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The Roswell Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on July 7, 1947, which has become the subject of intense speculation, rumor and questioning.

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Cultural influence

The Roswell incident has become a popular subject of science fiction movies, television series, video games, and books. Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt's 1991 nonfiction book UFO Crash at Roswell inspired the 1994 American television film Roswell, which starred Martin Sheen and Kyle McLachlan. The film received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, but did not win.[67]

Prominent films involving Roswell include Independence Day starring Will Smith and Bill Pullman- where the crashed alien ship is revealed to have been an advance scout for an alien invasion, only for the humans to use the ship to turn the tables on the attackers-, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford- where it is mentioned that Indiana Jones was one of the experts called in to study the crash in the aftermath, with the corpse being stolen a decade later. It is speculated that the Roswell aliens are related to the interdimensional beings responsible for the creation of the city known as 'El Dorado'.

[edit] Celebrations

Each year, during July 4th Weekend, the City of Roswell hosts the Roswell UFO Festival celebrating all things UFO along with a featuring prominent UFOlogists and discussions.

[edit] Literature

Several novels have been written about the Roswell incident, including Whitley Strieber's Majestic (1989), Kevin D. Randle's Operation Roswell (2004), and Sonny Whitelaw's "Stargate SG-1: Roswell" (2007).

The Roswell aliens and debris played an important role in Mario Acevedo's pulp science fiction and fantasy novel "The Nymphos of Rocky Flats" in which a retired soldier turned into a vampire is pinned against vampire hunters and an extraterrestrial pursing mysterious pieces of alien technology.

[edit] Television

An American television series called Roswell aired from 1999 to 2002, originally on The WB Television Network and later on UPN. Based on Melinda Metz's Roswell High children's book series, the program followed the lives of four extraterrestrials who had survived the Roswell crash and assumed the form of human teenagers.

The series Seven Days was based around a US time machine reverse engineered from technology recovered at Roswell. Several episodes dealt explicitly with the greys being contained within the base. Much of the show's backstory was drawn directly from the popular theories about the Roswell incident.

The animated series Futurama also featured the Roswell UFO incident prominently in the Emmy-award winning episode "Roswell That Ends Well", where the Planet Express crew end up in 1947, resulting in an accidentally-smashed apart Bender being mistaken for the UFO, and reassembled into a flying saucer-like shape, while an alien autopsy, similar to that of the fraudulent Roswell alien autopsies film of 1995, is carried out on Doctor Zoidberg.[68]

Other series in which the Roswell aliens were, in fact, regular characters of the show include Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)- where the character of Quark accidentally time travels back to that period-, American Dad! (2005-present), and Tripping the Rift (2004-present).

The Roswell incident also played prominent roles in the American science fiction television programs Dark Skies (1996-1997), The X-Files (1993-2002), Taken (2002), and Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) (The alien race known as the Asgard are revealed to physically resemble the Roswell Greys, and it is implied that they have visited Earth before, with the actual Roswell incident being explored in the novel "Stargate SG-1: Roswell").

In the British Sci-fi television series Doctor Who, the episode "Dalek" featured a museum of alien artifacts, which included the mileometer of the Roswell ship; the museum's owner also revealed that broadband was developed from technology found at the Roswell crash site.

In the Canadian/American TV series Tracker (2001-02), the episode "Roswell" (also known as "Area 51") the character Cole travels to Roswell to retrieve an artifact also being sought by another alien. The ship involved in the crash was said to be a Vardian treasure hunters' ship that can be assumed to have come seeking the alien weapon hidden on Earth. The episode, however, seems to actually combine elements of Roswell, NM and the Area 51 military base.

The Disney animated children's series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command features an episode where Team Lightyear crash lands on a planet called Roswell inhabited by Roswell aliens in a reverse-play on the 1947 incident.

[edit] Comics, series and Animation

The comic book series The Invisibles (1994-2000), by Grant Morrison, made extensive use of the Roswell incident in its second volume. A humorous Bongo Comics series, called Roswell, Little Green Man, ran from 1996 to 1999 and followed the misadventures of an extraterrestrial who survived from the craft. The graphic novel Roswell, Texas features an alternate history in which the site of the UFO crash was part of the still-independent republic of Texas.

The Japanese animation series Serial Experiments Lain contains an episode invoking the Roswell Incident. A syndicated children's cartoon, called Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends (1999-2000), was distributed in several countries by the Bohbot Kids Network and inspired a 2001 PlayStation video game of the same title.

One episode from the second season of science fiction series Stargate SG-1 contains an episode which reveal to the viewers that and important alien race once visited Earth, and crashed in Roswell, and that they have studied the human race for a long period of time, learing that humans have great potential of becoming an advanced universal race.

[edit] Music

In music, the Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy wrote a song called "Roswell 47", the American band Foo Fighters named their record label Roswell Records and performed a 2005 concert on the site of the Roswell Air Force Base.[69] In addition, an ambient music compilation CD called Area 51: The Roswell Incident was released in 1997 and featured such groups as Canada's Synæsthesia, England's Hawkwind, and Germany's Tangerine Dream. (Area 51 refers to an air field in southern Nevada associated with other UFO conspiracy theories.) Heavy Metal Band Megadeth based Hangar 18, and its subsequent video, on the incident. They also made another called "Return to Hangar" which is believed to have something to do with the incident. Pitchshifter (band) also based a song entitled "Hangar 84" on the Roswell incident.

The band Far-Less features a song on their album "Everyone is Out to Get Us" called "Roswell that Ends Well", a song about alien activity, and other-worldy forces. Will Smith once mocked Roswell in the song Men In Black when he said: "So go witcha life, forget that Roswell crap" A song by the band the Pixies titled "Motorway to Roswell" from the album "Trompe Le Monde" offers an interpretation of the incident.

American rock band the Foo Fighters performed a show in the Roswell Industrial Air Center at the site of the crash. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is known for having an interest in supernatural phenomena, even naming the band after an old term for UFO, and named his record company (Roswell) after the famous incident.

The American band Splitsville pays tribute to this incident in their song "Home" (from the album Ultrasound). The lyrics are sung from the point of view of the alien, who discovers that he needs to put his ship down because he's running out of fuel. He states that, "I could do worse than a southwestern American town. I might as well...land in Roswell". As he begins his descent into Roswell, the alien ponders his potential fate, stating that, "...a few new faces just might do me good".

[edit] Video Games

In the skating video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, there is a level called Roswell. If the player explores enough, an alien and a UFO may be seen. Also in the video game Destroy All Humans, the player travels into Roswell to release a captured alien comrade.

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An American television series called Roswell aired from 1999 to 2002, originally on The WB Television Network and later on UPN. Based on Melinda Metz's Roswell High children's book series, the program followed the lives of four extraterrestrials who had survived the Roswell crash and assumed the form of human teenagers.

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