That's right, not only was what that rancher, long since dead, found a UFO, but suddenly these researchers paraded new wittnesses who suddenly remembered 30 years after the fact that they saw another craft, this one with alien casulities sprawled out on the desert floor. These sensational allegations have lead to the last two decades of argument about Roswell. They need their own, independent brand of the same. Conspiracy theory in contemporary America has does nothing but gather steam since Mr. Nixon last waved from Marine One. Now, it's part of mass culture.
Aliens are on TV and on T-shirts.
While this is all fine and good, the deep-seeded trust in authority that accompanies this trend has placed some interesting spins on society as a whole. We now hear and substanciate stories about how the CIA introduced crack cocaine to inner city L.A. allegedly as part genocidal campaign against minorities and part money-making scheme for the Contras. AIDS is a military biological weapon gone awry. These things get as much creedence at times as UFOs, but their ramifications don't make for summer blockbuster movies and TV series. They scare people, inflame them about their government and make people distrustful of a government that by and large supports them.