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Feb 16, 2000 · Independence Day: Directed by Paul Shapiro. With Shiri Appleby, Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Majandra Delfino. After his foster father becomes physically abusive Michael decides the time has come for him to leave Roswell.
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Whitmore: "Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there have never been any spacecraft recovered by our government. Take my word for it. There's no Area 51. There's no recovered spaceship."
Nimziki: "Uh, excuse me. Mr. President? That's not entirely accurate."
David: "What? Which part?"
— Albert Nimziki revealing the truth of Area 51 to President Whitmore and David Levinson
Decades prior to their invasion of Earth in 1996, the aliens launched hundreds of reconnaissance flights to observe the human race and monitor their level of technology along with defensive and military capabilities. The information gathered allowed the aliens to identify priority targets based on population density and military deployments. These missions would continue until at least 1986, in which they conducted human abductions. Many of these missions were recorded by human observers, but were usually dismissed as hoaxes.
On July 4, 1947, one such scouting mission occurred over the American southwest, which was a center of nuclear weapon tests. The ship had been delivered to Earth by a carrier vessel and was moments away from completing its mission when the parent ship jumped away from the planet, as it was on the verge of being detected by human tracking stations. Suddenly isolated, the alien scout ship lost power and suffered a catastrophic engine failure before crashing outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico. Only one of the three alien scouts initially survived, but died a few weeks later.
On the afternoon of July 5, a local rancher, W.W. "Mac" Brazel, discovered wreckage belonging to the alien ship and later reported his discovery to the local sheriff's office, which in turn reported Brazel's find to Roswell Army Air Field. The U.S. Army recovered all three aliens and the ship, and discreetly relocated them to an undisclosed location. The incident was covered-up in which the Army retracted their initial press release which stated they had recovered a "flying saucer" and instead claiming that the crashed object was a weather balloon. The military feared that releasing knowledge of confirmed extraterrestrial life to the public would cause mass panic and risking national security. The cover-up even extended to the President of the United States, who was deliberately kept ignorant of the incident to further maintain the cover-up. Due to the very sensitive nature of the situation, the military locked the ship and the aliens to a heavily secured military compound, which is later designated as Area 51, where they were carefully researched.
Despite the cover-up, the Roswell incident became a popular subject among conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts for decades. By the advent of the War of 1996, the truth of the Roswell incident was revealed to President Thomas Whitmore, and the alien ship from the incident was instrumental in humanity's victory against the aliens. After 1996, the full scope of the Roswell incident became public knowledge.
1.Stephen Molstad. Independence Day, p. 172 (1996), HarperPrism
2.Stephen Molstad. Independence Day, p. 173 (1996), HarperPrism
3.Stephen Molstad. Independence Day: Silent Zone, p. 117 (1997), HarperCollins
4.Stephen Molstad. Independence Day: Silent Zone, p. 121-122 (1997), HarperCollins
Independence Day is the fifteenth episode of Season 1 on The WB sci-fi series Roswell. Michael comes to school sporting a black eye, following a beating from his drunk foster father, Hank.
Nov 14, 2023 · By the 1990s, the conspiracy and pop culture references to Roswell, like Independence Day, had taken such hold in the public imagination that the Clinton administration felt necessary to...
Nov 9, 2009 · One morning around Independence Day 1947, about 75 miles from the town of Roswell, New Mexico, a rancher named Mac Brazel found something unusual in his sheep pasture: a mess of metallic...
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In the 1996 film Independence Day, an alien invasion prompts the revelation of a Roswell crash and cover-up extending even to concealing the information from the President of the United States, to facilitate plausible deniability, according to the Defense Secretary.
