Non-Disclosure: In Roswell, New U.F.O. Docs Are a Declassified Bummer
Roswell’s annual U.F.O. festival was supposed to be full of triumphant “told you so’s” after the Trump administration declassified its alien files. Instead, apparently, the coverup continues.
Attendees wait for a parade to start during the Roswell U.F.O. Festival in Roswell, N.M. Credit...
Reporting from the annual U.F.O. festival in Roswell, N.M.
Like so many earthlings, John Darr came to Roswell, N.M., looking for answers. Yet he left the city’s annual U.F.O. festival this month with even more questions. “Tell us one way or the other: Is there or is there not aliens?”
This was supposed to be the summer of revelation. President Trump had promised to unveil all of the government’s secrets about unidentified flying objects and their extraterrestrial passengers. Adding to the hype was Steven Spielberg’s newly-released lore-steeped blockbuster with its own convincing footage of the fabled alien crash at Roswell.
But when the Department of Defense began publishing tranches of material on U.F.O.s, or in Pentagon parlance, U.A.P.s, unidentified anomalous phenomena, the promise of a real-life “Disclosure Day” frittered into Disappointment Du Jour.
