Roswell incident in fiction

The Roswell incident, a myth of a 1947 crashed flying saucer, has been widely featured in fiction.

Roswell in fiction

 * In the 1980 film Hangar 18, an alien ship crashes in the desert of the US Southwest. Debris and bodies are recovered, but their existence is covered up by the government. Filmmaker James L. Conway summarized the film as "a modern-day dramatization of the Roswell incident".
 * The 1993–2002 TV series The X-Files included the Roswell Incident as a recurring motif, most prominently in "My Struggle". The 1996 episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" satirized the Santelli Alien Autopsy film.
 * In the 1995 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men", protagonists from the 24th century travel back in time and cause the Roswell incident.
 * In the 1996 film Independence Day, an alien invasion prompts the revelation of a Roswell crash and cover-up extending even to concealing the information from the President of the United States, to facilitate plausible deniability, according to the Defense Secretary.
 * The 1996–97 series Dark Skies featured a shadowy conspiracy to cover up the Roswell Incident. The show's tagline was "History as we know it is a lie."
 * The 1996 comic series Roswell, Little Green Man was inspired by the story of the Roswell Incident.
 * The 1998–2001 TV series Seven Days features time-travel technology developed after a crash at Roswell.
 * The 1999 made-for-TV movie Roswell: The Aliens Attack features survivors of Roswell bent on destroying the Earth.
 * The 1999–2002 TV series Roswell aired based on the Roswell High series of books.
 * The 2019 TV series Roswell, New Mexico is the second adaptation of the Roswell High books.
 * In the 2001 Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well", protagonists from the 31st century travel back in time and cause the Roswell incident.
 * The 2002 miniseries Taken depicts the aftermath of the Roswell Incident.
 * The 2006 comedy Alien Autopsy revolves around the 1990s-creation of the Santilli film.
 * The 2006–08 online graphic novel Roswell, Texas references the Roswell Incident.
 * The 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sees the protagonist on a quest for an alien body from the Roswell Incident.
 * The 2011 film Paul tells the story of Roswell tourists who rescue a grey alien.

Others

 * Daniel Schröder Olympos - The War of the Children of the Gods.
 * John LeMay: Roswell.
 * Boyd Morrison: The Roswell Conspiracy.
 * Craig Anderson: The Roswell Chronicles And Other Tales.
 * Thomas Nowlin Harrison: Turnabout Roswell. 2007
 * Henry Melton: Roswell or Bust. 2008
 * Allan Burd: The Roswell Protocols. Bed Bug Publishing, 2009
 * RJ Reaver: Elliot: The Return to Roswell. CreateSpace, 2010
 * Eugene Stevens: To Save Our Time (Roswell Fiction Trilogy). 2010
 * Robert E Vardeman, Jean Rabe, Nick Redfern, Stephen D Sullivan: Uncanny Encounters: Roswell. Walkabout Publishing, 2010
 * Mark Todd: Strange Attractors: A Story about Roswell. Kindle 2012, ISBN 1-4793-8559-X
 * Michael Leptuch: 0400 Roswell Time. Kindle 2012
 * Thomas Settimi: Convergence at Roswell. Sky Scientific Press, 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-1-4196-6151-8
 * Roswell: A Greenling : Comic Series by Futurama Producer Bill Morrison.