ROSWELL’S INTERNATIONAL UFO MUSEUM lead investigator Donald Schmitt came to New Mexico from Chicago in 1989 as a non-believer. But after speaking with witnesses and looking at the evidence, Schmitt changed his mind. He became convinced that the Roswell Incident deserved closer examination.
I was a complete skeptic. I thought we would make a weekend jaunt to the Land of Enchantment and prove this was nothing more than a conventional weather balloon device.
With the combination of military and civilian witnesses, I thought we were talking about potentially the biggest story of the millennium. I was back in two months.
I was on Oprah, CBS, the Today show, Good Morning America, Peter Jennings, and Larry King Live three times.
I spent two years on the road with William Shatner. We were doing a two-man presentation. He would talk on being William Shatner and Captain Kirk, and I would do an hour on Roswell.
Media tends to be cyclical, but the Roswell Incident is nearly 80 years old and it still stands above everything else.
The skies were pristine back in 1947. Rockets were in their infancy back then, so there were very few alternative explanations. Today, I hear about a sighting and I don’t give it the time of day, because the sky is just full of technology.
I’m asked, “Do you believe?” And I don’t know. I don’t believe, but I’m 99.9 percent convinced. Big difference.