and producer of Independence Day, comes to the field more naturally: he was steeped in UFO culture as a boy by a mother who dragged him to UFO conventions. Although he's skeptical of official explanations of the Roswell Incident, he doubts extraterrestrials were involved: "I don't know what it was, but our government is so bad at keeping secrets, I have a hard time...
...more compelling than the seen. The particular appeal of Roswell's elusiveness, and allusiveness, is captured in the canny words that appear at the end of The X-Files' credit sequence: "The truth is out there." The point is made more succinctly by the pins sold at the Enigma UFO Museum that read, simply, BELIEVE. What we are talking about is a leap of faith...
...thing than amused, although some--Christian Fundamentalists in particular--are offended by the city's growing embrace of its unique legacy. "There's kind of a love-hate relationship with this thing," says Stan Crosby, a self-described oil-and-gas man who is the chief organizer of Roswell UFO Encounter '97 (he is married to the director of the International UFO Museum, the glitzier rival to the Enigma). "It's not like we have the prettiest beach," admits Crosby, "or the Carlsbad Caverns. But you know, we've got to go with what we've got. And it sure...