Roswell Page #7

Synopsis: Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred. Adapted from real-life events portrayed in the book _UFO Crash at Roswell_ by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Jeremy Kagan
Production: Citadel Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
PG-13
Year:
1994
91 min
202 Views


what's more, they maintain

that secretary forrestal was correct...

when he said he somehow sensed

that more of them would be coming.

And they say further contact

did, in fact, take place.

Now, if that's true, what happened here is

merely the tip of the iceberg.

Thank you all for coming,

ladies and gentlemen.

l hope we all

meet again soon.

The most talked-about incident

is said to have occurred...

At holloman air force base

in 1964.

l wasn't there personally,

but i'm given to understand...

That a disc actually

landed by intention.

And then an exchange

with alien life forms occurred.

You know the movie--

close encounters?

Yeah. lt was based

on that incident.

But they may not have gotten it

quite right.

You see, physicists

now speculate...

That it's unlikely these things fly vast

distances from other solar systems,

But that they come from a place

that's much closer and farther away.

You see, there may not be

just one universe.

Did you know that

mathematicians now theorize...

That there could be

''multi-verses''--

Other dimensions that

coexist with our own,

And that these beings have the technology

to somehow just slip in and out.

Another alien visitor

claimed...

That his race had been looking in on us

for centuries,

And that they had, in fact,

influenced the course of human history...

ln some rather critical

and startling ways.

This visitor

somehow displayed...

The way aliens have been genetically

altering the development of our dna...

From our very beginnings, and that

they had inspired our greatest spiritual leaders.

You're telling me

that the missing link...

Could be the result

of alien genetics?

l believe this information

is correct.

But who could really

say for certain?

Ma, did you see

where dad went?

No, l didn't.

well, okay. Let's not worry

about it.

l'm not worried about it.

Not anymore.

Do you see what's happened?

No.

There's a man that you and l used

to know when you were a boy,

The soldier

that was your dad.

He's back.

Over the years, there must be...

People like me,

People who've wanted

to talk about what they know.

l'm sure

there were some.

But then it's all so hard

to believe, isn't it?

l think that secretary forrestal tried,

or may have. l'm not sure.

while he was at bethesda,

he was working on a diary...

That was said to contain an account

of his experiences with alien life forms...

And proof that the government was trying

to keep all this information covered up.

Apparently, he checked into the hospital

for over-exhaustion and stress.

l'm sure that you personally

can sympathize...

with how difficult it would have

been for him to reveal...

All these secrets.

lf secretary forrestal left any

kind of note, it was never found.

And his diaries

are still classified.

Since then, things have gotten

even more bizarre.

Planes vanishing, cattle mutilations,

human abductions.

And then there are

the stories of area 51.

what is area 51?

That's where people swear they've

actually seen recovered alien craft,

And that we're working

with it right now.

how long have we

had this, colonel?

That depends on

who you talk to.

The top part is

antigravitational.

ls this all true?

well, that's a good question.

One must proceed cautiously here,

on guard against one's desire...

To want it to be true

or want it not to be true.

One must be, as much as possible,

neutral.

well, how can you

be neutral?

A thing is either true or it's not. There is

no middle ground.

All right, all right.

then none of it is true.

- none of it?

- well, maybe some of it.

Ugh!

Now you're playing with me.

why are you playing

with me?

Because maybe you wouldn't

even know what was true...

lf you'd seen it all

for yourself.

How's that for an answer? then what

did l see out there in that field?

Oh, that.

why, that was a weather balloon.

Hah! No, it wasn't.

l know what l saw, and it was not

from this world.

Don't you understand, jesse?

you have nothing.

Just a lot of old memories

and secondhand recollections.

Nobody is going to

take you seriously.

Not without proof.

Not without hard evidence.

But please, feel free

to tell anybody...

Anything that i've said

here this afternoon.

Because maybe it really is true. And the

public has a right to know, don't they?

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Arthur Kopit

Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937) is an American playwright. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (Indians and Wings) and a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, Indians, 1970; Best Play, Wings, 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for Nine, 1982. He won the Vernon Rice Award (now known as the Drama Desk Award) in 1962 for his play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad and was nominated for another Drama Desk Award in 1979 for his play Wings.Nine returned to Broadway in 2003 with Antonio Banderas as Guido and won two Tony Awards, including best revival; in 2009 Rob Marshall directed the film Nine based on Kopit's script, the principal cast consisting of Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, and Fergie (singer).Kopit attended Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.Kopit attended Harvard University. His first plays were staged while he was still an undergraduate at Harvard University. Later, Kopit taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the City College of New York. In 2005, Kopit donated his papers to the Fales Library at NYU. more…

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