Roswell: The First Witness
Roswell: The First Witness uses new advanced technologies, behind the mysterious 1947 Roswell, NM crash. The series follows the grandchildren of Major Jesse Marcel, the first person to investigate the wreckage. The investigation is being led by Ben Smith, a former CIA operative. The family believes Major Marcel was forced by the U.S. government to deny he ever saw a UFO. They possess Major Marcel's diary, believed to contain coded clues about the truth of what happened at Roswell and clues and new evidence to where the alien wreckage might still lie buried.
- 2020-2021
- 1 season
- History Channel
- Documentary
Roswell: The First Witness uses new advanced technologies, behind the mysterious 1947 Roswell, NM crash. The series follows the grandchildren of Major Jesse Marcel, the first person to investigate the wreckage. The investigation is being led by Ben Smith, a former CIA operative. The family believes Major Marcel was forced by the U.S. government to deny he ever saw a UFO. They possess Major Marcel's diary, believed to contain coded clues about the truth of what happened at Roswell and clues and new evidence to where the alien wreckage might still lie buried.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2020 - 2021
Episode 1
The Journal
Sat, Dec 12, 2020 49 mins
A mysterious journal belonging to the first official witness to the legendary Roswell crash, Major Jesse Marcel, is handed to former CIA Operative Ben Smith from his grandchildren to decipher. Is there something in it that could unlock the true story of what hurtled into the arid New Mexican landscape in July 1947?
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
In New Mexico, Ben brings in archaeologists and geophysicists to conduct what may be the most scientifically exhaustive examination of the area where debris was found that's ever been done.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Tue, Aug 10, 2021
Ben Smith and Jesse Marcel's grandson, Jesse III, visit Jennifer Naso, one of America's top document experts, for the results of her handwriting analysis - and the answer to a key question in the search for what happened at Roswell.