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Handy goes on to inform the reader of what originally occurred at Roswell on July 8th, 1947 in case the reader is unfamiliar with the incident. He also states that the main debate concerning the Roswell incident is the debris that was recovered from the site. He suggests that the reason the Roswell incident has become "a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community- (2) is because Roswell represents the only time the US military has gone on record to say that flying saucers exist. .
To gather more information on the general consensus of whether the public believes in aliens, whether aliens have abducted humans, and whether the government has been in contact with aliens, the author conducts a poll. The author makes numerous references to movies such as "Independence Day-, "Contact-, and "Men in Black- to prove that the general public is very interested in UFOs and extraterrestrial life forms. He also links the Roswell incident to television shows such as the popular X-Files. By interviewing the producer and director of the show, he informs the readers that the content of the X Files is based on real information collected by the show through interviews of the inhabitants of Roswell. He further proves the popularity of the incident by linking it to the political figures, President Clinton and President Carter. .
The author provides further support to the UFO crash theory by referring to a book, "The Day After Roswell-, written by Philip Corso, a military intelligence officer. He also introduces another book, "Roswell Myth-, by Benson Saler and Charles Zeiger, professors of anthropology at Brandeis University. He states that the primary purpose of the book is two-fold. One, as a social protest, in that the Roswell incident is an antigovernment narrative. He also states that the Roswell incident was ignored till the 1970's, when Vietnam and Watergate caused the public to become cynical towards the government and raise issues previously forgotten.