The Sci-Fi Channel in the United States premiered a special, last night, called 'The Roswell Crash - Startling New Evidence' and needless to say, most of us in the UFO community were very interested in what this special would have to say.

Unfortunately, those of us here in Canada were unable to view the special and have to wait and see videotapes that some of our southern friends have created for us but even before this special went to air, the Sci-Fi Channel had posted much information about the special and about Roswell on their homepage and this provided at least a little bit of something for us Canadians to have a look at.

I went to the site and was looking around at some of the pictures that were taken during the dig and something caught my eye and I downloaded a Roswell Timeline from there. This is a 14 page document that for those who are not familiar with what timelines are, is basically a diary of events. Now, truth be known, there are several Roswell timelines on the Web and I'm pretty sure that I've read all or most of them over the past few years but this one was different because there was information contained in it that I had never heard of before.

Now in all fairness, the timeline does present a picture that covers most of what all Roswell researchers can agree upon but, and here is where I unfortunately have a problem, there seems to be information contained in this timeline that makes me scratch my head and ask some rather obvious questions because it appears that the author of the timeline has taken a few creative liberties with the general Roswell information.

Now suffice to say that I'm not going to go through all 14 pages of what is contained in the timeline but I am going to pick out a couple of areas that made me go,hmmmm. And unfortunately as I do that it will probably be to the delight of the Roswell skeptibunkers that might be listening. But a little caveat here to those skeptibunkers most of the Roswell Timeline is verifiably accurate!

The timeline begins with two items that the author obviously intends for us to believe are connected to Roswell. First, the Kenneth Arnold sighting of 9 silvery disks that happened in June of 1947 and the crash of a weather balloon and radar target being reported by a farmer in Ohio. Setting the stage so to speak.

From there we get some reports of sightings of a fiery object coming down in the Roswell / Corona area of New Mexico and that provides the first hmmm, because one of those reports came from some Nuns who were on the roof of St. Mary's hospital in Roswell seeing this fiery object and it stated that they recorded this event in their nightly log_however, it also stated that the date was uncertain. I have yet to see a daily or nightly log that does not give date and in most situations time as well so it made me go hmmm. as an interesting aside, I printed off a copy of the timeline and gave it to My 21 year old son to read without giving him any of my commentary and he asked the same question. "Why don't we know the date if the nuns recorded it in their logs?"

The timeline then goes on to the area of discovery and discusses in detail about how Mac Brazel discovered the crash site, picked up debris and even saw dead alien bodies - as he was reported to have said, "little people" and when questioned as to whether they might have been monkeys or chimpanzees that the Air Force were using in experimental aircraft, he was supposed to have said, "They're not monkeys, God damn It! They're not human."

The timeline goes on from there discussing how Brazel brought some of the debris to the local sheriff and also brought some of it into a bar called Wade's Bar in Corona to show it to some of his drinking buddies. The Air Force gets involved after this with the dispatch of Major Jesse Marcel, who takes along Captain Sheridan Cavitt with him, to the J.B. Foster Sheep Ranch to see the crash site and report back to the 409th airbase in Roswell with what he found.

There were several more things that really caught my attention when I read the timeline and those include the details about some paleo archeologists who came upon the crash site and found not only a very disturbing sight but found two LIVE aliens, one who supposedly died in the arms of one of the wives of the ranchers. Obviously, quite a few people - civilians - viewed the crash site up close and personal if this were the case.

One other thing that made me go hmmm was reading about lead- lined body bags being used to contain the bodies of the dead aliens due to the smell of them and to my knowledge, body bags weren't even USED back in 1947_let alone lead lined ones_and the final question of that, why would there be such things?

Finally, the thing that made me truly pause as I read the timeline was learning that an interview took place between Mac Brazel and Walt Whitmore, and Jud Roberts of radio station KGFL. This interview was recorded by using a wire-recorder (The only technology available back then) and somewhere out there is a wire recording that could very easily be the real Roswell Smoking Gun.

But that's just my take on it!