In June 1947, an alien craft crashed northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. What exactly some in all probability superior being was doing piloting a in all probability very costly spacecraft over a distant, although cynically notable portion of a state in all probability a very good variety of gentle years away from its residence world is one thing this film is about. [MUSIC PLAYING] Expensive secret diary, hello. That is Invoice once more. Having a secret diary certain is enjoyable. Anyway, I obtained misplaced right now, which I noticed is rather a lot like having amnesia. See, it’s such as you’ll cross all these highway indicators and landmarks and all these items you usually cross on the highway. And you recognize these items might be actually essential. However whenever you get amnesia, you simply can’t say why it’s essential anymore. It appears that evidently folks in films who get amnesia at all times bear in mind an excessive amount of. Like they understand they’re amnesiacs. But it surely appears amnesia ought to embody its personal situation, proper? So an actual amnesiac forgets he’s forgotten something, and he goes on together with his life, having forgotten that there’s all these items he was supposed to recollect. [WIND WHOOSHING] Amnesia is what brings me to New Mexico. See, I’ve a concept that what obtained that UFO pilot into the mess he obtained into again in ‘47 had one thing to do with forgetting the place he was going or why he was going there or what he was doing going wherever in any respect. Roswell, New Mexico is residence to the U.F.O. Enigma Museum and Outer Limits Video store. Most individuals suppose the enigmatic factor concerning the Roswell crash has one thing to do with the character of the factor that smashed into that ranch northwest of city, whether or not it was a climate balloon or a spy satellite tv for pc or some secret C.I.A. thoughts experiment. However, actually, that’s not all that essential. The true enigma right here is why that U.F.O. pilot was flying round Roswell within the first place. [MUSIC PLAYING] What was he doing out right here underneath the large blue yawn of the sky, flying over ranches and lengthy, lonely highways and barbed wire fences? What introduced a cosmic vacationer out right here of all locations, and what introduced him down? What made him crash up and screw up his trip? And did it have one thing to do with the sorghum fields or the previous grain elevators that sit idle by idle railroad tracks? [MUSIC PLAYING] Did it have one thing to do with excessive know-how within the twenty first century disguised as row after row of phone poles? [MUSIC PLAYING] I generally suppose that U.F.O. wasn’t being piloted by a star man in any respect however by a boy, a star boy. And possibly he’d borrowed dad’s spaceship, and he was out joyriding by the cosmos. And who is aware of, possibly he obtained misplaced, and he was taking a look at a map. And that’s when he misplaced management and misplaced his U.F.O. [MUSIC PLAYING] The curator of the Enigma Museum didn’t have a lot to say about my U.F.O. theories, however he did comply with take my image in entrance of the aliens. It was kind of creepy. Expensive secret diary, driving is actual purposeful what with the pace and the locations and the itineraries. It’s largely actually straight forward. [MUSIC PLAYING] And possibly a driver hopes his purposefulness behind the wheel will infect the world he travels by in order that the world and the traveler are out of the blue in sync. And I used to be pondering possibly there’s a extra superior species of vacationers, particularly time vacationers, who discover touring so glorious and thrilling as a result of they begin to persuade themselves that point itself conspires with them and someway time’s huge span had these time vacationers in thoughts when it determined to lurch into movement. Then I used to be pondering someplace within the universe, there’s in all probability postcards that say greetings from the longer term, want you have been right here, which, if you consider it too lengthy, begins to sound much less like a pleasant greeting and extra like a reminder of your personal mortality. [MUSIC PLAYING] U.F.O.s and house aliens get a number of unhealthy press, which is fairly unfair. In any case, U.F.O.s are simply occasions that remodel, not not like volcanic eruptions or plate tectonics. And the geography U.F.O.s remodel is in our heads or in our hearts. [MUSIC PLAYING] U.F.O.s could make an in any other case boring day actually thrilling or an in any other case unusual life out of the blue extraordinary. U.F.O.s supply the chance that even essentially the most common or unusual life may very well be the topic of a TV mini sequence. [MUSIC PLAYING] Time is the actual enemy not house aliens. Time abducts our recollections. It turns our brains into mush. It performs creepy experiments on our our bodies. Time conspires to make us all amnesiacs. [WIND WHOOSHING] At some point time will make each highway map within the identified universe out of date and ineffective. After