In the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, friendly aliens offer to take a handful of Earthpeople back to their homeworld
for sightseeing - a sort of Grand Tour of the galaxy, as it were. This climax of the popular film was an ending of great hope, of
a sharing between brotherly races from distant stars.
According to some folks, it's not just a story: it really happened.
The story goes that there was indeed a flying saucer crash in Roswell in 1947; one of the aliens (or 'Ebens,' short for Extraterrestrial
Biological Entities) inside the craft, however, was alive
when the military got there. As time went on they were able to communicate with the being, who told them about the nature of the
technology behind his vehicle, about his home world, etc. A meeting was arranged with the alien's folks back home, and in 1964 it
finally took place: another saucer appeared on schedule and landed, and friendly communication was established between their planet
and ours. The aliens' home planet was called Serpo, in the Zeti Reticuli star system.
The next year, a select group of twelve healthy volunteers (ten men, two women) was sent back with the alien entourage's second (arranged) visit. Another
alien being - presumably not the one who had been in the original crashed saucer - stayed behind here. Eight of the persons returned to
Earth in 1978; two had died in the interim, and two more had elected to remain on their newly adopted world. The returnees were
debriefed exhaustively, living in seclusion on various military bases until 1984. The last surviving member of the group was said to
have died in 2002.
This story was released by an anonymous retired military official to a UFO email list group in late 2005. Since that time, it's been
tossed around within the larger UFO community, with corroborating evidence being sought, as well as the name of the anonymous official
who released the info in the first place. Although even many die-hard flying saucer enthusiasts declare it to be a hoax, as a tale it
has just enough of the good stuff to remain intriguing.
