Roswell: Endless Entertainment

Back in July 2007, I travelled to Roswell, New Mexico, where I was due to lecture on my book Body Snatchers in the Desert – a book that most within Ufology hated and dearly hoped would not prove to be the answer to the pesky, long-gone affair that has obsessed so many for so very long. Anyway, just before I hit the road to Roswell I prepared a lengthy article on the looming anniversary, but which has never been published. Until now. So, I figured why not bring it to your attentions? I think it’s all still pretty much relevant, six years later. You may agree or disagree. But, whatever your view on the article, it goes like this…

Ah yes, Roswell: where would Ufology be without its cosmic (or not) Holy-Grail? Roswell is, of course, the one case that, for many, keeps the extra-terrestrial-hypothesis alive and kicking. For me, today, Roswell is nothing more than an X-Files version of Jack the Ripper: namely, an ancient case, an event filled to the brim with a variety of theories, one that will never be resolved to the satisfaction of everyone, but also one for which whole swathes of the UFO research community must continue to fly the flag. Belief and faith are very strong things.

Situated in south-eastern New Mexico, the town of Roswell, with a bustling population of just under 50,000 people, is today the state’s fifth largest city. It has a thriving farming industry, it is a major producer of the nation’s petroleum, and was the birth place of both Hollywood actress Demi Moore and the late country-and-western singer, John Denver. And, all thanks to a controversial (and, some say, out-of-this-world) incident that occurred sixty years ago, Roswell is today one of the leading tourist attractions in the United States.

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