The ... truth ... will ... be ... revealed ... November 22 ... on ... the SCI FI Channel. The cable channel sent a team of archeologists to Roswell, New Mexico, site of the most enduring UFO controversy, to see what they could see:
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In an effort to verify once and for all whether a UFO crash-landed in New Mexico more than 50 years ago, the cable TV channel sent a team of archeologists to conduct an in-depth study of the legendary crash site.
And just like the alleged government conspiracy by those who say aliens landed near Roswell, New Mexico, the results of the scientific study are top secret. That is until Nov. 22, when SCI FI airs "The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence," which will include what network representatives are calling a "smoking gun."
Until then believers and debunkers will just have to wait, said Bill Doleman, the principal investigator with the University of New Mexico archeology team.
Doleman, along with three other archeologists and six volunteers were hired by the SCI FI Channel to conduct the research, which took place over 10 days last September.
"We found things — some things I still don't know what they are — but they surprised me," Doleman said, reiterating his confidentiality agreement with SCI FI. [from Reuters]
I am a bit confused: if in fact a UFO crashed near Roswell, then the government is covering it up. So wouldn't they have swept the site pretty darn clean in the subsequent 55 years? And if there is something to be found, why would the government allow these people to find it? Maybe the "smoking gun" is a ray gun, in which case I'd be concerned about the smoke.
- The smoking gun is fascinating and compelling. It's going to raise a lot of questions afterwards," said Thomas Vitale, a senior vice president of programming at the SCI FI Channel.
....Doleman says his team was directed to use purely scientific methods, such as geophysical prospecting and archeological testing of anomalies, to find any evidence of a crash.
They primarily investigated what is called the "skip site," the second site of impact where the craft supposedly spewed debris before skipping 17-25 miles away to its final crash site.
"We weren't out there to bunk or debunk. We were just scientists using scientific methods," he said.
Along with evidence found at the scene, the "smoking gun evidence sheds light on government truthfulness about this whole event," Vitale said.
I have to admit they have my attention, although you know as well as I do that if anything really REALLY incriminating was found, we wouldn't be hearing about it for national security reasons.
Article comments
1 - Anonymous_Chicken
My Review:
"THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE." 8PM Eastern time, Sci-Fi Channel, 11/22/02.
"It is a shame that such a serious national interest has been reduced to this."
"The Feds are laughing all the way to Mars. This mockery suits their purpose tenfold."
Poor Bryant Gumbel. He has reduced himself to the fraud and journalistic flimflammery of Geraldo and "Al Capone's Vaults." Geraldo was going to get it out of the vaults and Gumble seen it go into the vault. Not a word was revealed about what was dug up at dig. That was the hook, "startling new evidence," to get the viewers and the ratings for the first show and what was dug up will be the fodder for the sequel, crap on top of crap. This is the third time I've seen this format. The last time was about what they possibly would find in the pyramid. The second can be no more of a sham than the first so I'm wondering who will throw away their hard earned journalistic integrity to do part two as Gumble did the first or will Gumble further dig his hole deeper by doing part two, surely discrediting his career forever. Geraldo has few fans after his vaults escapade so Gumble from now on will be "second rate." Who could take him seriously doing the news anymore after this screen version of a tabloid reporter? To take such work he must be hurting for money. There was no "smoking gun" evidence on the show. All they offered was typical hollywood hype and more people/?witnesses? offering nothing but more words. Words is all they ever had in the first place. No bodies, no wreckage, no nothing but words. Obviously there is no longer any serious investigation of the Roswell Incident.
Anonymous_Chicken
2 - Anonymous_Chicken
My Review:
"THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE." 8PM Eastern time, Sci-Fi Channel, 11/22/02.
"It is a shame that such a serious national interest has been reduced to this."
"The Feds are laughing all the way to Mars. This mockery suits their purpose tenfold."
Poor Bryant Gumbel. He has reduced himself to the fraud and journalistic flimflammery of Geraldo and "Al Capone's Vaults." Geraldo was going to get it out of the vaults and Gumble seen it go into the vault. Not a word was revealed about what was dug up at dig. That was the hook, "startling new evidence," to get the viewers and the ratings for the first show and what was dug up will be the fodder for the sequel, crap on top of crap. This is the third time I've seen this format. The last time was about what they possibly would find in the pyramid. The second can be no more of a sham than the first so I'm wondering who will throw away their hard earned journalistic integrity to do part two as Gumble did the first or will Gumble further dig his hole deeper by doing part two, surely discrediting his career forever. Geraldo has few fans after his vaults escapade so Gumble from now on will be "second rate." Who could take him seriously doing the news anymore after this screen version of a tabloid reporter? To take such work he must be hurting for money. There was no "smoking gun" evidence on the show. All they offered was typical hollywood hype and more people/?witnesses? offering nothing but more words. Words is all they ever had in the first place. No bodies, no wreckage, no nothing but words. Obviously there is no longer any serious investigation of the Roswell Incident.
Anonymous_Chicken
3 - Anonymous_Chicken
My Review:
"THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE." 8PM Eastern time, Sci-Fi Channel, 11/22/02.
"It is a shame that such a serious national interest has been reduced to this."
"The Feds are laughing all the way to Mars. This mockery suits their purpose tenfold."
Poor Bryant Gumbel. He has reduced himself to the fraud and journalistic flimflammery of Geraldo and "Al Capone's Vaults." Geraldo was going to get it out of the vaults and Gumble seen it go into the vault. Not a word was revealed about what was dug up at dig. That was the hook, "startling new evidence," to get the viewers and the ratings for the first show and what was dug up will be the fodder for the sequel, crap on top of crap. This is the third time I've seen this format. The last time was about what they possibly would find in the pyramid. The second can be no more of a sham than the first so I'm wondering who will throw away their hard earned journalistic integrity to do part two as Gumble did the first or will Gumble further dig his hole deeper by doing part two, surely discrediting his career forever. Geraldo has few fans after his vaults escapade so Gumble from now on will be "second rate." Who could take him seriously doing the news anymore after this screen version of a tabloid reporter? To take such work he must be hurting for money. There was no "smoking gun" evidence on the show. All they offered was typical hollywood hype and more people/?witnesses? offering nothing but more words. Words is all they ever had in the first place. No bodies, no wreckage, no nothing but words. Obviously there is no longer any serious investigation of the Roswell Incident.
Anonymous_Chicken
4 - polly
"Point of impact" was very wrong on "THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE". This is because they kept looking at the point where the craft came to rest as the point of impact..... WHY???