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reviewed the film as a tense drama, maintaining "an engrossing course."  Criticizing the conspiracy aspect, it's noted that "What prevents this professionally fashioned hokum from being a high flier is the annoying question of how a cover-up that involved hundreds or thousands of people could
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paces his story convincingly and, in the suspicions it raises about American military mendacity, unflinchingly: superior made-for-TV fare, in other words.  The extraterrestrial bodies, by the way, are terrific." (
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is not so much a space odyssey but the story of a man's lost soul, that of an Air Force intelligence officer doggedly searching for the truth."
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labeled it "a gripping fictional account."  The review concludes, "Wherever the truths of the Roswell incident may lie, director
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have been maintained for 30 years or even 30 seconds in this expose-prone society."
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considered the film "no mere sci-fi hardware yarn," adding "
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and its alien crew following a crash near the town of
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Arthur L. Kopit
Jeremy Kagan
Kyle MacLachlan
Martin Sheen
Dwight Yoakam
Elliot Goldenthal
Paul Davids
Viacom Pictures
television film
Paul Davids
Roswell UFO incident
flying saucer
Roswell, New Mexico
UFOlogy
Area 51
alien autopsies
James Forrestal
Majestic-12
Kevin D. Randle
509th Operations Group
weather balloon
The New York Times
Variety
Kagan
The Los Angeles Times
Kyle MacLachlan
Jesse A. Marcel
Martin Sheen
Dwight Yoakam

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