"You know...it was a night just like tonight that it happened..."
That what happened Mr Weingartner?
"Oh it was a long time ago Ricky. Hinkley Hills was a lot smaller then...I must've been ooh 9....10 years old....and a UFO crashed in Roswell...July 7th...1947"
Damn those aliens...huh? Abducting poor old Travis...but then...amazingly finding himself back on Earth NOT JUST on Earth but in close proximity of where he lived...now, given that in the movie they used him like a vivisectionist uses an animal, it's incredibly civilised of them to (I dunno...) 'send him' back...to...near where he lived?
"RAY! Raymond...listen up mister...we got a real problem here...Guess who's not in the spaceship...TRAVIS!"
Anyway, I always believed the authorities were loathe to tell the public what they had because of the impact on religion.
Ahh, but if an impact on religion was the point, wouldn't the Soviets, with as large and as vigilant a military as any on the planet at the time and thus highly likely to have such evidence, have happily trotted out this evidence of alien existence to put the final nail in the coffin of the "opiate of the masses"?
Don't know about the Soviets reasons for not disclosing...they're a secretive bunch anyway...But for the West...I'm sure religious implications are one reason.