History's Greatest Mysteries (2020)

S1E5 Roswell: The First Witness - The Journal

Title: Roswell: The First Witness - The Journal Plot: A mysterious journal ignites a groundbreaking inquiry into the alleged UFO incident in Roswell, NM, from 1947. Major Jesse Marcel, the first official to arrive at the crash site, maintained until his death that an alien spacecraft had landed and that the truth was concealed by the government. Recently, the Marcel family revealed a journal discovered among his belongings, believed to hold encrypted hints about the Roswell event. Former CIA agent Ben Smith launches a fresh investigation, involving cryptographic decoding, advanced geological assessments of the site, and interviews with previously silent witnesses. What truly fell in Roswell? The government initially claimed it was a weather balloon but later shifted its narrative, while reports of alien bodies and intense governmental pressure surfaced.