History Main / RoswellThatEndsWell

->''"Is there any secret technology that hasn't come from Roswell?" mused Proton. "That flying saucer must have been ten miles in diameter!"''
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

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On July 7, 1947, personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field recovered materials from a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico. Their initial press release stated that the materials resembled a "[[FlyingSaucer flying disc]]"; later the same day, they issued a correction that it was in fact a weather balloon, which is quite the switch.

* TabletopGame/SecretsOfTheThirdReich: The members of [[OperationBlank Program]] [[CaptainPatriotic "Sentinel Of Freedom"]] (essentially CaptainAmerica [[{{Expy}} Expies]]) are given their powers with the "Roswell Cocktail", reverse-engineered from the crash's tech. The British HeroUnit Black Jack is a {{Cyborg}} made with salvaged mechanics from the ship (ironically because [[WeCanRebuildHim his body fatally rejected the Cocktail]]).

* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'''s episode "The Return of Maggie Beckett": Adlai Stevenson becomes President and signed the Reticulan-American Free Trade Agreement (RAFTA), giving the US access to advanced alien technology.

The RoswellIncident was forgotten for over 30 years, until ufologist Stanton Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel about it in 1978. Marcel claimed that the government had pressured him and other eyewitness into silence about what they had seen: the object recovered from Roswell was a spacecraft containing alien bodies. Interviews with other witnesses added to the story until it grew into a major piece of UFO lore. In the '90s, the government offered a new explanation of the events: there was a coverup, but it was to hide the existence of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul Project Mogul]], not aliens (Note that in both versions of the story, the debris was from high-altitude balloons.) In light of this, and the questionable research of some Roswell conspiracy theorists, even most serious pro-UFO advocates have become convinced there were no aliens involved.

* The SCPFoundation has determined that an un-hatched [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1051 SCP-1051]] was the [=UFO=] recovered as Roswell. It later hatched and replaced the hangar at Area 51.

* In Neal Shusterman's novel ''Everlost'', Roswell is explained to have happened when a "Afterlight" boy who died in the {{Hindenburg}} crash ended up flying the ghost of the Hindenburg to Roswell for sixty years. Somehow it ends up being seen by non-Afterlights...in 1947.

* Two different ''{{GURPS}}'' worldbooks - ''Atomic Horror'' and ''Black Ops'' - mention the event. As the books are not set in the same continuity, the exact details are different; in AH it was an actual starship crash, whereas in BO the event was a hoax created to divert public attention from a ''real'' paranormal event elsewhere.

* SecretsOfTheThirdReich: The members of [[OperationBlank Program]] [[CaptainPatriotic "Sentinel Of Freedom"]] (essentially CaptainAmerica [[{{Expy}} Expies]]) are given their powers with the "Roswell Cocktail", reverse-engineered from the crash's tech. The British HeroUnit Black Jack is a {{Cyborg}} made with salvaged mechanics from the ship (ironically because [[WeCanRebuildHim his body fatally rejected the Cocktail]]).
* The final book of BattleTech's "Blood of Kerensky" novels riffs off of this. On Alyina, there were frequent reports of 'Unexplained Aerial Phenomena', and a holovid claimed that there were alien bodies in the Hudson Gulf Base, area 51, hangar 18b, which was in the Roswell District. The reality was that they were experiments at reproducing the [[LostTechnology Star League-era Hammerhead fighter]]. A scrap of a crashed fighter, being a piece of the advanced Ferro-Fibrous armor they used, was [[{{Irony}} claimed to be an alien material humanity could never reproduce.]]

* Historical in-jokes are par for the course in ''ShadowHearts''. In the third game, Roswell is where the heroes find septucentenarian Roger Bacon and vampire Hilda Valentine, having crashed when their flying machine ran out of gas.

* ''StarOceanTheLastHope'' implies that the party member [[CatGirl Meracle Chamlotte]] is the Roswell alien.

* ''Literature/LittleGreenMen'' explains that the Roswell "crash" was one of the first events faked up by [[GovernmentConspiracy MJ-12]] to prove that aliens existed and imply that the United States possessed their technology in the ColdWar.

* In ''DestroyAllHumans'', the alien protagonist travels to [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed "Rockwell"]] to free a comrade.

* TabletopRPG ''TabletopGame/ConspiracyX''. The RoswellIncident was the reason for the creation of (and split between) Aegis and the Black Book. The scientists who later formed Aegis wanted to make peaceful contact with the aliens, but the soldiers who formed the Black Book shot the ship down.
** After which Black Book accused Aegis of responsibility in order to sign a treaty with TheGreys.

* At the end of ''LiloAndStitch'', Cobra Bubbles is revealed to have saved the Earth from aliens by convincing them mosquitoes were an endangered species; this occurred at Roswell... [[BaitAndSwitch in 1973]].

* The ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' spin-off ''Delta Green'' plays with this.

* ''SerialExperimentsLain'' gives a discussion on the Roswell incident and conspiracy theories, and implies that the Wired might have been [[ETGaveUsWiFi created using alien technology]]. Whether that's true, and how relevant it is to the story, is left entirely open, since [[spoiler: Lain's world is one where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve consensus reality]] is in full swing]].
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has a strip for this, in which the arrival and existence of America's friend Tony are explained.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E6Dalek Dalek]]", the mileometer from the Roswell ship is seen in a museum of alien artifacts. In the same episode, Van Statten claims that [[ETGaveUsWiFi alien tech from the incident ended up creating Broadband]].
** The Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse has multiple and contradictory takes on Roswell, most recently in the animated ''Dreamland''. (Older instances include the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''First Frontier'' and the Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Devil Goblins from Neptune''.) It ''is'' [[NegativeContinuity Doctor Who]], after all; the Time-War and universal cracks have pretty much left us with a great big TimeyWimeyBall (and even before then, the show favoured BroadStrokes).
* ''Series/DarkSkies''

* If this troper's memory serves correctly, there was an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' SpinOff ''PostcardsFromBuster'' that visited, among other places, Roswell.

* SecretsOfTheThirdReich: The members of [[OperationBlank Project]] [[CaptainPatriotic Liberty]] (essentially CaptainAmerica [[{{Expy}} Expies]] are given their powers with the "Roswell Cocktail", reverse-engineered from the crash's tech. The British HeroUnit is a {{Cyborg}} made with the ship's mechanics (ironically because [[WeCanRebuildHim his body fatally rejected the Cocktail]]).

* Ditto ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad!''.

The wreckage and bodies from Roswell may be stored in {{Area 51}}. At least one AlienAutopsy was performed and videotaped. TheMenInBlack may be involved in the coverup. And we may have reaped the wreckage for [[ETGaveUsWiFi our own technological benefit]].