Like the book it’s based on, experts quibble over the details, but this made-for-cable movie packs in most of the best "Roswell Incident" highlights.
Ever-creepy Kyle MacLachlan plays much of the flick made up as a geezerly Jesse Marcel who reminisces about the summer of 1947 when he was an officer at Roswell Army Air Field. Specifically, when Mac Brazel (Dwight Yoakman) wandered into town with some shiny debris he found scattered across his ranch land. Wreckage with strange, hieroglyphic-type markings that’s light as air, reforms to its original shape when crushed and is seemingly indestructible.
The inexplicable events that follow Marcel’s initial investigation haunt him even 30 years later, as he’s unwittingly made the fall guy for the now infamous flying-saucer-turned-weather-balloon cover up. It’s only by bugging buddies at his 509th Bomber Group Reunion that Marcel begins to fill in the gaps with wild tales of the recovery of an alien craft and its pilots — some of them ALIVE! Martin Sheen pops in during the final reel as an is-he-or-isn’t-he government goon who firmly suggests there might be BETTER ways for ol’ Jesse to spend his retirement years.
No breasts. Two corpses. Gratuitous interrogation scene. Alien mind meld. One alien autopsy. Doodling.Not everyone’s a believer, "When it comes to UFOs, as far as I’m concerned, it’s a big bag of bulls@#%!"