Filming “Something DEFINITELY crashed at Roswell”

We were recently in the US for four weeks, mainly shooting the middle film of our mini-series on UFOs/UAP covering the best UFO cases and what they suggest might be going on.

Knowing that we’d probably finish all the essential filming with time to spare, we planned to shoot an extra film. And, as we would be ending up at White Sands, New Mexico - only two and a half hours away from the city of Roswell - the subject of this additional film kind of took care of itself.

For many years, we’ve closely followed the arguments for and against an off-world craft crashing northwest of Roswell on the Foster ranch. There’s no doubt whatsoever that the debris of SOMETHING was found in 1947; everyone agrees on this basic fact. The million dollar question has always been “of what?”

We took advantage of several locations within the city of Roswell itself. On two successive days, we travelled a long way northwest to the actual crash/debris site and nearby. Earlier in the trip, when we were spending the night at Farmington, in the far north of New Mexico, we filmed a couple of scenes at the site of the alleged Aztec “crash”, which is a known hoax, to add a bit of historical context. We also filmed at the entrance to the Holloman Air Force Base, plus the nearby White Sands.

The Roswell Incident is the most famous of all the UFO cases, but we didn’t include it in our “best cases”. Nevertheless, it offered a great opportunity to go over a number of relevant considerations, including how governments work. And we had to ask the question: “Could the US authorities have kept the acquisition of recovered extraterrestrial technology secret?” (We didn’t, however, directly link this with the more recent Wilson memo.) As UFO enthusiasts had interviewed witnesses literally decades after the event in question, we also had to touch on the unreliability of witness testimony - which is an established psychological phenomenon, well-known to police forces and the legal profession everywhere.

In the months before flying to the US, prior to filming, we spent a lot of time going back over what has been written about Roswell - on both sides of the argument. The minutiae we considered aren’t reflected in our film, not least because it’s only 25 minutes in length. Our preparation was thorough, as always, knowing that “detail matters”.

Written by Iain Scott, 20th November 2022