Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) is a retired Major, who returns to the Roswell air force base for a reunion of members of the famed 509th Bomb Wing of the 8th USAAF 30 years after the mysterious events that led many observers to believe that aliens had landed even though the authorities squashed such talk. Jesse is still intrigued by what he believes he saw and uses his visit to investigate what he still thinks was a UFO crash. At the time of the crash, Jesse and his commanding officer at the air base in Roswell, Col. Blanchard (John M. Jackson), believed the debris that was found outside of Roswell at the Mac Brazel ranch could have been an extraterrestrial space craft. Their discovery made headlines all over the world. But the next day Gen. Ramey (Matthew Falson) arrived from D.C and ordered both Col. Blanchard and Maj. Jesse Marcel to change their story.