which we’ll all get misplaced. [WIND WHOOSHING] On the highway to Corona, I remembered a extremely unhappy story. It was a few lady who lived on the New Mexico vary throughout the pioneer days. And the story goes that this lady lived alone in some ranch home removed from anybody and spent her days composing elaborate love letters, which on completion she would carry outdoors and set adrift on the interminable wind that blusters and blows over this land. [WIND WHOOSHING] Far-off cowboys would sometimes discover her letters tangled within the scrub or caught on some barbed wire. However they by no means knew the place the letters got here from. So on the highway to Corona, I started to suppose possibly considered one of these letters obtained caught in some violent updraft and drifted to that star boys far off world. And possibly the star boy went on the lookout for this lady as misplaced in house as he was. There’s an irony to touring, secret diary, contained within the traveler’s desires. [MUSIC PLAYING] See, on the highway, it’s simple to seek out your self dreaming about residence candy residence, and yard gardens, and lengthy summer season afternoons chasing fireflies within the yard and heat smells drifting out kitchen home windows. [MUSIC PLAYING] All vacationers are damaged hearted someway, they usually dream a few everlasting tackle, possibly with the identical unusual consistency that homebodies dream concerning the open highway. And possibly it’s as a result of all touring implies a vacation spot sometime, a dream home hidden within the ruins you cross alongside the again roads. [MUSIC PLAYING] The runes remind you that sometime you would possibly cease. They remind you that the legacy of this land is as a lot about stopping as it’s about going. [MUSIC PLAYING] Did I ever point out how a lot I recognize motel TV? It makes me really feel related irrespective of how far I drive as a result of say I watch a present in Albuquerque one evening and it’s to be continued, effectively, the subsequent evening in Las Cruces or Columbus or Reality or Penalties, I can watch the second a part of this present and really feel like there’s some aspect of continuity that ties my wandering collectively, even when it’s simply the invisible continuity of tv alerts. [MUSIC PLAYING] However what I actually needed to write down about was the film “Repo Man,” and Miller claims at one level that refers and time machines are actually simply the identical factor. And I feel he is likely to be proper, the way in which U.F.O.s fly right into a life and take it out of time, the way in which U.F.O.s make unusual folks legendary, and memorable, and someway timeless. [U.F.O. WHIRRING] It’s like U.F.O.s can fly us so excessive that possibly we escape time’s gravitational subject for only a second. We will escape time’s gravity, which is at all times attempting to drag us down and make us crash. Expensive secret diary, out right here among the many small ruins that crumble alongside this lonely highway to White Sands, I take into consideration the star boy once more and the way unfamiliar this panorama should be, how miserable to cover among the many abandonment that reminds you of your deserted U.F.O. and the desires you needed to abandon on board. [MUSIC PLAYING] And I feel how possibly the star boy was an amnesiac like me who hoped cruising off into house would assist him bear in mind if he’d actually forgotten one thing, one other life possibly or one other individual with out whom his life was damaged, and hobbled, and incomplete. And possibly it was the shock of lastly remembering that distracted him for the break up second it took to crash into that distant place on this distant planet. [MUSIC PLAYING] Or possibly after so many miles, it was the shock of recognizing his amnesia as one thing like a common situation somewhat than a private pathology that made him cease caring about the place he was going simply lengthy sufficient that he stopped going wherever in any respect. [MUSIC PLAYING] However ideas like these on this lengthy misplaced highway make me unhappy. So I compelled myself to think about my star boy sign the skies above Roswell and caught one other passing U.F.O. and hitchhiked again out of time, again onto the cosmic freeway, and he’s OK now. [MUSIC PLAYING] Expensive secret diary, I’ve been knowledgeable by dependable sources that an alien spacecraft is buried out right here someplace at White Sands beneath the vacationers and the sand dunes, a know-how so harmful that it needed to be misplaced. I suppose once I take off in some U.F.O., I’ll be thought of a lacking individual, and my face will probably be printed on milk cartons throughout America, which is so ironic since actually the one method any of us can ever escape that destiny, the destiny of everybody caught in instances lure, the destiny of the lacking individual is to seek out some U.F.O. and hop aboard and hope time doesn’t work out what we’re as much as earlier than it might probably conveniently determine to expire. [WIND WHOOSHING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
